FG partnering with neighbouring countries on porous borders -Osinbajo
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said the Federal Government was partnering with neighbouring countries to ensure that the country’s porous borders are better policed....
View ArticleICYMI: Monkeypox hits Bayelsa, doctor, 10 others quarantined
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa Fear has gripped the residents of Bayelsa State as a new deadly viral epidemic known as “monkeypox” has broken out in the state. It was authoritatively learnt that a medical...
View ArticleSchool guard sets four children, one teacher on fire
Four young children and their teacher died Thursday in southeastern Brazil after a nursery school security guard sprayed them with alcohol and set them on fire, officials said. Several others were...
View ArticleOhanaeze frowns at hate speech by Igbo youths
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has expressed dismay over the spate of hate speech on social media platforms by Igbo youths under the guise of agitating for Biafra. Nwodo...
View ArticleFRSC officials take delivery of baby girl on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
The Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun on Thursday said that it had taken safe delivery of a baby girl whose mother was in transit along Lagos /Ibadan Expressway. The Public Education Officer of Corps...
View ArticleMore outrage from CSOs needed in corruption fight – Osinbajo
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, said that there is a need for more outrage in the fight against corruption. Osinbajo, in a meeting with Civil Society Organisations in Abuja,...
View ArticleGreater international cooperation key to defeating Boko Haram – Military...
Greater international cooperation is required to defeat Boko Haram and neutralise the threat from the Islamist militants in Nigeria and beyond, military commanders and politicians said this week. The...
View ArticleFormer Iraqi President Talabani’s body arrives in Kurdistan
The body of former Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, arrived in the Iraqi Kurdish City of Sulaimaniya on Friday for an official funeral attended by several Iraqi and regional officials. A coffin...
View ArticleCatalan separatists accused of sedition freed pending probe
Catalonia’s police chief and two prominent separatist leaders avoided being remanded in custody at a court hearing Thursday over sedition accusations linked to the region’s independence bid, a court...
View Article‘My husband threatened to stab, kill me with scissors’
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved the seven years marriage between one Omolara and Abiodun Ojeyemi over attempted scissors attack. The President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade,...
View ArticleTwo die in Kebbi canoe accident
Another canoe mishap has claimed two lives in Yauri Local Government Area of Kebbi, two days after 18 passengers died when their canoe capsized in the area. Chairman of the local council, Musa...
View ArticleKachikwu/Baru feud: Buhari, minister in closed door meeting
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, are currently meeting behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. This...
View ArticleI’ve no hand in suspected bomber’s travails, prosecution – Ex-militant leader
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa An ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Pastor Reuben Wilson, popularly known in the creeks as ‘General Reuben’, has denied link with the travails and prosecution of Edmund Ebiware, a...
View ArticlePope’s economy minister faces historical sex charges
Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell, would face a court hearing in Australia in 2018, a Magistrate said on Friday. Pell is to answer what the police described as “historical sexual offences’’; he is...
View ArticleKachikwu keeps mum after meeting Buhari
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Friday kept mum after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa,...
View ArticleGunmen kill three in attack on UN military base
Three suspected tribal militiamen were killed and two UN soldiers slightly wounded Friday when the armed men attacked a UN military base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN source said. “At...
View ArticleBuhari meets Supreme Court justices
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting justices of the Supreme Court inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The apex court’s justices were led to the meeting by the Chief Justice...
View ArticleN4.7bn fraud: Court adjourns Ladoja’s trial till Monday
Oladimeji Ramon The Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned further hearing till Monday, October 9, in the case of a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, who was charged with N4.7bn...
View ArticleNNPC boss sighted inside Aso Rock
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The embattled Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, was on Friday sighted at the Presidential Villa, Abuja about the same...
View Article40 Russian schools evacuated due to bomb threats
More than 40 schools were evacuated in Moscow on Friday following bomb threats, a trend that has seen a variety of buildings cleared in recent weeks. “Almost 6,000 people had to be cleared from the...
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