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Bolarinwa Oyegoke Babalakin, a former justice of the supreme court, is dead. He died in the early hours of Saturday at the age of 94. The deceased is the father of Wale Babalakin, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and chairman, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd. The late Babalakin, who was called […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria remains the most viable and attractive investment destination in Africa. Buhari said this on Saturday while addressing a trade and investment forum at Expo 2020 Dubai. The event was organised by the Nigerian Arabian Gulf Chamber of Commerce, Nigeria’s ministry of industry, trade and investment and the […]

Hadiza Balarabe, the deputy governor of Kaduna state, is the first female elected deputy governor in north-west Nigeria. In this interview, she speaks about her partnership with Nasir el-Rufai, the governor, the achievements and the challenges ahead as the administration marches towards 2023, and about the man, el-Rufai. What has changed since November […]

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the white paper on the report submitted by the Lagos judicial panel on police brutality is illegal. On November 15, the Lagos judicial panel submitted two documents — a consolidated report on police brutality and an investigation into the Lekki shooting incident — to the state government. […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged countries to prepare for the possible spread of Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant. Christian Lindmeier, WHO spokesperson, who spoke in Geneva on Friday, said it would take two weeks before more is known about how transmissible and how dangerous the variant is. Lindmeier advised against […]

The federal government has approved booster shots of the COVID vaccine for Nigerians who are fully vaccinated. This was disclosed on Friday in a statement by Mohammad Ohitoto, spokesman for the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). According to the statement, eligible Nigerians are to visit health centres and mass vaccination […]

The Lagos state government has ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College over the controversy trailing the death of Sylvester Oromoni. Source: Top Stories

A commanding officer in one of the battalions of operation Hadin Kai has been killed by suspected fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), sources have told TheCable. The senior officer was said to have been killed alongside five soldiers when the insurgents attacked Rann, a town in Kala […]