Thursday, 25 April, 2024

Month: July 2022


The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has said that the marginal increase of the registration fees for its examination from N13,950 to N18,000 was caused by spiral inflation being witnessed in Nigeria. WAEC head, Nigeria national office, Mr. Patrick Areghan, stated Read more…


North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing Read more…


Barely seven weeks after terrorists attack worshippers at Owo, in Ondo state, some unknown gunmen, have again attacked the ancient town. Many people were said to have been injured in the attack which took place Wednesday evening, at Folahami Junction, Read more…


The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has sternly warned Fulani herdsmen against any reprisal attacks on communities in Umunneochi Council area of Abia State, over the killing of cows grazing on farmlands. IPOB in a statement by its Media and Read more…


The Senate, on Wednesday, resolved to summon the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to educate and inform lawmakers in a closed session on the reasons for the rapid depreciation of the value of the Naira Read more…


President Muhammadu Buhari has joined members of the Anglican Communion in Igbo land and around the world in celebrating the 165th anniversary of the coming of Christianity in the Eastern part of Nigeria on July 27, 1857. Rev Samuel Ajayi Read more…


Two persons, a staff of a new generation bank and a suspected armed robber, were killed when armed robbers attacked a bullion van conveying cash. Confirming the incident while parading the body of the neutralised hoodlum, the Abia command police Read more…


On Wednesday, the Federal Government responded to some senators’ threat to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari by stating that it is working around the clock to bring the country’s security situation under control. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said Read more…


Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov views the resolution of the cargo transit crisis to Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad as a positive development. “The crisis situation has been resolved, it is a positive development. Sometimes we see some seeds of Read more…


Air pollution is a likely cause of dementia and overall cognitive decline in elderly people, major new research carried out on behalf of the UK government and released on Monday suggests. The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants Read more…


The Ukrainian government has published a blacklist of politicians, pundits and intellectuals whom it accuses of promoting “narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.” Some of those on the list – including the former chief of India’s security – responded with confusion Read more…


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Melbourne, Australia, have extolled the United Nations (UN) for asking the Nigerian government to release the leader of the separatist group, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu, who is currently facing trial has been in the Read more…