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The Olubadan-in-Council, made up of Ibadan High Chiefs and kingmakers, yesterday resolved controversies over who will succeed the late Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogunguniso 1, who passed away on January 2. According to the High Chiefs, they are unanimous ...

Nigerian footballer, Abba Bichi has urged Nigerians to have a rethink about blaming his religion, when a Muslim commits a crime. He says when a Muslim person commits a crime, the crime is not committed by Islam — which is ...

Residents of Gituamba village in Gatanga, Murang’a county have been left in utter shock after a middle-aged woman poisoned her two daughters and committed suicide Sunday morning. The woman is said to have left a suicide note behind in which ...

The Lagos State Government has announced that traffic on Dopemu road in the Agege area will be diverted for three months to work on the Babajide Sanwo-Olu Road. The Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion would start on ...

The coroner’s inquest into the death of Dowen College student Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr) commenced on Saturday at the Epe Magistrate Court. After hearing the parties, the presiding magistrate, Mikail Kadiri, ordered the Police to immediately release copies of statements obtained ...

A 40-year-old man was burnt to death in a fire incident that gutted his semi-permanent house in Mûûru village of Kirinyaga Central constituency, Kirinyaga county, Kenya. According to Kirinyaga county fire department official John Kiama, the fire started at around ...

Due to technical glitches, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the 8:00 a.m. train ride from Ujevwu in Delta from January 17. Fidet Okhiria, NRC’s managing director, explained that measures were in place to rectify the issues at the ...

A Mother and her son have killed the younger sibling for money ritual. The son simply identified as Afeez Olalere confessed to the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command that his mother encouraged him to kill his kid brother ...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress and 2023 Presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has visited the family of the late Christopher Alao-Akala in Ogbomosho. The visit was to commiserate with with his family over the demise of the ...

  Four employees of an Oando Service Station in Alapere, Ketu Lagos have been arrested by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) for allegedly defrauding their employer, Mrs Funmi Alebiosu of N83 million.   The suspects identified as Obande Emmanuel, Dauda Akeem, ...

  Ebonyi government has warned residents of the state against obeying the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ahead of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s court outing.   IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful had announced that a sit-at-home protest will ...

More than 72 hours after the Federal Government announced the lifting of the ban on Twitter, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is yet to tweet. Several media aides of the President have resumed using the platform since the ...

  Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnapper while trying to collect ransom money.   Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the suspect Ya’u ...

The Nasarawa state police command has said it has arrested a 43-year old man, Dan’asabe Eddo, for allegedly r3ping an 80 year old woman in Kundami village, Garaku, Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa state. This was contained in a ...

  A staff of one of a new generation bank identified as Nwokorie Nnamdi Godson, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging in Sapele, Delta state.   It was gathered that the deceased died after hanging himself on a water tank scaffold at Ugbeyiyi ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been given 7 days ultimatum to release a copy of the agreement recently signed with Twitter or face legal action. The ultimatum was issued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Sunday. SERAP urged ...

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George and one-time military governor of Ondo State in an interview with Vanguard speaks on Tinubu’s ambition to be Nigeria’s President in 2023 and how he will ...

At least five persons were killed when farmers and herders clashed in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. Houses, maize barns, motorcycles and other valuables were reportedly set ablaze in the clash. Daily Trust reports that the clash occurred ...

Informants are posing a great challenge to the efforts to rid Kaduna state of banditry, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has said. He said this at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Kaduna on Saturday. How bandits gunned down 13 in ...

  Former Military Head of State, brahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has explained why he didn’t remarry after the death of his wife, Hajiya Maryam Babangida.   Maryam, who was Nigeria’s First Lady between 1985 and 1993, died at the University ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has again reiterated that his administration has done its best in tackling insecurity ravaging the country.   Noting that the North-West which had given the nation some “headache” would experience a turnaround for the better, the ...

There was confusion in Otu -Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Wednesday night, as a man was reportedly stabbed to death by his daughter’s lover. It was gathered that trouble started when the deceased whose identity ...

A married woman was flogged 100 times after confessing to adultery in Indonesia while her male partner, who was also married, received just 15 lashes. The woman’s flogging in the conservative Aceh province on Thursday was briefly paused because she ...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu like many Nigerian politicians who deserted Twitter when it was banned 7 months ago has returned. While returning, Tinubu said social media platforms are sometimes misused, then commended the FG for bringing twitter back for millions of ...

Ibadan Baker shocks Nigerians with cake baked for a civil engineer An Ibadan baker has shocked Nigerians on twitter when she shared her latest work — a cake — baked for a civil engineer. She shared the finished job with ...