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Dec 10, 2020

Capital projects get 65% as Zulum proposes N208b for 2021 fiscal year

Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday presented an Appropriation Bill of N208billion for the 2021 fiscal year to the House of Assembly. In t...

Dec 10, 2020

Pen Cinema flyover to be inaugurated February

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Wednesday that barring unforeseen circumstances, the Agege Pen Cinema flyover would be inaugurated in February....

Dec 10, 2020

El-Rufai signs 2021 budget • Focuses on infrastructure

Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai has pledged the implementation of the 2021 budget, to deliver on the government’s promises and sustain the 98 per cen...

Dec 10, 2020

Kano Economic City to open next month

The Kano Economic City (KEC), also known as Kanawa International Market, will open next month, Brains and Hammers Limited, the developer of the project, said ye...

Dec 09, 2020

Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania

The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge against President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania. Republicans in the state wanted to overturn certif...

Dec 09, 2020

BREAKING: Buhari swears-in Yakubu for another term as INEC Chairman ... As FEC observes one minute silence in honour of late Domkat Bali

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for his second five-year...

Dec 09, 2020

Tinubu commiserates with Nasarawa governor, APC over Shekwo’s killing

The killing of the ALL Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Nasarawa State, Mr. Phillip Shekwo, is callous and wicked, National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tin...

Dec 09, 2020

Lagos Assembly passes public complaints, anti-corruption Bill into law

Lagos State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill to establish the Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission and for connected purpose...

Dec 09, 2020

BBNaija’s Khafi denies pregnancy rumors

Big Brother Naija alumna, Khafi Kareem has expressed displeasure over pregnancy rumours. The reality star said no one should assume or congratulate her for b...

Dec 09, 2020

Girl sets ‘lover’ ablaze in Benue community

A 20-year-old identified as Jude was set ablaze by his lover for allegedly refusing to marry her. The victim allegedly said the girl hated his mother. An...

Dec 09, 2020

Fed Govt rejects US classification of Nigeria as religious intolerant state • We have religious freedom, says CAN

The Federal Government has denounced the listing of Nigeria by the United States as one of the countries known for “systematic, ongoing, egregious religious fr...

Dec 09, 2020

90-year-old woman first to receive Pfizer vaccine in UK

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman, is the first to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom (UK). The UK began a mass vaccination programme...

Dec 09, 2020

Wike inaugurates roads in Benue

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has undertaken a one-day working visit to Benue State. During the visit, Governor Samuel Ortom led him to inaugurate two ro...

Dec 09, 2020

Kabiru Yusuf emerges NPAN new president

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) on Tuesday, elected Chairman Trust Media Limited Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, as president at the end of its An...

Dec 09, 2020

BREAKING: Gunmen in military uniform kidnap two teachers in Delta school

There was pandemonium in Ohorhe community, Uvwie council area of Delta state, Tuesday, as two teachers were reportedly kidnapped by armed men dressed in militar...

Dec 09, 2020

I’ve no plan to leave APC, says Bauchi speaker

Bauchi State House of Assembly Speaker Abubakar Suleiman has denied plan to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC), as being insinuated in some quarters. H...

Dec 09, 2020

Police Chief bags award in Jalingo

The Commander of the Benue State Joint Task Force, codenamed ‘Operation Zenda’, CSP. Justine Gberindyer has been honoured with MIGHTS Excellence award in Jaling...

Dec 09, 2020

BREAKING: Gunmen Kidnap Taraba Assembly member

A member representing Nguroje Constituency in the Taraba House of Assembly, Barr. Bashir Mohammed has been kidnapped. A family source told The Nation that t...

Dec 09, 2020

Pfizer vaccine data wins backing of U.S. FDA staff • Authorisation coming soon

Pfizer Inc has scaled the next hurdle in the race to get its COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relea...

Dec 09, 2020

Buhari commissions NTA station, ecological projects in Adamawa

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned NTA Mubi, a sub-station abandoned in the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State over 17 years ago. Buhar...