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  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. ...

  Tesla CEO Elon Musk last night condemned working from home as ‘morally wrong’, saying the practice is unfair for service workers who still have to show up. Musk, who is worth $175.8 billion and is the second richest person ...

  The Mexico State Court found Monday that while Roxana Ruiz had been r3ped, she was guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense,” adding that hitting her attacker in the head would have been enough to defend herself. ...

  The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Lamidi Apapa, who was mobbed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on Wednesday, has thanked God for saving his ...

  The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a lady, Olufunmilayo Brioluwa, for allegedly assaulting a police officer in the Ogombo area of the state. Lagos police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the development via a tweet on Tuesday ...

  The immediate past chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, has called on Northerners to desist from politics and embrace agriculture as a business. Ogbe said politics has never ...

  Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to details of a call between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Recall that Blinken during a call with Tinubu on Wednesday assured the Nigerian President-elect of the U.S. ...

  There was confusion in the early hours of Wednesday when the Ijora bridge, a major Access road leading to the Apapa Port, caved in, causing serious traffic gridlock out of the port and crippling businesses. Officials of the Lagos ...