A Tanzanian miner who previously made the news after discovering two large Tanzanite stones has sold a third one for the equivalent of 2 million US dollars. Saniniu Laizer’s latest find weighed over 6 kilogrammes. Tanzanite, the blue and violet Read more…
Senate Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, said the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) had not paid contractors that handled roads he facilitated in Abia State. Kalu stated this in a statement issued by Mr Emeka Nwala of Office of the Senate Read more…
ne person has died in a gas explosion that occurred at Alafia bus stop beside Atlas, in Orile Iganmu axis of Lagos State on Monday. The PUNCH gathered that apart from the deceased, Ajibola Olaoye, 35, who lost his life, Read more…
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised an alarm over increasing casualties from improvised explosive devices in the northeastern parts of Nigeria where Boko Haram has been waging a fratricidal war in the last 11 years. At a Read more…
Police Command in Niger State has confirmed the death of seven females from generator fumes at Rijau town, in Rijau Local Government Area of the state. Mr Adamu Usman, the state Commissioner of Police told the News Agency of Nigeria Read more…
A resident of Lagos State simply identified as Mrs Ajoku has decried the activities of container-laden trucks in the state, calling on the authorities to check their operations and put in place necessary regulations to secure the lives of road Read more…
The joy of market women at Eke-Amangwu in Umudim-Nnewi, knew no bounds as the legislator representing Nnewi North Council Area in Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Smart Nonso Okafor built and commissioned toilet for them. The brief commissioning ceremony Read more…
Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released the final report of past crashes, thus bringing to 31 the final report, released under the management of Mr Akin Olateru, since he took over the running of the bureau in 2017, including Read more…
Price of local rice has continued to rise in markets, especially with the emergence of Coronavirus pandemic, leaving consumers worse off as the commodity is among the staple foods in this part of the world. Correspondent Emmanuel Okonkwo who monitored Read more…
The Anambra State Ministry of Environment in collaboration with officials from the Anambra Sate Waste Management Authority, ASWAMA and Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade while monitoring the level of compliance to the monthly sanitation exercise within the State Read more…
Despite the identification of access to potable water as a major factor in preventing COVID-19 infection, Eziama, a community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, lacks access to clean water and currently depends on Idodo River for Read more…
A two-storey building under construction in Abuja collapsed on Saturday trapping 10 persons with one seriously injured. The News Agency of Nigerian (NAN), reports that the incident happened behind Dawaki Modern Market, in Galadima area of the Federal Capital Territory. Read more…