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  Gunmen have killed Hon. Sale Yakubu Allawa, a councillor in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The Niger State Commissioner for Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar, confirmed the incident to Premium Times in a telephone interview ...

  Desperate efforts to bring into Nigeria 126.95 kilograms of cocaine and skunk concealed in herbal tea packs and imported vehicles by drug cartels from Brazil and Canada have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement ...

  Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have uncovered an armoury of suspected kidnappers at the Tudun Wada area of Liman Katagum in Bauchi Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Wakil, who disclosed ...

The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction. The Putin ally’s message on Sunday, January 22 comes after new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has been begging commercial banks to pick up the new Naira notes. The apex bank had redesigned N200, N500, and N1000 notes, saying the old ones will cease to be legal ...

  A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022, interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found ...

  The acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, SKB Ogbuagu, is dead. Ogbuagu collapsed during a town hall meeting of the governorship candidate of the party held at the Ezeagu ...

  The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed all abducted passengers at the Chief Tom Ikimi Railway Station Ekehen, in Igueben, Edo State have been released. In a statement by the NRC’s Deputy Director of Public Relations Mahmood Yakub, the ...

  An Enugu Chief Magistrates’ Court Grade 1, presided over by Mrs. U.I. Jideofor, Thursday remanded Mrs. Ujunwa Ugwuoke, in the Enugu Correctional Centre, for the alleged murder of nine-year-old Precious Korshima. The charge No. MEN/14C/2023 – Commissioner of Police ...

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will stand aside for a new leader within weeks, saying she doesn’t believe she has the energy to seek re-election in the October polls. Speaking at a news conference, Ardern ...

  Charity founder and investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace has revealed she doesn’t like ‘victimhood’ when asked about Meghan Markle saying she had suicidal thoughts. The 80-year-old, who founded mental health charity SANE inn 1986, said while she doesn’t like to ...

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has slammed the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Management Committee (PCC), Dino Melaye HARD for saying Tinubu is not a Muslim. MURIC asked the politician what right he has to make such ...

  Pensioners in Taraba State have resolved to embark on seven days intensive fasting against Governor Darius Ishaku. The pensioners, who made this known to media practitioners on Thursday in Jalingo, the State capital, said the exercise is geared towards ...

Six people, including three children, have died at a festival in India after their throats were sliced open by kite strings. Nearly 200 revellers were injured while they were flying kites during mid-air duels at the Uttarayan festival in the ...

A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reports today. Mehdi Hashemi, 53, left Tehran’s Evin prison late Tuesday, his lawyer ...

Microsoft is set to axe thousands of jobs, following in the footsteps of tech giants Amazon and Meta which have also announced huge cutbacks in recent months. The software giant, founded by billionaire Bill Gates, is reportedly slashing 5 percent ...

  Nurses across England today began two days of strike over pay, threatening fresh disruption for patients in the creaking state-run health service, as new figures showed inflation still surging. The walkout comes after nurses held their union’s first stoppage ...

  A United States-based Nigerian professor, Marinus Iwuchukwu, and a woman identified as Charce Dunn have been found dead in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. They were found dead along Thorncrest Drive, Wilkins Township, Pittsburg on Tuesday after an alleged “domestic disturbance” around ...

The Ondo State Government on Wednesday extended the maternity leave period for its female workers from the earlier three months to six months. The government said the move was to build a society where children that were being raised had ...

  The Customs Strike Force, Team A, Ikeja, has said that it intercepted 5,124 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, along the coast of Lekki, Lagos. The Customs Comptroller in charge of the team, Sani Yusuf, while addressing journalists on Wednesday at ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in the country from Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, where he attended the third forum of the African Conference for Peace. The helicopter that conveyed the President from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport arrived at ...

  Pope Francis has asked for prayers for the late Isaac Achi, a priest of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Kafin-Koro, Paikoro LGA of Niger state. Achi was burnt to death when gunmen attacked his residence on Sunday. ...

  Two more victims of the train station attack in Igueben, Edo State have been rescued. In a briefing in Benin City, the state’s Commissioner for Communications and Orientation, Chris Nehihkare disclosed that seven suspects, including two traditional rulers, are ...

  The Delta State Police Command have confirmed the rescue of a female student of Delta State Polytechnic Otefe, Oghara, Delta State, who jumped from the Oghara/Benin Bridge. According to a video shared on social media by an activist, Isreal ...

  The Israeli government has said it will commence a direct flight operation from Israel to Nigeria in March to enhance trade and tourism between the two countries. The Deputy Director-General, African Department, Sharon Bar-Li, stated this while interacting with ...