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Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has met with Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, in Benin Republic. According to the Punch, the meeting took place on Sunday and also had Banji Akintoye, leader of Ilana Omo Odua, in attendance. Details of the meeting are, however, not yet known. […]

A three-story building has collapsed at Ibadan street in the Ebutte Meta area of Lagos state. Many tenants were trapped in the rubble, following the collapse of the building around 10:56 pm on Sunday. Operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), and the Lagos […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says the battle against terrorists is approaching its end.  The president, through his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, congratulated the Muslim faithful across the country on the end of the Ramadan month. He said with the designation of bandit groups in north-west and north-central as terrorists, “the challenges of banditry and […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) says there will be no presidential primaries in Abuja until the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities resolve their differences and call off the strike action.  This was made known in a statement issued on Sunday by Sunday Asefon, NANS president. ASUU […]

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Igbo sociocultural organisation, says the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) is opposing zoning because it is the turn of the south-east to produce the president in 2023. On Thursday, Ango Abdullahi, convener of NEF, said the forum believes that the presidential position should be left open in the spirit of democracy, […]

Godwin Obaseki, Edo governor, has approved N40,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the state. Obaseki made the announcement on Sunday while delivering his 2022 Workers’ Day speech.  He said his government will continue to prioritise the welfare of Edo workers and equip them with the capacity to deliver quality […]

Bill Gates, chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), says it’s hard to tell if the world is still listening to him and his messages about the next pandemic.  Speaking to TheCable, Gates said the world has many challenges at the moment, from the war in Ukraine to the conflict in […]

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says women still do not have equal access to decision making and power-sharing at all levels in the country. NBS said this in its gender statistics bulletin for the first quarter of 2022, released on Sunday. The report focuses on four key areas pertaining to women in […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have foiled an attempt by drug traffickers to smuggle 10.89 kilograms of cocaine into the country through a Qatar Airways flight. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, said this in a statement issued on Sunday. Babafemi said the illicit drug was hidden in seven […]