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UK online daters will be able to choose to display a badge on their profiles to show if they have been vaccinated against Covid or support the jab drive. However there will be no way […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has so far registered 1.2 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and has issued them with the National Identification Number (NIN) in Bauchi. Malam Isa Abdulmumin, NIMC Bauchi […]

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested seven persons alleged to be involved in the smuggling of illicit items worth 37.3 kilogrammes in Lagos. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, in a statement […]

The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) has asked Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, to release details of expenditure on N9.4bn paid by the federal government to digital switchover (DSO) stakeholders. In February, […]

North Korea has recently introduced a sweeping new law which seeks to stamp out any kind of foreign influence – harshly punishing anyone caught with foreign films, clothing or even using slang. But why? Yoon […]

The country’s largest lender was among many corporations that paused political giving following the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots when supporters of former president Donald Trump tried to stop Congress from certifying the election. Just […]

Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US […]

The founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently released a video in which he called out the group’s “ugly truth,” by which he meant their positions on family and education. “In 2015, I was the […]

Two female hawkers were on Friday crushed to death by a truck around Lotto, inbound Lagos on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesman, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to […]

The Buhari Government has announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria. In a statement released on Twitter by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, government attributed the suspension to what […]

The Federal Government on Friday announced the indefinite suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who announced the suspension in […]

Senior lawyers, human rights groups and the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have hailed a social media giant, Twitter, for deleting a controversial post by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Nigerian […]

By Nimot Sulaimon Bishop Matthew Kukah has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for his refusal to declare bandits as a terrorist group. Kukah said this while attending the burial of Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Bello, who was […]

US President Joe Biden’s administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review. The move reverses former President Donald Trump’s decision to sell oil leases in the […]