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No fewer than five persons died in the Wednesday tanker fire in Onitsha, Anambra State. A woman and her child had been confirmed dead, while three others were said to have died at different locations in the area. Forty buildings and scores of shops were also torched in the disaster caused by the derailing of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of new aides to serve in his wife’s office. Aisha Buhari returned to Nigeria last week after a prolonged stay abroad, amid rumours the president was taking a new wife. The government now officially refers to Mrs Buhari as “first lady”, after Mrs Buhari said she would no […]

The Federal Government Monday announced a total ban on the importation and exportation of goods through the land borders nationwide. It was gathered that the decision was in furtherance of the on-going joint border operation, tagged, Exercise Swift Response. Daily Trust reports that the operation began on August 20, 2019, involving the Nigeria Customs Service […]

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on Sunday attributed her long stay outside the country to “doctor’s instruction.” Mrs Buhari disclosed this in an interview she granted journalists shortly after she arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Although she said she was well now, the President’s wife said she still needed more rest. She […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its state councils to prepare for an indefinite strike on October 16 if the federal government fails to meet its demand. The new minimum wage of N30,000 has not been implemented because the government and labour unions have failed to reach an agreement on the consequential adjustment of […]

Nobel laurete, Prof Wole Soyinka, has described the state of education in the country as horrifying, saying Nigeria is in trouble. The prolific playwright spoke on Sunday at the University of Lagos, Akoka, during the presentation of a play, ‘Folly of Men.’ The play was an adaptation of three plays: Wole Soyinka’s ‘Trial of Brother […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday observed the weekly two raka’at jumaat prayer at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Among those that joined him at the jumaat prayer were presidential aides, ministers and former governor of Zamfara Staate Abdulaziz Yari and Senator Kabir Gaya. The jumaat prayer, however, witnessed unprecedented number of faithful who seemed to have […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called on families of victims of sexual abuse to always speak out and not cover-up such things. He also supported the proposed amendment to the laws against sexual harassment of students at tertiary institutions, saying stricter laws were needed to prevent girls from being abused in schools. Buhari was reacting […]

The Federal Government has said the issue of further evacuation of Nigerians from South Africa does not arise again. Nigeria had last month evacuated no fewer than 500 Nigerians from South Africa following xenophobic attacks on them and other Africans. But on Thursday, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the violence that gave rise […]

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday declined to comment on the outcome of his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the agenda of the meeting between President Buhari and Jonathan, which lasted for about 15 minutes, was unknown to newsmen. Goodluck Jonathan after meeting with President Buhari […]

A Japanese businessman had a watch worth more than $800,000 seized from his wrist outside a five-star hotel in Paris, police said. The man had stepped out of the Hôtel Napoléon, near the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysées, around 9 p.m. on Monday evening to smoke a cigarette, when a thief snatched the watch from […]