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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday led other leaders of the All Progressives Congress to Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, in a bid to ensure that the party’s candidate, Kayode Fayemi, emerges winner at Saturday’s governorship election. Mr Buhari appealed to Ekiti voters to cast their votes for Mr Fayemi on Saturday to secure their […]

The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has come under intense pressure since the publication of an exclusive story by Premium Times exposing how finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, avoided the obligatory national service and fraudulently obtained an exemption certificate. Mrs Adeosun, who graduated at 22 in 1989 from the University of East London, ought not to […]

Adedamola Kuti, federal controller of works in Lagos, on Tuesday said consultations were ongoing for the closure of third mainland bridge in Lagos for repairs. The bridge connects the mainland part of Nigeria’s commercial capital to the Island, where many corporate organisations have their head office. Kuti said the ministry of works would hold a […]

In a dramatic manner, a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, stormed the rally of one of the governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu. Adebutu, who is currently representing Remo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and his supporters were at the rally held […]

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel. Mr Uja, who made this known while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, said that no pilgrim absconded in Rome and Greece. The NCPC boss said […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formed a new alliance with more than 30 other political parties in the country. The parties announced a new name – Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Monday when they met at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The announcement followed the signing of a […]

US President Donald Trump said Monday he has “confidence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will honor the denuclearization “contract” they signed, but that China may be seeking to undermine a deal. “I have confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake. We agreed to […]

The Area Command of the Nigeria Customs in Minna has intercepted a truck load of 200,000 live ammunitions, the Comptroller, Benjamin Binga has said. The Area Command comprises of Kogi, Kwara and Niger states. The Onitsha-bound truck was intercepted along the Wawa-Babana border on its way into the country from Benin Republic at about 3am […]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become world’s third richest person beating Warren Buffett. Mark achieved the spot after Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is leading with first position, while Bill Gates holds second spot. However, all the three rich people of the world belongs to […]

The presidency says it has evidence that some politicians are involved in the crisis between herdsmen and farmers in different parts of the country. Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. He said this hours after Uche Secondus, national chairman of […]

“My point is, people cannot be slaughtered in their houses helplessly. Maybe what we need to do is to liberalise gun control. Let everybody own a gun so that when you are coming to my house, you will know that I have my own gun while you are coming with yours,” a senator. Kabir Marafa, […]

Another Nigerian has been killed in South Africa. Ozumba Tochukwu-Lawrence was reportedly killed by a gunman on July 6. The Nigeria Mission in South Africa has condemned the killing. The Consul-General of Nigeria in South Africa made this known in a statement by the Vice Consul Information and Culture, David Abraham, on Sunday in Abuja. […]

Dr Okezie Emenike,  an Abuja based  physician, said on Saturday that being over weight or under weight could cause infertility. Emenike told the the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  in Abuja that it was important  to understand that both underweight and overweight women and men suffered from a higher incidence of infertility. He added that […]

As technology, social media, popular culture, etc. evolve, new words are being invented to lexicalize these changes and dictionaries capture them in real time with the help of corpus linguistics. Below are some cool new English words from the Learnex website, a site that offers “free online English lessons.” It has been slightly edited for […]

Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not participate in the mandatory one-year national youth service scheme. Instead, she forged an exemption certificate many years after graduation, according to Premium Times. The year-long service, organised by the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), is compulsory for all Nigerians who graduate from universities or equivalent institutions at less […]

Professor Grace Otinwa is a professor of Exercise Physiology and the immediate past Head of Department, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos. In a chat with Punch, she talked about her life within and outside the four walls of the university, and her relationship with husband. “My husband and I have come a long way […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki has expressed delight with the ruling of the supreme court which struck out his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). In a statement personally signed by him, Saraki expressed gratitude to all Nigerians who have supported him since the case commenced three years ago. He thanked the judiciary for […]

Richard Akindele, a professor of Management Accounting at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has finally raised the veil on events that culminated in his dismissal by the institution. Mr Akindele was recently dismissed after being found guilty of sexual harassment of a postgraduate student of the institution, Monica Osagie. In his reply to a […]