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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm of the escalating cases of suicide across the world, saying that suicide has become the third-leading cause of death globally among young people. The Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made this known on Friday, urged governments across the world to take urgent and […]

   

Some gunmen have killed a soldier and abducted four Chinese expatriates in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.  The attack, which reportedly took place on Thursday, September 19, occurred at Saminaka, Ejiba area, when the assailants ambushed a convoy belonging to Vau & Co. Mining Company conveying Chinese engineers to a mining site.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order imposing a $100,000 annual fee on skilled workers visa applicants known as H-1B visa programme, which allows skilled foreign workers to enter the country. The order, which takes effect on Sunday, September 21, cites “abuse” of the programme and makes entry contingent on the payment.  Until

There is tension currently in the Makurdi Local Government Area after angry residents from Achakpa community took to the streets in protest following a deadly attack by suspected armed herdsmen that left several people dead and others missing. The protesters, numbering in hundreds, barricaded the busy Makurdi–Abuja highway at the Garba–Atson–Abagena IDP camp axis, paralysing

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has publicly challenged the appointment of CP Akin Fakorede as the head of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) monitoring team, citing several severe accusations against him. Speaking on Channels Television’s programme on Friday, Wike described Fakorede as the officer who formerly led the Federal SARS

The Lagos State Police Command has said it has dismantled a notorious syndicate which specialised in vandalising exotic vehicles across the metropolis, following the arrest of its leader, 46-year-old Jude Onouha. According to a statement released on Saturday by the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Babasuyi Oluseyi, the police said Onouha and his gang

Officials at a Kaduna State hospital have confirmed receiving casualties from the explosion that rocked the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON).  They added that medical personnel were battling to save the lives of those critically injured.  SaharaReporters reported that several people were feared dead in the explosion that rocked the DICON factory in the

The Chairmen of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change’s (CPC) Forum of State have dissociated themselves from the recent visit of some of its members to the Abuja residence of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, describing the move as a personal decision that does not reflect the group’s position. In a statement issued on

Nigerian human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has petitioned the Office of the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier, accusing former Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, of laundering public funds to acquire properties in the United States. Sowore revealed that he had formally contacted the Office of the Attorney General of Florida,

Patients at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, have been thrown at the mercy of death as nurses and midwives at the institution commenced an indefinite strike.  The industrial action is over the non-implementation of the new National Minimum Wage and long-standing welfare demands.  The strike was confirmed in