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Stakeholders in the fight against gender-based violence converged in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday, to strategies ahead of the year 2023.

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Edo: Stakeholders advocate continuous fight against GBV

Edo State Gender-Based Violence Management Committee and other stakeholders at the workshop reaffirmed their resolve to form a collective and…
Seyi Tinubu prostrates for Buhari during visit of Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council delegation to Daura

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PHOTOS: Seyi Tinubu led youth wing of APC Campaign Council meets Buhari in Daura

President Buhari is on a brief holiday in Daura, his hometown.
(lLeft) Adamu Garba and father being received into APC in Adamawa State after he dumped Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after 23 years

Politics

Adamu Garba excited as father joins him in APC after 23 years in PDP

Garba, a former presidential aspirant on the platform of APC said his father who has been a member of PDP…
Police arrest 5 for armed robbery, illegal sale of ammunition, while two pistols were also recovered in recent operations in Delta State

Metro

Delta: Police smash 2 deadly robbers, others, recover 2 pistols

Delta Police spokesperson, DSP Bright Efe who announced this in a statement on Saturday added that 130 live cartridge as…

Politics

Thuggery: Rivers PDP tackles Atiku Presidential Campaign Council

PDP said agents of Atiku, the presidential candidate have resorted to underhand practices in attempt to stir distrust and unrest…
Faruk Yahaya,

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Army ready with robust contingency plans for 2023 elections, says COAS Yahaya

Yahaya spoke during the closing of the 2022 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference on Friday in Sokoto.
D’banj speaks out on changing morals in music industry

Metro

‘All I do is #choplife’ – D’Banj opens up on arrest by ICPC

D'banj was detained on Tuesday over alleged involvement in diversion of hundreds of millions of naira from the Federal Government's…
Court tells Labour Party it cannot compel the INEC to adopt electronic means of transmission for the results of 2023 election.

Politics

Labour Party cries out over ‘forceful take over’ of secretariat in Edo

Labour Party ward office at Ward 7, Ugbekun, in Ikpoba Okha local government area of Edo state was overrun by…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will relocate 357 Polling Units to safer areas due to insecurity in Katsina State.

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INEC to relocate 357 polling units in Katsina

According to the commission, the decision is to ensure that all Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Katsina state are allowed…
Police arrest two suspected armed robbers who allegedly attack pedestrians at the Ketu bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Metro

Two notorious robbers busted in Lagos

They were both arrested around 5:20 a.m. today on the Alausa-Ketu pedestrian Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Since the knock-out stages in the Round of 16 in the ongoing 2022 World Cup, an uncanny trend has been going with each match played.

Football, Opinion

2022 World Cup: An uncanny trend in the knock-out stages everyone must know

In the first knock-out match that was played between Netherlands and the United States, Netherlands, whose first letter N precedes…
The U.S. House of Representatives has given final congressional approval to legislation that provides federal recognition of same-sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme Court could reverse its support for legal recognition of such relationships.

World News

U.S. Congress passes landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage

The Respect for Marriage Act, as it is called, won Senate approval last month.
James Lalu, the boss of NCPWD knocks PDP Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, for not caring for persons with disabilities

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2023: Disability Commission knocks Atiku, Okowa for neglect of PWDs

Lalu said Abubakar was a Vice President under the PDP for eight years, yet he made no impact on the…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, says the newly redesigned Naira notes are in banks and ready for issuance

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Newly redesigned Naira ready for issuance – Emefiele

CBN said that the currency redesign and reintroduced cashless policies were not targeted at anybody but are for the good…
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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Nigeria winning war against terrorists – CAS Amao

Air Marshal Amao also informed the personnel that the NAF is expecting the delivery of additional new platforms which the…
Family source narrates how Ondo traditional ruler Oba Clement Olokotun was freed in Kogi State after his abductors receives N10m ransom.

