Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday sworn 50 Deputy Ministers of State, urging them to discharge their duties diligently. Akufo-Addo also urged them to let the criticism that greeted their appointments impose a clear obligation on them to justify their Read more
The legal tussle between a Lagos businessman, Dr. Emmanuel Fijabi Adebo, the Nigeria Bottling company (NBC) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has been shifted to the Court of Appeal Lagos. This is coming as Read more
Antoine Griezmann’s penalty handed Atletico Madrid a slender 1-0 advantage over Leicester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday. In a game of very few chances, Griezmann proved decisive as it was he who also Read more
Kylian Mbappe struck twice as Monaco claimed a thrilling 3-2 win at Borussia Dortmund in Wednesday’s rescheduled Champions League quarter-final first leg to seize the advantage in the tie. Police ramped up security in the city as German investigators detained Read more
The Association of Indigenous Seafood Stakeholders says the country loses N9 billion revenue annually to illegal fish importation and smuggling. The association’s national chairman, Mr Lamina Rasheed, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday. Read more
An “alarming” number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday. The Islamists have increasingly been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques and Read more
Minister directs Zamfara’s FMC to treat patients Tambuwal, El-Rufai, DFID officials meet to check spread The Plateau State government has announced the discovery of five suspected cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in Langtang South and Mikang local council areas. The state Read more
Nigeria’s electoral agency has suspended more than 200 officers for accepting bribes to influence the outcome of the 2015 vote won by the opposition. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said late Tuesday that 205 staff were found guilty of Read more
The Presidency on Wednesday said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting because President Mohammadu Buhari was engaged with other pressing state issues. This is the first time Vice President Osinbajo will be presiding Read more
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youths on Wednesday asked the party’s national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to apologise to former President Goodluck Jonathan for walking out on the latter and other PDP leaders at the party’s stakeholders meeting in Abuja Read more