Gunmen have killed seven Benin soldiers in an attack in Pendjari National Park in the north of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso, security sources said on Wednesday. The sources
Seventy-five per cent of clients at Thornaby’s Sprouts Community Food Charity (SCFC) are now Nigerian students struggling to cope with a financial crisis, charity manager Debbie Fixter revealed. The charity, which provides
The Oyo State Government on Wednesday opened a portal for job applications for healthcare workers across the state. The government announced the portal’s opening in a post on X, directing interested applicants
THE Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has condemned the increasing sequence of abduction and arrest of journalists in the country by security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force, under the guise of
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, shifted the hearing in a suit instituted by the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Phillip Shuaib, against Governor Godwin Obaseki and others
Pope Francis, the Argentine head of the Catholic Church, on Wednesday warned governments struggling with debt not to impose upon their populations “deprivations incompatible with human rights”. “After a poorly managed globalisation,
The president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, on Tuesday said that organised labour will reject an “unreasonable” addition to the federal government’s N60,000 minimum wage offer. Osifo stated this
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday congratulated Ms. Claudia Sheinbaum on her election as the first female President of Mexico. A statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, Media and
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, further adjourned until June 25 to mention a case against celebrity bartender Pascal Okechukwu (Cubana Chief Priest) for alleged abuse of the Naira. The
The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has said that depositors in the recently liquidated Heritage Bank will start receiving their insured funds by the end of this week. NDIC’s Managing Director, Bello