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Cyclone Idai: WHO sending urgent health assistance to displaced thousands in Mozambique, others

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

The World Health Organization (WHO) is providing urgent assistance to meet the health needs of thousands of people impacted by…

Cult invasion: Obaseki orders police to apprehend gang members

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has condemned the invasion of two secondary schools on Tuesday in Benin, by suspected cult…

Osinbajo receives VGC leaders despite polling unit loss

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

By Adeshina Michael The leaders of the Victoria Garden City (VGC) Residents Association, visited Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in his…

Cultists kill barber, polytechnic student in Edo

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

A barbing saloon operator whose identity still remains unknown, was Wednesday morning murdered by gunmen suspected to be cultists.

UCTH Resident doctors’ strike unnecessary, says CMD

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

The Chief Medical Director (CMD), University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Prof. Thomas Agan, has described as ‘unnecessary’ the strike action…

Nasarawa Govt. clears N40bn debt – Al-Makura

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Al-Makura, on Wednesday said the state government had cleared more than N40 billion debt incurred before…

Pregnant woman, 2 children killed in Anambra fire — Police

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

The police command in Anambra has confirmed the death of a pregnant woman and her two children in a fire…

Rain destroys palace, 46 houses in Ekiti

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

No fewer than 46 houses and a monarch’s palace were destroyed by a rainstorm in Are Ekiti, a town in…

Rivers Election: Court declines AAC petition against INEC to stop result compilation.

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday declined to give an order stopping the collation of results of the Governorship…

PDP challenges elections results in Nasarawa at tribunal

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

The Nasarawa state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has filed cases at the election tribunal to…

EU fines Google €1.49bn, citing anti-competitive ad service

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

The European Commission is fining Google 1.49 billion Euros (1.7 billion dollars) for breaching EU competition rules by abusing its…

Nassarawa PDP to challenge results of election at tribunal

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

The Nasarawa state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has filed cases at the election tribunal…

NDLEA discovers illegal laboratory in Enugu

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

The National Law Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Enugu State Command, says it has discovered an illegal laboratory manufacturing methamphetamine in…

Court sentences 2 coy executives for forging tax clearance certificate

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

Justice Adeniyi, convicted Sabastine and Anthony, after finding them guilty of conspiracy and forgery of tax clearance certificate and financial…

Man kills wife’s alleged secret lover

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

A 25-year old man, Ajibade Olumuyiwa has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing…

Court fixes March 25 for NDLEA to arraign applicant for peddling 10kg of cannabis

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday fixed March 25,for the arraignment of a 24-year-old applicant, Sunday Smart, who…

Billing: BEDC begins enumeration of customers

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

The Management of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) said on Wednesday that it had begun enumeration of its customers…

Nigeria ranks 85 on Global Happiness Report

Lanre Babalola

7 years ago

As the world marks the International Day of Happiness, Nigeria is ranked 85 out of 156 countries and second in…

Fire outbreak destroys fabric shops, goods worth millions in Anambra

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

Anambra State Fire Service says she averted the late Tuesday night fire incident that destroyed goods worth millions of Naira…

Court remands father for allegedly defiling 16-year-old daughter

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

The police charged Anifowose, who resides in Ikorodu area of Lagos, with rape. Chief Magistrate Mrs K.B. Ayeye, gave the…

APC chieftain mourns Etsu Patigi

Michael Adesina

7 years ago

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Saliu Mustapha, has described the death of Etsu Patigi, Alhaji…

Brexit: Theresa May to request short delay

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit on Wednesday after her failure to get a divorce…

Pollution: NESREA decry increasing use of power generators

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says the increasing use of power generators across the country is…

New Minimum Wage: NLC applauds NASS

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Gombe State Council, has applauded the National Assembly’s speedy passage the bill proposing N30,000 as…

Minimum wage: Adamawa workers commend NASS

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

A cross section of civil servants in Adamawa on Wednesday commended the National Assembly for passing the new National Minimum…

Human trafficking: NIS arrests 4 suspects

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ekiti State Command, has arrested four suspects over alleged human trafficking to Italy for prostitution.

Magnitude 5.6 quake hits western Turkey

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

A moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Turkey’s western province of Denizli on Wednesday, damaging some buildings and knocking bricks and…

Development: NANS commends MAPOLY Rector

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended Dr Adeola Odedina, the Rector, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta for…

Video: A motorcycle rider thoroughly beaten in Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga

7 years ago

An unknown motorcycle rider has been beaten up by a group of men in Lagos.

Yobe youths task governor-elect on agric programme

PM NEWS Live

7 years ago

Youths in Damaturu have urged Yobe governor-elect, Alhaji MaiMala Buni, to give priority to his proposed Farmer Anchor Borrowers programme…

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