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The death toll from an Indonesian football riot that turned into a stampede was revised down to 125 on Sunday due to double counting, an official told local media. “Today the death toll is 125. 124 have been identified and one has not. Some names were recorded twice because they had been referred to another […]

Kaduna-based journalist and publisher of Daily Newstime, John Adi, recently attracted public attention when he publicly made an offer to donate a kidney to the ailing daughter of a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. In an interview with Punch, Adi responds to some of the questions thrown up in the public space by his offer. […]

Qatar Airways has just been named the best airline in the world for the seventh time in the Skytrax World Airline Awards. From Covid to chaos, it’s been another bumpy year for the aviation industry. In much of the northern hemisphere, the busy summer season was beset by delays and cancellations, while in the United States […]

Naira fell significantly against the dollar Thursday afternoon at the parallel market, two days after the Central Bank of Nigeria made its biggest interest rate hike yet in a bid to check inflation and defend the currency. The local unit depreciated from N725 it exchanged hands with the greenback on Wednesday to trade at N735.00 and above […]

The House of Representatives has raised the alarm over the possibility of the Ebola virus returning to Nigeria, urging the Federal Government to immediately activate preventive measures. Members of the House, at the plenary on Thursday, unanimously adopted a motion moved by one of them, Dachung Bagos, who warned that the virus might spread to […]

Unhappiness may shorten your life more than smoking, scientists say. Data from 12,000 Chinese adults revealed that having a poor mental state — feeling lonely, hopeless and having restless sleep, for example — can shave more than a year and a half off the average lifespan. Scientists say their research shows that mental health is just […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said politicians would wreck Nigeria if religious leaders did not intervene. Obasanjo said this at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Most Reverend Daniel Okoh, paid him a courtesy visit. Obasanjo warned that […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja assured that participation of citizens in democracy will continue to be encouraged through freedom of speech and robust political discourse, urging respect for divergent cultures and opinions, and upholding the unity of the country. Receiving Letters of Credence from ambassadors and high commissioners of six countries at the State House, the […]

Facts have emerged on why the Federal Government reversed itself on the decision to reopen public universities despite the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Vanguard gathered that pressure from opinion leaders and other stakeholders interested in resolving the face-off between the union and the government led to the […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against too much use of bleaching cosmetics, saying it could lead to skin cancer. This was contained in a statement signed by the agency’s media consultant, Olusayo Akintola, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. The statement disclosed that the Director-General […]

Nigeria’s average fixed broadband internet speed is so slow the country ranked 151st amongst 182 countries in the latest Speedtest Global Index published by U.S.-based internet speed analysis firm Ookla. Nigeria came far behind Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Burkina Faso that are relatively smaller, economically. It recorded 20.97 megabits per second download speed, while the […]