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From Left to Right: Senator Danlandi Sankara (second left); Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan; Kano State Commissioner of Police, Abu Sani; Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni; and Senator Sahabi Yau arriving Kano on Saturday on a condolence visit to Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso over the demise of his father...

  Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said that he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa. It would be recalled that Gates and his wife, Melinda had in more than one occasion, warned...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev Matthew Kukah, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari acts of nepotism could have led to a coup had the president been a non-northern Muslim. Bishop Kukah spoke this in his Christmas message titled, ‘A Nation in Search of Vindication’ on Friday. He said,...

  The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 712 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The latest figure of the pandemic was announced on the NCDC’s verified website late Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria recorded the lowest number of confirmed...

 The Federal Government says it is graceless and impious for any religious leader to use the period of Christmas, which is a season of peace, to stoke the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity. In a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,...

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has expressed satisfaction with the general conduct, commitment and professionalism exhibited by the personnel of the corps during the Yuletide special patrol. Oyeyemi’s remarks were contained in a statement by the FRSC’s Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi...

Michael Jackson’s famous 2,700-acre Southern California ranch has been sold for 22 million dollars to billionaire Ron Burkle, The Wall Street Journal reported. Burkle, who Forbes estimates is worth 1.5 billion dollars, was a friend of Jackson, who helped manage his money in the mid-2000s, according to the Journal. He...

Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has signed into law the 2021 appropriation bill of more than N147.6 billion. The governor, who assented to the bill on Thursday in Jos, thanked the members of the state House of Assembly for the speedy passage. The governor presented the proposed budget estimate tagged...

Mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country have been granted enrollment and verification licences from the Federal Government. The development followed the stampede that was witnessed at the registration centres of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) across the country earlier in the week Acting under the aegis of the...

The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu, said the mutant strain of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK has not been found in Nigeria. Iheakwazu, who made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja during the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) briefing on COVID-19, however, advised Nigerians to stay...