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  Lawmakers and population experts on Tuesday called for the urgent conduct of a credible population and housing census, warning that the continued delay undermines national development and the future of millions of young Nigerians.   Speaking at the 2025 World Population Day event held in Abuja, the Chairman of ...

  Oyo State Emergency Management Agency, on Tuesday, alerted people living in flood-prone communities in the state to start preparing for heavy rain and its attendant flooding.   This was contained in a statement released by the Administrative Secretary of SEMA, Ojuolape Busari, in Ibadan, the state capital.   She ...

  Asian markets were mixed Tuesday as traders kept an eye on earnings from Wall Street titans this week while tracking US trade talks just over a week before the deadline for a deal.   Japanese stocks edged up and the yen held gains after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said ...

  I didn’t hate Buhari, Ortom defends stance on Benue insecurity   Olugbenga Ige   A former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has dismissed claims that he hated the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari over his government’s handling of the security in the North Central state.   The chieftain of ...

  The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a new set of immigration-related fees following the implementation of the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Bill, with changes set to take effect from July 22, 2025.   According to a Federal Register Notice issued on July 18, 2025, applications postmarked on ...

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who became a household name as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54 after an accidental drowning off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, officials and multiple news sources report. Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the Deadline Contenders Television event at Directors Guild Of America on April ...

NASRE Calls On Don Jazzy, D’Banj, P-Square, K1, Pasuma To Assist Late Peter Thomas’ Family The Nigerian Association of Social and Resourceful Editors (NASRE) has once again demonstrated compassion and solidarity by reaching out to the family of the late veteran entertainment journalist, Peter Thomas, popularly known as The Groove ...

  The former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has called on President Bola Tinubu to caution state governors over what he described as undemocratic restrictions on the constitutional rights of citizens.   Metuh made the call in a Facebook post on Sunday, reacting to the ...

  Prince Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, a Saudi royal widely known as the “Sleeping Prince,” has died at the age of 36, nearly two decades after a car accident left him in a coma.   The prince was just 15 years old when he suffered a brain haemorrhage and internal ...

    Political activist, Omoyele Sowore, speaks with ISMAEEL UTHMAN on the claim that the late former President Muhammadu Buhari left behind a legacy of integrity   The late former President Buhari was said to have left a legacy of integrity. Do you agree with that?   Absolutely not. The ...