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Ex Taiwan President Indicted In High-Level Investigation

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was indicted on Tuesday for alleged abetment in the disclosure of information in connection with…

UN calls for release of detainees in Syria’s prisons

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al-Hussein on Tuesday called for the release of tens of thousands of detainees…

UNICEF to keep 8,000 girls in school in Katsina

The Katsina State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says UNICEF’s donation of N160 million to the board would put 8,…
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Research Uncovers Breakthrough With Breast Cancer Drug

New research finds more patients suffering from breast cancer could be treated with a drug previously thought to only help…

Group calls for transparency in oil, gas industry

Publish What You Pay (PWYP), an NGO, has called on the government to show transparency in the management of revenues…

Bereaved Families Jostle Workers At Ethiopian Landslide Site

Bereaved families tussled with rescue workers on Tuesday at the site of an Ethiopian rubbish dump where a landslide killed…

Pirates hijack fuel freighter off Somali coast

Somali pirates are suspected of hijacking a Sri Lankan-flagged fuel freighter off the coast of the African country, a piracy…

Bandits Surrender Arms In Zamfara

Some repentant cattle rustlers and armed bandits in Maru, Birnin Magaji and Gusau Local Government Areas, Zamfara, have surrendered their…

Alert: Lagos – Ibadan Expressway Blocked

If you're traveling this morning through Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Please use alternate roads because there is a serious gridlock on the…

Child trafficking: Exiled Niger politician bags 1 year imprisonment

Niger’s appeals court has sentenced an exiled former presidential candidate to one year in prison for child trafficking, the final…

Saudi varsity warns female students against short haircuts

A Saudi university on Tuesday sent a warning to its female students of immediate dismissal for imitating men in haircuts…

Fulani herdsmen, Bende community clash in Abia

The people of Umuobasikwu, Ozuitem community in Bende local government area of Abia State on Sunday had a face-off with…

Oyo road projects to be completed in 18 months

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says road expansion projects across the state awarded by his administration would be completed…

Dana Air to review AIB’s full reports on ill-fated crash

Dana Air has disclosed that the airline would review all the safety recommendations prescribed in the full report of the…

Abuja Airport Closure: FG conveys passengers by road

The Ministry of Transport conveyed 1,432 airline passengers by road from Kaduna Airport to Abuja, in the first four days…

Edo IDP graduate to get state employment

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that a female law graduate at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, Uhogua,…

Nigeria to pass gender, equal opportunity law

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan said that the country is committed to ensuring gender…

Merkel’s trip to Washington postponed to Friday

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, will have to wait a few days because…

U.S envoy visits Edo, pledges support

The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington, on Monday pledged his country’s assistance to help Nigeria to overcome its…

Kidnapping: Girls’ school principal appeals for tall fence

Hajia Habiba Abdulrahman, Principal, Government Girls Secondary School, Sarkin-Noma in Lokoja, has urged the government to construct a tall fence…
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Blind candidates to take UTME – JAMB Registrar

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says prospective blind candidates for UTME will write this…

Ogbemudia’s body arrives Benin today

The Planning committee set up by the Edo Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, for the burial of late Dr Samuel Ogbemudia,…

Snowstorms: New York declares state of emergency

The New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a state of emergency on Tuesday over the impending snowstorms in the…

Women decry ‘slow progress’ in gender equality

The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has decried what it termed a “slow…

Trump cancels meeting with German Chancellor

The expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday has been cancelled due to…

Hurray! Farmers To Get Fertiliser At N6,000 Per Bag

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says a bag of fertiliser will cost less than N6,…

Benue Governor Issues 2-Day Ultimatum To Herdsmen To Quit Local Govt

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has given Fulani herdsmen in Tombo-Mbalagh, Buruku Local Government Area of the state a two-day…

Nigeria, South Africa Move To Tackle Xenophobic Attacks

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyema, said on Monday that Nigeria and South Africa have agreed to set…

Photos: Timi Alaibe, others honour Obasanjo at 80

It was pomp and pleasantry recently at the 80th birthday celebration of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Ogun State. Dignitaries…

6 States move to halt Trump’s revised ban

A group of states renewed their effort on Monday to block President Donald Trump's revised temporary ban on refugees and…