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The Federal Government has revoked 1,263 mineral licenses due to non-payment of annual service fees, as part of efforts to reform and sanitise Nigeria’s mining sector. In a statement released Sunday in Abuja, Segun Tomori, Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, confirmed that the revocation affects various mineral titles. The […]
“I forgive him.” They were three little words, and yet, they were huge.
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has announced that its Chairman, Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman, alongside several Commissioners and the Commission’s Secretary, Dr Mustapha M. Ali, will depart Nigeria today, 22 September, for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They aim to finalise agreements with essential service providers in preparation for the upcoming 2026 Hajj. […]
The federal government has launched laboratory investigations to determine the cause of a mysterious flesh-eating disease that has killed seven people in Malabu, Adamawa State. Acting National Coordinator of the National Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy Control Programme, Dr Adesigbin Olufemi, disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday during an interview with the News Agency of […]
Indications have emerged that the opposition coalition, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is having difficulty establishing itself as a formidable political force in the South-West. The ADC has yet to blossom in the South-West, President Bola Tinubu’s political stronghold and region, despite appointing former two-term governor and ex-minister Rauf Aregbesola as its national secretary. Aregbesola […]
Nigeria’s billionaire businessman, Mr Femi Otedola, yesterday waded into the ongoing fuel supply disagreement between the Dangote Refinery and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), advising the association to innovate or perish. The philanthropist stressed that he had followed the debate around the fuel supply issues between both parties recently, the […]
Donald Trump has revealed that media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch could be part of a deal in which the US will take control of social media platform TikTok.
The UK is set to push for a peace plan for the Middle East at the UN General Assembly after recognising the state of Palestine.
A fight to the death is currently under way in the besieged and embattled city of Al Fashir.
The Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the two years administration of Governor Agbu Kefas, saying his administration has failed the people of the state. The party said the governor has done 80 per cent of the job for APC to take over power in 2027, maintaining that his antecedence […]
