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Woman steals newborn baby from sleeping mum in hospital A teenage woman stole a newborn baby from a hospital room while the family slept. Cuane Malaquias allegedly stuffed one-day-old Ravi Cunha into a duffle bag to smuggle him out of ...

  A 34-year-old man identified as John has died after drowning in the Elegushi Beach, in Lagos State, on Saturday, during a church hangout. Punch Metro gathered that the unnamed Ikorodu-based church had organised a picnic for its youths which the ...

Tinubu’s female ministers dress like beauty pageant contestants – Adebayo Shittu A former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said the female ministers in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu dress like beauty pageant contestants. Shittu made this known during ...

  The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has said his rift with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State was purely politics. Wike said it is politics if he demands N20 billion monthly and is allowed to award all the ...

  The High Court of Justice in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has ordered the unconditional and immediate release of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The court made the order after Emefiele filed a ...

The House of Representatives has removed the controversial N5 billion presidential yacht from the 2023 supplementary budget The budget was passed on Tuesday by the House after adopting the report submitted by the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Abubakar Bichi ...

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has condemned reports of insufficient stock of currency notes in the country CBN through its Director Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, noted that there is sufficient stock to facilitate economic activities in the country. He made this ...

  A member of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s family and president of Zimbabwe Miner’s Federation, Henrietta Rushwaya has been convicted of trying to smuggle gold worth over $330,000 (£272,000). Henrietta Rushwaya was caught with bars weighing 6kg in 2020. She was travelling ...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday said the health condition of its President, Joe Ajaero is very critical and may be flown abroad for full medical examination after he was seriously beaten, brutalized and battered by alleged agents of the state including ...

Workers shutdown electricity supply in Imo, leaves state in total darkness Imo is in total blackout following the shutdown of electricity supply to the state by workers of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC who are on industrial action. The ...

NAFDAC raises alarm on ‘dangerous’ energy drink (See Name) The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned Nigerians not to consume G Fuel brand Energy Drinks because of its dangerously high level of caffeine. The ...

Two people have been arrested for kidnapping and k!lling a 3-year old boy The Gombe State Police command arrested the suspects for the alleged kidnapping and k!lling of the boy.   Mahid Muazu Abubakar, Public Relations Officer of the command, ...

20 Okada riders d!e in Ondo in 3 weeks due to activities of criminals The Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun Corps, has revealed that no fewer than 20 commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada riders, have lost ...

In line with the newly-revised procedures on arrest and bail of suspects by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has directed that sting operations at night time be stopped in all ...

The Senate, on Thursday, sworn in Senator-elect for Kogi Central Senatorial District, Barr Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as a member of the 10th Senate This followed her presentation with Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the duly ...

A former governor of Gombe State and the senator representing Gombe North, Ibrahim Dankwambo, has asked the state government to suspend the payment of his monthly pensions Ibrahim Dankwambo in a letter he addressed to Governor Inuwa Yahaya on October 4, ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president, Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo state capital Recall that labour had vowed to mobilise its members for a total strike in Imo state starting November 1, 2023. During a press ...

Over 70 students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Osun State were reportedly arrested by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a midnight raid on hostels outside the campus.   EFCC officials, around 2 a.m., stormed the Fine Touch and Superb ...

  Lagos State government through the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has closed down 34 corporate organisations for failing to remit Personal Income Taxes of their employees as well as non-remittance of Consumption Taxes, amounting to N356.12 million by operators in ...

  Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced a bricklayer, Gabriel Awaye, to life imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl in his room. The judge held that the prosecution was ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, sacked the former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, from the Senate. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, said it was satisfied that Suswam was ...

  Donald and Melania Trump were spotted together for the first time in seven months, as the former president remains embroiled in several legal fights. The couple made their grand entrance at this year’s Halloween party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday ...

Court restrains Rivers Assembly from impeaching Fubara A Rivers State High Court in Isiokpo Division in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state has issued an interim order restraining the Rivers State House of Assembly and Speaker, Martin Amaewhule from ...

EFCC releases 58 OAU students arrested for suspected internet fraud The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday released 58 out of 70 students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, earlier arrested for suspected internet fraud. Earlier in the day, ...

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed 17 youths in Gurokayeya village, Geidam LGA of Yobe State, over failure to pay tax Daily Trust learnt that the insurgents stormed the village around 10pm on Monday, gathered the residents in one place ...