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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted 12 Assistant Superintendents of Police on their way to Zamfara from Borno State. According to BBC Hausa, the police officers were on their way to Zamfara to conduct a special operation when they were abducted by the gunmen. The incident occurred 12 days ago but only came to […]

Mr Dahiru Buba, the man who trekked from Gombe to Abuja in celebration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in 2015, has received support from the Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya. He was reported to have developed limb complications from the solidarity walk he undertook to celebrate the first term victory of the President and called […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the immediate reversal of the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol. In a statement on Monday by the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, the union took a swipe at the government and condemned the increase in the price of the product. It stated that […]

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has said that Nigeria’s major problem is poverty. He said this in a statement released on Monday to mark World Poverty Day. Peter Obi stated that no country can prosper with a rising poor population. The former governor said that the growing poverty rate in Nigeria should be […]

Peru’s Congress on Monday chose a 76-year-old former World Bank official as the South American country’s new president, the third in a week. Francisco Sagasti was elected as lawmakers met to try to find a way out of a political crisis, sparked by the impeachment of one popular president and the resignation of his controversial […]

President-elect Joe Biden warned that President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to accept the outcome of the 2020 election could hamper the incoming Biden administration’s ability to rapidly distribute a coronavirus vaccine. “More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden told reporters Monday in Delaware, in a news conference after he met with labor and business leaders and delivered a […]

Former Super Eagles midfielder, Christian Obodo, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Refinery Road, Warri in Delta State, Punch reports. Obodo, 36, was abducted by the gunmen when he stopped by to buy bananas on Sunday, the Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Command,  Onome Onovawakpoyeya, told Punch. “Obodo was kidnapped at about 5pm […]

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has used the occasion of his 60th birthday to forgive all those who might have betrayed him in the course of his political journey, especially after he left office in 2018. Fayose, who urged all politicians in Ekiti State to forget the politics of bitterness for the […]

At least, 10 patients were burnt to death in a fire incident which consumed intensive care ward where coronavirus patients were being treated in Romania on Saturday. Reports indicated that seven others were also critically injured in the fire at the hospital located in Piatra Neamt county, which is about 220 miles from Bucharest, the […]

Peru’s President Manuel Merino resigned Sunday, just five days after taking office, sparking celebrations in the capital Lima following street protests against him and the ousting of his popular predecessor. “I want to let the whole country know that I’m resigning,” Merino said in a televised address, a day after a police crackdown on protesters […]

The United Arab Emirates said Sunday it will grant all doctors and infectious disease experts living in the country a 10-year visa, who are helping to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Foreigners in the UAE, like most Gulf countries, are generally only given limited residence visas tied to their current employment, and long-term residency is difficult […]

President Donald Trump appeared to edge closer towards acknowledging his election defeat in a tweet on Sunday morning, as he again railed against supposed mass fraud in the vote won by challenger Joe Biden. “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned […]

Ahmed Taiwo, an army commander, who testified before the Lagos judicial panel on Saturday, says only President Muhammadu Buhari can order the deployment of soldiers. While being questioned by Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), counsel to the Lagos state government, the army general said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, does not have the power to order the […]

A fugitive Leonard Rayne Moses has been arrested in the US state of Michigan, by the FBI nearly half a century after he escaped from custody. In 1971, Moses fled while serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Mary Amplo during civil unrest that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in […]

Respite has come the way of Lagos, as the state did not record any new case of COVID-19 on Saturday, with Oyo and FCT taking over the lead. Also, the nation posts fewer cases of the deadly virus on Saturday, with the Nigerian  Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announcing 112 new cases for Nigeria. This […]

The Nigerian Army has insisted that only blank bullets containing gunpowder were fired at the Lekki Tollgate area of Lagos State on October 20. Commander of the 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Brigadier Ahmed Taiwo, made this known on Saturday when he appeared before the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the state government to […]

Nigeria’s currency, the Naira closed the week, falling to its weakest level in six weeks as Central Bank of Nigeria interventions failed to save it against battering by US Dollar. On Friday, the Naira exchanged for between N460 and N470 per dollar, at the parallel market, the lowest since September 29, ngnrates.com and abokifx.com, reported. Rates at the […]

Outgoing US President Donald Trump suffered a triple of legal setbacks on Friday, even as he continues to make his case that the election was ‘rigged’ and that he will prevail. The latest bad news for the president came in Michigan. There, a judge denied the Trump campaign’s request to stop the counting of ballots […]