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  Police have arrested a 34-year-old Nigerian national, Chiduziem Ukaegbu, for illegal stay in Goa, India.   Anjuna police picked up the accused from his residence at Siolim on Saturday, January 28, 2023.   According to Mapusa SDPO, Jivba Dalvi, police received ...

  Singer, Paul Okoye aka Rudeboy has tackled the Nigerian Senate for calling for the extension of the deadline of the swapping of the redesigned Naira notes.   Worried by the scarcity of the newly redesigned notes to common Nigerians, ...

  Two Nigerian nationals have been reportedly killed in Johannesburg, South Africa at the weekend.   Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report, however, it was gathered that one of the deceased identified ...

  A Nigerian activist, Marvin Mordi has expressed shock after he allegedly spotted a newly married woman sneaking out of a hotel room in Asaba with another man.   “Fear married women in Asaba most of them knack more than ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the exchange of old naira notes by 10 days.   This was disclosed in a press statement issued today January 29. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, said the ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced a further extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards PVCs by one week.   INEC had earlier extended the deadline for the collection of PVCs to January ...

  Abuja-Kaduna train services have been suspended by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) after a train derailed on the corridor.   The train which was a few minutes from its destination in Abuja derailed on Friday afternoon, January 27.   In a ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he joined the Nigerian army where he retired as a Major General, to escape the pressure of getting married. The President revealed this during a visit to the Emir of Daura, Faruk Faruk, ...

An angry patient threw urine at nurses who were sitting in a canteen gossiping after he spent 4 hours waiting to be attended to at a clinic in South Africa.   In a video shared on social media, the man can be ...

  The governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Adamawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Maina is dead.   Maina died on Wednesday, January 25, after a brief illness in Abuja. National Publicity Secretary of the NRM, Olusola Afuye, who made the announcement ...

This was announced in a statement by his son, Dr Uche Ikonne. The Abia State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Prof Uche Ikonne, has passed on. This was announced in a statement by his son, Dr Uche Ikonne, on Wednesday. ...

  Workers of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO), have called off the industrial strike they embarked upon in the early hours of Monday. The industrial action caused chaos at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from 4am on ...

  Two Nigerian nationals, Akuchie Ifeanyi Franklin and Fidel Ndubuisi, have been arrested in India for alleged involvement in online fraud.   The cyber police in Kerala arrested Akuchie, from Bengaluru on Monday, January 23, 2023, following a complaint by a Nallalam ...

  The Police Service Commission (PSC) has described as false an online report claiming that it endorsed the tenure elongation of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba. The rebuttal was contained in a statement by the Head, Press and ...

  A dad allegedly shot dead his 14-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself after a call to his estranged wife.   Ava Wood, a ninth-grader at Durgee Junior High School in Baldwinsville, was discovered in her bed Friday, Jan. ...

  The Nigerian Army says gunmen disturbing the peace of the South-East region of the country cannot stop the 2023 general elections in the region because the Army has greater ways of tackling them. The Commanding Officer, 24 Support Engineering ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has declared TODAY, Tuesday, January 24, 2023 sit-at-home to press home for the unconditional release of the group’s leader Nnamdi Kanu. In a press release by the group, the IPOB said the sit-at-home ...

  President Buhari has said that he has not disappointed Nigerians in fulfilling all of the campaign promises he made in the 2015 and 2019 elections.   A statement released by presidential aide, Femi Adesina, says the President stated this ...

  Prof. Folagbade Aboaba, an Assistant General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has passed on at the age of 90.   Aboaba died on Monday morning after a brief illness. National chairman of the Nigeria Institute of Agricultural Engineers, ...

  The family of six and two other persons killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen have been laid to rest in Benue State. The assailants attacked a community opposite Abagana Internally Displaced Persons camp in Makurdi, on Thursday night, January 19, 2023, ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has been ordered to “immediately” charge Tukur Mamu to court if any offense related to his alleged involvement in ransom negotiation on behalf of terrorists is discovered. This is according to Justice Edward Andow, ...

  Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has approved two free days for public and civil servants, including primary and secondary school students in the state to enable them retrieve their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) ahead of the 2023 general ...

With the 2023 election just a little over one month away, the safety of Lagosian, especially voters in the state during the exercise may land in the hands of criminals after the threat by the State Command of the Nigeria ...

Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 33-year-old man, Tunde Kareem, for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old daughter. The command also apprehended another suspect, Amos Michael, aged 46, who defiled a 10-year-old girl ...

A 32-year-old man identified as Kyle J. Tyler, has been arrested by the police in US state of Kansas, for intentionally setting a house on fire and killing its occupants. Genny L. Fitzpatrick, 30, Peyton L. Tyler, 9, and Kourtney K. ...