Tobi Amusan of Team Nigeria celebrates after winning gold in the Women’s 100m Hurdles Final on day ten of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 24, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by AFP) World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, in the early hours of Monday (Sunday in Oregon), won the […]
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There was an outrage on Sunday over the brutal whipping of some of the 43 passengers abducted from the Kaduna-Abuja train by their captors. No fewer than eight persons were killed and 61 others kidnapped during the attack at Katari, Kaduna, on March 28. In a viral video posted on social media, the hoodlums were […]
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The family of a Bureau De Change operator, Modibo Usman, has been thrown into mourning after he died from shock following an encounter with two officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority in the Surulere area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Modibo, who was hypertensive, was being conveyed by his son, Mustapha, […]
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A youth group under the aegis of North-East Youth Transformation Forum, on Sunday, faulted the plan by the Federal Government to ban commercial motorcycles known as ‘Achaba’. Achaba is a two-wheeled conveyance used for transporting commuters and goods due to it ability to move into difficult terrain. While Achaba has its advantages, criminal elements had […]
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Tinubu should subject himself to one-hour interview, Atiku’s camp insists The All Progressives Congress and its allied groups on Sunday said that its candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would trounce his Peoples Democratic Party’s counterpart, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, in any debate. But the Peoples Democratic Party restated its challenge to Tinubu that he should subject […]
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About 367,499 candidates applied for the 43,717 slots available in Medicine Departments in Nigerian universities for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. According to data obtained from JAMB, the highest percentage of candidates for the examination chose Medicine as their first choice for course of study in […]
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NCDC lab. Photo: Twitter WHO raises concern on global surge, vaccines’ absence in Africa The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), yesterday, confirmed 16 new positive cases of monkepox from 12 states. According to the latest update, Rivers has three infections, Anambra (two); Oyo (two); Taraba (one); Lagos (one); Imo (one); Edo (one); Gombe (one); […]
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OPS says production costs up by almost 100% Manufacturers cite dwindling capacity utilisation, inventory and profitability Telcos, Towercos groan as diesel costs gulp N141.5b in five months MNOs already spent six times what was expended on diesel in 2021 Diesel hike forces companies to review workforce, says food union Lingering fuel shortage undermining listed firms’ […]
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Terrorist in new video claims to be Boko Haram member who escaped from Kuje Prison Presidency: Military action will hurt hostages U.S. agency: Nigeria recorded 5,222 violent killings in six months You have two options, free the victims or negotiate their release, Shehu Sani tells Buhari Northern groups fault FG over failure to tackle insecurity […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, will today meet with leaders of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and others to put finishing touches to the planned solidarity rally the congress is organising in support of the ongoing strike by the university lecturers. It was gathered, yesterday, that the meeting is to agree on the format […]
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