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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that 25,685 babies would be born in Nigeria on New Year Day. Pernille Ironside, UNICEF Nigeria’s Acting Representative, revealed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. He said the figure placed the country’s babies as making up […]

The DoubleTree Portland hotel in US has fired two staff members, after they were caught on video evicting an African-American guest who was using his phone in the lobby. Jermaine Massey, 34, was accused of “loitering” by a security guard, who told him police had been called to “escort him off the property”. Mr Massey, […]

The Federal Government says it will in due course institute a suitable memorial to immortalize the country’s first Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who passed away on Dec. 28. This promise was made in Sokoto on Sunday by President Muhammadu Buhari, while paying a condolence visit to the Shagari family. The remains of the former […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reassured Nigerians that the joint ticket of Abubakar Atiku and Peter Obi as Presidential candidate of the PDP and Vice Presidential candidate would take Nigeria to the Promised Land. He gave the assurance in Ukpor Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, where he was invited to unveil the […]

The Nigerian Army says it will conduct exercise “Egwu Eke III – Python Dance” nationwide, to tackle already “observed upsurge’’ in security challenges as the 2019 general elections draw nearer. According to the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, who announced this at a news conference on Friday in Maiduguri, said the exercise will be […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday flagged off his campaign for re-election in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, with a promise not to fail Nigerians. “I assure you that you will not regret trusting us,” Mr Buhari said from the stage, where he stood with other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to address the large […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says he has delivered on his campaign promises in spite of doubts by the opposition. Buhari stated this on Friday in Uyo at the flag-off of the All Progressive Congress Presidential campaign in the South-South geo-political zone. According to him, Nigerians will not regret voting for APC candidates in 2019. He said […]

The “hunger” by Nigerians today is caused by the havoc wreaked on the nation’s economy by the previous administrations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. “They said you are hungry,” Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, said on Friday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, during the flag-off […]

A former Nigerian President, Shehu Shagari, is dead. He was 93 years old. Mr Shagari died Friday evening at the National Hospital Abuja after a brief illness. The death of the elder statesman was announced by his grandson, Bello Shagari, via his Twitter handle. Mr Shagari was elected president in 1979 and led Nigeria between 1979 […]

Richard Overton, America’s oldest World War II veteran and the oldest man in the United States, died Thursday afternoon at the age of 112. The death was confirmed to CNN by Shirley Overton, a family member. Overton would have been 113 on May 11, 2019. The veteran had been hospitalized with pneumonia, his family said. […]

The police have dismissed 121 of at least 167 police officers who absconded from a counterterrorism training facility to avoid deployment against Boko Haram insurgents last week, Premium Times can report. The 121 officers of the police rank-and-file were accused of committing mutiny and desertion, prompting Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris to order their dismissal with immediate […]

President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to US troops deployed in a war zone since being elected two years ago. Trump landed at 7:16 pm local time at Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, accompanied by his wife Melania Trump, an AFP correspondent said. The president spoke […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said   President Muhammadu Buhari would not have won the 2015 presidential election without his support. He also urged Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, to let God decide the next governor of the state. Obasanjo spoke on Wednesday during the annual Ibogun-Olaogun Day celebration in Ibogun in the Ifo Local Government […]

A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign, Buba Galadima, has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of illegitimately enriching some of the President’s relatives. Galadima, who spoke on Sunrise Daily, a live programme on Channels Television, on Wednesday, alleged that some individuals close to Buhari, who were poor in 2015 when the […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he will be addressed as ‘Sir’ by President Muhammadu Buhari, having served as his boss in the military. He, therefore, states that he had the right to criticise Buhari. Obasanjo said this at the 2018 Ibogun Day Celebration in Ogun State on Wednesday. As Head of State, Obasanjo had, in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he was not shaken by critics who called him Baba Go Slow because of his insistence that stolen money must be followed and retrieved, no matter how long it would take. The President spoke in Abuja when he received a delegation from the Federal Capital Territory community on […]

The rate of drug abuse in Adamawa and other states around the  country is on the increase as addicts increasing resort to use of embalming oil, paint,  petrol, and such readily available  substances.   The Head of Drug Reduction Unit of the Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Shehu Dankolo, […]