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The Federal Government has officially confirmed the first case of anthrax in the country. A statement released by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Monday signed by Dr. Columba T. Vakuru , Chief Veterinary Officer of Nigeria, said animals showing signs of a possible case of anthrax on a farm in Suleja, […]
The resignation of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore was on Monday confirmed by the National Working Committee. Their resignation was announced on Monday during the NWC meeting chaired by Senator Abubakar Kyari. Kyari also revealed that he has taken over […]
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate accelerated for the sixth consecutive time to 22.79 per cent in June 2023, according to data by the National Bureau of Statistics released Monday. The inflation rate in Africa’s biggest economy rose to a new 17-year high of 22.79 per cent in June 2023 from 22.41 per cent in the […]
President Bola Tinubu is set to travel to Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday July 15, to participate in the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States. As the Chairperson of ECOWAS, the Nigerian leader will join Heads […]
Another Abuja High Court has voided the arrest and detention of the Suspended Central Bank Governor, Mister Godwin Emefiele, by the Department of State Services. Delivering Judgement, Justice Bello Kawu held that the arrest, detention and interrogation of Mister Emefiele, is in violation of the subsisting judgment and orders of Justice M. A. Hassan. […]
Former Manchester City and France footballer Benjamin Mendy broke down in tears on Friday, as a UK jury cleared him of sex offences. Mendy, 28, put his head on his knees and wiped away tears on hearing the verdict at the end of the three-week trial at Chester Crown Court in northwest England. […]
The Ondo State Government said it has set up a nine-man committee on palliatives that will work out the strategies to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal in the state. The government said the constitution of the committee was part of the decision taken at the state executive council meeting held on Thursday […]
Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations said Friday. The figure is double that recorded in the first six months of 2022, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said, as it called for expanded safe, legal […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of over 64, 863.5 kilogrammes of nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, following its abuse by people who use it for recreational purposes at the Apapa seaport in Lagos and in Imo State. This comes barely 24 hours after the Chairman/Chief Executive […]
Some students of the Lagos State University, Ojo, have blamed cultists also known as ‘Ojo boys’ for the disruption of the Poco Lee Homecoming concert on Thursday evening in Lagos. The students also alleged that the cultists came into the campus with pistols and other arms. Pascal Odinaka, a dancer and an alumnus of […]
