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  Taraba State Governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, on Monday, condoled with the families of the 100 passengers who were feared dead in Saturday’s boat accident in River Benue. The governor, in a condolence message signed by his Special Adviser on ...

  Father defiles 12-year-old daughter in Lagos A police Prosecution Witness Inspector, Glory Eyo, on Monday, narrated to the Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos how a father, Abdullah Abiodun, allegedly defiled his 12-year-old daughter. Eyo who ...

  President Bola Tinubu has written the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more. The President also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework & ...

The Lagos State Police Command said it arrested two suspects, Sunday Osagie and Ayodele Adeolu, for allegedly robbing a skitmaker, Ekwutousi Philo This was disclosed in a statement by the Rapid Response Squad unit of the Lagos Police Command and shared ...

  The principal suspect Dr (Mrs) Fumilola Adefolalu, who was murdered on Saturday night in her residence, has been arrested. It was learnt the mother of the suspect handed her over to the police when she arrived home in the early hours ...

Governor Alex Otti of Abia says security intelligence showed that the ransoms paid for kidnapped victims were always dropped off around the Umuchieze Cattle Market in Lokpanta of Umunneochi Local Government Area (LGA). Mr Otti, during the monthly media parley ...

Monarch, Catholic priest, abducted Bandits over the weekend invaded the Yashi community in Bukkuyum Local Government Area, LGA, of Zamfara State. They killed one person, abducted the traditional ruler in the community and four others. This came as the Priest of ...

No amount of propaganda can distract Tinubu – Gbajabiamila The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Sunday that no amount of propaganda would distract the focus of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration. Gbajabiamila disclosed this in a ...

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has approved the disbursement of another tranche of N136.26m as car loan to 368 civil servants in the state. The state Commissioner for Finance, Akin Oyebode, said that amounts ranging from N80,000 to N1.5m would ...

The national woman leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Stella Effah-Attoe, is dead She died on Sunday after a brief illness. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the party said it was devastated by Attoe’s demise. The National ...

Resident of Ekondo street in Calabar agitated and are asking questions how a fourteen year-old could commit suicide with a shoelace as string The boy whose name was given as Donald resides with his grandmother at 49, Ekondo Street in ...

Israel has urged Russia to protect “all its citizens and all Jews” after a large mob shouting antisemitic slogans stormed a Dagestan airport. Video footage on social media showed an angry crowd running through the airport in Makhachkala seeking people ...

Excitement in Spain as crown princess turns 18 tomorrow Spain’s Princess Leonor is about to turn 18, thrusting her into the spotlight as heir to the throne and raising questions about the role she will play as an adult royal. ...

Kenya is to end visa requirements to all African visitors by the end of the year, President William Ruto has said “It is time we… realise that having visa restrictions amongst ourselves is working against us,” he told an international ...

Two middle-aged men at Baban Gwari Roundabout on Katsina road in Kano, lost their lives after being trapped and suffocated inside a reservoir tank. The Public Relation Officer (PRO), Kano State Fire Service, PFS Saminu Yusuf Abdullahi, made this known ...

Police in India are investigating a series of explosions which killed three people at a Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting in the southern state of Kerala. More than 50 others were injured in the blasts on Sunday at an event held by ...

A Nigerian lady has been saved from committing suicide. The lady was seen at the edge of a bridge while attempting to jump into a river due to hardship in the country. She was later talked out of it by ...

About 26 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have suspended the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Martins Amaehwule Also, the House elected and inaugurated the leader of the House, Edison Ehie, as its new Speaker. The number ...

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential contender in the February 2023 election, has stated that history will ultimately vindicate him. He said this on Monday, October 30, while addressing the press, days after the Supreme Court judgment affirming ...

Barely eight months after kidnappers invaded Grow Homes Estate, along Kuchibiyi in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and abducted no fewer than nine residents, they returned on Thursday night and captured three persons The victims – ...

  The Lagos State Government has reopened Alaba International Market and some sections of the Trade Fair Complex in Ojo, Lagos, which were shut due to issues related to improper waste disposal and other environmental violations. This was made known ...

Israel allegedly cuts internet, communications across Gaza The Hamas government said Israel “cut communications and most of the internet” across the Gaza Strip on Friday. The government’s media office accused Israel of taking the measure “to perpetrate massacres with bloody ...

Petrol tanker explodes during offloading at petrol station No fewer than 20 people sustained various degrees of injuries following a tanker explosion at a petrol station in the Rigasa area of Kaduna State. Mr Paul Aboi, Director of Kaduna State ...

Adeleke congratulates Tinubu on his Supreme Court victory Governor Ademola Adeleke has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on the affirmation of his election by the Supreme Court, saying the time to unite for Nigeria is now. The apex court on Thursday ...

The House of Representatives want Federal Government to auction all police barracks across Nigeria The House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to auction all police barracks across the country. The lawmakers also asked the Ministry of Interior ...