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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended the issuance of three months visa to Nigerians. A travels and tours firm, Afric Holidays, announced this in a terse statement through its Instagram page Wednesday. The statement read, “Nigerian Passport holders are no longer eligible to three months...

Adewole disclosed this at the launch in Makarfi, Makarfi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has launched President Muhammadu Buhari’s Restore Vision Project aimed at restoring people’s sight through surgical intervention. Adewole disclosed this at...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured Nigerians that the President, Muhammadu Buhari-administration remains committed to ensuring that every Nigerian in every part of the country is able to live a peacefully and go about their normal daily activities. In a statement issued yesterday by...

The third batch of 560 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Martins Ejike, the South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, made this known to journalists on Sunday in Port Harcourt. Mr. Ejike said that the...

Social media went into some form of topsy-turvy days ago when rumours started going around of a possible crash of Mercy Johnson’s marriage. How did the rumours start? The actress deleted almost … via Nigerian Entertainment Today – Nigeria’s Top Website for News, Gossip, Comedy, Videos, Blogs...

Nigerians have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over plans to increase data plan prices by December 1st, 2016. The petition is available via change.org against the federal government to halt the increase by NCC. The petition reads: “NCC has instructed...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-kayode has said that prominent Nigerians who supported president Muhammadu Buhari emergence are seriously lamenting over his administration Fani-Kayode on his twitter timeline, said: "Emir Sanusi Lamido is crying. Prof. Soludo is wailing. Oby Ezekwesili is...

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has asked Nigerians to take ample opportunity of difficult times to do the right things. Osibanjo said this in a statement released by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant-Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President. The full statement below...

The All Progressive Congress, (APC), has asked Nigerians to rate the government of President Muhammad Buhari one year after. The party, on Monday, on its twitter handle said “One year on: How would you rate government’s efforts in fighting the Boko Haram sect? How do you think the president...

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has described the statement by Ravi Naik, a former Indian Chief Minister, on Nigerians as “condescending and unacceptable”. In a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and their civil society allies in Abuja, yesterday, Labour called on Nigerians to stock up on essential commodities, as it begins a strike action on Wednesday in protest of recent hike in the pump price of petrol. “Nigerians are...

Nigerian Lawyers have started pouring out their minds on the move by the Senate to amend the law setting up the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, with a view to whittling down the agencies’ powers. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption...

The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Plc. (EKEDP) said that the power supply instability within its network was due to inadequate bulk electricity load allocated to the company from the national grid. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head of Corporate Communications of...

The Managing Director (MD), Spectranet Ltd., Mr David Venn, on Wednesday said Nigerians would no longer pay for calls and Short Message Services (SMS), on mobile networks before the end of 2019. Venn made this prediction at an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos. He noted that with the...

The organized labour in collaboration with the civil society organizations embarked on a peaceful protest against the 45 per cent hike in electricity tariffs as hordes of protesting workers grounded business activities in Abuja today (Monday). Related: Labour, Civil Societies Shut Down Abuja...

Republican Presidential Front-runner and American Billionaire, Donald Trump has threatened to evacuate Nigerians from America once he becomes President of the United State of America (USA). Trump issued the threat on Sunday during a rally held at Wichita, Kansas, claiming that: “Nigerians and...

Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja upturned the verdict of the election tribunal and ruled that the method of nomination of a candidate should not be one of the grounds for disqualification for the election as stated in the constitution and the electoral act. Nigerians are reacting to the court...

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday assured Nigerians that there would be light at the end of the tunnel. He said the 2016 national budget would alleviate the hardship being experienced now. This, he noted, was brought about by the sleaze and looting in the...

The United States’ Government on Wednesday said that more than 5,000 Nigerians had benefited from its exchange programmes since its introduction. The Deputy Chief of Mission, Ms Maria Brewer, said this at an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Government Exchange Programmes...