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President Buhari has approved the appointment of Captain Musa Nuhu as the new Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).   Nuhu replaces Captain Muthar Usman, erstwhile Director-General of the organization. This is contained in a statement signed by ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has sworn-in Imonofi Osumah Inusa as the Chairman of Etsako West Local Government, after Yakubu Musa, the erstwhile chairman was removed.  Musa was removed over his alleged involvement in N46 million fraud in the council. ...

A video of the spot a Federal High Court Judge, Abdul Dogo was kidnapped in Akure, Ondo State’s capital has surfaced online.   Recall LIB reported that Justice Abdul was kidnapped on Tuesday October 22, while travelling from Abuja to Akure. ...

A couple who are planning their wedding in 2020 decided to have a photoshoot ahead of their wedding but it didn’t turn out as they planned.   Alyssa Snodsmith, 23, and Collin Hewett, 24, who met while studying at university ...

A cunning horse has been filmed playing dead every time someone tries to ride him.   The horse, named Jingang, pretends to give up the ghost and drops to the floor pretending to be dead whenever someone tries to mount him. He ...

  Two Twitter users have gotten the attention of Innoson Vehicles and more Twitter users are hoping to get their attention.   First, graphics designer Osuolale Farouq got Innoson’s attention when he redesigned the brand’s logo and tagged the company’s ...

17-year-old Aisha, who set herself ablaze in Albarkawa area of Gusau, Zamfara state, over her fiance’s inability to pay N17,000 dowry, died on Wednesday October 23.   Her father, Aminu Muhammad, who confirmed the news to Daily Trust said Aisha ...

The Lagos State police command has declared four cultists wanted.   The four cultists declared wanted are, Mearling, Samuel, Jide and K. infinity. This followed confessional statement of seven Eiye confraternity members who were recently charged to court after men of ...

A hotel in Shimawa (a Lagos-Ogun border community) which uses underage girls as commercial sex workers was uncovered on Wednesday October 23, by detectives attached to the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID) Alagbon in Ikoyi.   Two men were arrested ...

A student of the University of Port Harcourt has taken to his Twitter handle to share his unpleasant experience with men of the Nigeria Police Force in Port Harcourt, Rivers state yesterday October 23rd.   Ray Okaah in a series ...

Yobe State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), chairman, Goni Ibrahim has announced the adoption of Hausa language as the medium of instruction for public primary schools in the state.   The SUBEB Chairman who was represented at the Master Trainers workshop ...

Barely 24 hours after 11 inmates were rescued from a religious rehabilitation centre in Zaria, Kaduna state, 15 inmates of another rehabilitation center in Yola, Adamawa State capital have also been rescued after a raid carried out by the police.   Suleiman Nguroje, ...

A man is demanding justice for his sister who died alongside others after they were hit by a drunk driver then rejected by a hospital because they do not have a “police report”.   Othniel, the brother of Jemima, one ...

Days after the Debt Management Office announced that Nigeria’s total public debt rose by N3.32trn in 12 months to N25.7trn as at the end of June 2019, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed has stated that the country is not enmeshed in ...

Three persons have been confirmed dead while others critically injured in an accident involving a truck and a Keke in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital.   The accident involving a mack truck with registration No: Rivers ; BNY 137 XA ...

A murder investigation has been launched after 39 bodies were found inside a Bulgarian-registered lorry on an industrial estate in Essex.   Now, a 25-year-old driver from Northern Ireland has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Local police and community sources ...

Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media announced via his Twitter handle, that the Federal Executive Council today approved a change in the name of the Ministry of Communications.   According to Bashir, the Ministry which is being run ...

An Igbosere High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, Ocotber 23rd admitted the alleged confessional statement of the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as“ Evans” as an exhibit.   Delivering a ruling, Justice Adedayo Akintoye, held that the test of ...

Today, President Buhari held a bilateral meeting with President Vladmir Putin of Russia at the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Forum in Sochi.   The president also participated in the plenary session alongside President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and other African leaders. ...

At the resumed trial of Naira Marley over an alleged credit card fraud at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos today October 23, the Economic and Financial Crimes tendered evidence they found in Naira Marley’s laptop after his arrest ...

Reno Omokri has questioned why African leaders have to go to other continents for meetings about Africa.   He said African presidents who attend such meetings are “willingly signaling” their “inferiority” to these other continents.   He wrote:   Why ...

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command on Wednesday, October 23rd said they have arrested the suspected killers of a pastor, Austin Megwa, who was until his killing in August a pastor with Graceland Assembly Church. ...

Dr Nneka Abulokwe, the co-founder of Think Tank, has been awarded the distinction of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.   The award, which is part of the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours ...

Godwin Adama, the Nigerian Consul General has debunked claims of the fresh attack on Nigerian businesses in South Africa having a xenophobic undertone.   Adama who made a clarification on the attack which occurred at Witbank in Mpumalanga district of South Africa ...

In this past month, at least three torture centers have been raided and several ‘inmates’ rescued.   Now, another torture home was raided in Zaria, Kaduna State on Tuesday, October 22nd. At the centre, known as ‘Malam Aliyu Mai Adakan Salatul ...