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Chevron Nigeria Limited has announced it will lay off a quarter of its work force. The firm said Friday it was “reviewing its manpower requirements in the light of the changing business environment”. The company said it will continue to evaluate opportunities to improve capital efficiency and reduce operating costs. “In this process, the company will […]

Nigeria’s former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.), says he was frightened when he became the nation’s military leader on August 1, 1966 at the relatively young age of 31. According to a statement on Friday titled “How I became Head of State at 32, by Gowon,” the former military leader spoke at […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has advised President Buhari and his regime to stick to facts when criticising previous administrations. In an apparent response to Buhari’s 60th Independence anniversary speech on October 1, Atiku defended economic decisions taken by the President Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration in which he served as a Vice President. In a tweet […]

A Russian news editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Authorities confirmed her body had been found with severe burns. Slavina said on Thursday […]

US President Donald Trump is being flown to hospital less than 24 hours after testing positive for coronavirus. The White House said the decision to transport him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre was taken “out of an abundance of caution”. Mr Trump began exhibiting “mild symptoms” of Covid-19 on Thursday after disclosing that […]

Petrol price will continue to be dictated by market forces because the government will not go back on subsidy removal, President Muhammadu Buhari indicated on Thursday. In his broadcast to the nation to mark the 60th independence anniversary, the President said the current N161 per litre pump price is lower than what it is sold […]

Coronavirus infections in Nigeria plummeted on Independence Day, but Lagos recorded a rise in new cases. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, released 153 new Coronavirus infections on Thursday, with Lagos raking in 81 cases. The 153 cases represents a drop from the 201 cases recorded the previous day. Lagos has continued to record […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday blamed Nigeria’s leaders since the current democratic dispensation for the “near destruction of the country.” Although the president did not mention the leaders by name, he made direct reference to those who ‘presided over’ Nigeria between 1999 and 2015, questioning how such leaders had the ‘impundence’ to criticise his administration. “Those in the […]

A former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, has said most of those claiming to be fighting for their geopolitical zones are only interested in their pockets. He noted that they used ethno-religious wars to get into public offices only to serve selfish interests. Lamido spoke on Thursday at The Platform, an annual conference organised by […]

The first person ever to be cured of HIV has died of cancer 25 years later. Timothy Ray Brown, 54, died Tuesday while ‘surrounded by loved ones’ after battling leukaemia since 2007. He was cured of HIV the same year after receiving a bone marrow transplant aimed at tackling his cancer. His partner Tim Hoeffgen […]

A mother ran back into her burning home to die alongside her 15 year-old son with autism after he was unable to escape the flames. Feda Almaliti and her son Muhammed perished in a house fire in Fremont, California, on Monday. Sarah Trautman, Feda’s friend, said that when firefighters looked through the damage, they found […]

Federal Government has agreed to lift the ban placed on Emirates Airlines from operating into and out of the country. James Odaudu, Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation, in a statement on Wednesday said that the lift of the ban was based on an undertaking by the authorities of the United Arabs Emirates (UAE) Mr […]

COVID-19 pandemic is not receding from Nigeria yet, as more cases of infections were reported on Tuesday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC said 187 cases were logged from 12 states and Abuja in the last 24 hours. On Monday 136 cases were reported. However, the death toll remained at 1,111, the number of […]

A former staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, was on Monday, September 28, 2020, handed a cumulative 98 years in prison by Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court for fraud. Adesakin, female, was found to have committed financial fraud against her employers to the tune of N49,320,652.32 (Forty-nine Million, […]

In order to improve its testing capacity for COVID-19, the Nigerian government has developed a molecular test kit named the SARS-COV-2 Isothermal Molecular Assay (SIMA). The minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, made this known at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday. Mr Mamora said the test kit developed by […]

A kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 children, killing one of them, after an argument with a rival staff member has been sentenced to death by a court in central China. In its official ruling Monday, the Jiaozuo Intermediate People’s Court in Henan province described killer Wang Yun’s motives as “despicable” and “vicious.” “She should be punished severely […]

A school teacher was forced to stop teaching at a kindergarten as his appearance frightened young pupils.  Sylvain Helaine, 35, whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black was asked to switch age groups when a parent complained he gave their three-year-old […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun the replacement of the current manual system of voting to automated voting system. Its National Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, announced this on Monday in Abuja. He said the commission had taken another decisive step towards the full automation of the electoral process. Yakubu said: “After extensive discussion […]