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Survey by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicate rise in prices of selected food items across Nigeria in November 2023

News

Food prices continue to rise in November – NBS

The NBS said the average price of Palm oil (1 bottle) increased by 29.87 per cent from N775.11 in November…
Former Senator representing Bayelsa East Senator, Inatimi Spiff: dies

News

Ex-Bayelsa Senator Inatimi Spiff dies

Spiff died on 24 December in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Bayelsa…
Bid by Sen. Ita Enang, to nullify nomination of Akan Udofia as the Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of APC fails at Supreme Court

Politics

Battle for Akwa Ibom APC governorship ticket: Appeal Court reserves judgment

A Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Uyo had, on Nov. 14, nullified the nomination of Mr Udofia as the…
Gbenga Raheem, husband of slain lawyer, Omobolanle, narrates how his wife was shot dead last Christmas Day at a police check point in Lagos

Metro, Top Stories

ASP, 2 others arrested for fatal shooting of Lagos lawyer Bolanle

An Assistant of Police Superintendent, ASP and two other officers have been arrested in Lagos for killing a female lawyer…
File Photo: Yahaya Bello of Kogi State with President Buhari

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Buhari to inaugurate projects in Kogi on Thursday

By Richard Elesho The Kogi Government has declared Thursday, December 29, 2022 a public holiday as the state prepares to…
Wife of Edo Governor, Betsy Obaseki felicitates with women who gave birth to infants on Christmas day at three major hospitals in Benin City.

Metro

Edo: Mrs. Obaseki celebrates, showers gifts on Christmas babies

CMD of UBTH, Prof. Darlington Obaseki, lauded Mrs. Obaseki and the state Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, for collaborating with the…
Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao charges troops to eliminate all criminal elements and restore peace in the country.

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CAS Amao to troops: Wipe out criminal elements, restore peace

Troops of Operations Bada Mamaki and Whirl Punch are engaged in fighting banditry in Kaduna, Niger, Kogi and the Federal…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he expects intelligence briefings on discussions of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, U.S

World News

Zelensky: Russia planning to make rest of 2022 dark, difficult for Ukrainians

Zelensky directed sharp words at the Russian military, which killed at least 16 people and wounded another 64 with artillery…
Dr Mohammed Ali of Kaduna based HRDEI

News

‘Nothing Islamic about Almajiri practice, ban it totally’

The bill to establish the commission to tackle Almajiri and other out-of-school children scaled second reading in Nigeria's House of…
Police , Neighbourhood Watch Group operatives arrest one Sunday Chukwu for alleged unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Metro

Enugu man Sunday Chukwu caught with gun, ammunition

The suspect and his cohorts at large, were suspected to be perfecting plans to use the recovered items to perpetrate…
Buhari welcomes $538.05m provisions to Nigeria, says Africa must feed itself

News, Top Stories

‘I’m being harassed’ – Buhari explains why he will not miss Aso Rock

President Buhari also responded to other issues in the documentary, including the claims that he has died and the person…
Ondo governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu says action will be taken checkmate agitators for creation of Oodua Nation out of Southwest Nigeria.

Headlines, News

‘You’ll be arrested, prosecuted for treason’ – Akeredolu warns Oodua nation agitators

Akeredolu said many lives have been laid down for the unity of the country, vowing that states in the Southwest…
NAICOM constitutes 2025 Recapitalisation Committee, following President Bola Tinubu’s assent to the NIIRA 2025.

