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Sharon Ikeazor, minister of state for environment, says the rate of poaching and trading of wildlife in Nigeria has put the country on the spotlight of wildlife crime. She said this in Lagos on Thursday […]

Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, says he has identified and will arrest persons who are alleged to be involved in oil bunkering and illegal refinery activities in the state. In a press statement on Sunday, Kelvin […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease on Sunday gave a fresh warning over Lassa fever cases, which it said had risen to 4,632 and recorded 102 deaths. The centre, in its latest advisory made available to […]

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has urged state governments to step up mass vaccination against COVID-19 as part of moves to combat the virus. The agency, in its latest advisory obtained by one of […]

By Adeyemi Adepetun Some 1.23 million new telecommunications subscribers joined the networks between October and November 2021 in Nigeria. This pushed the country’s teledensity from 100.56 per cent to 101.20 per cent during the period. According […]

A week after the Director-General, Tinubu Support Groups and former House of Representatives member, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed that former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will […]

Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has described as laughable the comparison of his principal and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike. Many on social media had […]

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the record numbers of people […]

Global food prices reached a 10-year high in 2021, rising by an average of 28 percent compared to the previous year, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization said Thursday. The FAO’s Food Price Index, which […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Wednesday, resolved the Magodo Phase 2 Estate land dispute among warring parties with assurance to ensure fairness, justice, transparency and equity. Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance during a stakeholders’ […]

The Federal Government has declared bandits as terrorists, The PUNCH has learnt. After weeks of footdragging, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), gazetted a court judgement that ordered the […]

The Lagos State Government has debunked the speculation that the late 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Sylvester Oromoni Junior, was beaten and forced to drink a poisonous substance by his seniors which allegedly led […]

Governors of Nigeria’s southwest states have condemned the alleged role of the attorney-general Abubakar Malami in deploying security operatives to evict residents of Magodo Estate in Lagos State. The governors said it was ‘disgraceful’ for […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the suggestions to strengthen the country’s security architecture with a state police system. Buhari in an interview scheduled to air on Channels Television at 7:00 pm Wednesday, January […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he would not release leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu from prison. The president, in an interview with Channels Television, said he would not interfere […]

Hakeem Odumosu, the Lagos state commissioner of police, on Saturday, ordered the arrest of four security guards for their “refusal to allow” him into Brooks Estate, Magodo. Adekunle Ajisebutu, the state police spokesman, confirmed the […]