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A Birmingham crown court in the United Kingdom on Friday sentenced Michael Oluronbi, a Nigerian pastor, to 34 years in prison. Oluronbi was convicted of raping some children for a period of 20 years. He was said to have committed the act during religious bathing rituals he claimed would wash their sins away and cleanse […]

Fifty years after his administration ended a brutal civil war with the Igbo, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), confessed, yesterday, that the Igbo nation had been marginalised in Nigeria’s polity. Gowon, who spoke at a public event organised by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation, called for the adoption of appropriate measures to ameliorate […]

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said that the Federal Government will soon stop the salaries of its workers not captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System. She said this in Kano State at the 2020 management retreat organised by the Office of the Accountant General of the […]

Toyota has expanded its recall of vehicles by more than a million because of issues with the fuel pumps. In January, that number was 700,000. Now the total stands at 1.8 million, the company said. The recalled Toyota and Lexus model vehicles can stop operating and cause the engine to fail. “If this were to occur, warning lights […]

The nationwide implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s cashless policy on deposits and withdrawals above of N500,000 will take effect nationwide from April 1. This was made known in an electronic mail message sent by the Guarantee Trust Bank to its customers on Thursday. According to the message, there will be three per cent […]

The United States government has placed a $7 million (N2.5 billion) bounty for information that leads to the arrest of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the insurgent group, Boko Haram. This was announced via a tweet by the U.S Department Rewards for Justice Programme on Wednesday. “The United States Department of State is offering a reward of […]

“I caught my cleric husband red-handed making love with a married woman,” a 44-year-old tailor, Rebecca Adeniyi, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday. The petitioner said her husband, Yusuf, with whom she had four children in their 15 years marriage, built a mosque and started sleeping with his female members both single […]

The Republic of Angola has lifted the travel ban it earlier placed on Nigerian nationals. The travel ban by the Government of Angola followed the confirmed case of coronavirus in the country involving an Italian national. Kimiebi Ebienfa, of the Crises Monitoring and Public Communications Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed the development in a […]

BMW’s round logo is receiving its first redesign in more than two decades. The German automaker’s refreshed logo ditches the black ring for a transparent circle. The rest of it, including the typeface, has a flatter and more modern look. The blue and white emblem inside the ring remains. The new logo, which will be used […]

A Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted an order of interim injunction stopping Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from parading himself as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Danlami Senchi who granted the injunction on Wednesday said that political parties must be bound by their constitution and having been suspended by his […]

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the biggest economy in Africa as the latter enters its second recession in two years. South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product shrank by 1.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019, following a revised 0.8 per cent contraction in the third quarter, data from Statistics South Africa showed on […]

Nigeria has intensified efforts to trace all persons that had contact with the Italian whose Coronavirus infection is the country’s index case. Specifically, it has enlisted the World Health Organisation (WHO) support to reach 103 out of the 158 passengers that flew into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with the Italian on Feb 25. […]

The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to suspend plenary for two weeks to enable the management of the National Assembly, put measures in place against the spread of coronavirus in the country. This was part of the resolution of the house, following a motion of urgent public importance by representative Uyime Idem, and […]

The Governing Council of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola in Adamawa State has terminated the appointment of two senior lecturers following their alleged involvement in sexual harassment. The development was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Information and Protocol Officer of the university, Aminu Gururmpawo. Gururmpawo said that the university’s […]

Leading medical professionals in Nigeria have said that husbands do not need to sign consent form to allow their wives to undergo hysterectomy, caesarean section or any surgery. The medical directors said any adult woman who is mentally healthy can sign her own consent form if she has need for surgical interventions. This was the […]