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NAICOM jacks up insurance rates for vehicles, tricycles, others – See all the new rates

The commission also stated that the Third Party Property Damage (TPPD) which is the limit of claims an insured can…
de arrest over allegation that he been raping 14- year- old daughter

Art

The lady who was gangraped (For Vee and all victims of rape)

For Vee and all victims of rape
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) gets assurance of massive recruitment of junior workers from NIWA, NPA

News

NPA, NIWA assure MWUN of massive recruitment of junior workers

MWUN said while there is an extinction of junior workforce at NPA even, the senior ones are also retiring, but…
University of Lagos art historian Prof. Peju Layiwola speaks about adire, a fabric she has elevated into an art form and her other works

Art, Headlines, Interview

Adire not mere fabric, it means so much to us – Prof. Peju Layiwola

In 2019, Prof. Peju Layiwola organized a groundbreaking solo exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria, which lifted adire, a popular local fabric…
Forest

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Kogi: Hunters nab notorious kidnappers

Three of the suspected kidnappers were arrested inside a forest in Ikede community of Bassa local government of Kogi State
NYCN, groups protest at Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) demand resignation of Governor Godwin Emefiele over alleged financing of terrorism

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‘Emefiele must go’ protest rocks CBN

The groups which protested at the headquarters of CBN in Abuja on Friday, however, asked President Buhari to sack Emefiele…
Rivers governor Nysom Wike seals campaign office of presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku and his deputy, Ifeanyi Okowa in Port Harcourt

Politics

Wike seals Atiku/Okowa campaign office in Port Harcourt

Wike had earlier on Friday blasted the Senator Lee Maeba, the Chairman of Atiku Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State…
Mr Sadiq Abubakar assumes duty as the 29th Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),

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CP Abubakar assumes duty in FCT, warns criminals

By Monday Ijeh Mr Sadiq Abubakar has assumed duty as the 29th Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the…
Kaduna Commissioner of Police, Yekini Ayoku, says the command has put in place security for Christmas and New year activities in the state.

News

Yuletide: CP orders 24 – hour patrols in Kaduna

The Police Commissioner said command has made adequate and massive deployment of personnel and materials to ensure peaceful and hitch…
boat mishap

Metro

Controversy trails death of man in Badagry boat mishap

The accident, according to sources, occurred at the jetty on Thursday night when two boats, one coming from Badagry and…
The Nigerian aviation industry was thrown into mourning on Friday with the death of Bashir Mangal, the Chief Executive officer of Max Air.

News

Just In: Bashir Mangal CEO Max Air is dead

Bashir Mangal died in the early hours of Friday, according to a statement issued by the the media consultant to…
Alhaji Yusha’u Kebbe, a key stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State defects to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Headlines, Politics

PDP loses stalwart, Yusha’u Kebbe to APC in Sokoto

Kebbe announced his defection from PDP to APC at a press briefing in Sokoto
Ogun PDP governorship candidate Oladipupo Adebutu honours police invitation over allegations of vote buying levelled against him.

Politics

Ogun PDP to begin massive campaign after INEC’s recognition of Adebutu

INEC had in an updated list of candidates published on its website on Thursday also recognised 40 other candidates that…
Shell agrees to pay 15 million Euros to farmers in Ogoni community of Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta as compensation for pipe leakages

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Shell to pay €15m to farmers in Nigeria’s oil producing Ogoni communities

The company said on Friday that based on the court ruling, it has reached an agreement Milieudefensie to pay 15…
The University of Abuja (uniAbuja) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff members to the rank of professor.

Education

UniAbuja researchers got N1b grants in 2022 – VC

University of Abuja’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, disclosed this during the university’s Authors and Researchers’ Recognition and Award ceremony, organised…
Ogun PDP rejects victory of Afolabi Afuape of APC over Toyin Amuzu of the party in the Abeokuta South Federal Constituency

News

2023: Ogun PDP Rep candidate urges voters to reject Greek gifts

Amuzu, is contesting for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency seat at the lower Chambers of the National Assembly
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) appears to have made a remarkably significant breakthrough in the production of yoghurt starter culture.

News

NABDA’s breakthrough in yoghurt starter culture production

Starter cultures are a vital component of industrial food fermentation.
Police prosecute 12 members of APC and two members of PDP over alleged involvement in violence during political rallies in Borno state.

News

Electoral violence: Police prosecute APC, PDP members in Borno

Borno Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar told journalists that the party members were being prosecuted for offences bordering on threat…
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