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24 Feb
A newborn baby died in Paris Monday after his 18-year-old American mother threw him out a hotel window, umbilical cord still attached, French prosecutors and a police source said. She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris, the prosecutor's office said. "The newborn was given…
17 Feb
European leaders gathered on Monday for an emergency summit to discuss plans by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. There are fears that they might be frozen out of the negotiations. The goal is to agree on a common strategy for dealing with Trump, including what offers can be made to…
6 Feb
Global experts will debate threats from artificial intelligence (AI) at a gathering in Paris on Thursday and Friday, ahead of a summit of world leaders on the fast-moving technology.
19 Jan
The Presidency has debunked claims that President Bola Tinubu took some eminent Nigerians to Paris to testify in Nigeria's defense.
12 Oct
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has departed the United Kingdom for Paris (France), where he is expected to attend an important engagement.
11 Oct
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has departed the United Kingdom for Paris (France), where he is expected to attend an important engagement.
7 Sep 2024
Team Nigeria's Flora Ugwunwa has won a silver medal in women's Javelin F54, at the ongoing Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Ugwunwa finished second in the event with a throw of 19.26m behind Uzbekistan athlete Nurkhon Kurbanova who set a world record with a throw of 21.12m. The bronze medal was won by Elham Salehi of…
4 Sep 2024
Team Nigeria on Wednesday won its second medal in powerlifting events at the ongoing Paralympic Games in Paris. READ ALSO:Badminton Federation celebrates Bolaji, Nigeria’s Paralympics lone medallist Esther Nworgu won a silver medal in the women's 41kg category. Eniola Bolaji had earlier won a bronze medal in badminton events.…
1 Sep 2024
V Electric Motors, a prominent player in the Dutch automotive industry, is set to make waves in the electric vehicle
19 Aug 2024
President Bola Tinubu on Monday departed Abuja for Paris aboard Nigeria's new Presidential plane, an Airbus A330, replacing the 19-year-old Boeing B737-700 (BBJ) acquired during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The Guardian reports that The Airbus A330 business jet, which is now registered to the Nigerian Air Force, left the capital Abuja for…
11 Aug 2024
The boxing competition at the Paris Olympics is over but the fight now starts for its inclusion at the 2028 LA Games after a damaging gender controversy placed the sport under renewed scrutiny. Boxing is a staple of the modern Olympics, making its debut in 1904 and contested at every Games since, apart from in…
10 Jun 2024
President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he was confident French voters would make the "right choice" in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot.
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The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, on Thursday, cautioned against attempts to create ethnic tensions over alleged attacks on truck drivers in the Southeast. The group was reacting to concerns raised by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), which claimed that truck drivers transporting goods from the North to the Southeast were…
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ActionAid Nigeria, in collaboration with key government agencies and the Women and Children Health Empowerment Foundation (WACHEF), has launched the Innovative Action for School Feeding Programme in Taraba State. The launch, which took place on Thursday in Gembu, the administrative headquarters of the Sardauna Local Government Area, as noticed by The Guardian, is being implemented…
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The Ogun State Government has shut down two industries – Quantum Steel Industry, Ogijo, Sagamu Local Council, and Xinfeng Plastics Limited along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway – due to industrial accidents that resulted in fatalities. While Quantum Steel was shut down due to an industrial explosion that resulted in fatalities, with some victims still hospitalised, Xinfeng…
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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two Pakistanis who are the leaders of a notorious kidnapping ring in the state. They were arrested on Wednesday after sources informed the police of the abduction of a 48-year-old Pakistani in Ikeja, the state’s capital. The police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement, identified the…
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Five days after the Federal Government announced the appointment of Professor Lucian Chukwu as the substantive Vice-Chancellor of Admiralty University, Ibuzor, Delta State, it has reversed the decision. In a statement by the Federal Ministry of Education on Thursday, the government admitted erring in the appointment of Prof. Chukwu as Vice-Chancellor. The statement, signed by…
26 mins ago
The Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) has called for urgent reforms to address overlapping laws and regulations in the gas sector, which continue to increase the cost of doing business. The president of the association, Akachukwu Nwokedi, delivered this critical message during a goodwill address at the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) 2025, themed "Aligning Nigeria’s…
33 mins ago
American model Amber Rose has announced that she no longer identifies as a feminist. In a recent interview with Club Shay Shay podcast, Amber Rose explained that her decision was influenced by witnessing the “dark side of what some women are capable of.” Amber revealed that she has seen friends deceive men by lying about…
44 mins ago
While Nigerians continue to bask in the euphoria of a crash in food prices, traders who have hoarded grains are bemoaning the 40% drop in prices between December and March 2025. In December, many traders bought grains for storage, intending to sell when prices rose by February-March, as has been the norm in the last…
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President Bola Tinubu has granted automatic employment to 774 fellows of the National Health Programme, ensuring their absorption into the workforce after their one-year tenure. Tinubu made the announcement on Thursday during the presidential launch of the programme in Abuja. Addressing the young fellows assigned to monitor Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) across all 774 local…
57 mins ago
The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has been thrown into mourning following the sudden death of Professor Jimoh Famakinwa of the Department of Philosophy. According to a statement by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, Professor Famakinwa began experiencing abnormal breathing during a departmental meeting on Wednesday. Concerned colleagues quickly intervened…