Low turnout from South-East, Lagos as 81,005 apply for police job nationwide

No fewer than 81,005 candidates have applied for Nigeria Police Force wishes ongoing 2021 recruitment exercise. Out of the 81,005 applications received nationwide as of January 7, 2022, 1,404 applications…

Gunmen kidnap Journalist in Nasarawa

Unknown gunmen numbering over 9,  Tuesday,  kidnapped a journalist with the state owned media,  Nasarawa Broadcasting Service,   Salisu Maki  in Lafia, the state Capital. Maki was kidnapped at about 9:30…

2,560 int’l passports abandoned at Immigration office in Calabar —CIS

No fewer than 2,560 Nigerian International passports have been abandoned at the Nigeria Immigration Service,  Calabar Office, Cross River State. The Comptroller Immigration Service, CIS, Christopher Baikie, made this known…

Buhari, OBJ, IBB, Jonathan, govs, others mourn as Shonekan dies at 85

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), former President Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of…

Higher oil prices’ll drive Nigeria’s economy by 2.5% in 2022 – World Bank

The World Bank has projected a 2.5 per cent economic growth for Nigeria in 2022, and 2.8 per cent in 2023. This 2022 forecast is a slight upward review from…

AFCON: Why we lost against Nigeria -Egypt coach, Queiroz

Egypt coach, Carlos Queiroz, has said his team’s poor performance in the first half of the Africa Cup of Nations encounter with Nigeria caused Pharaohs’ loss. He said this during…

Chinese man jailed for setting ‘slow’ internet cables on fire

A man in China has been sentenced to seven years in jail for setting internet equipment ablaze after becoming enraged over a slow connection, authorities have said. The man, surnamed…

Nigeria break record, defeat Egypt 1-0 in AFCON opener

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have defeated the Pharaohs of Egypt 1-0 in their group stage encounter at the ongoing 33rd Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday in Garoua, Cameroon.…

Buhari Regime’s Declaration Of Bandits As Terrorists Hasn’t Changed Anything – Middle Belt Forum

The leader of the Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Dr Pogu Bitrus, has stated that the recent declaration of bandits as terrorists by President Muhammadu Buhari has so far not yielded…

US Transplants Pig Heart To 57-year-old Man With Terminal Heart Disease

Surgeons at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have performed a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig’s heart into a 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease, David Bennett.…