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Several hostel blocks at Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Old Umuahia in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State, were on Tuesday July 26, gutted by fire.   The Nation reported that no life was lost in the incident which affected the school’s Junior Secondary School (JSS 2) students.    They …

Convicted sex trafficker,  Ghislaine Maxwell has been sent to a Florida prison where she will serve her 20-year sentence for helping billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls.   The disgraced socialite has been moved to FCI Tallahassee, a low-security prison in the Sunshine State, near where she committed …

A federal grand jury has returned a 27-count indictment charging Payton Gendron, 19, of Conklin, New York, with 14 violations of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Shepard-Byrd Act) and 13 firearms offenses in connection with the mass shooting at the Tops grocery store on …

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to allow Nigerians in diaspora to return to Nigeria with their expired International Passports.   Aregbesola gave the directive while responding to a complaint by a Nigerian-American citizen, Jamui Kasumu, at the Alausa Passport Office during his …

Admissions into the Post graduate programmes of the Federal University, Oye- Ekiti, Ekiti State, has commenced. The programme would start with faculties of Agriculture, Arts and Social Science, while other faculties would also join in a few months from now. According to the Dean, School of Post Graduate Studies of …

Alleged mass shooter Payton S. Gendron has been charged with 26 federal hate crimes, which carries a death penalty over the killing of 10 Black people last month at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.   The charges against the White suspect came as Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the site of the …

Nigerian music producer cum politician, Olubankole Wellington popularly called Banky has won  the primary election to represent the Eti-Osa constituency in the House of Representatives. It could be recalled that Banky had in 2019 contested in the National Assembly election to represent Eti-Osa constituency, Lagos at the House of Representatives, …

Living up to its brand purpose, to protect life by reducing the burden of illness and its fight to make good hygiene a reality that everyone can achieve, Dettol Nigeria recently made product donations to the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja as part of its activities to mark the 2022 World …

The reality TV star made this known via his Twitter page on Monday, April 25, 2022, while reacting to the strike led by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that has left Nigerian students at home for months. “I’m scared ooo, I’m really scared. What kind of government is this …