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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reduced interest rates on its facilities through participating Other Financial Institutions (OFIs). The rate has been slashed from...

Kufre Carter, a sports journalist who was arrested weeks ago by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) for allegedly making defamatory remarks against...

Kufre Carter, the journalist detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) despite perfecting bail, has been freed. His lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, had accused the...

The Lagos State Government has predicted a sharp decline in the cases of COVID-19 by November this year. The Commissioner for Health in the state,...

The Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has ordered the resumption of religious activities in the state Governor Akeredolu gave the order on Wednesday in...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined three stations over broadcast of misleading content on COVID-19 and also sanctioned 28 others for other violations...

Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, on Tuesday, welcomed a set of twins. His wife, Ayinba Mojisola Adams, was delivered of a set...

U.S. President Donald Trump, on Wednesday threatened to “strongly regulate or close down” social media platforms. The threat came a day after microblogging service provider,...

Governor Godwin Obaseki has confidently declared that he will emerge governor of Edo State, ahead of the governorship election in the State. Obaseki who spoke...

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the consensus candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) faction believed to be loyal to National Chairman of the...

A video which captured moment a police officer asked a Black driver to lick his own urine in Illinois, has gone viral after being...

President Donald Trump's tweet was given a fact-check label by Twitter for the first time on Tuesday May 26, a decision that prompted the...

Nigerian Presidency late Tuesday denied reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled appointments and memos approved by his former chief of staff late Abba...

A total of 875 people committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal. The country has been under lockdown, against the novel coronavirus disease, since...

The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has confirmed two more COVID-19 cases from iSON Xperiences and one case each from Ibadan South West and...

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has explained that the reason the Federal Government decided to feed the pupils under the government’s...

The confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have increased to 8,344 in Nigeria. This is after 276 new infections were recorded in the country on...

Kaduna State, Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Tuesday evening extended the lockdown by two weeks The Governor who spoke through his deputy, Dr. Hadiza Sabuwa...

The rumoured failing health condition of a prominent monarch and Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, has been causing serious anxiety in Ado...

Doctors under the aegis of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, on Tuesday, demanded for the payment of their...

Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has presented letter of appointment to the newly-appointed Emir of Kaura-Namoda, Alhaji Sanusi Muhammad. The appointment was contained in a...

Businesses in Rivers State can now open passively as Governor Nyesom Wike has cancelled the planned total lockdown on Obio-Akpor and Port Harcourt Local...

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has cancelled the total lockdown recently placed on two local government areas of the state, saying that no part...

Nigerian Government food items delivered to Kano State government as palliatives are left rotten at open space and are being beaten by rain and...

The 139 trucks of food from the Federal Government given to Kano State as palliatives to the poorest of poor have been damaged by...

The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has forfeited her May, 2020 salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates who could...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, for clocking 94 years of age. The President, in his message,...

Ogoni women in Rivers State today staged a peaceful protest over what they termed the ''continuous detention'' of the manager of Prudent Hotel that...

Costa Rica legalised same-sex marriage on Tuesday, becoming the first Central American country to do so and sparking an emotional response from rights campaigners...

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, says Nigeria will continue its clinical trial of Hydroxychloroquine...