Nigeria’s Asisat Oshola, Khadija Shaw, and 28 other female footballers have been shortlisted for the female category of 2023 Balon d’or awards.
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A cross section of Nigerians have taken to the social media in reaction to a trending video of a lawyer who who allegedly burnt his wig to express his displeasure over the judgment.
The Management of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), on Thursday announced the death of one of its students, Modupe Atanda.
Mexico is on course to see its first female president as both the ruling coalition and the opposition have nominated women as candidates for the 2024 election.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said that the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) delivered a clear verdict on the integrity of Nigeria’s electoral process.
The Federal Government has announced plans to expand the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) to accommodate pupils of Military Schools across the country.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on the Federal Government to increase routine vaccination to nip outbreaks in the bud.
Stakeholders in the power sector have attributed the price increase in prepaid electricity meters to fluntuations in foreign exchange market, increase in Customs charges and Naira devaluation, among others. The stakeholders, who expressed their concerns in seperate interviews on Thursday in Lagos, said another factor was multiple charges by different government agencies at ports. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), on Sept. 5, granted approval for an upward adjustment in the prices of prepaid electricity meters. The cost of single-phase prepaid meter is now N81,975.16k, up from the previous N58,661.69k, while a three-phase prepaid meter is N143,836.10k as against the…
The Director-General, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, has urged West African countries to enact climate change legislation for speedy regional development.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed to governments at all levels and relevant stakeholders to increase budgeting for nutrition to reverse the trend of malnutrition among Nigerian children.