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A 23-year-old mother of three, Miss Mercy Okon who sold her 3-month-old baby for 150,000 naira has revealed that she needed the money to pay her house rent and offset other bills. She told Vanguard that it was out of poverty and desperation that she did what she did in a bid to help herself. […]

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, advised state governments to enact laws to make mandatory monthly rent payments to make housing more available to Nigerian masses. Fashola made the call at the 10th Meeting of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development in Ikeja, Lagos. The theme of […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has urged youths to join politics to make a difference in the country. The VP stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, at a virtual forum where he interacted with Nigerian Fellows of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘Osinbajo […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned telecommunication consumers to ensure they do not allow their National Identification Number (NIN) to be linked to another person’s Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card no matter how close the person is to them. NCC gave the warning during its third Telecom Consumer Town Hall on Radio (TCTHR) programme […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has told bandits that they should be ready for crushing defeat. The President gave the warning on Monday while reacting to the killing of over 30 people in Goronyo, Sokoto State on Sunday. Buhari, in a statement issued by his media aide, Garba Shehu, said the days of the bandits were numbered […]

Some residents of Nigeria’s South-east region have said they would resort to firewood and charcoal if prices of cooking gas continue to soar. The consumers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews that they could no longer cope with the increase in the prices of cooking gas. They called on the federal […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the recommendations to lift the ban on Twitter in Nigeria will be applicable to all over-the-top and other social media platforms in the country. The minister said this on Monday, when he featured on ‘This Morning’, a programme by Television Continental (TVC). The federal government had, on June […]

Conservative British lawmaker David Amess was killed on Friday after being stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. Local police did not name Amess but said a man had been arrested “on suspicion (of) murder” after […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked government officials in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to withdraw their children from foreign universities and enroll them in Nigeria. It also called on the National Assembly to initiate a law that makes it compulsory for the public office holders to send their wards to public schools […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has confirmed it is 97% ready for the implementation of 5G deployment in the country. In a statement issued on Thursday, NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Professor Umar Danbatta, confirmed the readiness at the annual African Tech Alliance Forum (AFRITECH) 2021, held in Lagos with the theme: “Embracing Changes and Digital […]

The Federal Government, Wednesday, announced that it will spend a total sum of N75, 765,087,178.28 to carry out palliative works on collapsed portions on roads across the country in order to ease movement of people and goods within the Ember Months, especially during the Christmas and New Year festive period.  This was highlight of stakeholders […]

The Federal Government has barred unvaccinated civil servants from work, with effect from December 1, 2021. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, announced this at the national briefing of the committee in Abuja on Wednesday. “With effect from 1st December 2021, Federal […]

Barely 19 months to the end of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed ministers and permanent secretaries to redouble their efforts and work in synergy toward total delivery of the set target to improve livelihood of all Nigerians. He gave the directive at the end of the two-day mid-term ministerial performance review retreat at […]

The president of the Association of Capital market Academics and Nigeria’s first professor of capital market, Uche Uwaleke has said the Naira has suffered several devaluations in the recent past, and doing so yet again is a recipe for high poverty and unemployment levels. Uwalake was responding to the comment of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who […]