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A week after Boko Haram attacked Dapchi community in Yobe State, kidnapping scores of schoolgirls from their school, the Nigerian government has confirmed that 110 girls are missing. The girls, students of Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, were kidnapped when Boko Haram attacked their school on Monday evening. The Minister of Information, Lai […]

Toyota and Hyundai have recalled roughly a combined 110,000 trucks and sport utility vehicles, including the 2018 Toyota Tundra and Sequoia, and the 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport. In its recall announced Saturday, Hyundai says some of Santa Fe vehicles are at risk for the steering wheel breaking away from the steering column. Roughly 43,900 […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Friday said the Nigerian government’s war against corruption will not be won by “sentiments” and “media trials”. He said attention should rather shift to “the facts.” “We must try to identify why, though we have been ostensibly fighting corruption for the past few years, Transparency International, the official global […]

Four days after an attack on a girls’ school in Dapchi, Yobe State, President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken publicly about it. Dozens of schoolgirls have been declared missing, kidnapped by the Boko Haram who carried out the attack on Monday. Read the full statement below; President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the families of students reportedly […]

The governor of Missouri has been indicted and taken into custody for circulating photographs of his bound and partially nude lover, local media reported Thursday. Governor Eric Greitens was arrested Thursday afternoon on the first floor of Carnahan Courthouse in St Louis, according to an eyewitness report by a journalist from the St Louis Post-Dispatch. […]

Thousands of poor women in India’s Tamil Nadu state have been offered free cosmetic breast surgery, including implants, its health minister said Friday, because “poor people also have a right to look beautiful.” The southern Indian state is known for its populist schemes, which have previously included free canteens and providing thousands of disadvantaged people […]

Two of the girls abducted by Boko Haram at the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi, Yobe State, on Monday have been reported dead in a failed rescue operation. Their bodies were recovered on Wednesday by the Nigerian military. This is even as the Federal Government yesterday confirmed the abduction, admitting that many of the […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to the freedom of the press, saying the media has nothing to fear from the present administration. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Thursday when he received a delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI) on a courtesy visit to […]

Fayose can be described as the No.1 critic of Buhari. He has been doing to Buhari what Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, used to do to President Goodluck Jonathan, continuous attack! But on Thursday, Fayose attended the council of state meeting with Buhari presiding, and they both shook hands! Lol…better way to go for Nigeria?

Hellen Bulu, community health technician, says giving babies hot water bath and stretching their arms in an attempt to massage them is dangerous for them. NAN reports that Bulu of Family Health Clinic, gave the advice in a lecture to mothers at an immunisation programme on Thursday in Abuja. She said that God who put […]

The Presidency Wednesday debunked the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son Yusuf. “The evil news making the rounds regarding Yusuf Buhari, son of President Buhari and Aisha Buhari, is fake,” President Buhari’s assistant on social media Lauretta Onochie said. “He is very much alive to their shame.” Yusuf Buhari was involved in an accident on […]

The Police Commissioner in Yobe, Abdulmaliki Sumonu, on Wednesday confirmed that 111 girls were still unaccounted for, following Monday’s attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi. Sumonu stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in Damaturu. He said, “815 out of the 926 students were physically seen in the school as […]

Oluremi Tinubu, a Nigerian senator and wife of Bola Tinubu, on Monday revealed that she occasionally scolded her husband for his unwavering support for the All Progressives Congress-led administration, despite the way he was treated. “I was hurt with, you know, what they did to my husband after the campaign,” Mrs. Tinubu said during an […]

Corruption is getting worse in Nigeria, according to the latest corruption perception index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) on Wednesday. While the country scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 28/100 but with a rank of No. 148 out of 180 countries surveyed — a significant 12 places […]

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has described Nigeria as a country with unquantifiable passion and love for football, and where football is more than a religion. “I was told that in Nigeria football is passion, but it is a lie because it is more than that. In Nigeria I was told that football is love, but […]

Women are being pushed into unnecessary C-sections because they are not given enough time to give birth, the World Health Organisation has warned. The UN agency yesterday issued new childbirth guidance removing the emphasis on a timescale over which a ‘normal’ labour should take place. They warned ‘increasing medicalisation’ of childbirth has meant unnecessary interventions […]