Russian strikes have hit a number of key targets in Ukraine, with a facility used for producing missiles among the infrastructure destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Friday. The Russian military delivered “a focused strike with long-range precision weapons fired from Read more…
Claims that US dollar bills issued before 2021 will no longer be legal tender next year have surfaced on Nigerian social media and news sites as the country prepares to introduce redesigned naira notes. However, the claim is a hoax. Read more…
Energy trade between Russia and China has been steadily growing and is up 64% in monetary terms so far this year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak told the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Friday. His comments followed a meeting Read more…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unveiled his daughter to the world in new images released on Friday that showed him strolling around with a young girl as the rogue state tested the massive Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korean Read more…
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS says 63% of persons living within Nigeria (133 million people) are multidimensionally poor. This is contained in its extensive national measure of multidimensional poverty launched on Thursday in Abuja. The Federal Government of Nigeria Read more…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said in line with its tradition of adequately preparing for eventualities, it has enough logistics to take care of a possible run-off in next year’s Presidential Election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed Read more…
Another long time associate of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Mueez Akande has died. Akande was also the brother-in-law to Tinubu’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Akande was linked to drug trafficking business in the Read more…
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, said a proposition to establish a law school in Rivers State was denied by the administration of his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi. Wike served under Amaechi as Chief of Staff between 2007 and Read more…
Nigeria’s President, Mohammadu Buhari has commended the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike for investing in infrastructural projects that have continued to strengthen the rule of law and national development. President Buhari made the commendation on Friday in Port Harcourt Read more…
A N20bn suit filed by the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been withdrawn. Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Read more…
The leader of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, South-East chapter, Gidado Siddiki, has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria to extent the deadline given for the circulation of the country’s new currencies. Siddiki made the call in Read more…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, at the end of Automated Biometric Identification System, identified 2,780,756, as the number of ineligible registrants in Kano State. The new Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano, Zango Abdu, during a meeting with members Read more…