Year: 2018
Olamide calls for end to drug abuse
Nigerian musician Olamide Adedeji aka Baddo, has called for an end to drug abuse following criticism currently trailing his song…
George Weah sworn in as Liberia’s 24th president
Football legend, George Weah, has been sworn in as the 24th President of the Republic of Liberia.
Fuel Queues: NNPC deploys additional 50-fuel-laden trucks to Lagos
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday appealed to motorists in Lagos State not to embark on panic buying…
Bayelsa seals NDDC’s office over N168m tax liability
The Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR) on Monday sealed off the office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)…
Lawmaker advocates life imprisonment for ritualists
Mr Oghene Egoh, a member representing Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, on Sunday advocated life imprisonment…
Expert calls for re-introduction of hand-washing to curb spread of Lassa fever
Mr Bassey Ating, the Programme Coordinator, Wise Administration of Terrestrial Environment and Resources (WATER), has urged school administrators to re-introduce…
Facebook can’t guarantee social media is good for democracy
Facebook Inc (FB.O) warned on Monday that it could offer no assurance that social media was on balance good for…
INEC creates 10 additional voters registration centres in Bayelsa
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has created 10 additional centres in Bayelsa to ensure that many residents of the…
Man remanded in prison for allegedly raping 13-year-old
A 55-year-old man, Mfon Iyang, who allegedly raped a teenage girl, was on Monday remanded in Kirikiri prison by an…
Customs intercepts 2,200 jerry cans of smuggled petrol worth N10m
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Border Command, intercepted 2,200 jerry cans of smuggled of petrol with a Duty Paid…
Anti-Open Grazing: Law will enable herdsmen’s children acquire education – Bishop
Bishop William Aveya of Gboko Catholic Diocese in Benue has said that the anti-open grazing law passed by the state…
Senator begins vocational skills training for 1,000 unemployed youths
Senator Mustafah Bukar, APC representing Katsina north, has commenced skills acquisition training for 1,000 unemployed youths drawn from twelve local…
Nigerians need mindset restructuring not geo-political restructuring – Bishop
The Catholic Bishop of Gboko Diocese, Most Reverent William Avenya, has suggested the restructuring of mindset of citizens as a…
Facebook to open digital training centres in Europe
Facebook said on Monday it would open three new centres in Europe to train people in digital skills.
77.5m Nigerians engage in economic activities in Q3 2017 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 77.55 million people are engaged in economic activities out of a labour force…
Lassa fever: Ebonyi Govt. reopens schools following absence of new case
Public and private schools in Ebonyi shut on Jan. 18 to check the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the…
China to commence selection of astronauts for space station
China will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country’s planned space…
Constant drinking in adolescence increases risks of liver diseases in adulthood – Study
Swedish researchers confirmed in a study published Sunday that chronic consumption of alcohol during adolescence can lead to greater risk…
Triplets, brother killed in Jigawa fire outbreak
A fire outbreak has killed Triplets and their brother in Hadejia town, Jigawa, according to the Spokesman of the Nigeria…
U.S Vice President Pence in Israel, meets Netanyahu
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks on Monday, the second day of a…
Iran suspends executions after relaxing law on drug offences
Iran on Monday suspended all cases in which people have been sentenced to death for drug offences, Ali Larijani, Speaker…
Ethiopia rejects call for World Bank arbitration in dam dispute
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a…
Indian minister dismisses Darwin’s theory of evolution
An Indian minister has stirred a major row by dismissing naturalist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution of humans, saying it…
Record number of candidates bid for Russian presidential election
The number of people who have expressed their intention to run in the upcoming Russian presidential election is the highest…
Liberia: Abdulsalami Abubakar hails peaceful transition
Former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), on Sunday hailed the ongoing peaceful democratic transfer of power in…
Lagos charges residents to shun domestic violence, child abuse
The Lagos State Government has urged residents of the state to desist from all forms of violent act and abuses,…
Armed herdsmen pose terrorist threats – Nigerians in Diaspora
The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA) has urged the Federal Government to check the activities of armed herdsmen in…
Watford appoint Javi Gracia as manager to replace sacked Silva
English clubside Watford appointed Spaniard Javi Gracia as manager on Sunday, hours after sacking Marco Silva and blaming a rival…
El-Rufai to introduce juicy incentives for rural teachers
Kaduna State Government on Sunday said it would introduce juicy incentives for teachers posted to public schools in rural areas…
CBN calls for calm over MPC meeting, says economy is strong
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has allayed the fears of Nigerians and the international community…