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President Buhari has said that he will consider the request of Igbo leaders to free the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.   While receiving some southeast leaders in the statehouse today November 19, President Buhari said the call for the unconditional release of …

Reno Omokri has said that God deals with people who feed those that are richer than them. He shared this thought in a post on his Instagram page this afternoon. He wrote; ” Nothing wrong in giving money to people. But, don’t go into debt to show people how much …

The average price for the refilling of a five kilogram (5kg) cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas otherwise known as Cooking Gas increased to N2,627.94 in October from N2,397.60 in September and N1,953.71 in October 2020.   The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said this in its “Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking …

The United States government has removed Nigeria from its list of religious freedom violators, while blacklisting Russia, China and eight others “as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated ‘systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.” US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken made this known on …

Governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu has appointed his son, Babajide Akeredolu, as the Director-General of the Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPIMU).   The state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, announced the appointment of Babajide in a statement on Tuesday. He revealed that the governor nominated …

On Tuesday morning, around 8am, a gas explosion occurred on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of Mushin in Lagos State. An official of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency confirmed the incident to The PUNCH. According to the official, first responders have been deployed to the site of the …

The Nigerian Army has killed no fewer than 50 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province terrorist group in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State where the sect members killed Brig-Gen Dzarma Zirkusu and three other soldiers in an attack in the same local government on Saturday, November …

Sani Dangote, the vice president of Dangote Group and owner of Dansa Agro-allied Limited, has reportedly died in a United States hospital. He was a younger brother to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. According to a report by Daily Nigerian, Mr Dangote died on Sunday evening after a protracted illness. …

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that Nigerians are competitive abroad because of the quality education they’ve acquired before leaving their fatherland.   Buhari stated this during a meeting with the Minister of State Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Shaikh Shakboot Alnahyan, while he urged Nigerians in Diaspora to …

The Nigerian Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021, according to The PUNCH. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and …