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At least 32 people have been killed and 150 injured in a bombing at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. A section of the building was destroyed and officials say people are buried under the rubble. Most of those who died were part of the police force, and it is believed they were…
NARD President Says Resident doctors’ shelved strike in public interest adding that its members will not be embarking on industrial action. The association’s President, Dr Innocent Orji, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said “the industrial action has been shelved for now as negotiations…
Group Says Tinubu’s Outburst Averted Naira Swap Crisis, Arewa4Asiwaju hailed the presidential candidate of the APC for speaking up against the January 31 deadline initially set for the swap of the old naira notes for the redesigned ones. The group said Tinubu’s declaration at Abeokuta, Ogun State, forced the Federal Government to extend the January…
Twenty killed in Chad bus crash. At least Twenty people were killed and seven were injured, two critically, when their bus collided at high speed with a broken-down truck in central Chad, the transport ministry said on Friday. The accident occurred shortly before midnight Thursday on a desert road at Oum-Hadjer, 500 kilometres (300 miles)…
Nigerian banks extend workdays to weekends. Commercial banks in Nigeria have extended their workdays to weekends for customers to deposit their old naira notes. The action is to help customers meet the Tuesday, January 31 deadline set for the collection of old naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele. With…
Vehicle thefts and carjackings have spiked dramatically in 30 major US cities since the start of the pandemic, a new report says. The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) data found motor thefts doubled in eight of the cities surveyed. The average increase between 2019 and 2022 was 59%. Vehicle thefts in the US had been…
Senate-Confirms-Arase-as-PSC Chairman The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Buhari’s Nominee, a former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase (rtd) as Chairman of the Police Service Commission. President Muhammadu Buhari had in a letter to the Senate on Tuesday which was read on the floor of the Red Chamber by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan…
FG Approves National Child Online Protection Policy. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami revealed this after FEC. Briefing newsmen after the council meeting presided over by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said the Federal Executive Council approved the National Child Online Protection Policy…
25 Killed as Diphtheria Hits Kano – At least 25 people have been reported dead while others were hospitalized after an outbreak of diphtheria infection hit some communities in Kano state heightening panic among residents of the state. It was gathered that the outbreak started last week in Tudun Rubudi and Bare-Bari communities in Ungogo…
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