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[embedded content] Pokemon Go players stormed Central Park on Friday evening, with many stopping their cars to get out and try to catch a Vaporeon. In Pokemon Go, the new free-to-play mobile came from Niantic, players must explore the real world in order to catch Pokemon, and some of the rarer species only pop up […]

The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission has called on the Federal Government to raise the rate of the Value Added Tax from the current five per cent to between 7.5 per cent and 10 per cent. It said the need to increase the VAT rate was born out of the conviction that the nation could […]

The Federal Government has said that the nation’s revenue profile had started rising due to increased oil production and improved access of manufacturers to foreign exchange for the importation of goods into the country. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, who was in company with the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, […]

The naira fell further to 363 against the dollar at the parallel market on Thursday, as the scarcity of foreign exchange continued to weigh on the value of the local currency at the interbank and parallel markets. The naira had closed at 360 to the dollar at the parallel market on Wednesday. The local currency […]

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said that it has appealed against the judgment of a Lagos Federal High Court annulling the 45 per cent electricity tariff hike. ANED is the association of the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) operating in Nigeria. A Federal High Court in Lagos on July 13 annulled the recent increase […]

The Nigerian military to launch an operation to tackle the menace created by the activities of the deadliest terrorist group in Nigeria, the Fulani herdsmen militia. The operation has been tagged, Operation Accord. This moves comes following a string of attacks by the Fulani herdsmen militia which 81 people were killed in Benue State. This information […]

hysical exercise on a regular basis is very important for health and wellbeing of every individual. You exercise to stay in shape, to lose weight, and to live a happy and satisfied life. When you exercise, your adrenalin and dopamine levels go up, and your stress levels go down. To put it frankly, you feel […]

Olugbenga Obadina, a security contractor, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at a federal high court on an eight-count charge of corruption and money laundering in N2.4 billion contracts under the office of the national security advisor, NSA. Obadina and his company, Almond Projects Limited as was charged before the court […]

Fun-seekers have urged the management of the National Theatre, Lagos, to check on the constant encroachment of Fulani herdsmen who graze cattle within the premises of the national monument. They gave the advice in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Friday, July 16, 2016 in Lagos. They said that the sight […]

he Girl Scout Cookies were calling me. Nothing is worse than feeling like your eating habits are driving you. That day, Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies were in the driver’s seat. I was still at 240 pounds, but I had decided to change my eating habits. However, I had forgotten about my Girl Scout cookie […]

Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, has described the late justice of the Supreme Court, Justice NikI Tobi, as “an ambassador of the Ijaw nation” who lived a life of selfless devotion, integrity and honour in the service of the nation. Justice Niki Tobi died on June 17 at the National Hospital, Abuja, barely one month to […]Read More

A notorious kidnapping ring operating in Kogi and neighbouring states has been busted by the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, PIRT in a string of operations spanning several weeks. A statement by the police spokesperson, Donald Awunah on Friday July 15, 2016, said that four victims of the kidnappers were rescued from different locations in […]