A Nigerian Catholic missionary priest, Reverend Fr. Kelvin Ugwu, has backed the Vatican's stance on same-sex unions, saying that homosexual acts are contrary to the natural order.
It will be recalled that the Vatican on Monday, March 15, said that the Catholic Church would not bless same-sex unions. Read HERE
In the...
The Nigeria Bureau of Statics has released a new report which revealed that the country's unemployment rate jumped from 27.1% in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.5% in fourth quarter of the same year.
The agency placed underemployment rate at 22.8% in Q4 2020 (28.6% in Q2 2020) while the total...
President Buhari today Monday, March 15 played host to Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the newly appointed Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), at the statehouse Abuja.
During their meeting, an elated President Buhari told the former Finance Minister that despite the robust support Nigeria gave to her candidacy for the position...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism of 2021 into law approving 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the State.
The State’s House of Assembly, in February, passed the anti-cultism bill, which also stipulates 15-year jail term for anyone...
A Nigerian woman, Idy Williams and her husband have welcomed a set of twins after ten years of marriage.
Facebook user, Ifeoma Uchenna shared the good news along with photos of the new mother and her twins on her page last week.
"Indeed what God cannot do doesn't exist. After 10...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the implementation of the controversial Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020.
Recall that the Companies and Allied Matters Act that President Buhari signed into law on August 7, allows the regulation of religious bodies and charity organisations by...
The four-day funeral activities for late industrialist, benefactor, business guru, Defender of Christian Faith and philanthropist, late High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs was brought to a fitting and glorious climax on Saturday, March 13, 2021, at his home town, Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku Toru local government area of Rivers...
Burna Boy has won his first Grammys after being nominated in the Best Global Music Album category of the awards.
His Twice as Tall album won the award over records by Antibalas (FU Chronicles), Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen (Amadjar). The win marks Burna Boy’s first Grammy Award...
In a video we have sighted on social media, a Nigerian student was seen exhibiting his talented.
The post was made on the popular professional platform, LinkedIn by a social media user identified as Ade Emmanuel Ibikunle.
Per the post that was made, the talented student made a small plane from...
A Nigerian lady has inspired social media users with her determined heart.
The lady who is identified as Faith Oyita, proven that anyone is capable of doing whatever they set their mind and this doesn’t depend on gender.
According to her, she took it upon herself to learn some shoemaking skills...
The 10-year jail term handed to former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye after being convicted for criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust, was on Friday March 12 affirmed by the Supreme Court.
Dariye who was convicted for reportedly looting N2billion public funds during his time as Plateau State governor between 1999 and...
A 31-year-old woman identified as Yesutor Elizabeth Akpalu, has died after she was allegedly assaulted by her fiancé in Ghana.
It was gathered that the deceased, a 300 level student of the Evangelical Presbyterian University College, was rushed to the Ho Teaching Hospital by her friends on Sunday, March 7, after...
A 15 year-old teenager shot dead the man who raped her in Wedela, Carletonville, South Africa.
Captain Eddie Boboko, the SAPS Spokesperson for the cluster, who confirmed the incident on Monday, March 8, said the girl was accosted by a man on Saturday night, and was forced into an area of...
Eleven days after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) released a statement saying that there will be no increase in petrol pump price in March, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has fixed the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, at N212.61 per litre, for...
It's been revealed that a fish caught and eaten by some villagers in Rivers state is actually the Blue Marlin Fish that costs between $2.6 million to $3 million.
Days ago, it was reported that a fisherman caught a "sword fish" at Oyorokotor fishing settlement in Andoni LGA, Rivers state. (To...
Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko has died in a hospital in Germany.
Bakayoko died on Wednesday March 10 of cancer in the German city of Freiburg, where he was receiving medical treatment. His death came two days after his 56th birthday and eight months after his predecessor also passed on.
President Alassane Ouattara...
The Ondo state chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has described open grazing as an obsolete tradition which they are now tired of.
The disclosure was made in Akure on Wednesday March 10, during a public hearing on a bill to regulate grazing of livestock and...
To ease vehicular traffic within the state secretariat, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has procured bicycles the civil servants working in the secretariat will use to move within the premises.
The bicycles were delivered to the secretariat on Tuesday, March 9.
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A senior Hisbah officer, Sani Rimo, who was recently arrested by the Kano state police command on allegations of being in a hotel with a married man has been exonerated after it was discovered that the said woman was actually his daughter and not a married woman.
