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  Nigerian singer, Timi Dakolo, has announced plans to assist parents struggling to pay their children’s school fees as schools reopen for the new 2025/2026 academic session.   In a post on his official X handle on Wednesday, Dakolo acknowledged the financial strain many families face at the start of ...

    The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has listed steps to strengthen peace, development, and human rights across the globe.   Speaking at the general debate of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, he said that to achieve peace and development, Nigeria ...

  President Bola Tinubu has said terrorists despise Nigeria because it chooses tolerance over tyranny, adding that its bitter experience has shown that violence never ends where it begins.   Vice President Kashim Shettima, who represented President Bola Tinubu at the ongoing 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly ...

  Princes from three royal families on Iwo, Osun State have appealed to the state government and the Osun Traditional Council to regulate use of social media platforms by monarchs in the state.   The princes, who decried incessant fighting among traditional rulers in Yorubaland on social media, demanded an ...

    The World Bank said seventeen African governments have committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300, an ambitious partnership led by the lender and the African Development Bank Group that aims to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030.   ...

    Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has congratulated the 44th new Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, on his formal ascension to the throne of Olubadan of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in a ceremony slated for Friday.   In a statement released by his Special Assistant on ...

  Five members of the same family were discovered unconscious in their home at Akaajime community, Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, on Wednesday, with one confirmed dead.   The victims – a mother and her four children – were found in a coma before neighbours rushed them to ...

  President Bola Tinubu has directed the Bank of Agriculture to clear outstanding arrears of N30bn owed to agro-dealers and input suppliers under the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro-Pocket.   According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the bank’s External Media Relations Lead, Judith Ekwebelem, the directive followed ...

    The management of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has pledged to adopt financial prudence and academic justice in addressing the institution’s challenges.   The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Garba, gave the assurance when officials of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union paid him ...

  Gombe State has once again been recognised as a top-tier performer in fiscal transparency and accountability, ranking second nationwide with an impressive 99 out of 100 points, according to BudgIT’s latest Subnational Transparency Assessment.   The ranking, which evaluated fiscal transparency across the 36 states and the FCT in ...