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A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State Command, Okike Chinyere, has emerged as the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). She bagged a second-class upper degree in the course, according to a statement by the correctional service. Aside from her, a male inmate, Alegbe […]

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said he is capable of leading Nigeria. He said this during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics while responding to questions regarding his interest in the 2023 Presidential election. “I believe I have what it takes to lead Nigeria,” Saraki said. “I am not someone who shies away […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied endorsing the South-East for the presidency ahead of the 2023 election. Obasanjo’s rebuttal follows an online report quoting him to have backed the region to produce the next president. According to the report, the former president stated that south-easterners can bring a lot to the table if elected. The […]

A northeastern Chinese city of nine million people was ordered to lockdown on Friday, as authorities scramble to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak that has pushed nationwide case counts to their highest in two years. Changchun, the capital of Jilin province and an important industrial base, has ordered residents to work from home. One person […]

India’s military accidentally fired a missile into neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said on Friday, calling it “deeply regrettable”. Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947, two of them over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Their shared border has a heavy military presence on […]

Two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says “nothing tangible has been done”. Saturday Punch reports that the union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike. The strike, according to the […]

At least 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war on February 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday. “From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been killed and more than 100 wounded,” Lyudmyla […]

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 […]