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Super Falcons coach, RANDY WALDRUM, is confident his team will break the jinx of not qualifying for the Olympics when they take on South Africa in their Women’s Olympic Football Tournament African final qualifying playoff....

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), OLUKAYODE EGBETOKUN has promised that the International Criminal Police Organisation will soon re-arrest the Binance Regional Africa Manager, NADEEM ANJARWALLA who escaped from custody in Nigeria....

Manufacturers and organized Labour have kicked against the Federal Government’s 240 percent hike in the tariff payable by electricity users enjoying a 20-hour power supply.The subsidy on electricity has been withdrawn completely from the tariff payable by power consumers in the Band A category, who constitute about 15 percent of the total number of power users across the country.The organized private sector, Nigeria Labour Congress, as well as the Tra...

The Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft (NNS) says it has discovered an illegal fuel depot with about six thousand five hundred litres of Automative Gasoline Oil (AGO)and arrested five ...

The Defence Headquarters gas revealed the names of terrorist masterminds slain during several operations in the northern region of the country.The Director Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, revealed the names to journalists during a briefing in Abuja.The headquarters noted that the terrorist kingpins were killed in separate operations between January and March 2024.Some of them include: Abu Bilal Minuki (aka Abubakar Mai...

President Bola Tinubu has said he would support a proposal for the direct election of members into the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).He said the move would give citizens of member states a say in who represents them.Tinubu made the remark when he swore in 97 members into the 6th ECOWAS parliament at the Abuja International Conference Centre.His comments came on the backdrop of the ECOWAS parliament be...

The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has announced that nine persons have been arrested in connection to the killings of police officers in the Ughelli area of Delta State.The police boss, confirmed this at a management meeting of the Force.He said those arrested are currently providing the Force with information that will assist in the arrest of those involved in the killings.Six police officers were killed at Ohoro forest, ...

The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) has donated wildlife monitoring and enforcement equipment to the Federal Government in a bid to bring an end to wildlife trafficking from Nigeria....

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to assemble 120 Nigerian researchers, startups, and stakeholders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to formulate a cohesive framework for its implementation throughout the nation....

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has warned motorists to maintain speed limits while driving on the long stretch of the newly renovated Third Mainland Bridge linking Mainland and other parts of the state....