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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday unveiled his plans for Nigeria if elected as president in next year’s election, promising to offer a matching grant of $250 million each to the 36 States of the federation to challenge them to enhance their internally generated revenue (IGR). Delivering a lecture entitled, ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has reacted to the backlash she has suffered from Nigerians following her comment to Hillary Clinton. While interviewing the former first lady at a PEN World Voices Festival lecture at the Cooper Union in Manhattan on Sunday night, Chimamanda who is well known for her stance on ...

  A tilefitting contractor identified as Harshsahai Gurjar has been arrested for the murder of a 30-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter in Surat, India. The accused, 27, had tortured and raped the 11-year-old girl for at least a week before killing her. According to Indian media, the man had ...

  The Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted an international drugs smuggling racket and seized condoms filled with liquid cocaine. Two Brazilians and a Nigerian were arrested by the agency from a guest house in the Paharganj area of central Delhi on April 16, as part of an intelligence-based ...

Social network giant, Facebook found and removed 1.9 million social-media posts by the Islamic State and al Qaeda terrorists during the first three months of 2018, using new anti-terror algorithms. “In Q1 (first quarter) we took action on 1.9 million pieces of ISIS [Islamic State terror group, outlawed in Russia] ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Prince William and Kate Middleton just welcomed their third child and second son to the family. After arriving at St. Mary’s Hospital in London on Monday, Kate Middleton gave birth to her third child with Prince William at 6 a.m. EST.The Kensington Palace released ...

Mr. Isaac Egbunu, the Directorate of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) department, University of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State was shot dead by Fulani herdsmen around 4pm on Sunday. According to reports, the incident occurred at Kadroko, along Lafia – Makurdi road, on his way back from Jos. Ukan Kurugh wrote: ...

Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) today again clashed with members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites in Abuja. The group was protesting the prolonged detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The protesters during the clash with the security agents in Maitama area of Abuja, ...

Dino Melaye just announced via his twitter handle that he has been arrested. He wrote   ”I have just been arrested at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport on my way to Morocco for an official engagement sponsored by the Federal Govt after checking in”.   Recall he ...

Moments ago, the Lagos State Government unveiled a new statue of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, sited at the beautiful park in Ojota named after the late legal luminary and human rights advocate as part of activities to celebrate the late activist’s 80th posthumous birthday.   The State’s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Steve Ayorinde said the ...

Read the press statement from PDP below President Buhari’s attendance of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in United Kingdom, which came at huge cost to the nation, was a colossal waste.   Nigerians are not surprised that the President returned last night, empty handed and with no tangible ...

At least 10 residents were killed when suspected armed herdsmen invaded Saghev Ward in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.   The state government confirmed the attack and the casualty figure on Saturday in a statement by Mr Terver Akase, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom.   ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria from London where he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The President took off from London on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Abuja after 7 pm. President Buhari had travelled to London on April 9, shortly after declaring his intention ...

Facebook user, Bodmas from Bayelsa on Friday, posted photos from a surgery he underwent for undisclosed ailment. He wrote: “For seven years I have been living with this ailment, today it’s finally out. As a young boy, it disrupted my day to day activities, some days I will stay indoors ...

Mavin artiste, Korede Bello has graduated from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism with a distinction in Mass Communication (HND). At the 5th convocation on Friday, April 20 with Ray Ekpu as the Chairman, the Institute presented one thousand three hundred and forty-one (1,341) “graduands of five academic sessions from 2013-2017 sets”. ...

The mother of a toddler has revealed the moment she discovered her baby girl had been suffocated in her sleep by a stuffed toy at the side of her bed. Dexy Leigh Walsh, 23, found 18-month-old Connie Rose’s body in her bed with the giant teddy on top of her. Dexy ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said there is no corruption in the presidency under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that such stance has saved the country a lot of money. Osinbajo also reiterated that government’s efforts towards curbing corruption in the country would soon begin to manifest.The Vice ...

President Buhari has been urged by Prof Wole Soyinka to end the herdsmen crisis by the end of July; otherwise, he would have failed completely – He noted that Nigeria’s food security could be jeopardized by the displacement of farmers who were the major victims of the herdsmen and Boko ...

The management of OAU also disclosed that the appointment of the lecturer cannot be terminated now, because such an action could only be taken by the governing council The identity of the student at the center of sex-for-marks controversy rocking Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, has been revealed as ...

Why are women innovators largely ignored in Nigeria’s male-dominated technology spaces? Why didn’t Vice President Osinbajo visit any women-owned spaces during the highly popular and attention-grabbing #VPTourofTech? On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 – Laolu Akande posted to twitter that Vice President Osinbajo was in Lagos to visit technology companies. This, ...