President Vladimir Putin has blasted the West for trying to “tear apart” Russia and said in an interview aired on national television that his offensive in Ukraine aimed to “unite the Russian people”. Meanwhile in Kyiv, a day after deadly shelling in southern Ukraine, residents held Christmas services on Sunday, defying Russian spiritual leaders who […]

No fewer than 27 people were injured on Saturday when part of a sports stadium south of Cairo collapsed during a basketball match, Egypt’s health ministry said. Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said “27 people were injured, some with fractures and bleeding,” adding that “most were non-life-threatening injuries”. Read Also: South Africa fuel tanker blast […]

The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a South African city east of Johannesburg has risen to 15, the health minister said Sunday. “Yesterday (Saturday), the death toll was at 10 people and now we are sitting at 15 as of this morning,” Joe Phaahla told reporters at Tambo Memorial Hospital. The tanker, […]

Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto Catholic Diocese has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration on infrastructure development. Kukah made the commendation in his Christmas message delivered at St. Mary Catholic Church titled: “Let us turn a new leaf”, on Sunday in Sokoto. He called for more alignment on anti-corruption efforts, noting that Nigerians acknowledged that there […]

Eight men, Waheed Tijani, 50, Taiwo Yunusa, 38, Afeez Ariyo, 43, Kazeem Tejumaje, 47, Abdulrasheed Tanimola, 55, Muritala Kewulere, 65, Dauda Azeez, 52 and Abdulhakeem Oriola, 51, were on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan. The defendants, whose residential addresses were not provided, were docked for allegedly cutting a dead man’s body parts. […]

The Lagos State Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) gubernatorial running mate candidate Mrs Funke Akindele, on Sunday, presented her ambition to God for a successful election in the forthcoming 2023 general election.

By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja Following an airstrike conducted by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) on 20 December 2022 at Mantari in Gezuwa area of Bama Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, Military sources confirmed that several terrorists including Khaids Abbah Tukur, Maimusari, Bakura Jega and several others were eliminated.   The is […]

The Police Command in Cross River has arrested a 49-year-old man, who killed and dumped his girlfriend’s aunt in a septic tank.

Fire on Sunday gutted a one-storey building office apartment in Onitsha, Anambra.

Chief Emma Eneukwu, the Deputy National Chairman (South), All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party has performed beyond expectations, urging Nigerians to use the Christmas to reflect on its numerous achievements. Eneukwu said this on Sunday in Enugu in his Christmas message, as part of his commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. “We should […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Mohammed Bello for exhibiting the virtues of transparency, honesty and integrity while managing the affairs of the FCT. The president made his feelings known when he received leadership of the FCT and representatives of the FCT Community, who paid him Christmas […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government, through, the state Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, on Saturday shut down the popular Quilox Club at Ozumba Nbadwe Road, Victoria Island, over non-compliance to agency directive and organizing event without obtaining sound control permit. The enforcement exercise which was jointly carried out by the agency and Lagos State […]

King Charles III has hailed the “heartfelt solidarity” of people across the recession-hit UK struggling with a worsening cost of living crisis, in his first Christmas Day message as monarch. Addressing the country from the Windsor Castle chapel where his mother, Elizabeth II, was interred in September, the 74-year-old also thanked people for the “love […]

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, Sunday celebrated Christmas with inmates of Abegena  Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the outskirts of Makurdi the Benue state capital and donated N3 million for their upkeep.

An economist, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has urged Federal and state governments to invest in the provision of stable electricity and telecommunication infrastructure for Nigerians to maximize the gains of a cashless economy.