His arrest was...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai, his Niger state counterpart Abubakar Bello as well as Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state have all received the first shots of the AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccines.
The governors took their first shots today March 10 after receiving doses of the vaccines from the Federal government.
Governor Abubakar Bello of...
Rosy Meurer revealed her husband gave her a push present after she gave birth to their son.
The Nollywood actress and her husband Olakunle Churchill announced on Tuesday, March 9, that they have welcomed a son named King Churchill.
As a push present, Churchill who is actress, Tonto Dike's ex husband,...
The British Government has announced plans to return £4.2million funds recovered from friends and family members of convicted former Delta state governor, James Ibori.
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms. Catriona Laing, disclosed this at a ceremony for the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between both the Nigerian...
The Nigerian Temporary Passport (NTP) for Nigerians in the diaspora was on Tuesday March 9, launched by the federal government.
Minister of interior Rauf Aregbesola who spoke at the launch at headquarters of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Abuja, said the NTP is a new genre of passport that will be...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, and other members of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID19 took their first jabs of the COVID19 vaccines on National TV on Monday, March 8.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and chairman of the PFT, Boss Mustapha, Minister of Health Osagiue...
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has revealed that Nigerian banks lost over N5 billion to fraudsters within a nine-month period in 2020.
Speaking on Monday, March 8, at a programme with the theme “Effective investigation and prosecution of banking malpractices that led to the failure of banks in Nigeria”...
President Buhari yesterday, March 5 decorated the new service chiefs at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In their new ranks, the service chiefs are General Lucky Irabor Chief of Defense Staff; Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru Chief of Army Staff; Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Marshal Ishiaka Oladayo...
The long-awaited sequel 'Coming 2 America'' was released globally on Friday, March 5, 2021.
The new film sees the return of some cast members of the original 1988 classic including Eddie Murphy as Akeem, Arsenio Hall as Semmi, and James Earl Jones as King Jaffe Joffer.
Joining the original cast are...
A fisherman on Friday morning, March 5, caught a giant swordfish at Oyorokotor fishing settlement in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Swordfish also known as broadbills in some countries, are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill. They are elongated, round-bodied, and lose all teeth and...
President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo received their COVID19 vaccine jabs at the statehouse Abuja today March 6.
The President was injected with the vaccine by his Chief Personal Physician, Dr Shuaib Rafindadi Sanusi, while the Vice President was injected by Dr Nicholas Odifre, Personal Physician to the Vice...
A graduating student of the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Alhassan Ibrahim Mawogi, has said that God answered his prayer by giving him a simple, easygoing wife with good character.
"I only pray for simple, easygoing and good character wife and God almighty gave me mallama halimatu sadiya Isah. ALLHAMDULILLAH...
An overworked medical doctor, who has reportedly not been paid for 3 months, collapsed after a 72 hour shift.
Dr Okorie Ifeanyi Venatus is an intern doctor in Univeristy of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, Rivers State. He and other intern doctors have not been paid since Dec 2020, a medical...
A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State has dissolved a six-year-old marriage between a trader, Kaosara Okeowo and her husband, Lateef, over alleged threat to life.
The mother of two had told the court that she was in danger because her husband wants to use her for ritual.
Delivering judgment,...
The Ondo State Government has made it compulsory for all students in the state to recite the Oodua Anthem in their schools.
The order reportedly affects all the private and public institutions from primary to tertiary level in the state.
This was contained in a circular sent to all stakeholders from...
Mammoth crowd of sympathizers, former Governors, friends, government officials and associates bid farewell to Nura Dahiru Mangal, the son of Katsina billonaire businessman, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, as his remains were buried today March 4.
TM reported that the 30-year-old University of Manchester graduate was involved in the accident on Wednesday, while riding...
The leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and founder of the Eastern Security Network, Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the 101 soldiers accused by the Nigerian Army of fleeing the Boko Haram attacks in New Marte and Dikwa towns in Borno State to join the ESN.
LIB had earlier reported...
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, is currently under fire over the comment he made on Wednesday, March 3, that hoodlums who invaded his palace during the #EndSARS protest stole his $2 million and N17 million.
Akiolu, who spoke at the Glover Hall Memorial Commissioning, Lagos on Wednesday, lamented the devastation...
The Airports Council International (ACI) Africa has given theNnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja the 2020 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) award for Best Airport by Size and Region (5 to 15 million passengers per year in Africa).
Moi International Airport, Mombasa, Kenya won the Best African Airport under 2 million passengers per...
