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The Benue State Education Quality Assurance Agency (BSEQAA) has directed school principals in the state to immediately refund excess WAEC/NECO handling charges levied on senior secondary school final year students ( SS3). The agency's director-general Francis Terna gave the directive...

Lagos State has mulled over the idea of ​​establishing an airline for passenger operations just as the state prepares to begin construction of its own airport in Lekki. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu unveiled the plan on Thursday at the Lagos West...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the recent publication claiming that paracetamol medicines in Nigeria are underdosed is false. "There is nothing wrong with our paracetamol. The publication is false and I am speaking...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has described the validation of his election by the Supreme Court as a victory for the state. The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed Fubara's election. A five-member panel of judges headed by Ibrahim Saulawa dismissed...

More than one billion people live in informal settlements around the world, according to the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), a research project funded by the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The statistics, according to the researchers, highlight...

The Child, Sexual and Gender Violence Court in Awka, Anambra State has sentenced two women to multiple jail terms for child robbery and kidnapping. The convicts, Faith Obi, 32, and Chinenye Obete, 41, were arraigned on five charges, according to...

Police arrested 17 suspects. The Christmas Eve attacks in Bokkos, Barikin Ladi and Mangu local government areas of Plateau State killed dozens of people. Police also said 10 bodies have been recovered from various locations following the attacks, while...

The Nigerian police have ordered the arrest of some people who claimed to belong to the Nigerian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, in a video clip they presented. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, spokesperson for the Force Headquarters, gave the...

The indictment of Willie Obiano by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC) for the alleged theft of N4 billion from the Anambra State security vote account has been described as a blessing in disguise for the former governor...

Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu says he cannot be intimidated by the state's September 21 gubernatorial election. Shaibu stated this when he returned his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form for the gubernatorial election, at the party’s national secretariat...