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Jaw-dropping video captured a ginormous alligator sauntering through an upscale Florida community to the horror of residents. WINK meteorologist Matt Devitt posted footage on Facebook of the big animal waddling across the road at the Forest Glen Golf & Country ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 38 out of the 40 seats in the Lagos House of Assembly polls in the State.   Mrs Adenike Tadese, INEC’s Head of Department Voter Education ...

  STATES WINNER PARTY VOTES Abuja Abia Adamawa Akwa Ibom Umo Eno Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 354,348 votes Anambra ———- ——– ——— Bauchi Bala Mohammed People’s Democratic Party (PDP) 525,280 votes Bayelsa Benue Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia All Progressives Congress (APC) ...

  The Weeknd is officially the world’s most popular artist. Guinness shared the news yesterday (March 20). The famed record-keeping publication chalks the results up to statistics, noting the “Earned It” hitmaker has the most monthly listeners on Spotify at ...

  The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has formally filed his petition to the elections tribunal to protest the outcome of the February 25 poll. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Spokesperson of the ...

  A 24-year-old security guard, Barnabas Job, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 26-year-old housemaid, Thereza Ekibi. The spokesman of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the development to journalists on ...

The senator representing Enugu East Senatotial District, Chimaroke Nnamani, has announced his exit from the Peoples Democratic Party after he lost his senatorial bid to the Labour Party. Nnamani also expressed appreciation to his constituents for the unalloyed support over ...

  Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied involvement in the search for an organ donor for their ailing daughter, Sonia. Beatrice was last year arrested alongside her husband in the United Kingdom for ...

  An Akwa Ibom State High court sitting in Etinan Local Government Area of the State has sentenced one Moses Abdon Edo, aged 37, to death by hanging for killing his father, Abdon Peter Edo. The Court held that the ...

  The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has admitted that the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on 25 February were not perfect. Mr Adamu made this ...

  The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has notified its customers residing along Apo-Gudu, Abuja, that there will be annual preventive maintenance at the Gudu Injection Substation. The management of AEDC, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said the maintenance ...

  The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said a runway at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos State is being shut for eight weeks to carry out maintenance work. In a tweet on Monday, the ...

  Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has challenged his predecessors in the State to come out and swear thart they have never pilfered the state treasury. He said in an interview in Hausa monitored on a local TV and ...

  THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has justified the transfer of its director in charge of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Chidi Nwafor, who was transferred a few months before the 2023 general elections. Following the failure of INEC to ...

  THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, had restored the old N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes as Legal tender in the country. The CBN said it took the action “In compliance with the established tradition of obedience to court orders ...

  THE Cultural Credibility Development Initiative, CCDI, a think tank, has raised alarm over the premeditated plan to cause a violent crisis against the Igbos in Lagos state through disinformation and misinformation. Goddy Uwazurike, President General of the group, who ...

  PETER Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, has insisted that he won the election in which Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was declared winner. Speaking on the Morning Show of ...

  THE Appeal Court on Monday, reserved judgement to decide on the case by Senator Ademola Adeleke challenging the decision of an election petition tribunal which nullified his victory in the Osun governorship election. A three-member panel led by Justice ...

  Britain will give France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel. Rishi Sunak has committed to sending Paris £478 million – 541m euros – ...

  Scores of residents of the Olomo community in Apete, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, are currently in panic over the invasion by some armed robbers. Apete is one of the communities in the Ido Local Government Area in Oyo State. ...

  The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed an attack on Grow Homes Estate along Kuchibiyi in the Kubwa area of the nation’s capital by gunmen yet to be identified. According to reports, the gunmen numbering about 20, had ...

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the March 18 election Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has alleged death threats and assassination attempts on his life. Rhodes-Vivour, better known as GRV, stated this on Sunday when he appeared on Arise Television. The ...

  Two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bauchi State, Aminu Umar Gadiya and Saleh Hussaini Gamawa have been convicted by a Federal High Court, Bauchi and sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences that bordered on conspiracy ...

  A bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists, as well as several children, police and a witness said. The blast came two days after a ...

  A popular presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station, Fresh FM Nigeria, popularly known as Baba Bintin, has been reported dead after he slumped on his way to the radio station for his programme on Saturday morning. As gathered by ...