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  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed the arrest of a Federal Bureau of Investigation impostor, Ifechukwu Makwe, for allegedly defrauding a Spaniard of €5.7m. The Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement, said Makwe ...

  A Police Inspector in Kaduna State has been arrested for attempting to kill his colleague at Kafanchan in the Jemaa Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement by the spokesman for the Command, DSP Muhammed Jalige, ...

  Members of the Boko Haram sect, popularly known as ‘Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād’, terrorists group have eliminated one of its Amir Jaysh (Leader), Abou Hassana, over alleged rebellion accusations. It was gathered that Abou Hassana was eliminated along ...

  Following public outcry over the chaotic traffic situation on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the Federal Government, yesterday, suspended further work on the ongoing reconstruction. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, in a statement, said the suspension ...

  President Bola Tinubu has returned to Lagos from his international trips to Paris and London respectively. The President, on Tuesday, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at exactly 05:13pm. Tinubu was received by supporters and high-ranking ...

  Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio secured victory in the West African country’s presidential election with more than 56% of the votes to avoid a run-off against main rival Samura Kamara, the electoral commission said on Tuesday.   Bio, ...

  Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that leading a country like Nigeria is one of the hardest challenges in life. Buhari, who stated this in his Sallah message via a statement issued by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, saluted ...

  Sanwo-Olu, wife voted with invalid voter cards, witness tells tribunal A witness, Dayo Israel, appeared before the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday and revealed that the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his wife, Ibijoke, were ...

  The World Bank Group has approved a loan of $500m to help Nigeria drive women’s empowerment. This became the second loan approved by the World Bank under the new President, Bola Tinubu. It is a scale-up financing for Nigeria ...

  A six-man mob has beaten a Naval officer, Akingbohun M, attached to the Navy Secondary School, Imeri, Ose local government area of Ondo State to death. The incident, which happened on Monday, at Idoani, was reported by a friend ...

  Actor Yul Edochie has begged President Bola Tinubu, who he described as a father to release leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. On June 29, 2021, former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of ...

  The Ogun State Commander of the Amotekun Corps, David Akinremi is dead. Akinremi, a retired Commissioner of Police, was said to have died yesterday evening. It was gathered that Akinremi had been nursing an undisclosed ailment for quite some ...

  The bodies of the three medical students who were missing when a boat conveying 14 of them capsized on Saturday in the Calabar waterways have now been recovered from the waters. The search continued throughout Sunday afternoon when it was ...

  Protesters storm EFCC headquarters, demand arrest of Zamfara ex-governor Matawalle Dozens of Zamfara residents, on Monday, staged a protest at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, accusing the agency of being complicit in ...

  The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) denied the planned tariff increase that was supposed to be implemented from July 1, 2023. On Sunday, the DisCo released a statement indicating that, according to the MYTO 2022 guidelines, the previously set ...

  IGP again! Orders all police convoys to obey traffic rules Man like Egbetokun! The acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has issued a directive ordering all police convoys to henceforth, as a matter of compulsion, obey all traffic regulations. ...

  A Danish court has sentenced ex-Eaglets star and FC Copenhagen of Denmark forward Akinkunmi Amoo to one year in prison for s.e.xual assault. The news of his sentencing was confirmed in a tweet by former BBC World Football reporter, ...

  Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Gabriel Okon Ekpiri, a native of Ekit Itam Akpan Obong community in Itu Local Government Area of the state, for selling his nine-year-old son for the sum of N400,000. The command’s ...

  Oil-rich Gabon will hold presidential, legislative and local elections on August 26, the West African country said Tuesday, with President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s strong favourite to win against a divided opposition. Bongo has not yet said whether he will ...

Ahead of the Eid el-Adha festival on Wednesday, Islamic clerics have advised Muslims to shun desperation, but celebrate the festival within their means. The clerics, who spoke to The Punch, urged Muslims to seek Allah’s pleasure with the resources available ...

  Alhaji Idirissu Amin, aka Idi Amin, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council and ally of ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, is dead. Family sources told Daily Trust that the deceased, who was the immediate past chairman ...

  Vigilante leader wanted over murder of two soldiers is arrested Police operatives in Rivers have arrested one Nyeche Ajuru, a leader of the disbanded OSPAC vigilante group who was declared wanted over alleged murder of two soldiers and seizure ...

  YouTuber MrBeast has claimed he was invited on the doomed Titan submersible that imploded on its way down to see the Titanic. MrBeast shared a text in a Twitter post on Sunday that appears to show that he was ...

  Nuhu Ribadu has formally taken over from Maj Gen Monguno as the National Security Adviser. President Bola Tinubu had last week appointed Ribadu as the NSA. He was earlier appointed as the Special Adviser on Security to Tinubu before ...

The Osun State Government has stated that it is unaware of any plans to subvert the death sentence on Dr Rahman Adedoyin. Describing the rumour making the rounds on social media as false, the state government, through a statement by ...