Aso Rock Clinic: Reps probe utilisation of N10.98bn budget
John Ameh, Abuja The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the “deplorable condition” of the State House Clinic in Abuja, and its inability to deliver basic medical services. The...
View ArticleYuletide: Road transport unions pledge support for FRSC
Leaders of the road transport unions have promised to collaborate with the Federal Road Safety Corps in ensuring the success of the Corps’ end of year special road safety patrol. The assurance was made...
View ArticleInmate faces execution for murder of prison guard
A Texas inmate convicted of the murder of a prison guard is scheduled to be executed late Thursday as his lawyers await a US Supreme Court ruling on a last-minute appeal. Robert Pruett, 38, has...
View ArticleCanadian family rescued 5 years after Taliban captivity
Pakistani security forces have recovered a Canadian family from Taliban captivity, five years after they were kidnapped from neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. A Canadian man, his...
View ArticleUnpaid salaries: Bayelsa LGAs, health workers suspend strike
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa Health workers and local government employees in Bayelsa State have suspended their three-month strike on Thursday. The workers had embarked on the industrial action three months...
View ArticleCourt jails man for sleeping with second wife
A Zimbabwean Magistrate Court has jailed a 29-year-old man known as Stanford Gunda who married a girl, aged 13 as his second wife. According to Zimnews, the offence contradicted the Section 70 of the...
View ArticleCentre inaugurates anti-corruption platform as Magu calls for support
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A civil society group, African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, on Thursday in Abuja unveiled a platform, Corruption Anonymous, to boost the anti-corruption campaign...
View ArticleRaising marriage age is un-Islamic, say Senators
Pakistani senators have rejected a bid to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 16 to 18, a senator told AFP, declaring it “un-Islamic” in a decision condemned by human rights activists. The...
View ArticleIPOB: Lethal weapons recovered from Kanu’s residence, says Abia CP
The Commissioner of Police in Abia, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, has said that lethal weapons, including petrol bombs and one double-barrel gun, were recovered during last Sunday’s raid on the residence of the...
View ArticleBayelsa LGs, health workers suspend three months strike
Bayelsa Local Government and health workers on Thursday suspended a three-month strike they embarked on to protest non-payment of their salaries. A meeting of the Joint State Executive Council of the...
View ArticleNNPC: I approved loans not contracts, says Osinbajo
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday clarified that what he approved for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation when President Muhammadu Buhari was away on medical...
View ArticleFRSC recovers 75 stolen cars at registration point
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Federal Road Safety Corps has recovered 75 stolen vehicles at various registration centres across the country. The Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi attributed the recoveries...
View ArticleFG, FAAN owe us N200bn – Bi-Courtney
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd, operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two, Lagos said on Thursday that the Federal Government and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria were owing it...
View ArticleLadoja returns to PDP
A former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasidi Ladoja, has confirmed his return to the people’s Democratic Party from the Accord Party. The Accord Party was founded by Ladoja. In his goodwill message...
View ArticleSpanish police used excessive force in Catalan vote – Human Rights Watch
Spanish police used “excessive force” to try to stop an independence referendum held in Catalonia on October 1 that had been banned by Madrid, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The rights watchdog said...
View Article$1.8m worth of gold flushed away in Switzerland’s sewage every year
Scientists recently determined that about $1.8 million worth of gold flows through Switzerland’s wastewater from the refineries that process roughly 70 percent of the world’s gold. That’s approximately...
View ArticleFans take to Twitter to mourn DJ Olu as his body is laid to rest
A large section of the Twitterverse has taken to the social media to mourn DJ Olu, the deceased member of Davido’s crew and his close pal. DJ Olu, real name Olugbenga Abiodun and one Chime Amaechi,...
View ArticleGod can’t survive science, ‘Da Vinci Code’ author says
God cannot survive science, “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown said on Thursday, putting his faith in technological advances to connect people in new ways that would eventually scrap the need for...
View ArticleIsrael to withdraw from UNESCO following US – Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday that his country would withdraw its membership from the UN cultural agency UNESCO. “Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare...
View ArticleSouth African police attack Nigerians, hospitalise five
The Nigeria Union, South Africa, says it has protested the alleged beating of five Nigerians, a day after the killing of Mr Olamilekan Badmus, a 25-year-old native of Ogun State, by South African...
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