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  Former naval officer Dr Joseph Dituri is the first person to live that long that far underwater without depressurisation, with plans to remain in Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo until 9 June as part of a 100 day ...

  The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has declared a five-day warning strike following the failure of the Federal Government to meet its demands. The resident doctors said the strike will commence at 8 am on Wednesday, May 17, and ...

  Three men accused of murder and attempted murder were on Monday remanded to the Kirikiri Custodial Centre, Lagos. The defendants, Mukaila Nofiu, Wasiu Rasheed and Hassan Kazeem, were arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court for the alleged murder of ...

  A suspected terrorist in Keke community along Ibrahim Haske Road, Kaduna Millennium City, reportedly blew himself up with Improvised Explosive Device (IED) when security operatives closed in on him and he found it impossible to evade arrest. A source ...

  The United States Government has said it had taken steps to impose visa restrictions on specific individuals in Nigeria for undermining the democratic process during Nigeria’s 2023 elections cycle. This was made known in a statement by the Secretary ...

  An articulated truck conveying a 40ft container on Monday fell on a Toyota car along the Cement bus stop inward Dopemu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident happened at about 4 pm on Monday. There ...

  Twenty-five (25) drug suspects have been apprehended by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in different raids in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Femi Babafemi, the spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, in a statement on ...

  A woman identified as Zainab Ibrahim, at the Kpaduma ll area of Asokoro in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Saturday, died while separating a fight that ensued between her two sons, Inusa and Usman. It was gathered that ...

  Four staff members of a Microfinance Bank are presently in the Police net for the alleged murder of a debtor’s wife in Ogun state. The staff members of ZEFA Microfinance Bank, Abule Ijoko Lemode of Ifo Local Government Area ...

  The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has reiterated its zero tolerance for the collection of illegal fees for the issuance of passports. The Public Relations Officer, Comptroller of Immigration Tony Akuneme said 80 officers are on trial for extortion and ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has given banks and other financial institutions a 30-day timeline to close accounts without Bank Verification (BVN). Data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) showed that 57.39 million customers’ accounts have been ...

  Maybach unexpectedly catches fire as owner was on his way to bury twin in Ghana It was indeed a tragic incident when a Mercedes Maybach S caught fire while on his way to a funeral at Asamankese in the ...

  A treasury staff at the Bauchi State Treasury Board attached to the office of the Head of Civil Service, Yakubu Sakwa, and his two sons have been killed in a lone auto crash. The Punch learnt that they were ...

  Texas mother of killed 2-year-old girl says child’s father Facetimed her while he was choking their daughter Damn! This story is too cringey! The mother of a 2-year-old Texas girl who authorities say was killed by her father said ...

  The Kogi State House of Assembly has suspended nine mebers. The Assembly equally suspended nine Local Government Chairman in the state. This is ongoing. We will bring you details shortly.

  The home of Nigerian comedian and content creator, Ayo Ajewole, popularly known as Woli Agba, has been invaded by armed robbers in Ibadan, Oyo State. Ajewole, who made this known on his Instagram page today, thanked God that he ...

  The Kano State Hisbah Board has deployed personnel to mosques to ensure the safety of lives and property during the Holy month of Ramadan. This is contained in a statement by the board’s spokesman Ibrahim Lawan, on Thursday in ...

A former Speaker of Gombe State House of Assembly, Nasiru Nono, has died in an auto crash along Abuja-Keffi expressway, on Thursday. Confirming the passage of Nono, the former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Buba Shanu, ...

  Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State has accepted his defeat in the March 18 governorship election. The incumbent governor was defeated by the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Dauda Lawal Dare. The governor in an audio message to the people ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, arrested 28 persons including a cleric suspected to be “Yahoo-Yahoo boys” in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital. The arrest, which was effected at Mandate Area, Ilorin, by operatives of the EFCC ...

  The Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika has said the proposed national carrier, Nigeria Air will fly before May 29th, 2023. The Minister also said the project was 98 percent completed. He stated this in Abuja on Thursday during ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday suspended former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose; former president of the Senate, Pius Anyim; Prof Dennis Ityavyar and Aslam Aliyu. The suspension, which takes effect on Thursday, was arrived at after an ...

  Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. The Nigerian politician, his wife, Beatrice, ...

  The Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says he is going to pay the hospital bills of his supporters who were injured during the violence recorded in last Saturday’s elections in the state. Rhodes-Vivour, who had ...

  A Nigerian man is not a happy person at the moment after buying a p3nis enlargement cream from an Instagram vendor. Instead of his P3nis to get enlarged like he rightly wanted, it got BLEACHED instead! This is not ...