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200 lawyers to help Kano Governor win at Supreme Court No fewer than 200 private legal practitioners from the 19 Northern states have volunteered to assist Governor Kabir Yusuf of Kano State in winning his gubernatorial election appeal case at ...

  VP’s new residence: SERAP urges senate president to dump Wike’s plan Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio, to use his leadership position “to promptly reject the plan by the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom ...

A day-old baby boy abandoned by an unknown lady has been rescued by residents in Minna, Niger State The baby boy, who was rescued a few minutes after he was dumped, was already infested by soldier ants before help could ...

Troops of Operation Desert Sanity in Maiduguri, Borno State, have arrested three soldiers for allegedly stealing ammunition They were arrested during a covert operation at the motor parks along Njimtilo Road in Maiduguri. A military source told our correspondent that ...

\ The Rivers State Police Command says it arrested 13 of its officers for indecent dressing at different locations in Port Harcourt The command also assured that the killers of a former Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada East Local Government ...

Tough times are ahead for residents of Redemption City in The Redeemed Christian Church of God campground, Mowe, Obafemi Owode Local government area of Ogun State, who are in the habit of dressing indecently as the church leadership said it ...

Eleven hikers have been found dead near the crater of Indonesia’s Marapi volcano after it erupted over the weekend, rescuers say. Three people were rescued on Monday. The search for 12 others missing has been suspended due to a small ...

\ Kenyan police have arrested a woman accused of throwing her eight-month-old infant into the Indian Ocean on Sunday. Witnesses told local media that the woman allegedly tossed the infant into the ocean from a ferry as it was docking in ...

The death toll from Somalia’s ongoing floods has risen to 110, the UN humanitarian agency UN OCHA has said. More than one million people have been displaced and 2.4 million people impacted across 36 districts, the agency added. UN OCHA ...

  The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has announced the promotion of 32,361 personnel from the agencies under the supervision of the ministry. The minister stated that the Board approved the promotion of 4,498 personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service, 4,598 ...

There was panic today among the residents of Iseyin in Oyo State over a fire outbreak at one of the stations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The petroleum station, located at Agip area of Iseyin, caught fire this ...

  Three people have been killed and nine wounded in an explosion at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines. According to the BBC, the incident occurred in a gymnasium at the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi on Sunday morning. ...

Armed robbers attack Ogun poly students AGAIN, kill one, shoot 9 Barely four days after the Ogun State Police Command claimed to have arrested three armed robbers involved in the robbery operation and ra.ping of students of the Gateway Polytechnic, ...

  Customers of some commercial banks in Osogbo, Osun State over the weekend, expressed dissatisfaction with the poor services provided by Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Findings by Daily Post indicate that many ATMs of commercial banks were not dispensing cash, ...

Tonto Dikeh has written an open letter to Late Mohbad’s dad, asking him to do right by his son! Tonto also questioned how Mr. Joseph Aloba, would like material things more than his own son, and wonders why he is askimg Nigerians ...

Plane skids off runway to hit building in Tanzania Two planes have reportedly run off a runway in Tanzania just hours apart. The first was a plane travelling with about 30 passengers from Zanzibar to Kikoboga in Mikumi National Park on Tuesday. As it ...

Lagos Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, has been re-elected for a second term in office. Alhaji Sulyman Ojora is elected the Deputy Chairman; Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle (Sego) ...

The Anambra State Aids Control Agency (ANSACA) says no fewer than 98,960 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Anambra. Dr Afam Obidike, commissioner for health in Anambra, gave the statistics on Thursday in Awka during a media briefing ahead of ...

Man lands in hospital after overdosing on se.xual enhancement thinking his female guest will show up A man has landed at the hospital in severe pains after allegedly over dosing on local se.xual enhancement thinking the lady he was expecting ...

Thirteen people died in a fire at a hostel in Kazakhstan’s biggest city, Almaty, on Thursday, the city’s emergencies department said in a statement Eleven victims were Kazakhs, one person was from Russia and one from Uzbekistan, local news website ...

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100 He served as America’s top diplomat and national security adviser during ...

The Lagos State Government, through the Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, on Tuesday, sealed a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and seven hotels over noise pollution LASEPA, in a statement on its X (formerly Twitter) handle added ...

The Nigeria Police, on Wednesday, arrested and detained three personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for shooting two students of Senior Secondary School, Life Camp, within the Jabi and Gwarinpa areas of the Federal Capital Territory The ...

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has sentenced the Osolo of Ado-Odo, Muftau Dosunmu, to six months in prison for presenting himself as an Oba The Osolo title, which is one of the high chiefs in ...

Robbers kill Ogun finance director in bullion van ambush The Commissioner of Police for Ogun State, Abiodun Alamutu, on Wednesday, night confirmed the killing of Mr Taiwo Oyekanmi, the Director of Finance and Accounts attached to the office of Governor ...