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‘How kidnappers freed Ondo traditional ruler after receiving N10m ransom’

The kidnappers of the 66-year-old Ondo traditional ruler, Oba Olukotun, had contacted the family to demand a ransom of N100…
Seme Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Jibo

Business

Anti-smuggling war: Freight Forwarders laud Seme Customs Controller

The associations also commended Comptroller Jibo for his representation of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the just concluded World…
Veronique Tadjo

Art, Headlines

What keeps me going as a writer: Award-winning author Veronique Tadjo

Veronique Tadjowho won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction was in Lagos, Nigeria recently, where she headlined…
The Kwankwasiyya Movement accuses the APC of violent attacks and thuggery against its members engaged in lawful gathering in Kano.

Politics

2023 elections: NNPP will win at all levels, says Kwankwaso

Kwakwanso refuted the rumours at the state secretariat of the NNPP in Abeokuta on Thursday.
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, says the apex bank will not dump its new cash withdrawal limit policy despite the demand to do so by lawmakers

Headlines, News, Top Stories

CBN Governor to Reps: Buhari very happy with new cash withdrawal policy

The House of Representatives had asked Emefiele to suspend the restrictions on cash withdrawals at its plenary on Thursday.
Fuel scarcity: Passengers lament soaring transportation fares in Ilorin

Headlines, Top Stories

‘Enough is enough’ – DSS asks NNPCL, others to end fuel scarcity in 48 hours

Social - economic activities have been grounded in many parts of Nigeria in the past few weeks as a result…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (middle), his deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry-Banigo(right) and  former Minister of Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri (left) at the flag off of 17 internal roads in Rumuigbo, Obio-Akpor LGA on Thursday.  

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Wike: I will continue to deliver infrastructure in Rivers until my last day in office

Wike said this while declaring that his administration will remain focused on governance despite increase in tempo of political campaigns…
Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Chris Finebone (right) and his Physical Planning and Urban Development counterpart, Austen Ben Chioma (left), briefing journalists at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday night.

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G5: Rivers govt presents ‘evidence’ of plot to blackmail Wike

Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Chris Finebone displayed a document with details of the alleged the sinister plot…
Senator Lee Maeba (left) conducting Dr. Abiye Sekibo, former Minister of Transportation, also an ally of Atiku Abubakar round his vandalised cars.

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‘My crime is that I support Atiku’ – Sen. Maeba speaks on attack on his residence

Maeba claimed he received a phone call that some people sent to attack him were on the way to his…
WHO announces guidelines on opioid dependence treatment

World News

Children to get new malaria shot by end of 2023 — WHO

While the slower spread is encouraging, the WHO warned that the mosquito-borne parasite that triggers the disease is becoming increasingly…
Lai Mohammed said his strategy enables the APC to reconnect with undecided voters and neutralise misinformation ahead of the election.

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Lai Mohammed: How Buhari saved Nigerians from hunger

According to the minister, one of the indelible legacies of the Buhari’s administration, largely downplayed is food security and the scaling…
Kaduna government says 25 suspects prosecuted over involvement in gender-based violence (GBV) in the state have been sentenced to death

Metro

Edo man Taofeek Isah sentenced to death for rape, kidnapping

By George Edomwonyi An Edo High Court, sitting in Auchi, on Thursday sentenced one Taofeek Isah to death by hanging…
Ericsson, multinational telecommunications company, projects 5G subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will grow to 150 million by 2028.

Business, World News

Sub-Saharan Africa 5G subscriptions to hit 150m – Report

The Ericsson report said that currently, 4G represented 29 per cent of mobile subscriptions in SSA with 4G subscriptions expected…
President Buhari

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Buhari directs NALDA to buy additional 5 spraying aircraft

Buhari, represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, gave the directive when the agency…
Adeola

Politics

Ogun West: Court dismisses suit against APC’s Sen. Adeola

Senator Solomon Adeola defeated the incumbent senator of the district, Senator Tolu Odebiyi by a total vote of 294 against…
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