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Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has reiterated his confidence in winning the election, with counting still ongoing in battleground states. In an address to the nation on Thursday, Biden said he had no doubt he would be declared winner once all the votes were counted....

The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has revealed that only 38 of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas free from open defecation, the figure was only boosted with 22 local government areas in the last one year. This is the current situation despite five years to the target set by...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. Biden won the election with 306 Electoral College votes – many more than the 270 required – to Trump’s 232, and the electors are scheduled to meet...

Following the by gunmen assassination of a first-class monarch in Ondo State on Thursday, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has described the incident as a sad one for the State, stressing that the country is in a serious security crisis. Akeredolu, who visited the scene where the incident happened, said that the...

  The Federal Government on Thursday revealed that 66 per cent of Nigerian children in rural areas can neither read nor write even as it laments the increasing problem of teenage pregnancy in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, represented by the Director and Head (Department of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved salary increment for men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force. The salary increment cuts across all ranks of the force. The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, disclosed this on Thursday during his visit to the Ogun State Police Command. Adamu’s visit to Ogun...

The Afenifere group has decried the country's plunge into the worst recession in four decades, saying the five years of President Muhammadu Buhari has besieged Nigeria with abundant poverty, even as it has condemned the wanton and unchecked attack on farmers by herdsmen in the country. The position of the...

  The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has applauded plans by the Federal Government to reopen the nation’s land borders soon. The DG, NACCIMA, Amb Ayo Olukanni, explained that the planned reopening of the border would aid trade under the African Continental Free Trade...

The Federal Government has reached out to Niger Republic and the United States of America in its efforts to execute the arrest warrant issued by a court in Abuja against an ex-Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, believed to have jumped bail. The Economic and Financial Crimes...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Enugu Zonal Office on November 26, 2020, arraigned Prince Lasberry Okafor Anyanwu before Justice E.F Njemanze of the Imo State High Court for alleged fraud. Anyanwu, a former commissioner for Transport and chairman, Imo State Transport Company in Rochas Okorocha’s administration is being...