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Buhari to Service Chiefs: Secure the country as he adorns them with new ranks

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the newly appointed Service Chiefs to identify competent officers, irrespective of seniority...

FG launches COVID-19 vaccination March 5 for frontline health workers

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Two days after receiving the first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Government says it...

Video: Inside Africa’s Foremost Philanthropist Tony Elumelu’s home in Ikoyi

  Tony Elumelu is a renowned Nigerian and African entrepreneur, an economist, banker and investor. He is popularly known as the (Current Chairman...

APC crisis: Ogun Deputy Speaker impeached

    For allegedly masterminding attacks on the Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Mr Oludare Kadiri, the Deputy Speaker of the State...

Lagos gridlock: NPA’s Electronic Truck Call-Up System (ETO) lauded by stakeholders

  At last, the decade-long intractable bedlam associated with the gridlocks in Apapa, Lagos, which harbours the nation’s biggest premier ports – Apapa...

Buhari to security operatives: Shoot on sight carriers of AK-47

  In what looks like Federal Government’s readiness to contain banditry and criminalities, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday has directed security operatives to...

Breaking: Former Benue governor, Gabriel Suswam’s elder brother shot dead

  Dr. Terkura Suswam, the elder brother to the former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswan, has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen. He...

Tragedy as mother, four children perish in house fire

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A 35-year-old woman, Ebere Precious Ogbodo, and her four children have been killed in a deadly house...

Army headquarters in Abuja hit by fire

  The Nigerian Army Headquarters in Abuja has been gutted by fire. An electrical fault caused a minor fire at the complex on...

Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines shipped by COVAX

  Nigeria on Tuesday morning received about 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX facility, a partnership between CEPI,...

317 abducted schoolgirls finally let off the hook, says Zamfara governor

  Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara said on Tuesday that no ransom was paid to abductors of the 317 students of Government Girls...

WTO DG, Nigeria’s Dr Okonjo-Iweala, takes office, to hit the ground running

    Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday assumed office as the helms person at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) amid hopes of...

Group to Buhari: You called for Jonathan’s resignation but you were not arrested and detained

  The arrest of the media aide to the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Salisu Tanko-Yakasai by men of the Department of State Services...

Breaking: Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines March 2 — PTF Chair, Mustapha

  Barring any last-minute hitch, Nigeria’s allocation of 4 million doses of the COVAX vaccine will arrive on March 2, according to the...