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Covid death toll nears three million as India cases surge
The global coronavirus death toll was expected to reach three million on Saturday, as the race for immunisation continues and countries like India grapple with rising infections and new lockdowns.
The virus that surfaced...
My world crashed when I saw how invaders hacked my son to death —...
Chima Azubuike
All is not well with 55-year-old woman, Saute Yakubu, whose son, Masi, was hacked to death during the recent communal clashes in Nyuwar, Hemen in Jessu ward, Balanga Local Government Area...
DPR, NEITI differ on Nigeria’s oil production volume
FILE
’Femi Asu
The Department of Petroleum Resources has faulted the assertion by the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, that the exact volume of Nigeria’s crude...
COVID-19 vaccine: Kaduna, Cross River, Yobe top 8,439 nationwide side effects’ list
Friday Olokor
The Federal Government, on Friday, said 8,439 persons had suffered mild adverse events following immunisation, out of the over one million persons vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria.
The...
Show Nigerians Indian hemp found in my house –CDQ dares NDLEA
CDQ
Olajide Samuel
It is no longer news that rapper, Sodiq Yusuf, aka CDQ, was arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He was said to have been picked...
Hoodlums hack Lagos guard to death, injure colleague
Afeez Hanafi
A 38-year-old security guard, Saliu Dairi, has met his death at the hands of some hoodlums who attacked him and his colleague, one Isiaka Samba, on their duty post on Alimosho...
Buhari’s foreign health trips pose risk, PFN tells FG
Samson Folarin
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria has said the country is not being told the truth about the health condition of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).
The PFN President, Bishop...
Why northern PDP govs worked against Jonathan in 2015 –Ex-gov Aliyu
Jesusegun Alagbe
A former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, on Friday revealed why northern governors of the Peoples Democratic Party worked against the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
He...
The feeling is not the issue
A sister that shared her experience with me not long ago said, “I could have sworn to an oath that I didn’t have an iota of jealousy in me, until a day my friend...
#PantamiResign: Pressure mounts on Buhari to sack communications minister
Kayode Oyero
Nigerians on the social media have called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to sack Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, over his alleged link with terrorist...
