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A court of appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo state, has discharged and acquitted Babatunde Alfa, general overseer of Sotitobire Miracle Centre, Akure, who was accused of kidnapping of Gold Kolawole, a one-year-old boy. The boy had gone missing in November 2019 after his mother dropped him off at the children section of the […]

Dowen College in Lagos has shut down temporarily over the controversy surrounding the death of Sylvester Oromoni. Source: Top Stories

The federal government has reviewed its international travel protocol to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 variants of concern. The revised protocol did not place restrictions on inbound travellers from any country. Mukhtar Muhammad, national incident manager of the presidential task force on COVID-19, had said on Monday that the government will […]

Ben Akabueze, director general of the budget office of the federation, says funds were withheld for duplicated projects discovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Bolaji Owasanoye, chairman of the ICPC, had disclosed that 257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget. Owosanoye […]

Okpale Ojikpa, a Makurdi-based lawyer, has been arraigned for allegedly using fake documents to freeze accounts of the Nasarawa state government. Ojikpa, who is said to be representing some pensioners under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, allegedly filed a notice of appeal and a petition seeking an interlocutory injunction to prevent banks […]

Scientists from the University of California-Riverside (UCR) say they may have discovered the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. The scientists recently published results from a study that looked at a protein called tau. The result pointed at the slowing of autophagy — which is the process of cells cleaning themselves — as the […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s problems will increase if the country breaks apart. The vice-president spoke on Thursday when members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo support group visited him in Abuja. Osinbajo said “it is wrong” for Nigeria, which is the largest economy in Africa, to break apart. “We must never relent […]

In muffled tones infrequently betraying days of repressed emotion and panic, Sylvester Oromoni, the father of four, mourned the death of his 12-year-old son who was the middle-class family’s lastborn. The late boy, named after his father and fondly called Junior, passed away while nursing multiple internal injuries alleged to have been sustained after […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the national assembly to pass the 2021 finance bill seeking to support the tax reforms of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). A finance bill is a legislative bill proposing changes to taxes, levies, and duties in a fiscal year. On Tuesday, the National Economic Council (NEC) […]