A fresh earthquake has hit the region of the Turkey-Syria border. The quake comes days after earthquakes were recorded in both countries, which resulted in over 40,000 deaths. According to Syria’s state news agency (SANA), the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province, which was devastated by a massive tremor two weeks ago. It also […]
The Commonwealth observer mission to Nigeria has met with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to ascertain how prepared they are for the forthcoming elections. The leader of the Mission and former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki said the meeting was aimed at getting reports from INEC on […]
The men of the Kwara State Police Command have paraded a 36-year-old medical doctor, Abass Adeyemi, over an alleged killing of four persons in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Paul Odama, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on Monday at the headquarters of the command in Ilorin. He said one […]
Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai has claimed that what President Muhammadu Buhari approved was different from what the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, did regarding the redesigning and swapping of the currency. In a statement titled: ‘Nigeria Update: ABC of Currency Redesign vs. XYZ of Cash Confiscation Explained’, the governor shared on Twitter, Sunday […]
Over the weekend at Abeokuta, the state capital of Ogun, a woman reportedly set herself on fire over her inability to pay back a N70,000 loan she obtained from a microfinance bank. The diseased burnt herself inside her rented apartment at Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta was simply identified as mama Dada. She […]
The body of the former Premier League player Christian Atsu, who was killed in the devastating earthquake in Turkey, has arrived in Ghana, on Sunday. Atsu’s death was announced on Saturday by his agent Nana Sechere, who said the footballer’s body was found 12 days after the disaster hit Turkey and Syria, claiming more […]
The Texas board of nursing has filed charges against some nurses for allegedly obtaining educational credentials fraudulently in the United States. In a multi-state coordinated law enforcement action, called Operation Nightingale, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), discovered that some individuals had obtained fraudulent nursing degree […]
The Central Bank of Nigerian has debunked reports of her directing commercial banks to accept N500 and N1000 notes from Nigerians. This was issued in a press release by the apex bank shared on its official Twitter handle on Friday. The statement read: “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been drawn […]
The Department of State Service (DSS) has uncovered a plan by Boko Haram terrorists to attack the Abuja-Kaduna train service in the coming days. The Ministry of Transportation, in a letter to the Ministry of Defence, obtained by Daily Trust on Thursday said it had, on February 1, received a letter from the DSS […]
Suspected militants linked and loyal to a group called Biafra Nations League, BNL, have reportedly shot dead two escorts of an oil vessel near Cameroonian waters. According to reports from the Daily Post, eyewitnesses said the incident happened at about 4 am in the Idabato subdivision of the Bakassi Peninsula, an area controlled by […]
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