Actress Rachel Oniga buried in Lagos
Legendary Nollywood actress, Rachel Oniga, has been buried in Lagos. The actress died from heart-related issues on July 30 at the age of 64. A lying-in-state ceremony had earlier been held for the...
View ArticleFull draw: Tottenham draw Rennes, Mourinho’s Roma get CSKA in Europa...
Tottenham Hotspur will play Rennes and Vitesse Arnhem as well as Mura of Slovenia in the group stage of the inaugural Europa Conference League following Friday’s draw in Istanbul. Spurs, who are the...
View ArticlePlateau Assembly gives Lalong two-week ultimatum to end killings
The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Governor Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedeviling the state. Chairman, House Committee on Information, Philip Dasun, conveyed...
View ArticleFans hail Burna Boy for successful London concert
Grammy award-winning artist, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy, treated fans to a sensational concert at the O2 Arena in London on Friday night. The concert, which is a part of Burna Boy’s...
View ArticleWhy Yobe needs a zoo -Conservationist
A conservationist in Yobe, Mohammad Babagana, on Saturday expressed concerns over the lack of a zoo in the state, 30 years after its creation. Babagana, also the Deputy Provost, College of Agriculture,...
View ArticlePlateau PDP resolves differences, holds ward congress Sept 11
The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says it has resolved its differences and will conduct its ward congress on September 11. Spokesperson of Senator Tunde Ogbeha-led State Caretaker...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Nigeria’s infection cases now 199,333 –NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country now has 199,333 COVID-19 infections as of Friday, August 27 across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The...
View ArticleMali ex-interim president, PM freed from house arrest
Former Malian interim president Bah Ndaw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane have been freed from house arrest, the West African bloc ECOWAS said on Friday. In a statement, the Economic Community of...
View ArticleChina still withholding critical information on Covid origins —Biden
President Joe Biden said Friday that China was withholding “critical information” on the origins of Covid-19 after the US intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was a bioweapon — but...
View ArticleBandits subjected us to 88 days of torture, threatened to kill us –Freed...
News of the release of the pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School, Tegina, on Thursday night threw Tegina town, in particular, and Niger state as a whole into wide jubilation. While their parents and...
View ArticleSouthern govs should reject PIA, grazing routes, Akintoye, others say
The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination has urged the governors in southern Nigeria to unanimously reject the recently assented Petroleum Industry Act by the President,...
View ArticleIgboho committed no crime against Nigeria, release him, Soyinka tells Benin...
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has appealed to the government of the Republic of Benin to free Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, currently in prison custody...
View ArticleTaliban takeover: No Nigerian in Afghanistan, FG declares
The Federal Government has declared that there is no Nigerian in Afghanistan who needs evacuation, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission explained...
View ArticleGani Fawehinmi’s son buried beside father, amid tears
The son of the late human right lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, Mohammed, was on Saturday buried in his hometown, Ondo, Ondo State on Friday, amid tears by family members, friends and well-wishers. The...
View ArticleDefend yourselves against killers, Plateau Assembly tells residents
Following the series of attacks by gunmen in various communities in Plateau State which have led to the killing of many and the destruction of properties, the state House of Assembly has called on...
View ArticleFood poisoning: How bacterial, chemical contamination, unsafe food handling...
Contaminated food has caused countless deaths in Nigeria with little measure taken to curb the menace, AFEEZ HANAFI reports Tuwon dawa – corn flour dish – used to be a favourite meal in the household...
View ArticleAfghanistan: IS remains a threat, says Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the threat the Islamic State group poses ahead of an Iraqi summit Saturday overshadowed by the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and a deadly bombing in...
View ArticleLagos evacuates three-week-old baby, others from Plateau
Lagos Government says it has evacuated a three-week-old baby, the mother and undergraduate students of the state’s extraction studying at the University of Jos from Plateau. The evacuation became...
View ArticleWhat Buhari has done to AK-47-wielding bandits worse than declaring them as...
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says what the Federal Government has done to AK-47-wielding bandits is worse than designating them as terrorists. He spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin on...
View ArticleTwo die, one injured in Ogun multiple accidents
A multiple vehicle-collision accident on Saturday, killed two persons while one other sustained injury. The accident occured on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of...
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