The Metropolitan Police searching for a 53-year-old mother from London have found and confirmed the deceased’s body in a lake near Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent. Balogun from Crayford was last seen near her home in southeast London four ...
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Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the wife of the Lagos State Governor, welcomed triplets born on Sunday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, as the year’s first babies. Mrs Olufoye delivered three babies via cesarean section: a girl ...
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A ban on foreigners buying residential property in Canada took effect on Sunday, aiming to make more homes available to locals facing a housing crunch. Several exceptions in the act allow individuals such as refugees and permanent residents who are ...
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Two helicopters collided mid-air killing four people Monday on Australia’s Gold Coast tourism destination, officials said, with images showing one of the aircraft’s rotors lying on a sand bank. Three other people are in a critical condition, police said. ...
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A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi has revealed that a fresh strike by lecturers of public universities in the country cannot be ruled out in 2023. Ogunyemi disclosed this on Saturday while ...
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has officially endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as his candidate for the 2023 election. Obasanjo said this in his New Year message made available to newsmen yesterday. According to Obasanjo, Obi ...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Brazil returnee, Agbasi Prosper Chux. Chux was caught with 105 parcels of cocaine concealed in candies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The suspect was arrested on Christmas Day ...
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Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command, on Saturday, recovered arms, ammunition and a sum of $255,000 from fleeing suspects at a checkpoint along the Bode-Saadu expressway in the Moro Local Government Area of the state on New Year’s Eve. ...
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Assassins on Sunday murdered Kehinde Fatinoye, a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Fatinoye was killed alongside his wife, who was until the incident a Principal Confidential Secretary at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB. DailyPost ...
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Security operatives in Philippines have arrested a 36-year-old Nigerian man for illegal possession of drugs in the country. The Nigerian man suspected to be a member of the West African Drug Syndicate was arrested in a sting in Las Piñas ...
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has denied saying that the federal government was reviewing the salaries of public and civil servants. Ngige said the increase he alluded to with State House Correspondents in Abuja was on ...
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The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has appealed to parents to encourage their children and wards to pursue careers as police operatives in the country. According to the IGP, the Nigeria Police Force is one of the most ...
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed on. The Holy See Press Office announced that the 95-year-old Pope died at 9:34 am in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery on Saturday. He had chosen the Ecclesiae Monastery as ...
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An actress, Mellisa Osagie, has said that her boyfriend broke up with her because she acted in a bedroom role. In an interview with Saturday Beats, she said, “My boyfriend left me because I acted in a bedroom scene. ...
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The police in Ogun on Friday arrested two brothers, Ayomide Babatunde and Gbenga Babatunde who allegedly lured a woman and her nine-year-old son for ritual. The suspects were subsequently arrested following information received at the Oja Odan Divisional Police ...
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The Muslim Students’ of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit has mourned the death of six of the mothers of their members on Ijebu Ode-Ore Expressway. The deceased were buried at the Muslim Burial Ground, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. According to ...
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Two suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo boys, and two of their female colleagues have allegedly abducted another colleague over the sharing of the proceeds of fraud. The suspects were on Monday arrested by men of the Ogun State ...
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said it will demand at least N5billion compensation for the family of slain Lagos lawyer Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem. It will also monitor the trial of Assistant Superintendent, Drambi Vandi, who shot and killed ...
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The Kano State Hisbah Board has said it arrested about 2,260 beggars during its patrols from January to December 2022 for committing various crimes. The board explained that 386 beggars of the 1,269 arrested, were repatriated to their respective ...
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The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday quashed moves by the Department of State Services to invite, interrogate and charge the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele. The presiding Judge, Justice M.A. Hassan, considering the ...
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A Kano High Court on Thursday sentenced one Sagiru Abdullahi, 29, to death by hanging for stabbing his stepmother Zainab Dan’azumi, 55, to death. The court had earlier convicted Abdullahi of Kurmawa Quarters, Kano, on a one-count charge of ...
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Seven persons have been burnt to death along the Sagamu-Benin Expressway, emergency officials said on Wednesday. The accident occurred at the Odogbolu junction of the expressway after a Mazda bus – with registration number AGL 886 YD – suddenly went ...
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Families wept and kissed the tarmac at the main airport in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region as they reunited after being kept apart by war for more than 18 months. The emotional scenes followed the resumption of commercial flights between ...
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The US has become the latest country to impose Covid testing on visitors from China, after Beijing announced it would reopen borders next week. Italy, Japan, Taiwan and India also announced mandatory tests, but Australia and UK said there were ...
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The Senate will resume its 2023 plenary on January 17 after its Wednesday, December 28, 2022 session. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, announced this during today’s heated plenary where lawmakers debated on President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for consideration ...
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