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  Two men, Tunde Okunuga, 33, and John Solomon, 19 – on Thursday appeared before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for allegedly damaging a glass door of a branch of Shoprite located on Ring Road, Ibadan. The defendants, whose residential ...

  An Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has remanded a 16-year-old boy, Lekan Mustapha; and his guardian, Zulum Yisa, over alleged kidnapping. The teenager told the court that they had kidnapped no fewer than ...

  The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, disclosed that last Saturday’s presidential was controversial and programmed to deliver pre-determined results. He said the election did not meet the necessary requirements and could not be adjudged credible. The ...

  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, has advanced reasons the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won in Lagos State during last Saturday’s presidential poll despite the state being the fortress of the All Progressives Congress ...

  The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has appealed to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded election, Bola Tinubu, to ensure he doesn’t disappoint Nigerians and the people of Africa after been declared ...

  A yet-to-be-identified male adult has slumped and died during an argument over a parking space at a supermarket on Admiralty Way, in the Lekki area of Lagos State. Punch Metro learnt that the deceased, a driver, went to the ...

  President Emmanuel Macron of France has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on his electoral victory in the Feb. 25 election. Tinubu confirmed this development when he fielded questions from newsmen after presenting his Certificate of Return to President ...

  The United States on Wednesday congratulated Nigeria on the election of ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, while calling for calm amid accusations of voter fraud and concerns over technical glitches.   Tinubu was declared the winner Tuesday of ...

  The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has rejected the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission after last Saturday’s presidential election. The body said the results released were marred with “monumental irregularities” and failure of the commission to follow its ...

  The vice president of Nigeria and presidential aspirant, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has congratulated the newly elected presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Osinbajo in a statement on Thursday said Tinubu’s sterling contributions to Nigeria’s ...

  A gardener at one of the private universities in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has been arrested for alleged cultism and for being in possession of ammunition. In a statement on Thursday, So-Safe State Commander, Soji Ganzallo, said the ...

  United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has congratulated President-elect Bola Tinubu on the heels of the just concluded presidential election. Both the UK and Nigeria share a longstanding relationship that has withstood the latter’s over-62-year independence from the former. ...

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that his government still intends to hold elections a month earlier than scheduled despite an earthquake last month that devastated parts of southern Turkey. In an address to legislators of his ...

French football legend Just Fontaine has passed away at the age of 89. Fontaine – who was born in Morocco but represented France internationally – is best known for scoring the most goals in a single World Cup after he ...

  The Senate has congratulated the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mr Bola Tinubu on his victory in the just concluded 2023 presidential elections. After a keenly contested race, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu of the ...

  The Labour Party, LP, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, will address Nigerians following the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.   ...

  The Kaduna State Police Command has banned all political celebrations and rallies for or against the election results of the state’s concluded presidential and National Assembly elections. The ban was placed on all supporters of political parties across the ...

  Twitter is now back and running after suffering a global outage on Wednesday morning, with thousands of users unable to refresh or load their timeline feeds The users reported the outage on the Down Detector website, a website that ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Nigeria will be witnessing severe flooding this year as indicated by predictions from relevant agencies. Mr Mustapha Ahmed, the Director-General, NEMA, predicted on Wednesday during a two-day Experts’ Technical Meeting on 2023 Climate-Related ...

  Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, to 21 years in prison for r3ping his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The 37-year-old Prophet, a native of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom Local government area, ...

  The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Wednesday, vowed to reclaim the party’s mandate, noting that he and the LP candidate, Peter Obi, won the election. He made this known in a statement he ...

  The Chief Magistrates’ Court III in Bauchi has remanded the publisher of a Bauchi-based investigative online newspaper, Wikki Times, Haruna Mohammed, in correctional custody for allegedly inciting public disturbance and blackmailing of the state governor, Bala Mohammed. The police ...

  The police in Kano have arraigned Al-Hassan Ado Doguwa, the lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tundun Wada Federal Constituency, in connection with the killings in his constituency during the last Saturday’s elections. Doguwa was arrested on Tuesday at Malam Aminu Kano International ...

  Charly Boy, has called on Nigerian youths to be calm and not to overreact to the “annoying” 2023 election results declared by INEC. Mr Oputa, who reacted to the gathering of some youths at the Unity Fountain, said the ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented the Certificate of Return to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. INEC National Chairman, Yakubu Mahmood presented the certificate of return to Tinubu and Shettima in Abuja ...