Emmanuel Nworie, a first-class mathematics graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka has bagged a fully-funded scholarship at a university in the United States.
Nworie bagged the scholarship after a photo of him tilling the soil in Ebonyi state owing to poverty and a lack of a platform to utilize his knowledge...
12 officers and 89 soldiers have been declared missing by the Nigerian army in the wake of last week’s Boko Haram attacks on Marte and Dikwa local government areas of Borno State.
A signal dated March 1, 2021 from Operation Lafiya Dole Headquarters in Maiduguri, revealed that the soldiers were declared as deserters.
It...
Farmers and traders in Kano are lamenting as farm produce, which can't be sent to the South due to the ongoing strike by sellers of cows and food stuff, are now being sold in the North at ridiculously low prices.
In video shared by Daily Trust, the farmers and marketers...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday March 2, declared Zamfara state a no fly-zone.
National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) conveyed the President's directive while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting of National Security Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The NSA who disclosed that the President also approved a...
Northern traders under the aegis ofAmalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) have vowed to continue the food blockade to the Southern part of the country, in spite of being at risk of losing their perishable goods.
Awwalu Aliyu, an official of the union who spoke to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probe of All Progressives Congress Chieftain, Bola Tinubu has taken a different turn as the anti-graft agency has asked for copies of the former Governor of Lagos state asset declaration form from the Code of Conduct Bureau.
The Peoples Gazette had first reported that the investigation...
A mother-of-six has asked the Court of Appeal in Benin City to void an order which her estranged husband relied on to evict her from her matrimonial home.
Mrs. Agnes Ikpea, 64, who has six adult children with her estranged husband, Chief Leemon Ikpea, was thrown out of their home in Banana Island,...
The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has declared that same-sex marriage will never happen during his tenure.
He made this declaration at the installation and enthronement of a program of an Anglican Archbishop held in Mampong on Saturday February 27.
In his words
''I have said this before and let me stress...
Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, the daughter of All Progressives Congress leader Bola Tinubu and 5 others have been barred by a Lagos state high court from imposing levies on traders at the Computer Village, Lagos.
This is coming a year after the traders embarked on a protest after Folasade who is also the Iyaloja-General of Lagos...
The co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Aisha Yesufu, appeared on Channels TV on Friday night, February 26 where she criticized President Buhari over his handling of the deplorable state of insecurity in the country.
According to Ms. Yesufu. President Buhari's body language has continued to embolden the terrorists.
“We are...
The General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Olajide Oduyoye, has said its officers would soon start wearing bodily cameras precisely to catch traffic offenders.
Olajide disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television on Friday February 26.
Olajide who said technology is the way to go for LASTMA added the state...
Seven out of the 317 schoolgirls abducted by bandits at Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara state have escaped.
The girls were abducted by suspected bandits in the early hours of Friday, February 26.
Channels TV reports that a source in the community confirmed that the girls returned home from...
The state government had ordered the temporary closure of 10 grant-aided secondary schools in Ilorin; C&S College, ST. Anthony College, ECWA School, Surulere Baptist Secondary School, Bishop Smith Secondary School, CAC Secondary School, St. Barnabas Secondary School, St. John School, St. Williams Secondary School and St. James Secondary School, after...
The office of the national security adviser (NSA) has expressed its fear with the deployment of 5th Generation (5G) technology in the country.
Bala Fakandu, director of communications in NSA who appeared before the senate committee on communications on Thursday February 25, said they are concerned about the deliberate vulnerabilities and backdoors...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara State and abducted '300' of the school girls.
According to reports, the gunmen stormed the school premises in the early hours of today, Friday, February 26.
The state police command or the...
The remains of the seven personnel of the Nigeria Air Force who died in the crash that happened close to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Sunday, February 21, have been laid to rest. They were buried at the military cemetery in Abuja today February 25 amidst tears.
The...
Abubakar Shekau who leads the Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jih?d led faction of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack that rocked Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State on Tuesday, February 23.
10 persons were killed in the attack that involved the use of mortars and rockets.
In a five-minute...
Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) on Thursday February 25, began a nationwide strike following the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum given to the federal government to attend to their demands.
The union had demanded payment of N475 billion compensation...
Abubakar Shekau led faction of the terror group Boko Haram has given a week ultimatum to the Federal Government to secure the release of Pastor Bulus Yakuru who was abducted on Christmas eve in Borno State.
The Pastor was abducted in an attack in which about seven people were killed at...
