Former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has said that Nigerian leaders have allowed international flights to resume only because it was time for their children and wards to return to schools abroad.

Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says the August 29 resumption of international flights is tentative.

The Federal Government has directed all tertiary institutions in the country to resume academic activities on September 7, 2020 after the schools were shutdown due to the ravaging coronavirus pandemic some months ago.

Popular social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, has been rearrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Guardian reports.

The Nigerian Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has appealed to the Lagos State government (LASG) to revisit the education sector, with a view to correcting the glaring lop-sidedness in the appointment of tutor-generals and school principals.

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Wada Maida, then Chairman, Board of Directors of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is dead.

Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, says over 20,000 workers were engaged for the ongoing construction of Lagos-Ibadan rail project.

The North Korean Government is now forcing its citizens to submit their pet dogs so they can be used as food.

The abducted district head of Mashio town in Fine Local Government Area of Yobe State, Alhaji Isah Mai Buba has regained freedom.