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As Nigerians await the hearing of the various petitions filed before the election tribunals, a former Nigerian senator, Shehu Sani, […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Government on Tuesday mourned the passage of Oba Elijah Olorunnisola, the Onikogosi of Ikogosi Ekiti in Ekiti-West Local […]
Continue ReadingThe Libyan coastguard recovered on Tuesday the bodies of 11 migrants including a child after their Europe-bound boat sank off […]
Continue ReadingThe Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has threatened to sanction erring electricity market participants, having given them notices and time […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday unveil 81 national and regimental colours for the newly established and operationalised units and […]
Continue ReadingOne of Nigeria’s most celebrated embedded journalists, Jibrin Baba-Ndace, is set to launch his first-ever trilogy, which highlights the ‘Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has sworn in Justice Iyabo Subulade Yerima as the new Chief Judge (CJ) of […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has installed Professor Olusegun MacGregor as the new Olu of Orile Ilawo, in Odeda […]
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso: Burkina Faso – UN Rights Office Calls for Probe Into Latest Deadly Attack On Civilians
Authorities in Burkina Faso must conduct a full and independent investigation into the recent killing of scores of civilians in […]
Continue ReadingTunis/Tunisia — Member of the defence group of Ennahdha Movement President Rached Ghannouchi lawyer Mokhtar Jemai said that his client […]
Continue ReadingNigeria plans to start evacuating nearly 3,000 of its nationals, mostly students, from Sudan by a convoy of buses to […]
Continue ReadingCross River State Governor, Ben Ayade Following the non-payment of their salaries, street sweepers in Calabar, Cross River State, on […]
Continue ReadingThe Russian incarnation of KFC opened its first restaurant in Moscow on Tuesday after the American fast food chain exited […]
Continue ReadingAn Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced one Mr Ismaila Ojo to death by hanging for strangulating […]
Continue ReadingThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has disclosed that a trending video allegedly showing some of its officers operating […]
Continue ReadingProf. Johnson Adeoti of the Department of Business Administration, University of Ilorin, has described the imposition of federal character policy […]
Continue ReadingVice President Yemi Osinbajo says energy poverty has to be tackled headlong for African countries to attain middle-income status and […]
Continue ReadingResidents of Minna and its environs have blamed the Niger State Government and Security agencies for their inability to tackle […]
Continue ReadingA son of the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Bashir, has suggested the region and religion that should produce Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingCape Town — In March 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Kgosientshoa Ramokgopa as minister of electricity to help address growing […]
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