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Scores of Workers Shut out as FG Begins Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate
Many returning federal civil servants on Grade Level 12 and below were barricaded from entering the Federal Secretariat on Wednesday for failure to present proof of vaccination against…
BREAKING: Buhari receives South African President Ramaphosa in Aso Rock amid Omicron COVID-19…
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Ramaphosa arrived at the Villa at about 10 am on Wednesday and was…
Gas Explosion Kills Minor, Injures 10 Others In Kaduna
There was pandemonium at Unguwar Sanusi Community in Kaduna after a gas cylinder exploded and killed a seven-year-old and injured 10 others in the area, Daily Trust reports. It…
EndSARS protest: I’ll take my life if…, widow who lost N5m property cries
A widow, Mrs Victoria Nwachukwu, lost property valued at over five million naira during the vandalisation of property in the Iseyin community by hoodlums in the wake of the…
FX BAN ON 43 ITEMS: Norway lobbies for removal of stockfish from list
THE Norwegian Government through its Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Hon. Bojmar Skjaran, has called on the Nigerian government to remove stockfish from the list of the 43 items…
Omicron Variant: Canada Bans Travellers From Nigeria, Egypt And Malawi
Canada on Tuesday banned travellers from Nigeria, Egypt, and Malawi over fears of the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, bringing to 10 the number of African countries…
Nnamdi Kanu: Orji Kalu’s visit to DSS bizarre, against court order, lawyer fumes
Lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenious People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, yesterday, berated the Department of State Services, DSS, for…
Chidinma Ojukwu’s Trial Adjourned; Witness Tells Court How Ataga’s Body Was Found
A witness in the ongoing trial of undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the murder of Super TV boss, Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has narrated how family and…
Why Attacks On Jos Correctional Centre Was Successful – NCoS DCG
A Deputy Comptroller General of the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ahmed Tukur, has said gunmen carried out a successful attack on the Jos Custodial Centre due to few armed…
I Was Invited To The EFCC Again, Not Arrested – Femi Fani-Kayode
Former Nigerian Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has stated that he was not arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after he was reportedly arrested again by…
NEC Endorses Finance Bill 2022
The National Economic Council on Tuesday endorsed the Finance Bill 2022, subject to a few observations to be made. It was endorsed at a virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice…
BREAKING: Nigeria confirms two cases of Omicron COVID-19 variant
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. This was contained in a press release…
Police Trail Those Who Killed And Beheaded Two Police At Orsumoghu
THE Anambra State police command said Tuesday that it is on the trail of those who killed two policemen, beheaded and set them ablaze at Orsumoghu in Ihiala local government area of the…
Buhari Has No Power To Release Nnamdi Kanu – Festus Keyamo
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the power to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People…
MTN Nigeria to sell 575m shares at N169 each
MTN Group says it will sell up to 575 million shares held in MTN Nigeria at N169 per share to retail investors. In a statement on Tuesday, Uto Ukpanah, the company’s secretary, said the…
EndSARS: Lagos Releases White Paper, Rejects Recommendation On ‘Lekki Killings’
The Lagos State Government has rejected one of the recommendations of the panel it set up to probe police brutality. The panel, which was inaugurated last year, submitted its report to…
Fashola slams N2b libel suit against power coy’s CEO, two dailies
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has slammed an N2 billion defamation suit against the Chief Executive Officer of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd., Leno…
We never called for sit-at-home – IPOB cries out
According to IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful, there was no time IPOB issued a sit-at-home over its appeal for prayers for its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. “We have…
BREAKING: Fani-Kayode arrested in Lagos court, moved to EFCC custody
Femi Fani-Kayode, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was arrested at a Federal High Court in Ikoyi,…
White paper on EndSARS panel report will be released today, says Sanwo-Olu
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has disclosed that the white paper on the EndSARS panel report on Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 was ready and would be released…
CONFUSION: Markets, banks, schools in Onitsha, Nnewi shut over IPOB’s prayer for Kanu
Onitsha and Nnewi, the commercial and industrial nerves of Anambra State, respectively, were grounded on Tuesday, as traders and businesses, including banks, closed shops to observe the…
How to apply as Davido opens portal for N250m orphanage fund
Popular singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has opened an online portal for orphanages to apply for the N250m fund, in commemoration of his 29th birthday. The singer had…
JUST IN: Court Declares Deposed Kano Emir Sanusi’s Banishment Unlawful
Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja has declared as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional, the banishment of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido…
APC CRISIS: Bello Bala Shagari rejects membership of splinter group, backs Buni
A youth leader and member of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bello Bala Shagari, has dissociated himself from the Progressive Youth Movement ,PYM, a group in APC that claimed to have…