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Winter Olympics: South Korea spent $223,237 on sister of Kim Jong Un, entourage

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

South Korea spent around 240 million won (223,237 dollars) on the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…

9 refugees die in Uganda cholera break – Authorities

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Authorities said nine refugees were confirmed dead on Thursday morning and more than 300 people were isolated in several health…

Libya removed from terror-financing watch list

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) lifted Libya from the list of countries unable to fight money laundering and…

Trump’s travel ban kicked off vicious circle of ‘hatred’ across globe – Amnesty

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban in January 2017 targeting several Muslim-majority countries kicked off a vicious circle of “hatred,”…

Study shows more than 6bn people live in corrupt countries

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

More than six billion people live in countries that are corrupt, Transparency International said in a report on Wednesday.

Florida school shooting: Survivors push lawmakers to ban gun

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Dozens of teenaged survivors of the second deadliest public school shooting in U.S. history on Wednesday marched on Florida’s capital…

NIgerian Govt approves $6.7bn for construction of Ibadan – Kaduna standard gauge railway project

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday approved 6.7billion dollars for the construction of…

Maritime University gets approval to begin undergraduate programmes

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted approval to the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta, to begin undergraduate degree programmes from…

Abduction of schoolgirls: Buhari sends 3 ministers to Yobe

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Minister of Defence, retired Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and that of…

Cultists attack LASPOTECH, one dead, several wounded

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

One person was killed while several others were wounded on Tuesday following a bloody attack on Ikorodu Campus of the…

Female Manager, 3 Others Sent to Prison for Defrauding Employer N250m

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

A Female manager with the Mind The Gap Company in Yaba, Lagos, Oluwatosin Ogundana, 36, has been arrested and arraigned…

Tax Evaders’ll Be Exposed, Fowler tells company directors

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde Fowler, has urged members of the Institute of Directors (IoD)…

Lagos Reviews Procurement Plans of MDAs

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday reviewed the procurement plans of all the Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs with a…

Security guard gets 10 years imprisonment for defiling 5-year old girl

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos High Court has sentenced a 27-year old security guard to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a five-year old…

Niger state records 31 meningitis cases, 4 deaths in 2017

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Niger Government has confirmed the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) with laboratory tests confirming 31 cases and four deaths…

Social Media Week 2018: Organisers promise mind blowing experience

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Ms Ngozi Odita, the Co-founder of the 2018 Social Media Week (SMW), says the edition will assist in the creation…

Market women sensitised on Cleaner Lagos Initiative

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Lagos State Government, under its Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) has called on traders to ensure that markets in the…

FCT communities protest poor access to water facilities

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Residents of some communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Wednesday protested lack of access to the only source…

Libya, UN to continue to work on political agreement

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives (parliament) and the Tripoli-based Higher Council of State agreed to continue consultations to amend the…

CLI: Akiolu warns against dumping refuse in public places

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has warned residents of Lagos against dumping refuse in public places, saying the Cleaner Lagos…

ECOWAS inaugurates Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has inaugurated Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja to strengthen regional…

Diesel theft: Nigerian Navy arrest 7 suspects

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Nigerian Navy has arrested seven men for allegedly transporting 522 tonnes of diesel believed to be stolen from pipelines,…

Onanuga tasks media practitioners on human trafficking

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday called on the media to effectively play…

Federal, State Govts urged to engage healthcare workers on Child mortality

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Dr Mathew Ashikeni, the Acting Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, has urged Federal and State Governments to…

Congolese refugees besiege UN office in Rwanda, protest food cuts

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Anti-riot police in western Rwanda on Wednesday surrounded at least 3,000 Congolese refugees, who had camped at the UN Refugee…

Anambra state set to regulate gaming industry

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Anambra House of Assembly is set to look into the gaming industry with a view to making it healthier…

Health Workers’ strike halts services at Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Activities at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Enugu has been grounded following an industrial action by the Joint Health Sector…

Osun Assembly rejects constitution Amendment input

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Osun State House of Assembly has unanimously rejected the proposed constitutional amendment to allow for independent candidature during elections…

Farmers/herdsmen clash as a result of climate change

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Mr Chido Onumah, Coordinator, Africa Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has attributed the farmers/herdsmen crisis in Benue to…

Edo Govt. accused of diversion of rice meant for IDPs

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo on Wednesday accused the Edo Government of diverting 4,721 bags of rice donated…

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