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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said he would soon declare his stance on running for the Presidency in 2023. The Vice President disclosed this through his spokesman, Laolu Akande, while responding to questions from State House correspondents on Tuesday. Akande said the Vice President is currently committed to his job of working with President Muhammadu […]

An official of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Salma Kolo, has said that pregnancy-related illnesses have claimed more lives in Nigeria than the deadly COVID-19 virus. Ms Kolo, who is the director of Family Health at the ministry, made this known during a three-day virtual media training organised by the Rotary Action Group for […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, invoking the wartime defiance of British prime minister Winston Churchill, vowed Tuesday to “fight to the end” in a historic virtual speech to UK lawmakers.  “We will not give up and we will not lose,” he said, giving a day-by-day account of Russia’s invasion that dwelt on the costs in lives of […]

Fuel scarcity worsened across Nigeria weekend despite repeated assurances from the government that the crisis would soon be over. Queues persisted in Abuja, Lagos and several other cities throughout last week and early Monday as people scrambled to get petrol for their cars and their electricity generators at a time of rising temperatures. The crisis, […]

Matina Agawua, a native of Yelwata, a remote settlement in Nasarawa State, has opened up on the reason for being involved in an abominable act. In an interview with The Nation, Agawua said when she lost her first husband, she decided to remain a widow for 13 years. She said but she could not conceive […]

As the Federal Government is set to inaugurate a team to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the union has said the government is on its own and it only expects the implementation of the said agreement and nothing else. This is just as the union alleged […]

French President Emmanuel Macron believes “the worst is to come” in Ukraine after a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin who appears intent on seizing “the whole” of the country, an aide to the French leader said. “The expectation of the president is that the worst is to come, given what President Putin told […]

The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has donated $1 million to Afghanistan. Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, disclosed this in a statement. Commending the Nigerian government, Taha said OIC remains committed to supporting Afghanistan. Afghanistan was plunged into crisis after The Taliban took control following the withdrawal of American […]

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Thursday said he was “seriously consulting” to run for President in 2023. He made the remark during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “I told my constituents that were urging me on last December that I will do some consultation and that I will speak […]

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich on Wednesday confirmed he will sell the Premier League club amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian billionaire Abramovich has decided it is in the “best interest” of the Champions League holders if he parts ways with the club he has transformed since his purchase in 2003. “As I have stated before, […]