Author: Nimot Sulaimon
City officials advise against eating dog meat
Food safety officials in Ho Chi Minh City have urged locals to stop eating dog meat to improve the national…
Gov. Umahi appoints 180 additional aides
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has approved the appointment of 180 additional aides to serve as Executive Assistants (EA) as…
Jaiz Charity Foundation donates N7m to UNHCR
Jaiz Bank's Charity and Development Foundation has donated N7 million to the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) for the…
FUOYE sets up panel to investigate cause of protest
The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Kayode Soremekun, has set up a 12-member investigative panel to…
Update: Tunisian court keeps presidential candidate in detention
A Tunisian appeals court on Friday rejected a request by presidential candidate Nabil Karoui to be released from detention pending…
Charly Boy reveals why he will boycott street protests
Charles Oputa, a.k.a “Charlyboy”, convener of ‘OurMumuDonDo Movement’, on Friday said street protest by Nigerians over national issues cannot change political leaders…
Sanwo-Olu’s housing policies are people-friendly – Commissioner
The Commissioner for Housing in Lagos State, Mr. Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, says Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s housing policies are people-friendly for the…
NGO pledges to empower farmers to rear bees
Mr. Sola Adeniyi, Executive Director of an NGO, `GoGreen Africa Initiative’, has promised to empower farmers in apiculture with the…
133 Nigerian refugees reunites with families in Adamawa
Adamawa Government says it has reunited 133 evacuated Nigerian refugees from Cameroon with their respective families in the state.
Why States must implement disease control laws – NCDC
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of Nigerian Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) has urged state governments to invest massively in the…
Bayelsa, Kogi guber candidates face disqualification
Some governorship and deputy-governorship candidates in the November 16 elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States might get disqualified by the Independent…
China exempts U.S. pork and soybeans from additional levies
China’s state news agency, on Friday, reported that China will exempt U.S. agricultural products from added tariffs as Chinese firms purchased…
ECOWAS Parliament set to tackle transhumance, inter-community conflicts
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ) Parliament) on Friday renewed efforts aimed at tackling the problems associated…
Buhari to attend ECOWAS Summit on Counter-Terrorism
President Buhari will depart Abuja on Saturday to attend the one-day ECOWAS Heads of State and Government Extraordinary Summit on…
MDAs Metering: Lagos CP pledges support for EKEDC
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr. Muazu Zuberu has pledged support for the metering of all police formations…
Travel agent docked over alleged N1.7m visa fraud
A 49-year-old travel agent, David Ojukwu, who allegedly defrauded a client of N1.7 million under pretenses of helping procure an…
2 applicants arraigned for stealing 115 laptop computers
The police on Friday arraigned two applicants, Oluwaseyi Olawale,30 and Abdullahi Yusuf, 36, in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for…
NAF destroys terrorist’s training facility in Borno
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) training camp near Mallam Fatori…
Court sentences ex-convict to 6 months in prison
A Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos on Friday sentenced a 20-year-old ex-convict, Moses Olaoye, to six months in prison for…
FG orders NCC to block unregistered 9.2 million SIM cards
In line with the directives of the Honourable Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, on assumption of office…
Chinese VP pays tribute to Mugabe
Chinese Vice-President, Wang Qishan visited the Zimbabwean Embassy in Beijing on Thursday to mourn the late former Zimbabwean President Robert…
There’s no development without statistics – Gov Bello
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi says no meaningful development can be achieved without accurate statistical data.
27 beggars arrested by Kano Hisbah board
The Kano State Hisbah Board on Thursday said it arrested 27 beggars in Kano metropolis for allegedly violating the law…
NAF hosts safety management seminar in Lagos
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) as part of its continued programmes to ensure it was at par with its foreign…
Mozambique: 10 dead, several injured during election rally stampede
At least 10 people were killed and 85 others injured in a stampede during an election rally held by President…
OPEC: Nigeria, Iraq pledge to cut output to meet targets
Iraq’s and Nigeria’s oil ministers pledged on Thursday to reduce oil output to comply with their OPEC output targets.
FG acquires portal for import duty exemption certificates
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government has acquired an automated customs gateway portal for the…
Trade Union in Sudan demand appointment of Chief justice, Attorney general
Sudanese protesters are holding rallies in the country’s capital of Khartoum and demanding the appointment of the head of the…
NAN pledges collaboration as Primus Hospital visits on medical outreach
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday, pledged to deepen collaboration with Primus International Specialty Hospital, in a bid…
19-year-old girl sentenced to 80 strokes for smoking marijuana
A Shari’a Court l sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old girl, Zainab Abdullahi to 80 strokes…