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The Federal Government has explained why the Nigerian currency was devalued again, the third time in just a year. According to Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, one of the reasons is that foreign portfolio investors were unwilling to return to the Nigerian market due to the valuation of the Nigerian Naira which they believe is overvalued. Zianab...

No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS. Aboagye said that three students from the school went to...

The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has said more of his colleagues from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would soon defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He said this yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting of the party in the state, which was aimed at streamlining actions for the peaceful conduct of the party’s forthcoming congresses in the...

A senior Cardinal and nine others are set to face trial for alleged financial recklessness at the Vatican. The alleged financial malfeasance was linked to the purchase of a plush property by the defendants in London. The Italian Cardinal, Angelo Becciu, who is a close ally of Pope Francis, will appear before a tribunal on July 27. The 73-year-old was dismissed from...

The President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has barred the home-based Super Eagles players from signing contracts with low-rated European clubs. He made this known when he visited the team during their training session in the United States ahead of today’s clash with Mexico at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (LA Coliseum). According to the FIFA Council member,...

Chidinma adaora ojukwu, the 21-year-old girl and 300-level student of mass communication, university of lagos, suspected of murdering usifo ataga, chief executive officer, super tv, has blamed ‘roofies’ for her action. She had, according to her, taken the substance, along with ataga, and that spiked up the man’s libido and made him to start pursuing her all over the place,...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has revealed why he ‘secretly’ withdrew his seven-year-old son, Abubakar Al-Sadiq El-Rufai, from Kaduna Capital school. Last year, the governor dramatically enrolled him in one of northern Nigeria’s oldest public schools. In an interview with BBC Pidgin, El-Rufai said his son had been targeted by bandits because of the governor’s public stand against the payment...

Emeoyiri Benjamin, the commander of the Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the group members drew their powers from the killing of 10 girls for rituals. Benjamin was arrested recently after intense operations by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team deployed in Imo. He had played significant roles in...

The police in Kwara State have arrested a man for allegedly killing and selling the body parts of his father, Michael Olagunju, to some ritualists in Kajola, Odo-Owa in the Oke-Ero Local Government Area of the state. Olagunju was allegedly murdered on his farm at Kajola last Thursday by his son, who was said to have connived with some ritualists...

Yoruba activist and separatist leader Sunday Igboho has finally spoken about the recent invasion of his house ny men of the department of  state services DSS. In a press release signed by his spokesperson, Mr Igboho alleged that federal Government planted those ammunition alleged to have been recovered in his house. Read full text of the Press Release: MY PERSECUTION BY...