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Naira scarcity: NLC to picket CBN offices nationwide

Buhari approves redesignation of State House Clinic to Medical Centre

Buhari deserves accolades for delivering fairest, freest polls – BMO

Utility officer bags life imprisonment for defiling colleague’s 9-year-old daughter in...

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President Buhari Calls 2023 General Elections a Step Forward for Nigeria’s Democracy

INEC’s deployment of BVAS reduced election malpractices – Observers

65 inmates to graduate from open university

I’m most experienced for Senate presidency, says Sen. Barau

STATE NEWS

The Nation

Ramadan: Kano Hisbah deploys personnel to mosques, to arrest non-fasting Muslims

The Kano State Hisbah Board has deployed personnel to mosques to ensure the safety of lives and property during the Holy month of Ramadan. This...

Keyamo Convinced Court Will Clear Tinubu of Alleged Wrongdoing in February...

Hoodlums set court ablaze in Ebonyi

Fire guts lace fabrics shops in Onitsha market

Legal scholar, Tobiloba Moody to speak at Baze University

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Two women clinch Kogi Assembly seats

Baze University gets full accreditation in Architecture, Medical Lab Sciences, others

Saliu Mustapha congratulates Gov. Abdulrazaq on electoral victory

BREAKING: 26-year-old Rukayat Shittu wins Owode/Onire constituency election

METRO NEWS

Man sells son to three different buyers for N1.25m in Ogun

Man sells son to three different buyers for N1.25m in Ogun NEWS DIGEST - Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly referred to as...

Fire razes 3 ATMs in Kano

Man to die by hanging for killing father

Court jails man four months for stealing

Woman who married herself considers divorce after 24 hours

News

Naira scarcity: El-Rufai orders Kaduna agencies, minsitries to collect old naira notes

2023 election: Kogi govt orders closure of schools from Feb 22

Naira Scarcity: Gov Abiodun threatens banks, stores rejecting old naira notes

11 Lagos-bound passengers burnt to death in Ore auto-crash

BUSINESS

Business

UNIDO, FG, Japan to implement project for job opportunities

The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the Federal Government of Nigeria and Japanese government have expressed commitment to implement a project to create...

FG to grow GDP with maritime linkages to African countries

CBN increases interest rate to 18%

Petrol price increased by 54.76% a litre in 1 year –...

Tax administrators must match the pace of global technological advancements —...

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FIRS signs MoU with UK’s HM Revenue and Customs for collaboration on capacity building

Telcos not responsible for failed bank transactions, says NCC

Ghana removes fuel subsidy

Nigeria inflation rises to 21.91%

SPORTS

Mesut Ozil announces retirement from football

Former Real Madrid and Arsenal star Mesut Ozil has announced his retirement from football at the age of 34. The German midfielder spent eight years...

Tickets for Super Eagles versus Guinea Bissau game go for N2,000,...

Infantino re-elected FIFA President until 2027

UCL: Osimhen’s brace sends Napoli into quarter-finals, Liverpool out

Indonesian football officials jailed over stampede which killed 135

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Chelsea FC create fan advisory board

Europa League: Di Maria’s hat-trick sends Juventus into last 16

UCL: Osimhen on target as Napoli beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0

Amusan Nominated for 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards

ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment

‘John Wick’ Actor, Lance Reddick, is dead

‘John Wick’ Actor, Lance Reddick, is dead NEWS DIGEST - Hollywood has lost one of its stars, Lance Reddick, to the cold hands of death....

Nigeria’s box office generates N278m in February

Nigeria’s box office records N819m sales in January

Count me out of anything relating to marriage, Alexx Ekubo declares

BBTitans: Big Brother separates housemates, changes sleeping position

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Tems becomes first female artiste in Nigeria to win Grammy Awards (SEE FULL LIST...

Actors guild re-launches health insurance scheme for members

Another Kano TikTok skit maker, Murja Kunya, arrested by police

Wizkid ‘running’ from Nigeria to avoid litigation over alleged song theft – Blackface

OPINION

Peter Obi: Opportunist or messiah? by Muhammed M. Belgore

Peter Obi: Opportunist or messiah? by Muhammed M. Belgore NEWS DIGEST - Google defines an opportunist as a person who takes advantage of opportunities as...

Kano Governorship: Who does the cap fits, by Mahmud Shuaibu Ringim

That Tinubu-Elumelu Video and the PR Stunt! by Yushau A. Shuaib

Mahmood Yakubu and the burden of a nation, by Jibrin Baba...

The Tinubu phenomenon, by Dapo Okubanjo

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Tinubu: Surmounting the odds and healing the wounds, by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

Open letter to the Turaki of Ilorin, Saliu Mustapha, by Mohammed Belgore

Between Peter Obi of Nigeria and Nnamdi Kanu of Biafra By Yushau A. Shuaib

Idanre/Ifedore: Why the masses should not lose focus

WORLD

Health

INTERVIEWS

Interview

TECH