The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the increasing number of inmates awaiting trial is having a toll on the custodian centres and the available resources for the service. Aregbesola, who blamed the congestion of prisons on the ...

  A 39-year-old man is in police detention after he was arrested for allegedly slapping Uganda’s Minister of State for Works and Transport, Mr Musa Ecweru during Sunday mass at St. Michael Catholic Church in Wera Sub County in Amuria ...

Netizens have dragged controversial Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, to filth over his comment on actress Chacha Eke Faani’s split from her husband. The actress and mother of four announced the dissolution of her marriage on social media on Tuesday, June 28, stating that ...

A moments ago, queen Nwokoye, shared a throwback wedding movie scene photo of herself and other colleagues which got tongues wagging. Due to her low profile lifestyle, some online in-laws have queried Nollywood actress Queen Nwokoye over her husband’s true identity. ...

Tension has gripped the Ogulagha community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State as soldiers attached to Forcados Terminal have reportedly shot dead a youth in the community, Endurance Kalaepele. Punch Metro gathered that the 27-year-old man was allegedly ...

Super Eagles goalkeeper, Francis Uzoho, and his wife, Soomie, have welcomed their second — a baby girl. The footballer shared the news on IG today. Posting an adorable photo of himself with his partner and their daughter in the hospital, ...

  One Aniebet John, 31, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River with suspected Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Samuel Fadeyi, parading the suspect on Tuesday at ...

The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the impeachment move against him by the lawmakers. The deputy governor was represented in court by his counsel, Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, in ...

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Stella Achebe and her company, Infinite Favour Nigeria Limited. She was convicted by Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting ...

  A Malawi court has sentenced a Catholic priest to 30 years and several other people to life in prison over the gruesome 2018 murder of a man with albinism. Judge Dorothy NyaKaunda Kamanga said Thomas Muhosha had planned to ...

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) newly posted to Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State ‎has been abducted, Daily Trust reports. The DPO was abducted along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari highway around 9am on Monday. Sources told Daily Trust that the DPO was on ...

A Civil Society Organization, Save Public Education Group, has vowed to mobilize students for a nationwide protest if the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities continues. The group lamented the near collapse of the education sector in ...

Lassa fever have claimed 158 lives in 24 states since the beginning of this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said. The NCDC, in its situation report yesterday, said the cases were recorded across 99 local government areas. ...

At least six person have lost their lives, while others sustained various degrees of injuries in a fatal motor accident. The incident happened on Monday at about 11:30 a.m. along Hadejia-Kano road in Hadejia local Government Area of Jigawa State, ...

A Special Adviser to Imo State Governor, on Political matters, Batos Nwadike, has tendered his letter of resignation. In a letter of resignation addressed to Governor Hope Uzodiinma, Nwadike asked the governor to refund him the sum of N77,200,000, he ...

  Abdullahi Shinkafi, special adviser on intergovernmental affairs to the governor of Zamfara, says the state’s assembly has passed a bill prescribing death penalty for all banditry-related offences. “Today, the governor is going to sign into law death penalty for ...

There was a mild drama at the Dalewares Institute of Technology, Palm Groove, Lagos State, on Monday, when students of the school shut its main gate. The students, who denied staff members, including the rector, entrance to the premises, accused ...

Popular Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo, has replied to an Instagram troll who left an unflattering comment on her recent photos with her younger lover, Bobby Maris. The thespian, who shares a child with her partner, took to her Instagram page moments ago to share ...

At least 46 people have died and 16 others have been taken to hospital after they were discovered in the back of a lorry in San Antonio, Texas, just 150 miles from the Mexico border. “Teenagers and young adults” were ...

  Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. ...

It may seem as though popular Nigerian singer Davido’s new found hobby is to tease his baby mama, Chioma Rowland, and it’s beautiful to see. Only a few days after the ‘assurance’ crooner teased his ex-fiancée after she debuted her new look—a short ...

  Gunmen suspected to cultists have gone on rampage in Akwuke, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, shooting dead a pregnant woman and a vigilante member. The hoodlums were also said to have shot a secondary school girl ...

  Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, lost the move to regain freedom. Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court rejected Kanu’s application seeking to grant him bail. The IPOB leader sought the ...

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration ...

Caroline Danjuma has again addressed her age ‘fraud issue’, saying she is actually 35. Though Google says she is 42 and most of her fans have been following that age. So admitted she isn’t 42 but definitely not 35 saying ...