The two Vice Presidents of Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) will retire next after serving for over four and three decades. Multiple sources in the church, including a pastor in the church, who requested anonymity due to a lack of ...

The Federal Government on Thursday in Abeokuta began the sale of rice at a subsidised rate in Ogun. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, while speaking during a ceremony to signify the commencement, said it was “one of the numerous programmes ...

Determined to further its goals the Abuja Furniture Production (AFP), a subsidiary of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has hosted the Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria to a vibrant celebration of art.A press statement by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc media unit, Thursday, said the event which ...

By Francis Ugwu Nigeria’s First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has said that her husband, President Bola Tinubu, should not be held responsible for the current economic hardship in Nigeria. She stated this on Thursday while speaking at the palace of Ooni ...

According to CoinGecko, political-themed meme coins have outperformed the broader cryptocurrency market after their total market capitalization surged by 10% to more than $802 million. One catalyst behind this growth is gains posted by meme coins inspired by the former US President, Donald ...

Washington’s envoy to Baghdad denounces Israeli broadcast that portrays Shia leader as a target for assassination. The United States ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, has denounced featuring Shia spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on an apparent hit list by Israel’s ...

Global hunger levels will stay high for another 136 years if efforts to tackle it continue at the current pace, a new report has found. The Global Hunger Index is reporting that people do not have enough food to eat in 42 countries and that famine is now looming in Sudan and Gaza due to ...

You know that moment when you open a gift from a distant auntie or an old school friend, and it’s an Amazon gift card? You smile, thank them, but deep down you’re thinking, “What am I supposed to do with this here in Nigeria (or Ghana)?” It’s not like you can walk into the local mall and hand ...

Affable and polished, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, accountant and politician, is perhaps the most charismatic of the aspirants hoping to become the next governor of Ogun State in May 2027.So far, the incumbent Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly has ...

By Joe Chukindi   Some sports journalists who were travelling to Uyo, through Anambra State, to cover a football event in Awka Ibom State, have been kidnapped. The Super Eagles will take on Libya in an African Nations Cup qualifier ...

By Seun Opejobi The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, said the haphazard approach of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to fuel subsidy management is responsible for Nigeria’s current ...

By Favour Olekanma The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, seeking to remove 27 members of the State House of Assembly on account of their defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ...

In his first National Day speech, new president stresses ‘thriving’ democracy of island claimed by Beijing. Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te has said he will stand against any attempt at annexation or encroachment into the island’s territory. China claims the self-ruled ...

The President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), Billy Gillis-Harris, has asked Dangote Refinery to stop operating in secrecy regarding the pricing of petrol. Gillis-Harris who spoke on Channels TV on Thursday urged the management of the ...

Erling Haaland has insisted he has no regrets over hurling a ball at Gabriel Magalhaes’s head after Manchester City snatched a dramatic draw against Arsenal last month. John Stones’ stoppage-time equaliser earned the hosts a point in an at-times ill-tempered Premier League clash at the ...

By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –The Swiss Federation has donated 1.2 million Euros to the Borno State Flood Disaster Relief Fund to provide much-needed support to the victims of the flood disaster in Borno State  which occured on September 10, 2024. The donation was announced by the Swiss ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has destroyed counterfeit and expired products valued at over N10bn in the North-East zone. The public destruction exercise was conducted in Gombe State on Wednesday. During the event, NAFDAC’s ...

In a bid to enhance ease of doing business, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Wednesday, launched an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Code *829# specifically targetted at improving taxpayers’ satisfaction. FIRS chairman, ...

By Shehu Usman The Swiss Federation has donated 1.2 million Euros to the Borno State Flood Disaster Relief Fund to provide much-needed support to the victims of the recent flood disasters in the state. The donation was announced by ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Former Minister of Transportation Chibuike Amaechi has said that he is angry with the way Nigerians are responding to the current economic challenges. Amaechi made this known ...

Former President Donald Trump’s long-rumored decentralized finance (DeFi) project is slowly coming together, with more details coming to light today. World Liberty Financial submitted a proposal on Wednesday to the governance forum of Ethereum DeFi platform Aave—upon which Trump and his ...

Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held a “productive” 30-minute call, the White House says, amid an escalation of violence across the Middle East. The call between the two leaders on Wednesday was their first publicly ...

Russia has seized a second town in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk within a week in a months-long offensive that shows no signs of abating with Ukraine’s general staff reporting more than 150 assaults a day across the front. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops captured ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) - Why's Guys Paul Kwiat came on the morning show to finish his series on how bees see their ... source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRSrDqpCu3s

Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain. Promisingly, an FDA-approved cancer drug that targets another protein called Lag3 – which interacts with Aplp1 – ...

