Spiritual healing: Randy prophet bags life imprisonment for barren woman’s death
AN Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Thursday sentenced a cleric, Prophet Olakanye Oni, to life imprisonment over the circumstances that led to the death of a woman who came to him for...
View ArticleExternal reserves slide further, lost $905.5m in June – CBN
The country’s external reserves maintained a downward trend as it lost $905.5m in June, figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed on Thursday. According to the CBN’s data on the movement...
View ArticleCOVID-19: US, others loan Aspen N292bn to manufacture vaccines in Africa
Multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Durban, South Africa, Aspen Pharmacare, has secured a loan of €600m (N292bn) from the United States, World Bank and some European countries...
View ArticleAbiodun begs FG over Ogun activist detained in Benin Republic
The Ogun State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to immediately secure the release of a Nigerian citizen currently languishing in detention in the Benin Republic. The government made...
View ArticleHoodlums have attacked eight INEC offices – Imo REC
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Imo State, Prof Francis Ezeonu, has warned that the constant torching of the commission’s facilities could...
View ArticleNigeria’s aviation university gets approval, begins in July
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has presented the concept note for Nigeria’s first aviation and aerospace university, as a provisional approval has been granted for the commencement of the...
View ArticleNNPC, partners sign gas agreements, target $760m revenue
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and its partners in the Oil Mining Lease 130 Production Sharing Agreement and Production Sharing Contract are projecting to earn over $760m from the Gas...
View ArticleDay Muslims, traditionalists’ unresolved rivalry triggered death, injuries in...
“I rushed out when there were repeated gunshots. Many men bearing sticks used them angrily on one another and a masquerader was trapped in their midst. Sticks, animal bones with sharp edges and...
View ArticlePolice blamed us any time we had problem with Fulani in Ibarapa –Ramon, OPC...
Hassan Ramon, one of the members of the Oodua People’s Congress who spent three months in prison after arresting a suspected Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, at Ibarapa, Oyo State, tells OLUFEMI OLANIYI...
View ArticleOur daughter’s killing after obtaining master’s degree has left us hopeless...
Sunday Williams and his wife, Helen, whose daughter, Ella, was allegedly killed on June 10 by herdsmen on her way to collect her National Youth Service Corps call-up letter at Ambrose Alli University,...
View ArticleFAAN automates Lagos airport cargo terminal
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has announced the automation of Hajj/Cargo terminal in Lagos airport. It announced this in a statement titled ‘FAAN set to go live on Hajj/Cargo Terminal Park...
View ArticleRisk of debt defaults in Africa has increased – AfDB
The African Development Bank has stated that the risk of debt defaults is increasing among African countries. This statement was contained in the Strategy for Economic Governance in Africa, which was...
View ArticleAmaechi wants manslaughter charge for railway vandals
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said anyone caught vandalising railway facilities in the country should be charged with manslaughter. He said this on Friday during the ministerial...
View ArticleFIRS extends tax returns filing over system glitches
The Federal Inland Revenue Service has extended by one month the period given for the filing of Company Income Tax returns by taxpayers whose statutory tax returns were due by June 30, 2021. According...
View ArticleDon’t compare bandits, Boko Haram with IPOB –El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, should serve as a warning and message to separatists challenging the country’s authority....
View ArticleGunmen abduct river basin authority’s manager in Katsina
Gunmen, on Thursday night, abducted the regional manager of the Sokoto Rima River Basin Development Authority, Labaran Dandume from his official quarters in Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State. Residents said 10...
View ArticleBe courageous to constitute NDDC board, Tompolo tells FG
Ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has flayed what he termed the “lackadaisical attitude” of the Federal Government in handling important matters to the...
View ArticleHow we found true love after nasty heartbreaks, deceits –Persons living with...
Some Nigerians living with disabilities share the stories of their love lives with Tope Omogbolagun ‘The internet went agog when our wedding pictures surfaced online,” newly-wedded Dorathy Osaro (Nee...
View ArticlePolice in show of force as agitator insists on Lagos rally today
Barring any last-minute change, agitators of the Yoruba nation and men of the Lagos State Police Command may be at loggerheads as the demonstrators embark on a mega rally in the state today against...
View ArticleAPC snubs Yari, Marafa, insists Matawalle is Zamfara party leader
The All Progressives Congress on Friday reiterated its conferment of the leadership of the Zamfara State chapter of the party on Governor Bello Matawalle. This is coming on the heels of the rejection...
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