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Despite working in different countries, four Nigerian identical brothers are performing this year's Hajj together in Saudi Arabia. In this short video, the brothers from Kwara State, tell Daily Trust about the motivation to collectively perform the pilgrimage together, their experience and future plans.

Nigeria has been recording frequent outbreaks of diphtheria in the last one year. Medical experts and health institutions say everyone is at risk of the disease. They say while vaccination is the major means of prevention, adopting measures to protect oneself and prevent spread to other people will help keep the disease at bay. Diphtheria…

The price of Petrol has increased to about N617 per litre in the nation's capital, Daily Trust can confirm. A visit to an NNPC filling station in the Central area of Abuja on Tuesday morning showed that the fuel price had been adjusted from N539 to N617 per litre. A customer confirmed to Daily Trust…

On Sunday, July 9, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government held in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.  Accepting the ECOWAS leadership position at his first attendance of the summit, following his…

  By Bello Hussein Adoto    One, two, three. Every three seconds, someone somewhere is receiving blood, and he or she doesn’t know where it comes from. The person could be an accident victim with a broken leg, a woman bleeding after birth, a sickle cell patient hanging on to life, a man with haemophilia…

A war between military factions in Sudan is putting at risk the production of staple crops this year, farmers in several states say, threatening to drive the African nation deeper into hunger and poverty. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen people including farmers, experts, and aid workers who reported delays in planting crops such…

The political economics of subsidy withdrawal, announced six weeks ago by the new government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on its very first day, continues to stare the government right back in the face, as a massive hike—nearly 300%—in the pump price of petrol ignites corresponding increases in the cost of just about everything else.…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that any admission not captured in its Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) is illegal, null and void. The registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede made this known while speaking during the 3rd matriculation ceremony of the Thomas Adewumi University (TAU) Oko, Irepodun Local Government Area of…

The Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML) has announced the sacking of its Managing Director (MD), Abubakar Usman Faruk, who was reinstated by an FCT High Court last Tuesday following a meeting held by the company’s shareholders. In the sack letter addressed to Faruk and signed by the shareholders’ Chairman, Abubakar Maina Sadiq, AMML noted that…

Amid bullish sentiments seen in Nigeria’s stock market recently, the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group) has said it is open to working with the federal government as well as stakeholders towards improving the country’s credit profile and creating a favourable environment for both domestic and foreign. The chairman, NGX Group, Alhaji Umaru Kwairanga, who…