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  First City Monument Bank in collaboration with the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation, has restored the vision of approximately 150,000 visually impaired Nigerians in Kebbi State through its “Priceless Gift of Sight” initiative. According to a release from the bank on ...

  Public workers in Edo State have been given Friday, 20 September, as work-free by the state government to enable them travel to their voting areas ahead of the Saturday’s governorship election. The Secretary to the State Government, Joseph Eboigbe, ...

  A 43-year-old electrician, Chukwukweike Ashiedu was on Thursday sentenced to to seven years imprisonment for indecently assaulting his 17-year-old daughter by Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos State. Justice Rahman Oshodi, while handing down the sentence, ...

  A resident of Ifetedo in Osun State, identified as Idowu, had reportedly d!ed in an incident of collapse building that occurred in the town. The collapsed structure was said to be a dilapidated building that suddenly caved in and ...

  The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested seven suspects for selling human parts and water used to bathe corpses in the state. A statement signed by the acting Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State ...

  The Federal Government is set to receive a fresh loan from the World Bank, with approval expected for loans worth $1.7 billion. The loan is expected to be approved on September 26, 2024, according to official documents obtained by ...

  Police operatives have arrested three Yoruba Nation agitators for displaying their flags in the market of Ikire in Irewole local government area of Osun State. The suspects Fagbuyi Oluwafemi, Joy Faseyeku and Alabede Janet were arrested on August 27 around ...

  The Lagos State Government has raised the alarm over an imminent building collapse at the Mopol 20 Barracks, Onigbongbo in the Ikeja area of the state. This is as the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency is set to begin an ...

  The Federal Government has called on agencies recruiting for the private sector to adhere to the N70,000 minimum wage, warning that any deviation would not be tolerated. According to the FG, the new minimum wage is necessary to address the ...

  Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced plans to reduce its foreign exchange losses through a N599.1bn rights issue. This was disclosed by the company secretary, Uaboi Agbebaku, at the ‘Facts Behind the Rights Issue” presentation by Nigerian Breweries at the ...

  Controversy has surrounded the reported visit of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission headquarters. While the ex-governor’s media team claimed that their principal honoured the invitation, the anti-graft agency countered these claims, insisting ...

  The Federal Inland Revenue Service has announced plans to implement an e-invoicing platform to advance Nigeria’s tax administration system. The new digital platform, named FIRS e-Invoice, is set to streamline invoice management in alignment with the Tax Administration and Enforcement ...

  The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions has announced plans to embark on an indefinite strike if their outstanding salaries are not paid within ...

  The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man named Tahiru Hamidu for allegedly engaging in unlawful s3xual intercourse with a mentally unstable married woman (name withheld) in the Owode community, located in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of ...

  Statistics obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that more males are getting infected with Mpox in Nigeria. According to figures posted on the NCDC website on Monday, 67 per cent of Mpox cases recorded ...

  Instagram has introduced ‘teen accounts,’ a new feature aimed at enhancing the safety of users under 18 on the platform. The new approach, which limits who can contact kids and what information they can see while still ensuring their ...

  Former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, yesterday, took a critical look at the living condition of most Nigerians and concluded that “the hardship in the land is getting out of control”. However, as Nigeria grapples with the ...

  Operatives of the Onikan Division of Lagos Police Command have arrested one Suspect, Yakubu Yusuf, for vandalising a segment of the Third Mainland Bridge railings. This was disclosed in a statement on X.com by the Lagos State Police Command on ...

  Georgian politicians have approved the third and final reading of a law on “family values and the protection of minors” that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ rights. The bill, adopted on Tuesday, would provide a legal basis for ...

  A quiet village is reeling after an investigation into infanticide revealed that a local babysitter had two newborn babies buried in her garden. Chiara Petrolini, 22, was arrested after DNA tests allegedly confirmed she was the mother of one of ...

  Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, is still wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and is not in their custody. The EFCC made this clarification in a statement signed Wednesday by Head, Media & ...

  Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) for its role in determining the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, following the deregulation of the ...

  The Rivers State Police Command has rescued 16 youths from job scammers and arrested a suspect. Rivers State Commissioner of Police Olatunji Disu briefed journalists at the Command Headquarters on Moscow Road on Tuesday, explaining that operatives from the Octopus ...

  President signed the peace accord in the rundown to his election, the Presidency clarified last night. It was reacting to the comment by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah that the President did not sign the peace accord. Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic ...

  Former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, on Tuesday handed over to a new Commissioner of Police, Mr Olanrewaju Ishola, at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fayoade, immediately after handing ...