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The US embassy says it will reopen its Abuja’s consular section on August 24 for full services for both visas and American Citizen Services (ACS). The embassy said this in a message on its website. […]

The Oyo State Government early on Sunday morning stormed the Music House from which the Fresh FM belonging to artiste, Yinka Ayefele, operated. Government bulldozers arrived the Challenge area of Ibadan where the building was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after 10 working days holiday in London. The presidential plane conveying Buhari and few of his aides landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, […]

Kofi Annan, the former secretary-general of the United Nations, has died in Switzerland after a short illness. He was 80. The Nobel peace laureate died in hospital in Bern early today with his close family […]

Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan has died after a brief illness, aged 80. “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, […]

The Chief Missioner of Nasrul Lahil-L-Fatih Society (NASFAT) Imam Mahroof Abdulazeez Onike has broken new ground in dawah (propagation of religious ideals) with his recent successful participation in the International Human Rights Defenders Forum in […]

The US embassy says it hopes to resume consular operations in Abuja after the Eid-el-Kabir holidays. A temporary stoppage of consular services in the nation’s capital was on Tuesday announced by the US embassy. The […]

The United States Embassy has suspended consular services and appointments in Abuja till further notice. It explained that appointments for visa and for American citizen services have also been put on hold temporarily. Consular operations […]

It is no longer news that household waste has found its way back into the streets of Lagos, almost taking the state back to the 1999/2000 era when the metropolis was regarded as one of […]

ABUJA – THE Federal Government Sunday night said that it has launched a new initiative under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), called the TraderMoni, which will empower two million petty traders between now […]

Godswill Akpabio has resigned his position as the Senate minority leader. Mr Akpabio’s resignation is contained in a letter dated August 4, which he wrote to the Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha. “This letter […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has shifted its election due to commence midnight of August 6 to August 19 and August 20 due to difficulties encountered by members with the verification process. The NBA President, […]

Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom state, is set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party and dampen the celebration mood in the PDP headquarters, over the defection of some senators and three […]

Alia Ghanem, the mother of deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, has given her first interview to Western media, telling The Guardian newspaper that her eldest son was ‘brainwashed’ into extremist ideology. Speaking at her […]