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IDPs agitate for vocational skills training
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe on Saturday appealed to the state government to provide them with vocational training and…
Be sensitivite to plight of slum dwellers, CDHRDA tells Govt
The Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CDHRDA) on Friday urged public office holders on…
Curtailing Fire Outbreaks In Lagos
Tayo Ogunbiyi Considering recent spate of fire outbreaks in which scores of human lives have been terminated and billions of…
Boko Haram: Buhari lauds Armed forces, warns that human rights abuses will be punished
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, reaffirmed his administration’s total commitment to the rule of law and warned that proven acts of…
NUJ Games: Lagos Information, Complete Football tango in football final
The battle for football supremacy at the 10th edition of Lagos NUJ Media Games will be between Lagos Information and…
TB Joshua holds memorial service in S/Africa for collapsed building victims
Henry Ojelu The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T.B. Joshua is holding a memorial service Saturday in…
El-Rufai pulls Kaduna State out of Fitch rating
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has pulled his Kaduna state out of the purview of Fitch Ratings, the Fitch Group itself has…
Buhari to prune federal ministries from 42 to 19
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is going to prune the number of ministries from 42 to 19, the Senior Special…
Buhari commiserates with global Islamic community over crane collapse in Mecca
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with his Majesty, King Salman, the people of Saudi Arabia and the worldwide Islamic community…
Team Nigeria soar at the All African Games with 52 medals
Nigerian athletes continued to garner more medals at the ongoing All-African Games in Congo Brazzaville to place fifth on the…
Kaura Community urges el-Rufa’i to probe predecessor
Kaura community in Zaria local government area of Kaduna state has appealed to Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i to probe the immediate…
Japan centenarian population tops 60,000
Japanese government said on Friday, the number of centenarians in Japan exceeded 60,000 in 2015, hitting a record high for…
Five arrested in Nasarawa over fake recruitment agency
The Nasarawa Police Command says it has arrested five persons for allegedly operating a fake recruitment agency in Lafia, the…
Boko Haram attacks creating major hunger crisis in Lake Chad
New Boko Haram attacks have created a major hunger crisis in Africa’s Lake Chad region with malnutrition reaching “catastrophic” levels…
Venezuela buys cargoes of Nigerian crude
Reuters – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has bought three new cargoes of Angolan and Nigerian crudes for delivery at…
Yola Blast: Buhari orders tighter security at IDPs camps
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed authorities to tighten security measures in all camps harboring internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the…
Treasury Single Account: No going back on 15 Sept date, says AGF
The Office of Accountant- General of the Federation has reassured all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as the…
Extra Judicial Killing: Edo to set up Office of Public Defender
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has announced his government has concluded plans to establish an Office of…
Rivers governorship election marred by violence – INEC
Mr Charles Okoye, a witness for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing trial for the April 11 Rivers…
Tribunal nullifies PDP lawmaker’s election, orders fresh poll
The State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State on Friday nullified the election of member…
EFCC impostor caught in the act
A staff of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, who attempted to dupe a National Agency for Food and Drug…
Chieftaincy: Edo govt warns Ogiamien family, threatens criminal charges
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Barely three days after the installation of Prince Rich-Arisco Osemwengie as the Ogiamen of Benin Kingdom, there are…
Vinci beats Serena, ends hope of calendar Grand Slam
Italy’s Roberta Vinci caused a huge shock as she beat Serena Williams at the US Open to end the American’s…
62 dead, 80 injured as crane collapses in Mecca’s Grand Mosque
Riyadh (AFP) – At least 62 people were killed and 30 injured when a crane crashed into the Grand Mosque…
Ex-PDP governor, Nnamani, accuses party of rigging election
Former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, on Friday accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of rigging the Enugu East…
Why we have not allowed Toviho to graduate – LASU VC
Eromosele Ebhomele The Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Professor John Obafunwa has defended the institution’s refusal to graduate…
Prof. Zana Akpagu is new Vice Chancellor of UNICAL
The Governing Council of the University of Calabar, on Friday announced Prof. Zana Itiunbe Akpagu, as the new and 10th…
Armed robbery: 2 corps members regain freedom
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday said it had secured the release of two out of three corps…
One dead, scores injured in protest against Ouattara’s re-election bid
At least one person was killed and others were injured during protests in Cote d’ivoire over the validation of incumbent…
Stowaway in Medview aircraft charged with attempted suicide
A 24-year-old man, Festus Chikeluba, alleged to have hidden inside an aircraft tyre compartment, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja…