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Kawonise picks SDP governorship nomination forms,

Former Ogun Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Sina Kawonise, on Friday collected the Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms…

Britain tracks corrupt money from Russia, Nigeria, others

Britain is significantly stepping up efforts to tackle the corrupt money funnelled by Russians and other “corrupt elite” from countries…

Nigeria’s inflation increases in August

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the Consumer Price index (CPI), which measured inflation for August increased to 11.23…

FRSC Recruitment: Screening, physical assessments begin Sept. 24

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has scheduled its screening and physical fitness assessment on recruitment for Sept. 24 to…

Commuters raise alarm over armed robbery attacks on Abuja-Keffi-Lafia highway

Commuters plying the Abuja-Keffi-Lafia highway in Nasarawa State have expressed concerns over the increasing cases of armed robbery on the…
Kemi Adeosun : court rules on her NYSC controversy

President Buhari accepts resignation of Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday accepted the resignation of the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun. This information is contained…

Buhari orders NEMA to declare flooding ‘national disaster’

President Muhammadu Buhari has delegated authority to the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, to…

Zainab Ahmed takes over Finance Ministry after Adeosun’s exit

Minister of State Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, will oversee the Ministry of Finance, henceforth.

FG defends appointment of Bichi as DSS boss

The Federal Government says President Muhammadu Buhari is not lopsided in the totality of appointments made into public offices and…

Speeding vehicle kills mother, baby in Ogun

A Mitsubishi pick up van on Friday knocked down a nursing mother backing a baby and holding another child at…
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) boss Hameed Ali urges Nigerians not to engage in smuggling or patronising smugglers in Easter message

Customs intercepts truck load of military uniforms in Imo

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, said it intercepted a truck carrying bales of military…

LAGESC arrests handcart pusher with five live bullets, two cartridges

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has arrested a handcart pusher, Suraju Rabiu with five live bullets and two…

Obasanjo storms Alake’s 75th birthday

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday stormed the 75th birthday celebration of the paramount ruler of Egbaland,…

South-East to benefit from $2bn China’s investment – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says the new investment commitments coming into Nigeria’s textile sector, of which Aba is a major beneficiary,…

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the…

China willing to provide Venezuela help

China is willing to provide Venezuela with what help it can, Premier Li Keqiang told Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on…

Flood claims 53 lives in Katsina, Kaduna in 4 months

The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in…

2019: Group rallies support for Ambode, warns APC against dropping him

A group, Ambodemania Movement Support Worldwide on Friday urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to perish the thought of ganging…

Kenyatta proposes to cut fuel tax to 8%

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Friday said a new and unpopular tax on petroleum products was necessary but that…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa

Zimbabwe crafts short-term economic blue print

The Zimbabwean government is crafting a short-term economic blue print to help stabilise the economy as it pushes with its…

South Africa to continue to put African agenda on BRICS – Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said South Africa like in the past will continue to put African issues on the…

IPOB’s sit-at-home: Banks, markets defy order in Umuahia

Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order…

2019: Dankwambo promises to offer solutions to Nigeria’s problems

Gombe State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, said he would provide solutions to the…

Doctors donate drugs to Kogi flood victims

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kogi Chapter, on Friday, donated drugs to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…

Air Force recruits 7,644 Nigerians in 3 years

A total of 7,644 Nigerians have been recruited into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) since assumption of office of President…

Man allegedly kidnaps 3 men

A 26-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Friday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping…

2019: Ebonyi APC gubernatorial aspirant rejects zoning, consensus

Prof. Bernard Odoh, a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described zoning…

Funeral for wife of ex-Pakistan PM Sharif draws huge crowds

Tens of thousands of people defied scorching heat in Pakistan on Friday to attend funeral prayers for the wife of…
Evans

Evans’ kidnap victim narrates encounter

An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos heard on Friday that kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known popularly as Evans, was the…

Second Niger Bridge project reaches 50% completion

Work on the second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta and Onitsha in Anambra, has reached 50 per cent completion,…