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Community pharmacies in Nigeria have reported massive boom in sales following an alleged increased demand for face masks by Chinese firms and agents. They suspected that “the unusual deluge of demand for face masks”…

The Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, has distanced himself from the newly created security outfit for the Northern region, Operation Shege Ka Fasa, adding that if the…

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has said that former Head of State Gen. Sani Abacha is innocent and didn’t loot the $308m set to be repatriated by the US. The governments of…

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has restated its commitment to the productivity and profitability of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) through funding,…

The current accounts held by bank customers have dropped by 4.5 million as at the end of 2019. This was disclosed by Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System…

A five-year-old girl has been raped on the premises of the US embassy in India’s capital New Delhi. Police said the peadophile is a 25 year-old Indian man. He was arrested at…

President Muhammadu Buhari says some Lagosians living in Victoria Island have never visited Ikeja. The president spoke while receiving delegates of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) at the presidential villa, Abuja, on…

The supreme court has affirmed the judgment of the court of appeal which gave handed a 12- year jail sentence to Jolly Nyame, a former governor of Taraba…

Bruce McConville: stuns court by saying he burnt over a million dollars A former candidate for Ottawa mayoral election, Bruce McConville has stunned a judge that he burned $1…

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the local government autonomy bill through second reading. The bill, which seeks to amend the 1999 constitution, was passed through…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it will continue to resist enrolment into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)…

There were fears in the height of the Boko Haram menace under the Goodluck Jonathan administration that the insurgents would bomb Lagos. They tried…

Manchester City are monitoring Lionel Messi’s public fall-out with Barcelona should he exercise a clause in his contract and leave Camp Nou this summer. Messi’s long-term future at his boyhood club was thrown into doubt earlier…

The Inter Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately reverse its decision on the de-registration of 74 political parties. The council made the call in a…

One of the two brothers paraded, Thursday, by Kogi State Police Command for car theft said he started snatching cars in December 2019 when he woke up to a strange sound urging him to go for stealing. The two brothers, Idris Bello,…

Senators are reluctant to stand as surety to a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, his lawyer, Afam Osigwe, said. Osigwe made this known on Thursday, during the ongoing criminal trial of…

The Osun State police have confirmed the arrest of Monday Omo-Etan, a tutor at the Obafemi Awolowo University Distance Learning Centre, exposed on Wednesday for reportedly sexually molesting a teenager. Newsmen on Thursday…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday said there is a need to revisit the privatisation of the power sector. Lawan made the statement when members of the executive committee of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria…

The new Super Eagles kits unveiled by designers Nike and the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday, has elicited reactions from Nigerians on Twitter. NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, in a chat with newsmen, had described the…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya. The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on…

Samson Siasia said he needs the support of all Nigerians to raise a sum of £250,000. The erstwhile Super Eagles coach said he came out to beg Nigerians for financial assistance because he could not get the money from people…

The House of Representatives has called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to sensitise Nigerians against using paracetamol to boil meat. At the plenary on Thursday, the House mandated NAFDAC…

The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said about 27 states of the federation have recorded cases of Lassa fever as at the last count. Ehanire said this on Thursday during a meeting with state health commissioners across…

The Lagos State Police Command has said that it is not planning any raid for Thursday and Friday throughout the state from 8p.m. It advised Lagosians…