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Breaking: Rachel Oniga dead at 64

  Nollywood legend Rachel Oniga is dead. Oniga, originally from Eku, Delta state, was born in Ebute Metta, Lagos state. She began her...

FG to invest $200m on COVID-19 vaccines production, other pharmaceuticals

  The Federal Government, through the National Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) in collaboration with other partners, intends to raise $200 million for pharmaceuticals...

Update: $1.1m fraud: U.S court orders arrest of Abba Kyari

  The United States District Court for the Central District of California, has issued an arrest warrant for the Deputy Commissioner of Police...

$1.1m fraud: Details of Abba Kyari versus Hushpuppy bribery drama

Suspected internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has confessed to the American authorities on how he bribed a top police officer...

Breaking News – High Court frees El zakzaky, wife

A Kaduna state high court Wednesday has freed leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife. The duo...

90 million people living with hepatitis in Africa- WHO

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh More than 90 million people are living with hepatitis in Africa, accounting for 26 percent of the global...

CBN stops sale of forex to BDCs, says they’re money laundering agents

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Tuesday has suspended the sale of forex to Bureau De Change, BDCs. Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele,...

Buhari signs N983bn 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law

  President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly...

Cholera: Is Nigeria ready for another epidemic?

As Nigeria remains on red alert for the third wave of COVID-19, another epidemic may be lurking around; Cholera. EDWINA AJUMA AMEH writes on how...

COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality: Okonjo-Iweala urge Nigeria, Africa to produce own vaccines

  The Director-General, World Trade Organisation ( WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has criticised what she describes as a worrying imbalance in the distribution...

SERAP sues Buhari, wants court to declare gag order on reporting of terrorist attacks illegal

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr...

Produce Igboho’s detained 12 aides in court on July 29, Court orders DSS

Twenty-three days after they were arrested and detained, the 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho have got judicial reprieve as a...

NNPC GMD, Kyari, sons pay Sallah homage to President Buhari in Daura

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Daura, his countryhome, received Mele Kyari the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

Igboho: Reject extradition request, he will come to grief if released to Nigeria, Okei-Odumakin tells Benin Republic

  …news of lgboho’s arrest hits like a thunderbolt Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, has described the...

Breaking: Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho, arrested

Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Igboho Oosa, a Yoruba Nation activist has been arrested. Igboho was arrested at the Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport on Monday...

Massive data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group makes mercenary spyware to silently & remotely hack iPhones & Androids.

A probe by a consortium of news organizations, overseen by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit, reported on Sunday that a private Israeli...