The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has reported a steep decline in condom distribution in Nigeria, stating that it fell by 55 per cent over the past year as the global HIV response faces what the agency describes as its most serious setback in decades. Releasing its 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming…
Against the backdrop of allegations of certificate forgery, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Dr. Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, has insisted he graduated from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in 1985. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, the minister through his special adviser, Dr. Robert Ngwu said the accusation is politically motivated pointing fingers to the…
Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has declared his support for the state governor, Biodun Oyebanji for a second term in office, regardless of what his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would do to him. Fayose stated this at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti, during the commissioning of De-Head/ Faglo Road and electrification project that…
The Yobe State Police Command has confirmed that a 55-year-old man, Hamidu Ali of Koriyel village, Babangida, Tarmuwa LGA of Yobe State, has allegedly killed his 40-year-old wife. According to the State Police Command, on June 28, 2025, at about 1100hrs, the Tarmuwa Divisional Police Headquarters received a distress call from inhabitants of Koriyel Village,…
President Bola Tinubu has pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with his administration, assuring them that the country is transitioning from darkness to dawn. In an official video released by the State House on Wednesday, Tinubu acknowledged the ongoing hardships orchestrated by the removal of the fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira. He…
A Uruguayan soccer player, Juan Izquierdo, who collapsed on the field during a game in Brazil last week, died on Tuesday, his team said. Izquierdo, 27, was playing for Nacional, a Uruguayan club, in the Copa Libertadores, a top South American tournament, when he suffered cardiac arrhythmia, or an irregular heartbeat, and cardiac arrest on…
We all have what he takes to belongs, it’s obvious, everyone must have put his stake as man to drive the energies. Communities and the people must have a choice, political settings doesn’t determine the political ideology to govern a particular society or community. We must all agree, by been striving for a better societal…
The authorities in Finland have frozen the assets of Simon Ekpa, the self-acclaimed Biafran agitator facing allegations of terrorism-related activities, who has been detained for several weeks. The Finnish government also froze the assets of companies associated with Ekpa and four of his accomplices, who are also in remand. Yle, a local newspaper in a…
Security operatives have arrested a suspected vote buyer with cash totalling N25,963,000 in Kaduna metropolis, barely hours before the conduct of the bye-elections in parts of the state. The suspect, identified as Shehu Aliyu Patangi, was apprehended around 3:30am on Saturday by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with the Department of State…
Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has warned PDP governors supporting Governor Siminalayi Fubara that he will “put fire in their states”. He said, “Not while we live will anybody take the PDP structure from us. I hear that some governors claim they will take the structure and give it to somebody. I pity those…