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Nigeria’s naira weakened against the dollar, heading for a second straight weekly decline, as foreign-exchange sales by the oil industry slowed after the month end. The currency of Africa’s biggest oil producer depreciated 0.1 percent to 15...
Wiz Khalifa proposed to girlfriend, Amber Rose after several months of dating! The “Kush and Orange Juice” rapper who also wears his big heart on his sleeve, posted the photo of the simple but beautiful engagement ring to his Instagram acco...
The Federal Government has declared a state of emergency on polio eradication while new cases will be treated as emergency. Dr Muhammad Pate, Minister of State for Health, made this known in a statement signed by Mr Tashikalmah Hallah, his Special Advi...
The UN agency mandated to promote gender equality, said it would give out 10.5 million dollars as grants to organisations working to advance economic and political empowerment of women in Africa. The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of...
A water vendor, Ahmed Manu, 22, of Tudun Wada quarters, Gombe, was on Thursday remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping a 26-year-old mentally deranged woman. The Principal Judge of the court, Malam Mohammed Usman gave the order when the accused...
Gombe State has so far recorded two confirmed and nine suspected cases of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM), Dr Ishaya Kennedy, the State Commissioner for Health, has said. Kennedy said in Gombe on Friday that the two patients were currently receiving tr...
superSport.technical committeecom can report authoritatively that Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has resigned his membership of the NFF . Apparently irked by the happenings in the committee, Onigbinde told SuperSport.com that he has decided to opt out of the...
There was a mild drama on Thursday at Chief Magistrate Court, Akure, venue of the trial of six bank robbers as two lawyers announced their separate appearances as counsel to the six accused persons. Court Room 3 at the Oke Eda Chief Magistrate complex ...
The Joint Military Task Force code named Operation Pulo Shield has declared missing, corpses of the Commander of the Brass Unit and three others shot dead by suspected oil bunkers along the Brass-Ogbia waterways of Bayelsa State. Speaking with LEADERSH...
A Nigerian militant group based in the oil-producing Niger Delta claimed an attack on a police checkpoint on Thursday that killed four people, its second such claim after it said it blew up an oil pipeline last month in Africa's top crude producer....
The emerging high technology in virtually every aspect of life, is threatening the once lucrative local business of mortars and pestles making. Our correspondents, Nanna Selkur and Rose Owota Adah examine the threat. Customers go to them with so many t...
Engineer Andrew Ojogbo is the Director of Environmental Management in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, saddled with the task of linking the once neglected region to the national grid. In this interview with CHRISTIANA ESEBONU, he speaks on how the ...
The causes of pedophilia remains unclear, It is said that some men engage in sexual acts with young children with the belief that this form of sex promotes their health, eventually to avoid the danger of a deadly infection. Medical experts believe that...
Unknown armed gunmen, yesterday, unleashed attacks on military personnel and marine police formations along the creeks and waterways of Brass and Nembe Local Council areas of Bayelsa State killing four policemen and four personnel of the Joint Military...
President Goodluck Jonathan hinted yesterday that the federal government had increased the funds earmarked for the eradication of polio from $17 million to $30 million, just as he has expressed concern that Nigeria is a sanctuary of wild polio that is ...