#EndSARS protesters in Abuja converged at the Unity fountain on Friday October 16 for a candlelight procession in honor of all victims of police brutality.
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As the #EndSARS and End police brutality protests continue nationwide, actress Mosunmola Oduoye has shared the heartbreaking story of how her younger brother, Olatunbosun Filani, was allegedly murdered by police officers in Abeokuta, Ogun state in 2010.
According to Mosunmola, her brother was only 25 when he was allegedly shot dead by police...
Indigenous rapper, Phyno has accused the Enugu state government of threatening his life and that of other #EndSARS protesters.
In a tweet he shared, he stated that the Enugu state government should be held responsible should anything happen to them. Phyno accused Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of storming the protest with thugs...
Nigerians have been barred from participating in the United States’ visa lottery in 2022.
This was disclosed in a document titled ‘Instructions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022)’ obtained from the US’ website on Thursday, October 15.
"In Africa, natives of Nigeria are not eligible for this year’s Diversity Visa program," the document...
Muslim youths said Friday prayers today at some End SARS protest locations in Lagos State.
Protesters gathered at Lekki toll gate and Alausa, Ikeja, to continue the protest today, October 16, and when it was time for Jumat prayers they gave way for the Muslims to say their prayers while...
Singer, Flavour together with Phyno, Zoro, Kcee, and Yul Edochie led a peaceful protest against police brutality as they marched to the head office of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra state.
The celebrities and the protesters gathered in Awka on Friday afternoon and marched to Awkuzu SARS, known...
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has ordered all defunct SARS personnel to report at Force Headquarters in Abuja for debriefing, psychological and medical examinationin in accordance with Section 18 (10) of the Police Act 2020.
The order contained in a statement issued by Force spokesperson, DCP Frank...
A Ghanaian couple, Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Kate Anyane-Lah have welcomed a set of twins after 20 years of marriage.
According to the testimony shared by The Church of Pentecost, Ghana on October 5, 2020 Mrs Kate, 44, gave birth to twins girls.
Three months after their wedding on 5th August, 2000,...
A Ugandan man, Dr. Warren Namara has sued his nephew for allegedly defaulting on a loan that he gave him to pursue his post graduate studies abroad and later open up a business.
According to documents before the Commercial Division, Dr. Namara, (pictured with his lawyers) contends that by oral...
A Nigerian man identified as Odumegwu Chijioke Ugochukwu reportedly slumped and died in Malaysia.
It was gathered that the incident happened on Monday, October 12, at Setapak in Gombak Districk, Kuala Lumpur.
Mr Singleton Nnaemeka, the Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Malaysia chapter, who confirmed the incident, is seeking for help in...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has dissolved the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force nationwide.
Adamu made the announcement in a live broadcast on Sunday October 11, and confirmed the operatives will be redeployed to other police formations and commands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9ciByVDvk
The announcement comes days after online and...
Former Presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has condemned the excessive use of force on #EndSARS protesters.
The former Vice President who commended Nigerian youths for taking to the streets to ensure their voice is heard, stated that the fundamental rights of Nigerians to freedom of assembly and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally reacted to the #EndSARS protest which is aimed at stopping police brutality across the country.
The President who had a meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, stated his administration's determination to reform the police should never be in doubt.
Buhari...
The #EndSARS Protest which is a campaign against police brutality has earned the number 1 spot on worldwide trends.
With over 10 million tweets, several celebrities around the globe have joined protesters clamouring for the proscription of SARS, citing the ceaseless nightmares the police unit has caused Nigerians.
Nigerians in US, United...
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Kano/Jigawa Command, have arrested a Dubai-Bound passenger in possession of 5,342 ATM cards at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.
The Customs Area Comptroller, Nasir Ahmed, stated this while handing over the suspect to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Kano today Wednesday,...
Onitsha sea port has become functional after it was commissioned yesterday, October 6.
Videos and photos from the scene show containers being offloaded.
According to presidential aide, Tolu Ogunlesi: "The Plan is to move containers from Lagos & Onne Ports to Onitsha by barge. For now I believe what’s being done...
The federal government has ordered the deportation of 10 Egyptians and 7 Sri Lankans for violating the conditions for their entry.
Sunday James, spokesperson of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) who made the announcement in a statement released on Friday September 25, said the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola signed the deportation...
The National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) has raised an alarm of Nigerians dying in Sahara desert and Mediterranean due to trafficking.
Director General of the agency, Julie Okah-Donli who revealed this during the inauguration of the state task force on human trafficking in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state said over 20,000 Nigerians were...
