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Fake police officer, soldier, corps member among 663 arrested as NDLEA raids notorious Lagos drug joints, others A fake police officer and a soldier suspected to be fake also as well as a youth corps member are among 663 drug traffickers and users arrested when operatives of the National Drug...

The 8th Annual Public lecture organised by the Foursquare Gospel Church Nigeria in Lagos ahead of the Church’s 66th Annual Convention 2021 turned out to be a platform to interrogate unnecessary government expenditures that have put the country’s economy in a bad shape. Speakers at the occasion also harped on...

What Is Felebration? Felabration is an annual music festival founded in 1998 by Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti in honor of her father, Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician and human rights activist who is credited with pioneering the afrobeat genre. The annual one-week event, held at the New Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, attracts...

A national population and housing census, which was last conducted in Nigeria 15 years ago, will take place next year. The disclosure was made by Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, during the public presentation and breakdown of Budget 2022 in Abuja on Friday. She clarified that...

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, also known as cooking gas, have warned that the price of 12.5kg of cooking gas, which currently sells for between N7,500 and N8, 000, could rise to N10, 000 before December if the sector's current crisis is not addressed. Marketers have expressed concern about the...

On Saturday, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) announced that its Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) will go on strike on Monday, December 11, 2021. The strike was called by the union due to the "deplorable state of the nation's highways" and other issues.According to Mr Tayo...

Tyson Fury has won his third bout against Wilder with an 11th-round knockout at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, having also defeated him in 2020 after fighting to a split-decision draw in 2018. The win kept Fury undefeated. The referee called the fight after Tyson Fury hammered Deontay Wilder in...

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has flagged off the Southwest Agenda 2023 (SWAGA 2023) in the state as part of efforts to drum support for the presidential ambition of All Progressives Congress national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. SWAGA was launched at the 10 Degree Event Centre in Oregun, Lagos and attended...