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Troops of the 114 taskforce battalion of the Nigerian army say they have rescued one of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by insurgents in 2014.  On April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno. Many of the girls have since been […]

Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has described the demands listed by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in an ultimatum to the federal government as “absurd”. The minister spoke in an interview with Arise TV on Monday. On Saturday, NARD threatened to embark on strike if the government fails […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will investigate allegations of a cancer-causing chemical found in Indomie noodles. Health officials in Malaysia and Taiwan said they had detected ethylene oxide, a compound, in Indomie’s special chicken flavour noodles. Ethylene oxide is a colourless, odourless gas that is […]

Here are the seven top business news you need to track this week — May 1 to May 5. ‘PAY PER ARTICLE’ — TWITTER INTRODUCES NEW FEATURE FOR PUBLISHERS Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Inc., over the weekend, said Twitter, the microblogging platform, will soon allow media publishers to charge […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Victor Giadom, an ally of Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, remains its vice-chairman in the south-south geo-political zone. The zonal committee had announced the sack of Gaidom and Ita Udosen, its secretary, after a meeting on Saturday. Members of the zonal committee had accused […]

Abdul’Aziz Yari, former governor of Zamfara state, says the incoming senate president deserves to come from the northern part of Nigeria. Speaking on Sunday in a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Yari said the north provided the majority votes to ensure the All Progressives Congress (APC) clinched victory in the February […]

The Labour Party (LP) has accused Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, of pushing propaganda to Nigerians. Reacting to the minister’s statement where he asked opposition parties to desist from “bleating” about the outcome of the presidential election, the Labour Party said only the blind would accept the outcome of the 2023 presidential […]

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari served Nigeria “meritoriously” throughout his administration. Buhari was elected president of the country in 2015 and was returned to the seat for a second term in 2019. The eight-year tenure of the administration is billed to terminate on May 29. In a statement […]

About 13 houses in Ajao estate and Shasha areas of Lagos have been demolished by the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LSBCA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).  During a press briefing in Ikeja, on Friday, before the demolition exercise, Gbolahan Oki, the general manager of LASBCA, said most of the […]