UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Saturday’s pronouncements of an end to hostilities between India and Pakistan. The UN chief’s welcomed this after a decision by the neighbouring nuclear powers to de-escalate a situation that had caused widespread alarm in recent days. Guterres said the organisation stood ready to support …
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KANO State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has secured the release of eight female inmates from the Goron-Dutse Correctional Centre, including two pregnant women and two nursing mothers, as part of a compassionate intervention for those incarcerated over minor offences. The women, unable to pay fines and compensation, were granted freedom …
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THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed a case where an individual with a physical disability impersonated another candidate with a similar disability during the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who made the disclosure at a press conference on Friday in Abuja, …
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AN early hour fire incident on Saturday razed six shops at the Police Barracks, Omolewa in Yemetu area of Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no casualty was recorded in the incident, but the fire affected six out of the 24 lock-up shops in the area. General …
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THE House Committee on Freedom of Information (FOI) has urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, and corporate organisations to leverage the FOI Act to advance the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, and good governance. This was contained in a statement signed on Thursday in Abuja by the clerk of …
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THE Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 8, 2025 arraigned one Ntai Bagshaw and his company, Terraworks Limited before Justice I. O. Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for fraud. They are being prosecuted on a two-count …
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THE Federal High Court sitting in the Ikoyi, area of Lagos State has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N1,292,798,746.81 to the Federal Government in favour of Sterling Bank Plc. The money had been criminally withdrawn by some individuals owing to a system glitch experienced by Sterling Bank. …
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OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Lagos, have arrested two Chinese nationals and six Nigerians for alleged involvement in illegal mining activities in the Ogere area of Ogun. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commission in Abuja on Saturday. The suspects are Zhang …
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THE National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued a two-year-old girl trafficked from Abuja to Aba, Abia State, and allegedly sold for N100,000. In a statement posted Friday on its official Facebook page, NAPTIP confirmed the child, renamed Chiamaka Favour, was rescued on May 8, …
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ADELE Koue Sungbeu walks through the streets of Abidjan with her head held high—a confident stride replacing the quiet shame she carried since undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager. The 45-year-old midwife is among 28 women in Côte d’Ivoire who received free reconstructive surgery last month, part of a groundbreaking …
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