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The security stakeholders’ meeting  between  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo  and  traditional rulers in Osun State on Tuesday agreed that Federal Government should immediately commence aerial surveillance of forests in South-West.   Speaking to  reporters  after the meeting at  Osun Goverment House, ...

Aggrieved members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria aka Shi’ites, have vowed to continue their protest today Wednesday July 24th despite the bloody clash they had with men of the Nigerian police in Abuja on Monday and Tuesday July 22nd and 23rd ...

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has paid his last respect to Mr. Precious Owolabi, a corps member who had his primary assignment with the Channels TV Abuja office.   Ibrahim inspected Owolabi’s body shortly before it ...

Going by several political permutations by analysts on social media, the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode was expected to make the ministerial list released by President Buhari today.   The absence of his name of the list ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Ministerial list released by President Buhari as colorless, stagnant, uninspiring and does not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC).   In a statement released ...

Four internet fraudsters arraigned before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) High Court, Nyanya, Abuja, have all bagged jail sentences. While Tosan Ogbe, Onajite Tosan Ejivwo, Abdulmumin Saidu were arraigned on one count charge bordering on fraudulent inducement, Karo Ijire faced a three-count ...

Steven Jones, a British ex-pat living in New York reportedly killed his American wife and 12-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself.   The 46-year-old British man had a day before the double murder-suicide incident, sent an email to a family ...

An inquest into the death of 7-months-old Jermaine Harris, revealed how the baby boy was found dead after getting trapped between his mother’s bed and his cot on February 13, 2019.   Ms Harris had woken at 6am and taken Jermaine out of ...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said his chambers is not representing musician Timi Dakolo and his wife Busola.   The human rights lawyer noted that he only intervened when the family expressed fear over their petition. Falana clarified his position on the ...

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria also known as Shi’ites have denied repsonsibility for the deaths of persons in the bloody clash with men of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja yesterday July 22nd.   A statement released by the spokesperson of the ...

Tragedy struck in Igoro village in Enugu Ezike, Enugu State, as 8 people died from generator fumes after getting trapped in a soak-away pit.   According to eyewitnesses, the 7 men had tried to save one of the men trapped ...

A 65 year-old-man, Moses Airhiagbonkpa, fell to his death this morning within the premises of the Edo State High Court.   According to reports, Airhiagbonkpa was at the 10th floor of the High court building with members of the Ugiekhue ...

The Senate has announced the postponement of its annual recess for one week to enable members screen the ministerial nominees forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The annual recess was initially billed to start on Friday July 26th.   The ...

An Islamic TV station could be stripped of its UK broadcasting licence over provocative comments made about gays and magicians.   Peace TV, based in Dubai, was found to have shown four programmes which breached Ofcom regulations on inciting crime, ...

Lateef Jakande, the former Governor of Lagos state clocked 90 years old today July 23rd.   Jakande became governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983 on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN. He was also the Minister ...

An Enugu State High Court, presided over by Justice K.I. Okpe on July 22, 2019 sentenced a pension fraudster, Akpudili Anayo to six years in prison for a N13million fraud.   The Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial ...

No fewer than six children have been killed and several others critically ill following an outbreak of measles in Wusar community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state.   The six children were among the 30 reported cases of a ...

A woman was highly abusive to her boyfriend on a plane and she even went as far as hitting him on the head with a laptop because he looked at other women.   In a viral video, the American woman ...

President Buhari said the priority of his administration “is to create as many jobs as possible”.   Speaking at an audience with the National Executive Council of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers led by its President, ...

Iranians, whose country backs the Shia Islam which the El-Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement of Nigeria a.k.a Shi’ites practices, took their protest down to the Nigerian embassy in London.   The Iranian protesters were heard chanting ‘Buhari’s government shame on you’, as they ...

American rapper, TayK, has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for his role in a 2016 murder.   A Tarrant County, Texas jury found Tay-K guilty of murder last Friday, July 19. The rapper was accused of participating in a botched ...

54 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria also known as Shi’ites have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force in connection with yesterday’s bloody protest in Abuja.   A statement signed by the spokeperson of the Police, DCP Frank ...

Authorities in India have raised concern after none of the 216 children born across 132 villages in one Indian state over the last three months were girls.   Officials in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand state have reportedly launched a probe over fears ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Edo State has sealed up five filling stations for under dispensation of fuel and other offences. It also sealed up gas stations that were built without approval.   Operations Controller Maynard Oriafoh, who led ...

‘ The biggest protest launched by Puerto Ricans against Governor Ricardo Rossello and other male government officials making fun of journalists, gays and hurricane victims, among other people in leaked text messages, turned violent as the police released teargas canisters on protesters. ...