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Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District on Thursday, September 12th informed the FCT High Court in Apo, Abuja, that he was injured and could not stand in the dock to continue his criminal trial.   The senator is ...

  Some governorship and deputy-governorship candidates in the November 16 elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States might get disqualified by the Independent and National Electoral commission (INEC) over their age.   It is expected that the personal particulars of candidates nominated ...

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the party is ready for the next round of legal battle with Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.   Oshiohmole made this known when he responded ...

A Nigerian lady took to Twitter to thank a commercial motorcyclist for coming to her aid after a soldier allegedly tried raping her for wearing a camouflage.   @mideice_  said the soldier who accosted her and the commercial motorcyclist at CMS ...

The next flight airlifting Nigerians who indicated interest to voluntarily leave South Africa would leave the country on Saturday, September 14th.   The Nigerian government had ordered the immediate evacuation of Nigerians from South Africa following a renewed xenophobic attack ...

An Uber driver was spotted in a viral video assaulting a female passenger with a whip for allegedly questioning him during the trip to Ikeja area of Lagos.   Twitter user @eziinneee said the Uber driver tried to park at ...

Sarah Wairimu Cohen, the wife of a missing Dutch billionaire will be facing murder charges over the mysterious disappearance of her billionaire Dutch husband, Tob Chichou Cohen.   The Dutch billionaire’s wife is expected to undergo mental health evaluation before her ...

A resident of Obidike in Umudim Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State has accused her landlord and his son of beating her to coma after she told them to stop using their vehicles to block her salon shop. ...

The Northern Governors Forum today met in Kaduna State to discuss the National Livestock Transformation Plan and find a lasting solution to the insecurity affecting the region.   At the meeting, Chairman of the forum and Plateau State governor, Simon ...

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in a report released on Thursday, September 12th says criminal violence in North-West Nigeria as well as farmer-herder clashes in the Middle Belt region, displaced more persons than Boko Haram insurgency did in the first ...

A Ghana-based Nigerian man identified as Prince Precious, has been confirmed dead after stepping on a charm while visiting his home in Benin, Edo State capital.   A friend of the deceased in his tribute, expressed how sad he was ...

The body of an unidentified man was discovered in a bush along Daudu to Tse-Nyikwagh  road in Benue State on Monday night, September 9.   From the gash on his head, he is suspected to have been murdered.   Facebook ...

The Zamfara state police have arrested a man identified as Ibrahim Mohammed Maigandi, after he impersonated the state police commissioner Usman Nagogo and duped the senator representing Zamfara West, Lawali Hassan Dan Iya, of N1.8 million.   Parading the suspect ...

  Oma Okechukwu tweeted: “I read Dr @maxvayshia  tweets few mins ago and I thought I should also share mine. 29th Feb. 2016 (leap year) I was admitted in a hospital in Aba, I was gonna have my son buh one ...

The knife used to stab Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during his 2018 election campaign is to be put on display at a police museum due to its “historical value”, a court ruled.   The court in the southern state of ...

40-year-old Kenneth Ganiu Ninalowo believed to be a brother to Nollywood actor, Bolanle Ninalowo has been arrested by the FBI on charges of laundering over $1.5 million in Chicago.   The money, according to the FBI is derived from scams targeting ...

As Tweeted by Nigeria’s former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode in reaction to the election tribunal ruling in favour of President Buhari.

Only 187 Nigerians out of the 320 Nigerians expected back home were successfully evacuated to Nigeria as it was learnt that the South African government brought up new immigration rules to frustrate the evacuation process.   The 187 passengers were ...

The Federal Executive Council which President Buhari presided over on Wednesday Septmber 11, approved the increment of value added tax (VAT) rate from 5 percent to 7.2% percent.   The Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed confirmed the ...

The Ghanaian Police has alleged that some Nigerians got bursted while trying to smuggle in fake dollars into the country on Monday September 9.   The fake money in $100 denomination was allegedly found hidden beneath the seat of the registered ...

A landlord was left shocked and even vomited when he discovered rubbish piled high alongside rotten food and even human waste a mother-of-four left behind before moving out from his property. Landlord Shahin Miah who owns the property located in Erdington, Birmingham, claimed his former tenant ...

Surveillance camera captures the moment a woman took a dump on a supermarket floor then walked out as though nothing happened.   In the video shared online, the shop owner can be heard commenting angrily as he watched the surveillance ...

17-year-old Aisha, who set herself ablaze over fiance’s inability to pay N17,000 dowry demanded by her father in Zamfara, has been taken to the hospital.   It is said that former Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala, is footing ...

Obinwanne Okeke, the Abuja-based Nigerian businessman who was arrested on August 6 in the U.S. and slammed with two counts of computer and wire fraud has been indicted for $11 million fraud.   The indictment which is the initial process before the ...

The First Lady of Ekiti State, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi has denied instructing policemen attached to her convoy to shoot protesting students of Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) on Tuesday September 10.   In her statement which countered the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) claim of ...