Despite pressure to agree to a deal that would see captives released, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not budged. It has been a year since the Hamas-led attack on Israel in which 1,139 people were killed and about 250 captured and taken to the Gaza Strip. Since October 7, ...

The Mexican government has revealed new details in the grisly murder of a mayor, Alejandro Arcos, who was found decapitated over the weekend. Arcos’s murder came nearly a week after President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, ramping up pressure on her administration to tamp down on ...

Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities. US Vice President Kamala Harris says Iran is the most significant enemy of the United States, citing Tehran’s recent ballistic missile attack against Israel. In an ...

Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s former minister of transportation has expressed his disappointment over the calmness that’s greeted the country’s economic downturn. The former governor of Rivers State said he had expected Nigerians to respond to the soaring cost of living through various agitations ...

Tempers flared yesterday at the Edo State Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as representatives from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged in a shouting match while trying to start the inspection of materials used in ...

By Ogaga Ariemu A gun battle erupted between soldiers and yet-to-be-known gunmen in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, allegedly leaving scores dead and many injured. According to the Nation, the attack occurred at the Aba branch ...

Chima Azubuike The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has destroyed seized counterfeit products worth N10 billion in the Northeast zone. The PUNCH reports that the commodities were publicly burnt by the agency in Gombe State on Wednesday. Speaking during the exercise, ...

The Nigerian government has announced that a consortium of investors from South Korea has set up machinery to build four 100,000-barrel capacity refineries in the country. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, disclosed this on Tuesday at a summit organized ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has clarified that airline operators in the country have voluntarily chosen to source their Jet A1 fuel from Dangote Refinery.This clarification comes following reports that suggested the federal government had mandated Dangote Refinery as the sole ...

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that Nigeria needs to stop mortgaging crude oil to ensure the availability of feedstock for local refineries. Dangote, who spoke at a summit organised by the Crude Oil Refinery Owners Association of Nigeria in ...

THE National Orientation Agency, NOA, on Tuesday, disclosed that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved its memoranda seeking to entrench value orientation, saying FEC sanctioned the first stanza of the national anthem for rendition at official functions, while the three stanzas ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lashed out at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike over his recent outbursts on the just concluded local government election in the state. ...

WASHINGTON — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators ...

The playmaker called time on a sensational career that saw him lift the World Cup, Euro and Champions League trophies. Former Barcelona and Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta has announced his retirement from football after a glittering trophy-laden career spanning 24 years. Iniesta, ...

It has been one year since Israel began its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October 7, in response to an attack by armed fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas and other Palestinian groups. Some 1,140 people died during the ...

10,837 suspected cases recorded nationwide in 9 months 359 die in 21 states NCDC blames rainfall, open defecation Experts proffer solutions     Lagos, Jigawa, Kano, Oyo and four other states are leading the number of deaths from cholera since the beginning of the year, Daily Trust ...

Agency The United Nations Children’s Fund has donated cholera response kits worth N113 million to curb the spread of the infection in Borno State. UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rownak Khan, stated this while presenting the items to the Borno State Ministry of Health, on Tuesday ...

Nigeria’s capital importation, known as foreign investments, rose by 152.81 per cent to $2.604.50 million in the second quarter of 2024, compared to $1.030.21 recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2023. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed this in its latest Capital Importation Data ...

By Ochogwu Sunday No fewer than 40 fishermen have jointly killed a mother hippopotamus that killed Malam Usman Maigadi, a guard at Orchard Farm owned by the Emir of Yauri, Dr Muhammad Zayyanu-Abdullahi, on September 22. NAN gathered that the ...

By Francis Ugwu Former Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 election, Tonye Cole has weighed in on the ongoing political crisis in the state. Cole said peace cannot return ...

Concerned community of persons with disabilities have expressed concern over the undue interference by the former Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), Mr. James Lalu, in the affairs of the commission.Led by Chief Eric Ndubueze Ufom, the group ...

The Dangote Refinery, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, has continued to withhold direct sales of its Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to independent oil marketers, despite increasing calls from industry stakeholders.Abubakar Maigandi, President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers ...

Israeli forces have targeted the vicinity of Beirut airport in recent weeks amid its intensified bombing of Lebanon The United States warned Israel on Monday not to attack Beirut airport or the roads leading to it, as the Israeli army carried out intensive strikes in the Lebanese ...

Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, has approved N72,500 minimum wage for civil servants in Kogi State, with immediate effect. The governor also suspended the tax burden on the approved sum for one year. He made this known on Monday, during the unveiling of the new ...

 The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, representing workers of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has embarked on an indefinite strike ...