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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 […]

Over 50 per cent of Nigerian women are offline, with no access to the internet, while 20 per cent were less likely than men to own smart phones, creating an exclusion gap, the United Nations Children’s Fund lamented on Monday. The organisation also expressed concern over the rate at which adolescent girls in Nigeria drop […]

Nigerian naira on Monday opened the week’s trading at N570 per dollar at the market – as vice president Yemi Osinbajo called for the devaluation of the currency. Street traders across forex markets in Lagos quoted the naira at N570 to a dollar. Since the suspension of trading information by abokiFX — citizens have resorted to street […]

A former governor of Anambra State and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi, has said he was a trader who ventured into banking before he became a governor. Obi said this during an interview on The Morning Show, an Arise TV programme that aired on Monday. This is amid […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari is Nigeria’s most popular politician in generations. The Vice President said this during an interactive session with top officials of Nigeria’s High Commission in the United Kingdom on Saturday. Osinbajo said the popularity and credibility of Buhari are crucial factors needed in galvanising the entire system to resolve […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said improving security, the economy and fighting corruption are still the core priorities of his administration, six years after the triad of promises first won him the presidential election. The President made the remark in Kaduna at the Passing Out Parade for Cadets of 68 Regular Course (Army, Navy and […]

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, well known as cooking gas, on Saturday, expressed worry over the supply shortage leading to persistent increase in the price of the commodity. They warned that 12.5kg of cooking gas currently selling between N7,500 and N8,000 could rise to N10,000 before December if nothing was done to address the crisis. […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says he is “yet to see a leader as patient, tolerant and understanding as President Muhammadu Buhari”, especially in the running of affairs of the country. The Minister stated this on Friday in Abuja when he received a delegation from African Union Development Agency – NEPAP  […]