Nigerians have reacted to federal government's approval of $1,959,744,723.71 contract for a rail line that would link Nigeria to Niger Republic.
Speaking after a federal executive council meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi told State House correspondents that the money approved for the development of the proposed rail...
Minister of Culture and Tourism, Lai Mohammed has stated that the federal government will continue pushing for the passage of the water resources bill into law.
Firing back at critics who accused the federal government of seeking the control of water, usage and its resources, Lai Mohammed alleged the water resources bill...
Emirate Airlines has been added to the list of airlines banned from operating in Nigeria by the federal government.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made the announcement said the ban will be effective from Monday, September 21, 2020.
He tweeted;
“The PTF sub-committee met today with EU Ambassadors to discuss Lufthansa,...
Governor Godwin Obaseki has won the Edo Governorship election which was held yesterday September 19.
Obaseki of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) won the election after polling 307, 955 votes to defeat his nearest contender in the All Progressives Congress, Pastor Ize-Iyamu who polled 223, 619 votes.
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has granted approval for churches and mosques in the state as well as gyms and cinermas to resume full services.
He announced the approval at a press briefing on Saturday September 19. He said mosques can hold their prayers five times daily while churches can...
Buratai says troops have been dealing decisively with the criminals.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, says the Nigerian Army and other security agencies are doing everything to ensure terrorists and bandits are never allowed to cross over to the southern parts of the country.
Boko Haram terrorists have...
The Kogi state government has written the United States Government over the electoral fraud allegation levelled against it and visa ban to politicians accused of masterminding electoral violence in the state.
The Yahaya Bello-led administration justified its win in the governorship election by pointing out that opposition parties failed to...
Governor Babagana Zulum has raised an alarm of children being recruited into the Boko Haram terrorist group.
The Governor said this while receiving a committee of members of the House Of Representatives at his office in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
Zulum who linked the recruitment of kids into the terrorist group to...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has signed into law the new State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020, which stipulates surgical castration and removal of Fallopian tubes for any male or female found guilty of raping a child in the state.
Recall that the state House of Assembly recently amended Section 258...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reacted to sentencing of 13-year-old Umar Farouq to 10 years in prison for blasphemy.
Umar was handed the jail sentence by Aliyu Kanu, the same judge who passed a death sentence on Kano musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu for blasphemy, after being found guilty of using “disparaging language...
Proscribed group, Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has bashed Pete Edochie after the veteran Nollywood actor raised alarm early this week alleging his life was being threatened after photos and video clips circulated, showing him playing a role that seemed like that of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the IMN,...
Primary and Secondary schools in Lagos have been directed to reopen on September 21, 2020 by the state government.
Kayode Abayomi, head of public affairs unit at the ministry of education made the announcement and also revealed that while all classes in private primary and secondary schools are permitted to resume, only...
The Kano state government and the federal government have been dragged to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, following a petition written by human rights activist, Femi Falana over the death sentence issued to Kano singer, Sharif Yahya Sharif.
In the petition dated 8th September 2020, the Senior Advocate...
Senator Ali Ndume, the lawmaker representing Borno South in the red chamber and the Chairman of the senate committee on Army has again kicked against the amnesty granted to Boko Haram members
The lawmaker who urged the federal government to change its tactics in granting amnesty to repentant insurgents after undergoing...
The Kaduna state House of Assembly has approved castration as punishment for anyone convicted of rape in the state.
The Assembly gave the approval following the passage of a bill to amend the Kaduna state penal court law, 2017, by the lawmakers on Thursday, September 10. The assembly announced the...
Chibok Local Government of Borno State is now participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) for the first time in 6 years.
The Borno local government is now participating in the examination after over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in the area by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014....
President Buhari has stated that people importing food or fertilizer into the country should not be given foreign exchange from the Central Bank.
The President who said this via tweets shared on his official Twitter account, averred that his administration will be empowering local farmers and producers.
Buhari affirmed that agriculture is the...
The Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Agba has revealed that the Federal Government plans to spend about $2.3 billion in the first phase of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) project, aimed at increasing the nation’s power transmission capacity to 7,000megawatts (Mw).
According to Agba, the objective was to...
A Nigerian man, Rex Ebube Amatu, has died in a fatal accident, just three days after his wedding in Delta State.
According to reports, Rex, from Anambra state, who got married on Saturday, September 5, died on his way back to Lagos State on Tuesday, September 8.
The accident was said to...
