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…Says Incident Most Unfortunate, Regrettable The Lagos State Government has commiserated with families of victims who lost their lives and property in a fatal tanker explosion which occurred on Thursday evening on Otedola Bridge,…

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted prospects of thunderstorms and moderate rains over the Central States such as Minna, Abuja, Jos, Lafia, Kaduna, Bauchi, Gombe, Jalingo and Lokoja on Friday morning. NiMet’s…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is consciously concentrating on completion of abandoned projects than introducing new ones. The minister who said…

The federal government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered $322 million Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July. Tukur Rumar of the National Cash Transfer…

She was arrested as she arrived at the London Heathrow airport, screaming "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" despite using dark evil means of voodoo to "tie" her trafficking victims to her demands before trafficking them to Germany, Italy and…

The Nigerian Army says it has arrested 17 persons in connection with the killing of at least 100 people in the central state of Plateau over the weekend. This was revealed by Army Spokesman, Major Adam Umar. He said three of the…

A tanker laden with fuel has reportedly caught fire on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on the bridge near the Otedola Housing Estate. See the photographs, courtesy, Rapid Response Squad:

Sex is absolutely great — it is fun, it is exercise, and it gives immense pleasure (most times). But even for sex enthusiasts, there are times when life’s woes bring you down and you’re just not in the mood. Rejection in any form…

Dangote Cement Plc says it is planning to raise N150 billion by issuing commercial papers on FMDQ. In a statement released by the company to the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the company said the capital raising will either…

The World Bank says it has approved a loan of $2.1 billion for seven projects in Nigeria. Earlier in the year, top executives from the bank toured some projects in the country. According to a statement released on Thursday, the…

Victor Iyanam who is a brother of former globacom manager, Okon Iyanam, who was assassinated on Wednesday in Ogun state, has given an account of how he was murdered. Read what Victor wrote on his Facebook page below YES, IT IS TRUE.…

Nigeria, Germany, Egypt, and the 13 other countries will get $8 million each for participating at the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Despite the loss of match win bonuses for the teams of this country, their…

Famed Nigeria author Chimamanda Adichie has said that women are the same as men and not special. She said this on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at the Chatham House London Conference 2018 on storytelling. The Chatham House formally is…

Young women with high body fat have a decreased chance of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Oncology. “It is well known that women who gain weight, particularly after…

Other deaths only speak but murder shrieks out. Yet each man kills the thing he loves. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword; Okon Iyanam’s murderers did…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says a new drug – Carbetocin – has the potential to save thousands of women’s lives in childbirth annually. WHO said Carbetocin now serves as a new competition – with improved benefits – to…

As investigators in Seychelles enquire about the multi-million dollar assets owned by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, through offshore shell companies in tax havens, his wife, Toyin, who is suspected to have acted…

The federal government says it is now impossible for recovered looted funds to be re-looted, as mechanisms have been put in place to prevent it. Ladidi Mohammed, the Director, Asset Recovery and Management Unit, Ministry of Justice,…

A young simply identified as named Ebuka Henry reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his house. According to a Facebook user Chimelum Ajanma who is a friend to the young man who committed suicide, he stated that the…

A Nigerian Libyan returnee, identified as Titi, has narrated her sad ordeal in the hands of Arab men in the North African country. According to her, she and other women were sold to brothels to work as sex slaves. And she also claimed to…

The Federal Government has dismissed the Brookings Report that Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest rate of poverty in 2018. In a chat with State House correspondents Wednesday, the Minister of Trade and…

A renowned professor of International Law and jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, yesterday took a swipe at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued killings in the countryand concluded that his administration had…

The Federal Government has disbursed a total of N158.74 billion to electricity distribution companies (DISCOs), electricity generation companies (GENCOs), gas companies (GASCOs) and service providers under the CBN-Nigerian Electricity…

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting ended in Abuja on Wednesday night without sharing allocations for the month. No member of the committee agreed to talk to journalists on why they left the meeting without…