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Two teenagers drown while swimming in Kano stream

On October 9, 2025, two teenagers, Habu Sani and Haruna Isah, both 15 years old, drowned while swimming in a stream at Hayin Yawa Gada in the Tudun Wada...

Expert blames poor education standards on undervaluing teachers

Several experts and studies point to the undervaluing of teachers as a core reason for the poor standards...

Retailers blame supply challenges for cooking gas scarcity, price hike

In Nigeria, cooking gas retailers are attributing the recent scarcity and hike in prices to broader supply chain...

Nigeria targets 106 million children for vaccination

Nigeria has launched one of the largest integrated vaccination campaigns in its history, aiming to protect approximately 106...

N’Central APC hails Tinubu for appointing Amupitan as INEC chair

Tensions surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict continue to be a major source of political debate and division, with some...

OPEC+ increases oil output by 137,000 bpd

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC+, have decided to increase their collective oil output by 137,000 barrels...

$92bn lithium rush leaves Nigerian investors behind

According to recent reports, there is a concern that Nigerian investors are being sidelined in the country's booming lithium mining sector, with foreign, particularly...

Insecurity: Commander-in-Chief failing his people, ADC slams Tinubu

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has criticized President Bola Tinubu's handling of the country's worsening insecurity.1 In a recent statement, the party's National Publicity...

Households suffer as cooking gas shortage worsens, rises to N25,000

In recent days, many households in Nigeria have been experiencing a severe cooking gas shortage, which has pushed the price of refilling a 12.5kg...

Fubara’s men absent at gov’s reunion with Wike

Reports indicate that Governor Siminalayi Fubara's loyalists were conspicuously absent from a recent reunion meeting with his predecessor and current Minister of the Federal...

Leopard captured after wandering into Indonesian hotel

A leopard was successfully captured on Monday after it was found wandering inside a hotel in Bandung, the capital of West Java, Indonesia.1 The...