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General sentenced for stealing $2.1m, N1.65b belonging to Nigerian Army Nigerian Army Special Court-martial sitting in Abuja yesterday sentenced a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj.-Gen. Umar Mohammed, to seven years’ imprisonment for stealing $2,178,900 and ...

  Official: DANGOTE crashes Cement Price to 2410 naira. Dangote Cement Plc on Sunday announced the reduction of the price of its cement product to N2,410 perbag promo starting from Monday, October 2, 2023. It said the promo price reduction ...

  Major Airlines Suspend Flights To Israel Major airlines have suspended flights to Israel after the nation declared war following a massive attack by Hamas. American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines suspended service as the US State Department ...

Men of the Edo State Police Command have arrested one Felix Iloghevbo for allegedly defiling his seven-year-old daughter.   The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.   He said the suspect committed ...

Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has regained his freedom from the Beninese authorities after two years of trial. The embattled agitator said on Sunday he was now legally free to leave Cotonou, capital of the ...

The Lagos state government has sealed off a popular nightclub, Silk Club, located at 190, Awolowo Road in Ikoyi, over noise pollution. Tokunbo Wahab, the state’s commissioner for environment and water resources, on Saturday made this known via his X handle. The commissioner ...

  The Federal Government through the Association of Power Generation Companies has grown the power capacity of the national grid from 13, 000megawatts recorded a few years ago to about 14,000 MW.   APGC’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Joy Ogaji, while ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine. Chukwuemeka claimed he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough ...

Olumide Akpata, a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), has revealed he is a cancer survivor. He used the occasion of his 51st birthday on Sunday to narrate his experience as a cancer survivor as well as his ...

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, has vowed not to let Nigerians and President Bola Tinubu down, in his determination to bring the lasting peace to the country by fighting the insecurity to a standstill. Musa also reaffirmed to ...

Buhari’s minister, Dalung says he failed Nigerians Solomon Dalung, a former Minister of Sports and Youth Development,  has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari is living in regret after his allies “dragged his name in the mud.” Dalung, who served ...

The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Akwa Ibom State has remained high. Akwa Ibom had in successive years maintained the number one position as a state with the highest burden of HIV in Nigeria, with 5.5%, according to Nigeria HIV/AIDs Indicator and ...

Four persons have died in the early hours of Monday along the Lagos-Ibadan highway, Ogun State. The fatal crash occurred at about 12:45am, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) told newsmen in a statement. According to the FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence ...

  The Catholic Church in Benin, Edo State on Saturday issued the needed edict to enhance the cause for the beatification and canonisation of 14-years-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu, who was shot dead on November 15, 2009, by armed men for ...

A mentally unstable man in Adamawa State has killed nine people and injured three others. Details obtained Friday evening have it that the man, Ali Denham, armed with a bow and arrow, went wild against his victims. Sources said the ...

  Court sentences Mike Ozekhome’s kidnappers to 20 years imprisonment A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced two of the four defendants alleged to have kidnapped Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to a 20-year-jail term each. Justice ...

  112,351 passports uncollected across Nigeria – NIS The Acting Comproller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Wura-Ola Adepoju, says 112,351 passport booklets are yet to be collected by applicants across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT. Adepoju, who said this ...

  Unpaid salaries: MAPOLY workers embark on strike Workers at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Ogun State, have commenced an indefinite strike over their unpaid three months salaries. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), the Senior Staff Association of ...

A 16-year-old Quranic pupil, Al-amin Babatunde Sulyman, has been declared missing in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. Al-amin, a student of Zamratul Arabic School in the Okekere area of Ilorin metropolis, was last seen on September 23, 2023, on his way to the ...

The family of four-year-old Mirabel Ilemoh, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (childhood cancer), is desperately seeking N5,914,610 million for treatment. The treatment is for chemotherapy to save little Mirabel who is currently in a sick bed. Research shows that acute lymphoblastic ...

The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Jos, has warned that the death penalty for corrupt public officers, as suggested in some quarters, would not curb corruption in Nigeria. The institution said that instead, Nigeria should embrace ...

Kidnapped CAC members regain freedom after N50m ransom Barely a week after their abduction, members of the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Igan, Akure, Ondo State have been set free on Thursday evening. It was gathered that the victims were released ...

The Ogun State government has lifted a curfew imposed on Sagamu town following deadly clashes between rival cult groups last month According to a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, (SSG) Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, the improved security situation ...

NURTW appoints MC Oluomo as Southwest acting chairman The leadership and members of National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW) have unanimously appointed Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya as the Acting chairman of Zone 2 of the union. This is just as the union also ...

  Communal clash: Osun Govt imposes curfew Following the killings and destruction of property that trailed the communal clash between Ilobu, headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area and Ifon, headquarters of Orolu Council, Governor Ademola Adeleke has imposed 24-hour curfew ...