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  Police have launched an investigation after Italian footballer Gabriele Gallani died in Amsterdam after falling into a canal. The 24-year-old, who captained ASD Piccardo Traversetolo, died in hospital on Saturday morning after being rescued from the canal by emergency ...

  Two fleeing inmates of the Kuje Correctional Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, have been arrested in Adamawa State. The Adamawa State Police Command said on Monday that it arrested the two inmates who were among those ...

  Gunmen have reportedly killed six people in Akpete village in Apa Local Government Area of Benue State. A local, who identified himself simply as Joseph, told Daily Trust correspondent on the telephone that the incident happened on Saturday evening after the ...

  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has said that the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, came to Lagos with nothing about 45 years ago, but he is now Africa’s richest man. “Dangote came to Lagos with nothing ...

  At least 19 of the 20 people who died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire were children, officials said on Monday, after a blaze tore through the building in the Caribbean country of Guyana. Fourteen children died at the ...

Nigeria’s profile in the global oil industry will be boosted today as President Muhammadu Buhari leads five other African Presidents to inaugurate Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals. The Presidents are Faure Gnassingbé (Togo), Nana Akufo-Addo(Ghana); Macky Sall (Senegal), Mohamed Bazoum ...

A former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has called on Nigerians and members of the incoming 10th National Assembly not to assess him using his brief tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Akpabio said he preferred to ...

  No fewer than four persons have been confirmed dead following an explosion from a shop of a local welder in Isa Local Government Area in the troubled eastern senatorial district of Sokoto State. The Spokesman of Sokoto State Police ...

  A 30-year-old pregnant woman, Eucheria Ndigwe, is currently in the custody of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing her teenage maid, Chinaze Aneme, in Lagos for failing to wash her bag. Policemen arrested the suspect following a ...

  Police spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe told newsmen on Sunday in Warri, Delta that the 34-year-old suspect was nabbed on Thursday during a raid on her premises. He said police operatives acted on actionable intelligence gathered about the illicit activities ...

  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom at the SAHCO export shed of the ...

  The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has directed its members to resume work today (Monday) following a five-day nationwide warning strike embarked upon by its members. NARD, after its three-hour Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting, however, said it would ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted the general public of the alleged move by some governors and other politicians accused of corruption to flee the country ahead of the May 29 handover. EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren raised ...

The private jet of the two-term governor of Lagos State landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 2.15pm where he was welcomed by his supporters, party members and some governors. Among the delegation were his Vice-President-elect, ...

  Carrie Johnson, the wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced on Friday that she is “weeks away” from having their third baby. “New team member arriving in just a few weeks,” Carrie posted on Instagram, with a ...

  The President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari(retd), has approved the appointment of Toyin Madein as the substantive Accountant-General of the Federation. This was contained in a statement, dated May 19, 2023, which was signed by the Director, Communications, Office of the ...

  As preparations for the May 29 inauguration ceremony of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are underway, the Federal Government has directed security agencies to cordon off Federal Secretariat Complexes Phases l, Il, Ill and Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

  The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig Gen YD Ahmed, has said the discharge certificate being paraded by Enugu State Governor-elect, Peter Mbah, was not issued by the body. Brig Gen Ahmed, while appearing on Arise ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the new N21 billion Presidential/VIP Wing of the State House Medical Centre located within the precincts of Presidential Villa in Abuja. Speaking at the brief inauguration ceremony, First Lady Aisha Buhari, who accompanied her ...

Founder of new generation bank, FCMB, Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun, is dead. According to reports, Balogun reportedly died in London on Friday morning at the age of 89. He was Otunba Tunwase of Ijebuland before his death. As a ranking ...

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt will on the 5th of June, 2023 deliver judgment on the murder case filed by the Rivers State Government against the General Overseer of a new generation Church in Oyigbo Local ...

  A Federal High court sitting at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital has remanded two suspected smugglers, Felarun Oluwasegun and Fakore in a correctional facility for attacking operatives of the Ikeja Zone “A” Federal Operations Unit of Nigeria Customs ...

  A police officer on duty has died in a road accident reportedly caused by a speeding truck belonging to the Dangote Cement factory in Ogun State. Five other persons were injured in the crash around Saiten Petrol Station along ...

  The United States of America has said that none of its citizens was affected in the Tuesday Anambra attack on its Consulate staff convoy. Four staff members of the United States Embassy in Nigeria were shot dead in the ...

In a viral video on social media, the reality star was seen breaking down in tears as she bade her British husband goodbye. The mother of one dressed in all black with her daughter and held tightly to his coffin. ...