Not less than 16 persons have reportedly died in Bauchi State Fatal Crash. The Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed the development in a statement issued on Sunday. According to Yusuf Abdullahi, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, the accident which involved an articulated truck and one other commercial Toyota Hummer bus, […]
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed the sacking of Gernot Rohr as technical adviser of the Super Eagles. The NFF made the confirmation in a statement posted on its website on Sunday. Augustine Eguavoen was named the interim coach of the three-time African champions. The statement reads: “The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed Mr […]
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Popular Nigerian singer, Anthony Olanrewaju Awotoye, widely known by his stage name ‘Tony Tetuila’, has revealed how he was promised a juicy political appointment after he lost the contest for a seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015. Tetuila said he waited to be given an […]
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With effect from Tuesday, December 14, the federal government will restrict airlines coming from Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the decision on Sunday in Lagos and explained that it was to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. […]
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Some student of Idogbo Secondary School, located in the infamous Upper Sakponba in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State have vandalized school properties in an outrage. It was gathered that the students resorted to violence when one of them had an altercation with one of the policemen drafted to the school to maintain law […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday afternoon announced three additional cases of the Omicron variant in the country, The new cases bring the total of the recently discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria to six. The NCDC in the statement signed by the Director-General, Ifedayo Adetifa further explained that the […]
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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has confirmed that three suspected Dowen College students are in their custody assisting the police in their investigation to uncover the reason behind the death of the 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromini who was allegedly beaten to death for his refusal to join a cult. Speaking with Channels […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday approved the sack of the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) over the strike by the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE). The strike by the NUEE left areas serviced by the AEDC without power for hours on Monday. The areas serviced by the company are the federal […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says six countries, including Nigeria, accounted for around 50 percent of malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. The organisation disclosed this in its world malaria report released on Monday. According to WHO’s latest report, there was an estimate of 241 million malaria cases and 627,000 malaria deaths — mostly of children under […]
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Popular American rapper, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is under investigation for allegedly pulling a gun on his security bodyguard during a dispute at his home. According to TMZ, the rapper and one of his bodyguards attached to him got into a heated argument and it escalated to physical violence, with a […]
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