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has directed the Chief Medical Directors and Managing Directors of the Federal tertiary hospitals to immediately replace striking resident doctors in their hospitals with consultants and doctors on the National Youth Service Corps.
Resident doctors in Nigeria commenced an indefinite strike on Monday, September 7...
A woman has died after she slipped and fell while posing for photos during a date with her fiance.
31-year-old Dorcas Jepkemoi Chumba drowned when she fell into a dam at Chepkiit Waterfalls in Nandi County, Kenya, on Sunday, August 30
Her fiance, Benjamin Kazungu had been using her phone to take pictures...
President Buhari has raised an alarm over the decline in the country's revenue amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who delivered President Buhari's remark at the start of the first-year Ministerial performance review retreat holding in Abuja on Monday September 7, said his administration adopted a N2.3 trillion economic sustainability...
A security guard identified as Solomon Ede has died after he allegedly slept wearing his face mask in his place of work in Alako area of Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday, August 28.
The Nation reports that Solomon was well known in the area for never failing to wear his face mask...
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has received samples of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine from Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin.
A statement released by the Ministry of Health’s Director of Information, Media, and Public Relations, Olujimi Oyetomi, says the vaccines were presented by the Russian envoy to the Health Minister during a visit...
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, the Kano singer sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Shari'a court, has appealed the death sentence.
On August 10, Sharif was sentenced to death by hanging by the Upper Shari’a Court in Kano after he was found guilty of committing blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad in a viral song.
After he was...
As Nigeria plans for the resumption of international flights on Saturday September 5, September 5, the Federal Government has barred some airlines from operating in Nigeria.
Speaking at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday, September 3, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said the international airlines...
A Nigerian man, Kaycee Madu has made history after being appointed a Minister of Justice in Alberta, Canada.
Premier Jason Kenney on Tuesday August 25, elevated Madu to the justice portfolio from Municipal Affairs in a cabinet shuffle that saw Calgary-Elbow MLA Doug Schweitzer move from justice to an economic portfolio.
With the appointment,...
Two men have been confirmed dead in the helicopter crash that occurred at the Opebi area of Ikeja, Lagos State on Friday August 28.
A statement released by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA says the helicopter which is a Bell Helicopter 206B3, belonged to Quorum Aviation Ltd.
''An adult male was rescued...
Two persons are feared dead after a helicopter crashed into a building in the Opebi area of Lagos state on Friday, August 28. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained.
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Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure aimed at tackling gender inequality in the classroom and discouraging many girls from dropping out of school.
According to Zimbabwean media, a legal amendment was announced last week and it seeks to reinforce a 1999 guideline...
Nigeria’s economy has entered a negative growth as confirmed in a new report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday August 24.
The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by –6.10 per cent in the second quarter of 2020. The decline was as a result of contraction in domestic and international...
The World Bank is delaying approval of Nigeria’s request for a $1.5 billion loan due to concerns over desired reforms, Reuters reports.
Unidentified sources told Reuters that the main concern being expressed by the World Bank was Naira reform.
Both the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, IMF, have, in the...
Some Nigerians girls who were stranded in Lebanon have returned home.
The girls caught the attention of the Federal government after recording a video of themselves packed up in a room in Lebanon. In the viral video, the girls narrated their plight and pleaded for the government's intervention to return home.
The Nigerians...
The Enugu State government has demolished the house of an architect, John Jerry Emejulu, who had earlier demolished part of the Enugu Airport fence, claiming ownership of a portion of the land.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Thursday, said Mr Emejulu, accompanied by hundreds of armed thugs and bulldozers,...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 21.7 million Nigerians are now unemployed.
According to its Labour Force Statistics report released on Monday, the number of unemployed Nigerians went from 20.93 in 2018 to 21.76 million in the second quarter of 2020.
This means more than 17 million Nigerians have become...
Olawale Bakare, the #RevolutionNow co-convener, has been released by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Bakare was arrested alongside six others at the #RevolutionNow protest in Osun State which held on Wednesday, August 5.
Bakare and his other protesters had converged at Olaiya junction in Osogbo, Osun state capital to express their displeasure against bad governance, lack...
The West African Examinations Council has released the timetable for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
The examination date and timetable for West African exit students was released on August 4. The examination will start from Monday, August 17, 2020, and it will be completed on September 7, 2020.
WAEC...
At least 50 people have been killed and over 2,500 injured after a massive explosion erupted in the Beirut port area, damaging buildings and vehicles in Lebanon.
Lebanon's health minister, Hamad Hassan said that the figures were "preliminary estimates," while adding that the blasts had caused a 'very high number...
