Year: 2017
NYSC boss urges corps members to unite Nigeria
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Suleiman Kazaure has urged corps members to play roles…
Soccer-Transfer deadline day moves
Latest news and highlights from Europe’s top football leagues on transfer deadline day on Tuesday. Free agent Togolese striker Emmanuel…
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Pictures: Toolz celebrates wedding anniversary, Hubby’s birthday
Nigerian radio personality and talk show host, Tolu Oniru Demuren, popularly known as Toolz has shared lovely wedding pictures from…
Plateau government tell residents to patronise train services
Mr Pam Dongs, Plateau Commissioner for Works and Transport, on Tuesday urged residents to patronise train service in the state…
Angry youths shut power station in Rivers
Some angry youths in the late hours of Monday shut down a power station belonging to the Transmission Company of…
Dasuki: Court rules on FG’s application for witnesses’ protection
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed March 1 to rule on a fresh application by the Federal Government seeking…
Group lauds Gov. Ugwuanyi over youth friendly policies
The National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has lauded Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu for giving youths sense of belonging…
OAP Freeze blasts RCCG
Anja Ringgren Lovén an Uyo based Danish humanitarian who gained fame and accolades, last year after she rescued, rehabilitated and…
Sleep deprivation hurts immune system
An Ilorin-based medical practitioner, Dr Olawale Bello, says lack of sleep could hurt the immune system. Bello, a staff of…
ASUP Strike: Academic activities paralysed at Auchi poly
Academic activities at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo came to a standstill on Tuesday as the seven-day warning strike by…
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Pictures: Buhari supporters march in Abuja
A coalition of civil society groups on Tuesday took to the streets of Abuja, to give support to the policies…
Teenage cultist remanded over alleged murder
An 18-year-old suspected cultist, Isijola Olusola, was on Tuesday remanded in Olokuta Prison by an Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court for…
UN director advocates women’s empowerment, rights pledges
Ms Lakshmi Puri, the Deputy Executive Director, UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women), has called…
Jigawa screens 33,869 people living with disabilities
Jigawa State Rehabilitation Board has screened 33, 869 people living with disabilities for injection into the state social security scheme.…
Ebonyi school committee nabs 20 for loitering, hawking
The Ebonyi School Committee on Anti-loitering and Hawking, set up by the government on Tuesday in Abakaliki arrested no fewer…
Kenya extradites 4 men to U.S.
Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, a…
Poisonous gas kills 9 workers in India
No fewer than nine people were killed after inhaling poisonous gas at an oil mill in western Indian state of…
Trump’s immigration policy cannot be accepted- Turkey’s PM
The new U.S. immigration policy imposed by President Donald Trump is something that cannot be accepted, Turkey’s deputy prime minister…
Borno residents decry homosexuals abusing children
Some residents of Maiduguri have decried the increasing cases of child abuses by unscrupulous homosexual persons. The residents said in…
NUJ Oyo State pays tribute to late Alawaye
Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oyo State Council, on Monday paid tribute to late Tunji Alawaye of…
Our ‘Man of the Year 2016’
I start by thanking my teeming readers for their commendations, prayers, and pieces of advice every week. I covet the…
Trump poses grave risk to world trade- French Minister
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Tuesday said U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration posed a grave risk to international trade.…
South African prosecutor who jailed Pistorius quits
Gerrie Nel, the South African prosecutor who obtained a jail sentence for Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius for killing his girlfriend…
Lagos Fire Service recovers 2 corpses inside tanker, well
The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, on Tuesday said they recovered two bodies from a petrol…
Former U.S. president Bush discharged from hospital
Former President George H.W. Bush was discharged on Monday from a Houston hospital after waging a more than two-week battle…
Suicide bomber kills self, vigilante in Borno
A suicide bomber and a local vigilante were killed during an attempt on a Maiduguri mosque on Monday morning, a…
We cant pay salaries, says Niger council chairman
The Chairman of Chanchaga Local Government in Niger, Alhaji Yusuf Inuwa has said that the council has no enough money…
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Trump fires disobedient acting attorney-general
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday night fired acting Attorney-General Sally Yates for refusing to enforce his Refugee Order designed…
Lagos Fire Service recovers 2 corpses inside tanker, well
The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, on Tuesday said they recovered two bodies from a petrol…
Lagos Chairmanship Aspirant Dies
A chairmanship aspirant for Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area in the coming local government elections in the state, Mansur Obafemi…