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Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterparts clashed on Wednesday over the Federal Government’s social intervention programme. The atmosphere became tensed when…
The Kano state house of assembly has insisted that it will continue the probe of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, over videos of him collecting bribes. A high court in Kano had on Monday, ordered the ad hoc committee set by…
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, On Tuesday, became the youngest woman in history to be elected to the united states Congress. With 74.3 percent of votes tallied. Ocasio-Cortez, a Latina who has never previously held political…
Members of the Nigerian senate has criticised the Nigeria Police Force for dismissing the alleged assassination attempt on deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, as burglary. Members of the Senate, at the plenary on…
The 65-year-old leader of Shiite Islamic sect, Sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife have been denied bail by the Kaduna High Court. The Court sitting on Wednesday denied the bail application filed by counsel to the leader…
A commercial vehicle driver (name withheld), has on Tuesday received N2 million cash as reward from the Zamfara state government for killing two armed bandits last week. Handing over the money on behalf of the state…
The Presidency has frowned at the misinterpretation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks when he received the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage from the committee’s chairman,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the proposed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. He gave his approval while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the…
Nigeria's foremost traditional rulers visited the prince of Wales, Prince Charles who arrived in Nigeria today as part of his West African tour. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi’s arrival was preceded by a…
The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday said, that its fighter aircraft operating against recalcitrant insurgents in the northeast have bombed a Boko Haram camp in Borno , killing many of the terrorists and destroying their…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received Prince Charles and his wife, Princess Camilla at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Prince Charles and members of his entourage arrived the State House at about 2.20p.m.…
U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing a futuristic toilet that doesn't need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer. The Microsoft Corp co-founder, who…
A cross-section of workers on Tuesday in Abuja, expressed mixed reactions on organised labour’s suspension of the Nov. 6, proposed strike to press for the implementation of a new national minimum wage. The Nigeria…
Unknown gunmen on Tuesday shot and killed one Alhaji Nasiru Maimasara before kidnapping his daughter at Gachi quarters in Kankia Local Government Area of Katsina State. Sources told the News Agency of Nigeria that the…
Theresa May is being urged to take international students out of the UK’s controversial net migration target amid warnings that the country is losing its lucrative reputation for world-class universities. A report…
The midterm polls have opened in America today for the first time since Donald Trump took office, with majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate hanging in the balance. Mr Trump, the US president,…
85 years old Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, was sworn in on Tuesday for a seventh term in office after disputed elections amid mounting unrest in an English-speaking region. He pledged to uphold the “integrity (and)…
The Senate has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and members of his family. It would be recalled that Ekweremadu’s…
To ensure the safety of corps members during the 2019 elections, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure said that corps members would not perform ad-hoc duties in volatile…
The Minority Leader of the Kano State House of Assembly representing Kura/Garun Malam constituency, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad-Chiromawa has defected from Peoples Democratic Party to People’s Redemption Party. The member…
