Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will visit Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital which has come under heavy fire in recent days. According to the Associated Press, Russia’s offensive in Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv on Tuesday, with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighbourhood as the leaders of three NATO member…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has been accused of failing to account for about 107,239,436 barrels of crude oil lifted for domestic consumption in 2019. The Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation made the allegation in its 2019 audit report presently being considered by the Committees on Public Accounts at the Senate and…
Local authorities have stated that over 2,000 civilians have been killed in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. The confirmation was made on Tuesday. The Mariupol city council said since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started on Feb. 24, 2,357 people have been killed. The South-East Ukrainian city with some 400,000 inhabitants has been…
An Anambra State High Court, in Awka, presided over by Justice Arinze Akabua, has sentenced a former Treasurer with the Anambra State Ministry of Finance, Innocent Ezeonwuka, to 11 years imprisonment for defrauding pensioners of N66.5 million. A statement released by ICPC says Onwuka, who was a Sub-Treasurer with the Ministry, was accused by the…
A boy, aged 3, accidentally killed his mother after picking up a gun and shooting her with it while they were sitting in a car outside a Food 4 Less in a Chicago suburb. The father of the boy is now facing a misdemeanor gun charge following the shooting, the community’s police chief said Monday,…
The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) announced the reopening after 18 months of tolling suspension. According to the operators, tolling will commence on April 1 but commuters plying through the route would not pay for the first two weeks until April 15. In an advertorial placed in The Nation on Monday, LCC’s Managing Director, Yomi Omomuwasan,…
Due to the increase in the cost of diesel in the country, bakers under the aegis of Premium BreadMakers Association of Nigeria are threatening a total shutdown of operations. The association said the continued rise in the price of diesel had made the price of the commodity to be doubled, warning that a total…
Mrs Confort Ayanwole, the mother of late 22-year-old Bamise Ayanwole is still crying for justice following her daughter’s sad death. According to the bereaved woman, she cries every day and every night as she finds it hard to believe that her daughter is gone. Bamise, who was kidnapped on February 26 in a Lagos Bus…
Houses have been allocated to winners of the 1994 African Cup of Nations by the Federal government. At the official commissioning of the Housing Project under the National Housing Programme (NHP) Phase 1 in Abere, Osun State today March 14, President Buhari said the gesture is better late than never and that the players can…
A Nigerian lady took to Twitter to call out her househelp. She stated that the help has been wearing her dress, wig and using her makeup to take pictures while she’s at work. @bustybeez revealed that she had her suspicion but her househelp changing her profile photo confirmed it. She Tweeted; ”My former help just…