Several schools across the United Kingdom have been forced to shut down for a second consecutive day following a snow and ice chaos. Thousands of classrooms were reportedly closed Monday as an Arctic freeze engulfed Britain, according to a report by Pupils were set to work remotely owing...

The Department of State Service has summoned the Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission and other stakeholders, directing them to quickly resolve the lingering fuel scarcity in the state. With a litre of fuel in Kano selling between N310 and N320 the meeting, according to...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is not an indigene of Lagos State. George spoke on Tuesday morning on Arise TV’s , where he discussed the candidacy of Tinubu as well as...

Iga Natalia Swiatek, a professional tennis player from Poland, has been named the 2022 Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Player of the Year. This comes after she won two more major titles to her current tally of three. She topped the WTA rankings for the first time in April and...

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Former Stationery Stores star Adeyemi Adedeji has expressed delight at being named the new head coach of 3Liga side FC Witikon in Switzerland. The Switzerland-based Nigerian coach, who recently resigned from his position as head coach of Gossau FC on mutual consent, was ecstatic about his new role, noting how...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to wipe out terrorists in Kaduna and other parts of the northern region. Tinubu gave the assurance on Monday during a visit to Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State to sympathize with the...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Usaini Gumel, has drawn the attention of the general public to actively participate in the promotion of uniformity of intentions among the electorates, all candidates contesting elective positions, government and security officials. The CP, according to...

Mateu Lohaz, the referee who issued 15 yellow cards in the World Cup quarter-final match between Argentina and Netherlands has been sent home by FIFA. Lohaz handed out an incredible 13 yellow cards in the 90 minutes of game time and three other yellow cards in extra-time up until...

Hong Kong on Tuesday announced that it would no longer require residents to use a scanning app to enter venues and that overseas arrivals could now visit bars and restaurants from the moment they land in a further easing of COVID-19 restrictions. But authorities confirmed they were keeping a...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria says efforts are being made to curtail the ongoing emigration of nurses abroad, as Nigeria ranks seventh among  57 countries facing a critical shortage of health workers. The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the council, Dr Faruk Abubakar, disclosed this in...

By Emma Jemegah The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has secured arrangement for a selected players to play a top Spanish Laliga side as part of an exchange programme. NPFL chairman, Gbenga Elegbeleye said yesterday  at the inauguration of the NPFL Technical Committee for the Team of the Season in Lagos...

…As CHEC delivers Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia Expressway   From Abel Leonard, Lafia   Amid the rolling landscapes of Nigeria, a transformational journey has come to fruition, leaving communities thrilled and infrastructure prospects soaring. The completion of the dualisation and expansion of the Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia Expressway by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), marks a significant step forward...

The naira strengthened to the dollar on Thursday after closing at 740.67/$ on the Investor & Exporter forex window. The naira, which had been recording gains since the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a planned intervention in the forex market on Monday, closed at 773.17/$ on the I&E window...

The Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said it intercepted male donkey genitals and dried shark fins worth N1.23bn at the Lagos Airport en route to China and Hong Kong respectively. According to a statement on Thursday, the Customs Area Controller in charge of the command,...