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Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is in hospital after suffering a “severe health crisis”, officials say. They gave no further details. Mr Essebsi – who at 92 is the world’s oldest sitting president – was also treated in hospital last week. PM Youssef Chahed said Mr Essebsi was receiving all the attention he needed and […]

The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has decried the rate at which some personnel of the Nigeria Police and other security outfits smoke Indian hemp. Obiano warned that the substance would only damage them instead of helping them as they erroneously believed. He stated this during a lecture organised by the National Drug Law Enforcement […]

Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, has raised the alarm over a “heavily funded” campaign to smear him. In a statement on Thursday, Amaechi said the aim of the campaign is to tarnish his “towering status” and do damage to his character and reputation. The former minister said there is also an attempt to drag […]

The Spanish Civil Guard on Tuesday arrested a military crew member from one of the planes that are used by the Brazilian Air Force to fly the president of the country, Jair Bolsonaro, when he makes international trips. Sources from the Civil Guard confirmed to EL PAÍS that the man was in possession of 39 kilogrammes of […]

The Naira on Wednesday gained marginally against the dollar at the parallel market closing at N359.3 to the dollar. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the naira shed 20 Kobo from N359.5 traded on Tuesday, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro exchanged at N463 and N408 respectively. At the Bureau De Change […]

Imo State Government, has revealed that the immediate past governor Rochas Okorocha, his wife and other officials allegedly took away 67 vehicles from government house. Chairman of Imo State Recovery Committee, Jasper Ndubuaku, who made the revelation threatened that his team would no longer adopt soft approach in recovering government property in the hands of past […]

Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty has cinched the top spot in the world tennis rankings after beating Germany’s Julia Grges 6-3, 7-5, in Sunday’s final of the Nature Valley Classic in Birmingham. The 23-year-old Indigenous Australian from Queensland now becomes the third Australian woman in history to hold the number one ranking in the world […]

The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Atiku Abubakar, has flayed the Presidency over its reaction to the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that denied his request to inspect the central server the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, supposedly used to transmit results of the February 23 presidential election. Atiku, who is […]

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says it has begun full-scale investigation to ascertain the viral video of the helicopter that landed on the Benin-Ore Expressway on Sunday. The General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has downplayed the cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, saying they were sometimes exaggerated for political effect. Mr Osinbajo was addressing Nigerians based in New York on Monday when he was confronted with questions about kidnapping, which is a major part of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity. “With respect to general kidnapping which we […]

The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has revealed his monthly salary as the chairman of the National Assembly. He said he earns N750,000 while other members of the national Assembly receive “what is their salary.” His declaration, however, excludes other allowances allocated to the lawmakers. Mr Lawan spoke at the Senators Forum in Abuja on Tuesday. He […]

The Nigeria Immigration Service has said the country’s new passport will adopt tough security features that will help to fight crimes. The Comptroller General, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, stated this on Monday while inspecting projects at Ikoyi Passport Office, ahead of the roll-out of the new passport in Lagos on Tuesday (today). Babandede said the new […]

Tibor Nagy, the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, has warned that African countries accumulating debt they cannot pay back should not expect to be bailed out by western-sponsored debt relief. Speaking in Pretoria, South Africa on Monday, Nagy said nations risk losing control of strategic assets if they cannot repay the Chinese […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has pledged to reposition Nigerian banks through recapitalisation during his second term. Mr Emefiele made the promise in Abuja on Monday during a press briefing on his policy road map for the next five years as governor of the CBN. He said that recapitalisation of Nigerian […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest and production in court of Chairman of Innoson Nigeria Ltd, Innocent Chukwuma and two others charged with fraud. The defendants were charged before Justice Ayokunle Faji. The police authority had charged them with an alleged N2.4 billion shipping fraud, but […]

A popular Ebonyi-based pastor, Simeon Ononogbu, has blamed “deceitful” spirit for the failed prediction that the Super Falcons will reach the semi-finals of the FIFA Women World Cup in France. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Ononogbu, a self-acclaimed forecaster, predicted in an interview that the Falcons would reach the semi-finals of the tournament, […]

Controversial Senator, Dino Melaye says he will be governor of Kogi State in November when the governorship poll will hold. Melaye, representing Kogi West in the Senate had recently declared his ambition to vie for the governorship seat of Kogi under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He must first of all overcome the hurdles of […]

Trophies and personal souvenirs belonging to German tennis legend Boris Becker will be auctioned online from today 24 June by British firm Wyles Hardy to partially clear the bankrupt champion’s debts. The youngest winner in Wimbledon’s history, who claimed the first of three titles aged just 17, is auctioning off 82 items including medals, cups, […]