The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Action (MOA) with the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to avert the union’s planned nationwide strike. NAN reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the end of a meeting with NARD …

Lagos State Fire Service and other rescue are currently battling to put out an overnight inferno that gutted OkoBaba Saw Mill Market, Ebute Metta, Lagos. The firefighters and men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), have cordoned off the area to prevent recoding casualties. “We are trying to …

Nigerian beauty queen PhD student, 24, is shot dead sitting in her car outside her home in Philadelphia – as homicides spike 28 per cent in City of Brotherly Love A former Nigerian beauty queen and doctoral student in Philadelphia has been shot dead while sitting in her car in …

The Dunamis International Gospel Centre is set to construct another road in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Newsexttra24 reports that the Karu/Jikwoyi branch of the church under the leadership of Pastor Usman Yakubu, on Wednesday, flagged off the project. The road, which is located between Karu and Jikwoyi communities, is expected …

Less than 24 hours after gunmen attacked Prof Chukwuma Soludo, a former CBN governor and the governorship aspirant under the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming Anambra 2021 guber election, the Anambra State Police Command, says it has arrested one suspect in connection with the incident. The arrest …

…Says there’s no emergency to President’s trip The Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for medical checks does not warrant transmitting power to his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, since he was staying for just two …

The Office of Communications in the United Kingdom better known as Ofcom, has sanctioned religious channel, Loveworld, owned by Nigerian Pastor, Chris Oyakhilome. Ofcom said in a statement that the station was fined £125,000 (N65.6m) for breaching the country’s broadcasting code by disseminating misinformation on COVID-19. The statement read in …

106 New COVID-19 Cases, 60 Discharged And 1 Death On April 1 106 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-33 FCT-20 Cross River-11 Rivers-11 Kaduna-7 Edo-6 Ondo-6 Nasarawa-3 Ogun-3 Kano-2 Bauchi-2 Osun-2

Big Brother Naija reality star Ozomena Joseph Chukwu simply known as Ozo has broken record as he becomes the first to be appointed as ambassador at the Economic Community of West African State. ECOWAS has made Ozo the Youth ambassador and has made a press release to clarify and confirm …

Qualcomm seems to have been dethroned as the number one smartphone chip supplier in the world, now that last year’s numbers have come out. According to an Omdia report (noted by DigiTimes), MediaTek—a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company—managed to ship out 351.8 million units during the whole of 2020, overtaking the …