Vice President Kashim Shettima has inaugurated the rehabilitated and expanded Danbaba Suntai Airport in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Vice President Kashim Shettima inaugurated the airport shortly after arriving in Jalingo at around 10:17 a.m. on Wednesday, ahead of the Taraba International Investment Summit 2025. The summit, themed “Unlocking Taraba’s Investment Potentials – Advancing Agriculture,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the world’s first-ever pandemic agreement, aimed at creating a more equitable and secure global response to future disease outbreaks. This historic decision, made during the 78th World Health Assembly on Tuesday, marks the culmination of more than three years of intense negotiations initiated in response to the far-reaching…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Member States have approved a 20 per cent increase in assessed contributions as they endorsed the organisation’s 2026 to 2027 budget of $4.2 billion. In a statement released on Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a 20 per cent increase in its funding, highlighting that this development comes at…
Lagos, Nigeria – Tragedy struck on Wednesday morning when a truck reportedly suffered brake failure and rammed into the busy Isheri Market near the OPIC bus stop along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. One person has been confirmed dead, while several others were injured and properties destroyed in the crash. According to eyewitnesses, the truck was approaching…
Three adult males were injured when a one-storey building under construction collapsed on Sunday afternoon at 96 Ishaga Road, directly opposite the Idi Araba Central Mosque in the Mushin area of Lagos State. According to a statement from the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, emergency services received a distress…
Seven-time champions Nigeria and hosts, and four-time champions Egypt, will both fight hard for the bronze medals when they clash in the third-place match of the ongoing Africa U20 Cup of Nations finals in Cairo on Sunday. Pundits rated both teams to emerge from their semi-final clashes, but the result went the other way, and…
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Rome, Italy, to attend the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday. The Presidency announced President Bola Tinubu’s arrival in Rome via a post on its official X handle at about 5:54 p.m. on Saturday. Tinubu is visiting Rome at the invitation…
The Flying Eagles of Nigeria suffered a loss to South Africa in the semifinal of the 2025 U-20 AFCON. The team led by Aliyu Zubairu suffered a 1-0 loss to the Amajita of South Africa in their semifinal U-20 AFCON clash on Thursday, May 15, 2025. The Flying Eagles came into the fixture after defeating…
American R&B singer Chris Brown, the former boyfriend of superstar Rihanna, was arrested Thursday in the UK on suspicion of a serious 2023 assault at a London nightclub, reports said. Police detained Brown, 36, in the early hours of Thursday at a hotel in the northwestern city of Manchester London’s Metropolitan Police said a 36-year-old…
The Inspector-General of Police has re-arraigned social media influencer, Martins Otse, known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), before Justice Musa Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations of cyberbullying actresses Iyabo Ojo, Tonto Dikeh, and music producer Samuel ‘Samklef’ Oguachuba. Content creator Otse, popularly known as VDM (VeryDarkMan), was re-arraigned on Thursday before Justice Liman…
