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  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. ...

No fewer than 26 suspects have been arrested over the recent killings and arson in Ekoli Edda Community, in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Among those arrested were the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, ...

  Police Officer Dies A Year After Posting About What Will Happen After His De@th 😭 Davidson Rotshak Lar, a cleric and Superintendent of Police in the Nigeria Police Force has died one year after posting about what will happen ...

  As we kick off the New Year 2023, it’s essential to mark the various public holidays that will be celebrated across Nigeria. The Ministry of Interior, through the federal government, has declared certain days as public holidays, which means ...

  Abducted Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu, has been beheaded. Ohizu was kidnapped alongside two others on Friday, January 20, from his country home at Imoko community in Arondizuogu area by ...

  A Kenyan woman named Agnes Maina has opened up about how she lost her husband to her younger sister. Speaking to TUKO.co.ke’s Yvonne Kawira, the mother of three said that she grew up in abject poverty and never got a ...

Vigilantes in Zuba town in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested a suspect identified as Bello Yellow, who is allegedly linked to the March 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The suspect was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, January 22, ...

    Ten people have died and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a dance club in a largely Asian city in southern California, police said Sunday, with the suspect still at large hours later. ...