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Winners emerge in Lagos HoS Games

Winners have emerged at the grand finale of the 2019 Lagos Head of Service (HoS) Games held at the Agege…

Senate postpones screening of Osun REC nominee

The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, postponed the screening of Raheem Olalekan, Resident Electoral Commissioner…

PSC amended Act: APC commends Senate

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, commended the Senate over the passage of the Deep Offshore…

Sondland abandons Trump as he revises testimony

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (E.U.) Gordon Sondland, appointed by President Trump has revised his testimony to lawmakers in…

Fire guts 2 multi-storey buildings in Lagos market

Fire on Tuesday gutted two multi-storey buildings at different locations in the ever-busy commercial city centre of Lagos Island destroying…

4.02 million Nigerians facing food crisis – FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has said that about 4.02 million people in Nigeria are…

Buhari, Gowon charge NMA on quality healthcare services

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to seek better ways of improving healthcare service delivery to Nigerians.
You have a case to answer, court tells Nyako, son, others

Nyako: EFCC’s principal witness testifies via video link

Following the approval of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Mr Kobis Arithimni, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s…
Pineapple farming

How Pineapple helps reduce risk of cancer

The National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) says high intake of pineapple speeds up recovery after surgery and helps to reduce…

Lagos moves to curb cultism, other vices in tertiary institutions

The Lagos State Government has moved to halt cultism and other social vices in tertiary institutions across the state.

Sanwo-Olu makes fresh appointments for LASIMRA

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the appointment of Engr. Olufunsho Elulade and Engr. Bisoye Coker-Odusote as the General Manager and…

Bandits in trouble, El-Rufai releases 85 vehicles for massive onslaught 

The Kaduna State Government on Tuesday presented 85 new vehicles to security agencies to help in the battle against banditry…

Be neutral – Kogi youths tell INEC, security agencies

Kogi Youth Amalgamated Front (KOYAF) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to to show their…
Badagry Expressway

Badagry expressway, a show of shame – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has decried the slow pace of work on the Agbara–Seme section of the Lagos–Badagry…

Court stops Operation Positive Identification

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Tuesday ordered the Nigerian Army and its Chief of Army…

Senate confirms Justice Tsoho as chief judge FHC

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Justice John Terhemba Tsoho as the Chief Judge of the Federal High…

NDDC suspends payment of N1bn agent fee

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Gbene Nunieh, says the Commission has suspended the…

Eedris Abdulkareem praises Air Peace CEO

Veteran musician Eedris Abdulkareem took to his social media page to commend the efforts of Chief Allen Onyema, CEO of…

Russia sends Jehovah’s Witness to jail for practising ‘banned faith’

A Russian court in Tomsk, Siberia sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness on Tuesday to six years in prison for practising his…

Akwa-Ibom varsity sacks 8 lecturers over sexual harassment

The Akwa Ibom State University said that the management of the institution terminated the appointment of eight lecturers over sexual…
Nigerian Senate

Senate confirms 15 NDDC board nominees, rejects Nunieh

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed 15 out of the sixteen nominees forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly…

Travel agent arraigned for swindling applicant

A 23-year-old travel agent, Samuel James, who allegedly swindled a job applicant of N880,000 in the guise of procuring a…

Savagery: 3 women, 6 kids of US Mormon family massacred in Mexico

At least three women and six children, members of the American LeBaron Mormon family were killed on Monday when their…

Photos: Massive losses, weeping as Balogun Market up in flames

Goods worth millions of naira have been destroyed as fire razed the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest…

Robust demand between 2018-2040 – OPEC forecasts

The 2019 OPEC World Oil Outlook (WOO) launched on Tuesday in Vienna has predicted a “robust“ 25 percent world energy…

C/River teachers protest over unpaid salaries

No fewer than 500 science teachers in Cross River on Tuesday staged a protest to the state governor’s office to…

Senator Gobir floors PDP challenger at appeal court

Sen. Ibrahim Gobir representing Sokoto East has had his election validated by the Court of Appeal.

Buhari appoints Sarah Alade as economic adviser

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed former deputy governor of the Central Bank, Sarah Omotunde Alade, as Special Adviser on Finance…

Rwanda gets new foreign, internal security ministers, in shake up

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday evening reshuffled the cabinet, appointing a new foreign minister and and another one for…

Border closure: Hameed Ali belongs to stone age – Fani-Kayode

Critic and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode says the Controller General, Nigerian Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) belongs…