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President Muhammadu Buhari will resume work today, the Presidency has said. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu gave the assurance last night. He said President Buhari would transmit a letter to the National Assembly today in order to formally notify the legislature of his…

People who are expecting to achieve economic equality between men and women may have to wait for 170 years, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, has said. Mohammed, in her message to the Youth Forum of the Commission on the Status of Women, said women and girls were being…

After 51 days of vacation in London, United Kingdom, President Buhari has returned to the country. Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity said President Buhari’s plane landed in Kaduna well after 7am Friday in Kaduna. “We are now at the helipad at the Aso Villa, awaiting his…

For refusing to upset an accumulated N1.7 million hotel bill, one Oluwaseyi Owoeye on Thursday was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos. The prosecutor, Inspector Ingobo Emby, told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offence between November 2013 and March 2014. He said that the defendant…

Nollywood veteran, Prince James Uche is dead. According to report, Uche died on Wednesday morning after being hospitalised for almost two years for kidney disease. He was billed to travel to India on Friday for kidney transplant.

The Lagos State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), has slated Friday, March 10, 2017, to hold a tribute night for three of its members who died in the last two weeks. Assistant Secretary of Lagos NUJ, Mr. Alfred Odifa, said in a statement that the late members…

Barely two weeks after it deported 33 Nigerians, the Italian government has deported 37 Nigerians for immigration related offences in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fresh 37 deportees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA) Lagos, on Tuesday night. The deportees,who are all…

A strange disease has reportedly crept into Zamfara State, killing four villagers and leaving many on the hospital bed. Chairman of Maru Local Government Council in Zamfara, Alhaji Salisu Isa-Dangulbi, said on Tuesday that four persons had died of a strange disease in Bindin village of the area. Alhaji Isa-Dangulbi…

Five people, including a police man, were reportedly killed on Tuesday in a bank robbery. The incidence took place at Ogbagi in Akoko Northwest Local Government Area of Ondo State. An eyewitness said explosives were used to destroy the new generation bank’s entrance. He said an undisclosed amount of money…