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The founder of a private hospital in Yola, Adamawa State capital, has been abducted by gunmen who stormed the medical facility.  Dr Saidu Bala who is the immediate past Medical Director of Specialist Hospital, Yola, was abducted after gunmen invaded the hospital around 6pm and shot sporadically.  Adamawa State Police spokesman, DSP …

Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari has announced that there will be an increased supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas popularly called cooking gas, in a bid to force down its price which has increased continously in recent times. Kyari said this on Monday December 13 …

Sani Dogara, one of the travellers killed Many travellers are feared killed and scores abducted when bandits opened fire on travellers along the busy Kaduna-Zaria highway. The attack occurred at Kofar Gayan on the outskirt of Zaria on Monday evening, December 13.  It was gathered that the bandits struck around 8pm, …

Security operatives have arrested 30 suspected kidnappers and criminals in Imo state.  The criminals were arrested during a Monday raid, by a joint security team, on camps in Orsu local government and Uli community in Ihiala local government area of Anambra state. The raid also led to the release of the …

…Sets Stage for Main Auction on Monday. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has successfully carried out a mock session for the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) network in the country. The simulated auction, which took place on Friday, December 10, 2021 at …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on Saturday said that Nigeria’s young generation can find solutions to present and future local and global challenges, with the right ideas, innovation and application of technology. Speaking at the 60th anniversary of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in Osun State,  Prof. Osinbajo, also told the graduating …

Kindly share this story:President Muhammadu BuhariThe President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) Segun Adewole9 December 2021The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday in Lagos commissioned Seaward Defence Boat III, also known as NNS Oji, built by the Nigerian Navy. The event marked the inauguration of some recently acquired …

After controversies generated by the planned peace walk, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has finally suspended his plan peace walk, saying he was constrianed “to stand down all preparations for the Walk for Peace Walk” check the possible spread of COVID-19. The suspension was coming after many Civil Society Leaders, …

International news agency, Reuters has reported that up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria in November. Two sources with direct knowledge of vaccine delivery and use, told Reuters that the expired doses were made by AstraZeneca and supplied via COVAX from Europe. A third source with …

The house of a pastor attached to the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Adebun Area of Ado-Ekiti was set ablaze by angry youths after a missing seven-year-old girl was found dead there. Reports say that the lifeless body of the girl, identified as Demilade, was found in the pastor’s house on …