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Maria Espinosa, the President of the 73rd UN General Assembly, on Monday handed over to Nigeria’s Muhammad-Bande, who will lead the 74th session of the assembly in the next one year. The ceremony, held inside the General Assembly Hall of the UN headquarters in New York, marked the end of ...

Obinwanne Okeke, the 31-year-old Nigerian held by American authorities for alleged fraud, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of wire and computer fraud at his first hearing on Monday. The presiding judge at the Newport News, Virginia, federal courthouse, declared the case as “complex,” but said Mr ...

American billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has said that Nigeria has one of the lowest domestic revenues at just six per cent of GDP compared to 15 per cent in some other countries. This, he said, is perhaps one of the reasons why the largest black nation has a problem ...

60 doctors dump Lagos hospitals every six months – NMA 700 doctors leave Nigeria annually, says 1st Vice-President All my mates have left Nigeria – United States-based doctor Hindered by poor conditions of Nigeria’s health care, bad remuneration and deteriorating hospital facilities,   many medical doctors are abandoning the country for ...

Fulani herdsmen from Chad, Niger and other neighbouring countries will benefit from the National Livestock Transformation Plan, the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said. Mohammed, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, said since Fulani herdsmen are nomadic, it would be inappropriate to deprive them from ...

Following public criticisms that have greeted his appointment to the budget ministry, Seun Onigbinde has now turned down the appointment. Mr Onigbinde, co-founder of BudgIT, a civic group committed to government financial transparency, announced his resignation on Monday. Mr Onigbinde had last week announced his decision to accept a technical ...

Seun Onigbinde, co-founder of BudgIT, has resigned his appointment as technical adviser at the ministry of budget and national planning. More to follow…

Two drone strikes on Saudi Arabian oil facilities by Yemen rebels have reduced the country’s production by half and threatened to push up crude prices. Some experts have warned that with the projected production shortage of 155 million barrels per month as a result of the strikes, oil prices could go ...

When a solid gold toilet worth £4.8m was installed at Blenheim Palace, the founder of its art foundation proudly boasted: “It’s not going to be the easiest thing to nick”. But early on Saturday morning, just two days after it went on display, a gang of burglars did just that. Breaking into ...

A British mum with two kids has held her wedding ceremony with a tree and she now plans to change her surname to reflect her new marital status. The 34-year-old lady who was identified as Kate Cunningham decided to ‘marry’ the elder tree in Litherland’s Rimrose Valley Park as a ...