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The Federal Government, on Monday, launched what it described as Africa’s biggest integrated health campaign, targeting over 100 million Nigerian children for vaccination against measles, rubella, polio, and the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among other preventable diseases. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, who spoke at the national flag-off […]
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, has dismissed claims by US Senator Ted Cruz, television host Bill Maher, and political commentator Van Jones that Nigeria was experiencing a “Christian genocide.” In a statement shared on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday, titled “Debunking the Genocide Frenzy […]
Amid widespread unconfirmed reports that Big Brother Naija Season 10 winner, Opeyemi Ayanwale, popularly known as Imisi, would lose ₦37.5 million from her ₦150 million prize money to tax deductions, clarifications have emerged indicating that her earnings will not be affected by the new tax laws scheduled to take effect in January 2026. The confusion […]
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Apo, on Monday, reaffirmed October 8, 2025, as the date fixed for the arraignment of Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa, on charges of alleged forgery and impersonation. Justice Onwuegbuzie sent Giwa back to police detention effectively thwarting his efforts to secure bail from remand. The judge was visibly […]
Former Rivers State governor and Pro-chancellor of Pamo University of Medical Sciences (PUMS), Dr. Peter Odili, has called on the federal government to look into the wages of medical doctors and other healthcare personnel in the country as a way to stem brain drain. Odili made the call on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State […]
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five suspected cultists following a violent clash between rival cult groups in the Onireke and Isashi areas of the State. The suspects were identified as 43-year-old Victor Christian, Samuel Success, 29; Balogun Emmanuel, 43; Wisdom Chukwuemeka, 28; and 39-year-old Oche Job. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), […]
A 64-year-old man, Oloso Bamidele Fatiu, and one Ishola Sikiru, 27 years, have been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital for alleged theft of two live goats. The due defendants were brought before the court by the police over accusation of stealing of two live goats in Aramoko Ekiti, […]
Youths under the aegis of Partners for National Economic Progress (PANEP) on Monday, marched through major streets of Kaduna to protest alleged sabotage of Nigeria’s economic recovery by those they called powerful oil cabals who were frustrating local refining efforts. The protesters who chanted solidarity songs, carried different placards bearing inscriptions such as “Protect Local […]
The leader of a militia that carried out a series of atrocities and war crimes in the Sudanese region of Darfur has been convicted by the International Criminal Court.
Ukraine’s military says it has struck one of Russia’s main explosives factory as well as an oil terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea.
