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  Kenyan investigators on Tuesday exhumed 10 more bodies from mass graves linked to a starvation cult, bringing the total number of victims to 83, an AFP journalist at the scene said, as fears grow of the toll spiking even further.   Police have spent days scouring the Shakahola forest...

  The Board of Directors of Unilever Nigeria Plc has considered and approved the resignation of Mr. Carl Cruz as Managing Director with effect from May 4, 2023, and has appointed Mr. Tim Kleinebenne as the new Managing Director with effect from May 5, 2023. This was disclosed in a...

United States President Joe Biden has officially announced his campaign for re-election in 2024 on the Democratic platform. He automatically becomes the frontrunner in a race that could feature his predecessor and Republican opponent, Donald Trump. The American leader’s declaration on Tuesday came on the fourth anniversary of his first...

    Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that Lagos, Kano, Ogun, Oyo, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were the top five states with mobile Internet subscriptions in Nigeria in 2022.   Collectively, the five states accounted for 33.52 per cent (51.90 million) of the...

  Nigerian flag carrier, Air Peace airline, has offered to airlift Nigerians trapped in Sudan back home free of charge. Chairman of the airline, Allen Onyema, on Monday, said the cries of Nigerian students angling to return home to safety were too harrowing to ignore.   While he acknowledged the...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja for Accra, Ghana, today, for the third Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) convened by President Nana Akuffo-Ado. President Buhari is scheduled to participate in and deliver remarks at the high-level...

  The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline Project is now 70 per cent completed, according to the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari. Providing updates of the project during an on-site visit on Monday in the Ahoko community of Kogi State, he said, so...

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has said the report of the committee instituted to probe the alleged assault by a mob on a Part 5 student, Ahize Okoli, in the Department of Engineering in the university, which reportedly led to his death, was still...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, are among the dignitaries expected at the virtual launch of a book on Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on May 1. The book, titled ‘Osinbajo Strides: Defining Moments of An Innovative Leader’, was authored by 25 journalists and writers. It chronicles various aspects of...

  The hope of the country floating a new national carrier, Nigeria Air, before the government exits the stage on May 29th has again been dashed as the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Director General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA) from issuing Air Operator’s Certificate...