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The World Bank has predicted that more people in Nigeria and its Sub-Saharan neighbours are expected to fall into extreme poverty. According to a report obtained via a World Bank newsletter on Friday, titled, “Global Economic Prospects,” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its effect on the commodity market, supply chains, inflation, and financial conditions have intensified […]

A former Commander of the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, Major General Henry Ayoola, has said poor parenting triggers insecurity in the country. He stated this on Sunday during a special programme on Channels Television to mark Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Ayoola charged parents to play their roles in properly grooming their children so as not to […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 10 new cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in six states. The NCDC had reported 21 cases and one death as of May 28. Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that does not spread easily between people. It is usually a mild self-limiting illness and most people recover within […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it has recorded an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens seeking to registers as voters ahead of the 2023 elections. The Chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, revealed this in a statement. “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received reports […]

The World Bank has disclosed that at least 30,000 people die every year from pollution in Lagos. The Washington-based bank disclosed this in a feature story on its blog, which is titled ‘Making Lagos a Pollution Free City: Solving the threat one solution at a time’. According to the bank, pollution is a huge problem […]

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday in Abuja said he would throw his weight behind the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; urging his support groups to follow suit. This was as he said despite not clinching the party’s nomination at the just-concluded primary election, the movement for a new Nigeria must […]

President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has raised the alarm that Nigeria is bleeding and soaked in blood. Ugorji made the lamentation yesterday in Owerri, while speaking at the golden jubilee celebration of the Apostolic Administrator of Owerri Archdiocese, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna. His words: […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has described Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the right presidential candidate for Nigeria. Tinubu clinched the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday. The President, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, congratulated the APC presidential flagbearer in the 2023 elections and assured him of “full […]

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Interior, has declared Monday, June 13, as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day which comes up on June 12. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr M. L. Shuaib Belgore, […]

Nigerian artist Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy has said he will leave Nigeria if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar or the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Tinubu emerges winner of the 2023 general election. Read below:

The Peoples Democratic Party says Bola Tinubu, the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is no match for Atiku Abubakar, PDP’s candidate. Tinubu had, on Wednesday, won the APC pesidential primary after he polled 1,271 votes to defeat his closest rival, Rotimi Amaechi, who scored 316 votes. In a statement after the former […]

The crisis rocking Labour party appears to be festering as a faction of the party led by Mr Calistus Okafor has held its National Convention to elect Ambassador Jude Ezenwafor as its presidential flagbearer. “What we are doing here today is to elect a man who is worthy to give us that change we’ve been […]

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has taken a swipe at the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, telling him that he (Lawan) can now lick his wounds. Tinubu said this on Wednesday while delivering his acceptance speech at Eagle Square, Abuja after he was declared the winner of the APC […]

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday reacted to his emergence as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he didn’t expect to win the party’s primary election. He also said Nigeria is back on track following his victory at the just concluded APC National Convention at the Eagle […]

All phones in the European Union will, from 2024, use the same type of charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras, Reuters reported. “By autumn 2024, USB Type-C will become the common charging port for all mobile phones, tablets and cameras in the EU,” the European Parliament said in a statement. EU countries and lawmakers agreed […]

A United States (US) drug trial involving cancer patients has reportedly recorded 100 percent success. The patients had rectal cancer, a type of cancer that begins in the rectum, which is the lower end of the large intestine. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the trial consisted of 12 patients, all of whom […]