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Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship, Pathfinder, have destroyed nine illegal refining sites housing 175,000 litres of stolen products in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Navy said the sites had 45 ovens, 30 reservoirs, and 75 dugout pits containing approximately 60,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil,...

The Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, has secured the National Board for Technical Education accreditation to commence eight new academic programmes. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Polytechnic’s Director, Information, Public Relations and Protocol, Rabi’u Wada. According to him, the feat has allowed the institution to achieve...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday hosted Ayelabola Ololade, a model and final-year Computer Science student at the University of Lagos, in recognition of her Guinness World Record achievement. Ololade recently made headlines after walking an astonishing 130.62Km on a catwalk, setting a new world record for the longest...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has described the ongoing construction of three bus and taxi terminals as critical infrastructure to improve FCT’s transportation system. Wike stated this after he inspected two of the three bus terminal projects and access road to Abuja Division of...

The House of Representatives is considering including Inter–University Centres among beneficiaries of funds available to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for improved training and research at the centres.  The House passed, for second reading a bill seeking to include the centres sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu and...

The Extractive Industry Transparency Forum (EITF), a prominent civil society watchdog for efficiency in Nigeria’s oil and gas operations, has thrown its weight behind the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) over its Project One Million Barrels Per Day, describing it as a potential lifeline for Nigeria’s crude production and...

An official of the National Board of Arabic and Islamic Studies says the board’s certificate is not inferior to the West Africa Certificate Examination and the National Examination Council certificates. The special assistant to NBAIS’s registrar, Ustaz Abdul-Lateef Adekilekun, said this in an interview on Monday in Osogbo. Mr Adekilekun...

President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to lower the prices of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical products. “Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be reduced, almost immediately, by 30 per cent to 80 per cent,” Mr Trump said in a social media post. “They will rise throughout...

UMUAHIA- The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared a lockdown on May 30, 2025, to remember Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the defunct Republic of Biafra. The group stated that the lockdown is an annual memorial and remembrance day for Biafra heroes and heroines....

A man has lost his life while two others sustained varying injuries in an accident that occurred along the Trade Fair–Agbara route at Iyana Era Bus Stop, Lagos State. The accident, which involved a commercial blue Mack truck with the registration number AKD 579 XM, and a private silver Lexus...