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  A Customary Court in Ado-Ekiti has dissolved a three-year-old marriage between a man, Pastor Oni Muyiwa and Madam Alabi Adejoke over wife-battering and threats to life. Muyiwa, a Pastor in one of the popular new-generation churches and a health ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has revoked the operating licences of 132 microfinance banks, four primary mortgage banks, and three finance companies in the country. The revocation exercise was disclosed in the official gazette of the Federal Government published ...

  A groom who revealed his newly wedded wife had been cheating on him with his best man got the ultimate revenge — revealing her disloyal ways to their guests during his wedding speech. The shocking wedding drama was shared ...

  The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has dissolved his cabinet ahead of his swearing-in ceremony on May 29, 2023. Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, will be sworn in for a second term of four years on May 29. The Head ...

  A popular Television preacher and motivational speaker, Reverend Mike Ochigbo, has been kidnapped by gunmen in Adamawa State. Ochigbo, who is the General Overseer of Freedom Power Chapel, was forced at gunpoint out of his home in the wee ...

  Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman of Kwara state has emerged as the new Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum. This is contained in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye Wednesday morning to journalists in Ilorin. According to ...

  Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has dismissed the possibility of defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, after leaving office. Ortom, however, vowed to support and work for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, as a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ...

  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has absolved himself of blame in the situation that led to the relocation of the $19bn Dangote refinery from Ogun State to Lagos. Abiodun, who confirmed that he was Chairman, Olokola Free Trade Zone, in Ogun ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has secured the conviction of one Ibrahim Musa Dabai on a one count charge bordering on tampering with Nigerian currency in Kano state. Dabai was arrested by officers of the National Drug ...

  Mrs Aisha Hanan, the daughter of outgoing President, Muhammadu Buhari, has taken to social media to celebrate her father. Hanan, shared a photo of her father on her IG page calling him a silent achiever. Buhari, in the final ...

No fewer than 35 students of Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, Osun State were rushed to the hospital after inhaling tear gas fired by mobile policemen in the early hours of Tuesday. The mobile policemen, Vanguard learnt, were conducting morning ...

  A California man who died after being hit by a car was seen helping a family of ducks cross the road moments before the collision, local police said. Casey Rivara, 41, left his vehicle before being struck by a ...

  Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has ordered all public officers holding political appointments to hand over their offices per established procedure. The directive is contained in a statement titled ‘Handover of Activates’ from the office of the secretary to the state ...

  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned Saadatu Ramalan-Yaro, a businesswoman, for the second time in Lagos State, two weeks after her first arraignment. The businesswoman was brought before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in ...

  The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday gave the pre-hearing report on three different petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. The court also presented the trial schedule. The chairman of the five-man panel of ...

  The United Kingdom has put in place a law that will see Nigerian students, and others studying in the UK from bringing family as dependents except under specific circumstances. This is as the UK government aims to bring immigration ...

  The driver of a bus along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway died alongside his motor boy after he reportedly dozed off and rammed into a parked truck. Daily Post reports that the incident happened around Saapade, inbound Lagos, at 6:30 am ...

  Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has approved the deposition of the traditional rulers of Piriga and Arak Chiefdoms, His Highness, Jonathan Paragua Zamuna and His Highness, General Aliyu Iliyah Yammah(retd.), with immediate effect. The state Commissioner of Local ...

  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 ...