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The huge python was found in their vicinity and was later killed with a shotgun. Sharing a video of the reptile, an X user @Realolaudah wrote; ‘’Since last night, when a python was killed in Dolphin Estate, there are so ...

The Lagos State Government has issued a 7-day ‘Vacation Order’ to truck and commercial bus drivers operating on bridges. Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, issued the vacation order on Monday. Giwa said the vehicles have ...

Workers of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) have shut down the head office of the service in Abuja, protesting against the appointment of Tola Odeyemi as Chief Executive Officer/Post Master General. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Presidential spokesman, had announced last week that President Bola Tinubu ...

  Pope Francis on Sunday called for humanitarian corridors to help those under siege in Gaza and again appealed for the release of hostages held by the militant Islamist group Hamas. “I forcefully ask that children, the sick, the elderly and ...

President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said Israel must eliminate the Hamas terror group but rejected reoccupying the Gaza Strip. Biden made this known in an interview with CBS on Sunday, stressing that reoccupying the Gaza Strip would be ...

A bride-to-be has committed suicide after her husband-to-be died a week before their wedding. The wedding was supposed to hold on Oct. 22, 2023 but the groom sadly passed a week to the date. The heartbroken bride then committed suicide the same ...

Nigeria’s inflation rate has climbed to 26.72 per cent, marking a 0.92 per cent increase from the previous month’s 25.80 per cent. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed this on Monday via its latest Consumer Price Index report for September 2023. It was ...

Remi Tinubu visits Lagos GAC chairman, Tajudeen Olusi over demise of wife The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has paid a condolence visit to the Chairman of the Governors Advisory Council, GAC in Lagos State ...

  Family Of Late London-bound Nigerian Student Announces Burial Plans, Decries Egypt Air Nonchalance The family of the late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, 41, a Nigerian citizen who died aboard Egypt Air on September 4, 2023, in Cairo on her way ...

Governor Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina has pledged to sacrifice his life to end banditry in the state. In a BBC Hausa interview, the governor said security is a top priority, saying that was why a law was passed to ...

Appeal Court sacks Senator Ishaku Abbo The Court of Appeal, Abuja has sacked the Senator representing Adamawa North, Senator Elisha Abbo. Delivering judgment on Monday, the three-member panel presided over by Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission ...

Again, Lagos reopens Ladipo Market The Lagos State Government has reopened Ladipo Market, Mushin, after meeting the most essential criteria set for reopening sealed markets. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, said this in a ...

  The Federal Government is projecting the sum of N26 trillion as estimates for the 2024 appropriation budget with the hope of submitting the proposal to the national assembly before December 31, 2023. The Minister of Planning and Budget, Atiku ...

“So the first thing we did was to dismantle the market in the median, and then three weeks ago, we carried out a deliberate action of demolishing brothels numbering over 160 rooms and shanties in     The Abia government ...

The ousted Adamawa North senator, Elisha Abbo, has alleged that Senate President Godswill Akpabio has a hand in the Appeal Court ruling which removed him from office. Abbo, who was reacting to the court’s ruling, claimed that four other senators ...

A businessman in Abia state has lost his life when a 40ft container fell on his car in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The man who has been identified as Akuma Kalu, was crushed to death on Thursday, ...

A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan – several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the magnitude 6.3 quake struck near the city of Herat. It was at a ...

Lagos seals hospital for transfusing unscreened blood Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service, LSBTS, said it has shut a private Hospital, located at Ago-Okota, in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly collecting and transfusing unscreened blood. The Executive ...

Nigerian Senate President, Godswill Akpabio is now the Aare Fiwagboye of Yewaland He was conferred with the Chieftaincy title over the weekend in Yewaland, Ogun State. He was conferred with the title by the Olu and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland Oba ...

  Pastor, three others arrested with human skull in Ogun The police in Ogun state have arrested a pastor with the Christ Liberty Evangelism Church, Rosco, Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Oyenekan Oluwaseyi, and three others for being in possession of a ...

The Lagos State Government on Monday said following full compliance with prescribed environmental standards and safety measures it has ordered immediate reopening of Mile 12 International Market. Mile 12 International Market was sealed along with Owode Onirin Market for sundry environmental ...

Police operatives and their counterparts in the Directorate of State Security (DSS) have stormed Ondo Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The armed security operatives stationed their vehicles outside the secretariat. Spokesman for the Ondo PDP, Kennedy Peretei, said ...

The Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has apprehended a fake doctor, Mohammed Nasiru Mode, who had been working with Yariman Bakura Special Hospital in Gusau, the State capital. The Commandant of the Corps, ...

  The Kano State Government on Friday conducted a mass wedding of 1,800 couples comprising widows, divorcees, and spinsters selected from across the 44 local government areas of the state. A total of 3,600 men and women have tied the knot under ...

Ogun state Governor, Dapo Abidun today, Friday, 13th of October, 2023, swore in 20 commissioners and 22 special advisers into his cabinet. The appointees were sworn in at the Obas Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, following the approval of the Ogun State ...