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Cable News Network (CNN) has fired Chris Cuomo for helping his brother, Andrew Cuomo, deal with sexual harassment allegations. Andrew Cuomo was forced to step down as New York governor in August 2021 as a result of the scandal. A criminal complaint charging him with a misdemeanor sex offense was filed two […]

The Lagos state police command says it did not receive any formal report on the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, the 12-year-old student of Dowen College. Source: Top Stories

Anyim Pius Anyim, a former president of the senate and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says although the south-east is entitled to the presidential seat in 2023, it would have to persuade other regions for support. Anyim said this on Saturday while speaking at the national convention of the United for […]

On Thursday, I did something I had not done in Lagos since 1999: I rode in a public bus. I had taken my car for service at Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja. I was told it would be ready “in two hours”. I thought to wait at the reception to do some office work. But […]

Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, has called on secessionist groups in the country to embrace dialogue in the interest of keeping the country united. Fayemi said this on Saturday at a public lecture to mark the 21st anniversary of the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies. He said splitting the country into independent […]

The United Kingdom says Nigeria will be added to the countries on its red list as a result of the discovery of COVID Omicron cases linked to Nigeria. Sajid Javid, the UK health secretary, disclosed this on Saturday in a television interview. The South Africa National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) had, […]

Mohammed Bello-Koko, acting managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says deliberate measures and investments are being taken to create a fully digital ecosystem in all the country’s port locations by 2025. NAN reports that Ibrahim Nasiru, assistant manager of the agency’s corporate and strategic communications division, quoted the NPA boss as […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s intelligence agencies must adopt a culture that is empirical, data-driven and analytical. The vice-president said this on Saturday in his address at the graduation ceremony of the executive intelligence management course (EIMC) 14 of the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja. According to Osinbajo, it has become imperative […]

Some members of the Lagos4Lagos movement, a group affiliated with the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday, voted in favour of defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).     Delegates of the PDP led by Raymond Dokpesi, former chairman of Daar Communications, had visited the group on November 8. The meeting with the […]

Sixty-one members of  Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Kaduna, have regained their freedom after one month in captivity. Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), confirmed that the abductees were released late Friday. Gunmen had invaded the church located in Chikun LGA of the state […]