The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced that some parts of Lagos will on Tuesday witness four hours of blackout (power outage) Ndidi Mbah, spokesman of the company, in a statement said it will carry out an annual maintenance of its equipment at the Itire 132KV Transmission Sub-station in Lagos today (Tuesday) for four […]
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A report released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has shown that Nigeria earned N3.738 trillion from the export of crude oil and petroleum products in three months, from October to December 2017. The NBS, in its Foreign Trade Statistics for the Fourth Quarter of 2018, stated that petroleum products export accounted for 95.58 […]
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About eleven people were on Monday confirmed dead following a fire outbreak at an Internally Displaces Peoples camp in Rann, Borno state. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and health workers said the fire incident started at 10.27 am and lasted to about 3pm at the displaced persons camp in Rann, the headquarters […]
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New evidence from fetal brain scans has shown that a mother’s stress during pregnancy can change the neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child, potentially affecting the baby’s brain functions. Moriah Thomason, an assistant professor of Wayne State University, presented this new finding on Monday at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, while inaugurating the National Food Security Council at the presidential villa, on Monday, said the country has gone through “very turbulent” times in the past three years. “Nigeria’s journey in the last three years has been a very turbulent one,” he said, adding: “The country’s need for critical job-creating sectors which has been ignored […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the UN of his commitment to a credible, free and fair elections in 2019. Mr Buhari gave the assurance when the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, met him in Abuja, according to a note by the UN issued from New York. “On preparations for the 2019 elections and expected support […]
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Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bisi Akande, former interim leader of the ruling party were absent when President Muhammadu Buhari hosted members of his party at the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President Bukola Saraki; Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, were in […]
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Two former housemates in the ongoing Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) 2018 reality show Anto and Khloe, have been voted back to the house. After garnering the highest number of votes, Anto was the first housemate to return to the house. On Sunday, March 18, 2018, Ebuka Obi Uchendu, the host of the show announced that […]
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The Federal Government said it recovered more than N143. 89 billion from corrupt officials through the implementation of the Whistleblower policy. The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) disclosed this in a report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The report showed that government had successfully recovered N7.8 […]
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The Spokesman of the Nigerian Police Force, ACP Jimoh Moshood, has issued a statement to deny a comment credited to the inspector-general of police, Ibrahim Idris, wherein he said the last Dapchi Girl will be released by Sunday. Denying the statement, the ACP Moshood said the police boss was misquoted. Read the full statement: The […]
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