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Dubai Police seizes cocaine worth $136m

Dubai Police intercepts N55B cocaine, largest seizure in region

The seizure followed a drugs raid, in which one person of Middle-Eastern origins was arrested.
Buhari

Buhari gets 14-day deadline over N26bn budget for travels, meals

President Muhammadu Buhari has been giving 14 days ultimatum “to cut the N26 billion presidency budget for the construction of…
A woman casting her vote at one of pulling unit at Hwolshe, Jos

Plateau LG polls big fiasco

At the polling unit located at the College of Mary Immaculate (CMI), Zawan, 12 security personnel were seen on ground…
Okupe

Why I am the best presidential candidate – Okupe

The presidential hopeful touted himself as the best candidate after working with former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan
Nigerian Army accuses Sahara Reporters of smear campaign

Soldiers kill 3 gunmen attacking Enugu police checkpoint

According to Nwachukwu, the gunmen who were in two vehicles, a Hilux and Hummer bus, eventually succumbed to the troops’…
Lebanon's Zahrani power plant latest to shut down

Lebanon’s second power plant shuts down, country in darkness

The first power plant at Deir Ammar shut down on Friday. The second Zahrani power station followed today, after diesel…
Tinubu with Sanwo-Olu on his arrival in Nigeria

Tinubu and his array of visitors while in London

After three months of sojourn in London, United Kingdom, the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola…
Impressive: 31 students of 2 Kwara schools score between 300 and 358 in UTME

Gov. Abdulrazaq slammed by Kwara judge for executive rascality

Justice H.A. Gegele whipped the government while nullifying the appointments. He described the action of the Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq as…
Mr Muhammad Nami, Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)

Only 41 out of 200million pay taxes in Nigeria: FIRS boss

The number of billionaires in Lagos alone are more than the number of billionaires in the whole of South Africa…
Some of the 187 victims rescued by the police

187 abducted victims rescued in Zamfara forest

Similarly, several bandits and their collaborators have been arrested, some have been charged to court, while others are undergoing discreet…
Buhari congratulates Tanzanian winner of 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Gurnah is the fourth African to win the coveted prize after Wole Soyinka of Nigeria who won in 1986, Egyptian…
the extensive fire at the Federal Secretariat Abuja

Education Ministry, Zenith Bank affected in 2 fire incidents at Abuja Federal secretariat

The second fire was a conflagration which affected the Federal Ministry of Education and the annex area of the secretariat…
Peter Ogudoro creates Nigerian Teacher platform on Facebook

Nigerian teacher Peter Ogudoro wins Facebook award

The award by Facebook makes Ogudoro a member of the company’s elite group of 131 outstanding community managers in the…
Kano residents decry water scarcity

Global Water crisis looms, drought increases by 29% in Africa

The warning comes as floods, droughts and other water-related hazards increase due to climate change, while the number of people…
oil prices

Oil prices surpass $83

Brent crude rose as high as $83.47, the highest since October 2018, and at 1115 GMT was down 40 cents,…
Ernest johnson said to be mentally disabled executed in Missouri

U.S. state of Missouri executes disabled Johnson, snubs Pope Francis

Johnson, 61, was found guilty by a jury of murdering three convenience-store employees in 1994.

Hafsat Ganduje not arrested: EFCC, Kano govt

Several news outlets on Tuesday reported that she was arrested by the EFCC for some fraud.
Albertsons supermarket in Morro Bay where the $700m jackpot ticket was bought

Californian wins $700m Powerball jackpot

The Californian bought the ticket at Albertsons supermarket in Morro Bay, a city on California’s Central Coast about 200 miles…
L-R Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics announced

The Prize was awarded jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
Facebook

Facebook says no evidence of data compromise, explains outage

Facebook says it has no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.
Antonio Guterres speaks at the UNCTAD conference in Barbados

Guterres pleads for debt relief for poor, middle income nations

Guterres pushed for a substantial re-allocation of unused SDRs - "not a symbolic one" - to vulnerable countries.
Okowa, centre, reads the communique of South South governors over VAT and other issues

South South Governors join VAT suit in Appeal Court

Rivers State challenged FIRS and has the judgment of a Federal Court that endorsed its right over VAT in its…
Sacks of pangolin scales and ivory seized by the Customs in Lagos

Nigerian Customs arrests 2 traffickers in pangolin scales in Lagos raid

They were in possession of 15 sacks containing over 1 tonne of pangolin scales, representing over 2,500 dead pangolins, and…
IPOB purportedly announced total lockdown of the South East for next Monday in reaction to the closure of Onitsha main market by Gov Soludo

Pandemonium as IPOB enforces Monday sit-at-home order in Imo

Traders scampered away from the area, parents of school children and guardians also hurriedly rushed to pick their children.
Police arrest 2 suspected kidnappers while picking ransom in Ogun

Ogun police arrest two kidnappers while receiving ransom

The suspects, Muhammed Abubakar, 42, and Clinton Niche, 18 were nabbed on Sunday according to the command's spokesperson
Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed sworn in as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister

Abiy took the oath of office, administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi, on Monday after speaker and deputy…
Resident doctors

Breaking: Resident doctors call off 63-day old strike

Godiya Ishaya, NARD president, announced the decision in a statement after a meeting with the delegates of NMA and NARD.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian winners of 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine

Breaking: David Julius, Patapoutian win Nobel Prize in medicine

The two US-based scientists received the accolade for describing the mechanics of how humans perceive temperature and pressure through nerve…
Left T-B: Olapade-Olaopa, Raji-Oyelade, Salaka, Middle Olaniran. Right T-B: Temitope Alonge and Ademowo

Salako, Raji Oyelade, Olaniran, 5 others withdraw from UI VC Townhall meeting

The town hall meeting is tagged ‘The Voice of the Next UI VC, Who is Next?” and is organised by…
Ladi Williams

Buhari condoles with Williams family over death of Ladi

Ladi Williams died at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos early Sunday of COVID-19 complications, despite being vaccinated.