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Angry youths in Ifon, the headquarters of the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, have chased away policemen at the divisional police station in the town and set the place ablaze. According to information from some locals, the violent crisis was said…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed over 3,000 shops within the Idumota Open Drug Market in Lagos in the first week of operations. In a statement on X on Sunday, the agency stated that during the…

The 2025 edition of the annual 42km 2024 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon has been once again dominated by East African runners from Kenya and Ethiopia. Kenya’s Edwin Kibet on Saturday emerged winner in the men category, clocking a time of 2:14:06 to…

The national grid has partially collapsed, plunging many Nigerians into darkness. The collapse which happened on Wednesday is the first in 2025. Confirming this in a post on X, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company reported that the system outage happened at 11:34 am local…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the implementation of a 50% tariff hike by telecommunication companies, demanding immediate reversal to the old tariff. The NLC and the Federal Government had earlier constituted a 10-man committee to deliberate on the tariff hike within…

The authorities of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, have commenced an investigation into a scuffle involving a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts of the institution and a student over a filmed social media content. A spokesman of the…

The outgoing President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, is ready to serve Nigeria and Africa in any capacity after his tenure in the regional bank. Adesina, who was first elected as the 8th President of AfDB on May 28, 2015, will…

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Monday disclosed that 800 former Boko Haram fighters who surrendered to the military are currently undergoing deradicalisation for onward re-integration into the society. The Chief of Defence, Operations, Maj.-Gen. Emeka Onumajuru, made this known to press. According to him,…

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, says the autonomy of public universities can be better achieved if the National Universities Commission (NUC) is left to manage the budgets of tertiary institutions in addition to its…

Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, on Monday addressed students of the University College Hospital(UCH), Ibadan who are staging a peaceful protest on the lingering power cut. The hospital had been disconnected from the grid since October 2024, by IBEDC over an outstanding alleged…