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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State, Emmanuel Bwacha, is mourning following the demise of his campaign coordinator in the Karim-Lamido local government council, Abdullahi Kanti. Kanti was said to have lost his life in ...

  The Ghana Police have warned that the ban on alarmist new year prophecies is still active, saying those found culpable will be penalized. Recall that the police had last year banned alarming new year prophecies, describing them as misleading. ...

Bandits have killed 13 persons and abducted 73 others including women and children in the eastern part of Sokoto State. The attacks took place in different communities across three local government areas. The affected local governments include Sabon Birni, Gada ...

Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday. “I want to ask you all for a ...

Lagos lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, who was killed on Christmas Day by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was expecting twins, her husband Gbenga said on Tuesday. Bolanle was shot in the chest by the trigger-happy cop at Ajiwe, Ajah ...

  The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria, Aisha Ahmad, has told the House of Representatives that she does not know how many notes were printed in the recent redesign of the naira. The CBN had recently ...

  The House of Representatives has responded to the allegation by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, that the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila deceived the union to call off the strike. ...

A priest, Rev Barr Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna, who resigned from the Anglican Church to open a ministry to propagate polygamy has apologized. The priest had upon his resignation in September insisted that he received a revelation to propagate polygamy as ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said seven persons are dead and 29 injured after an incident that occurred during the Calabar Carnival on Tuesday. Cross River Sector Commander, Maikano Hassan confirmed the number of casualties to the News Agency of Nigeria ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested a 27-year-old woman, Mariam Ayila for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, Sofiat Yusau. The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at the Agbara divisional headquarters by one Ismail Yusau. The police spokesman ...

The Federal Government said it would soon make a pronouncement on salary increase for the civil and public servants to cushion the effect of high inflation on the workers. The government said already, the Presidential Committee on Salaries was doing ...

There was a mild drama in Kano after a resident of the state, one Alhaji Muhammad, decided to take his ex-wife to court for allegedly marrying off his daughter without his consent. Alhaji Muhammad who divorced his wife a while ...

Bandits in Taraba State killed three abducted siblings after collecting N60 million ransom from their father alongside a motorcycle rider. A source told Daily Post that the killing of the abducted children took place on Sunday, 25th December 2022, at ...

The Nigeria Police have quizzed a traditional ruler in Enugu State (name not mentioned) for allegedly ordering the burning of the corpse of a 9-year-old house help, Precious korshima. The traditional ruler spent hours at the Police and was later ...

  Operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a 31-year-old man who allegedly killed his lover, 48-year-old Ijeoma Felix in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The suspect, who was paraded at the IRT Office in Abuja on ...

Elder statesman and renowned business mogul, Aminu Alhassan Dantata, has revealed that he no longer enjoys life and he is hoping to depart this world in good faith. Dantata, 91, disclose this when he received the Vice Presidential Candidate of ...

Following reported cases of resurgence of Ebola and other communicable diseases like Cholera, Mpox, meningitis, measles, and COVID-19, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has tightened its disease surveillance system in order to minimize its impact. To this end, the ...

More than 20 persons have been injured and many killed following public anger over a reported vehicular accident in Calabar. Commissioner of Police in the state, Balarabe Sule said, “I cannot confirm the actual number of the death presently but ...

A Tennessee woman is accused of multiple armed carjackings including one in which she used her 5-year-old child as a shield after firing a gun, according to police. Bethany Wilson, 24, went on an alleged auto theft spree that ended ...

The management of Kaduna Electric on Tuesday, confirmed that six persons were killed after a power surge last week. Recall that a high voltage of electric killed 10 persons and burnt a house of one of the residents in the ...

  Gbenga Raheem, the husband of a female lawyer, Omobolanle, who was shot dead by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, has narrated how his wife was killed. Gbenga spoke on Monday when sympathisers visited his house in the ...

  A young man, whose name was given as Ifeanyi, who was allegedly kidnapped on Friday last week, just two days to Christmas, has been found dead. The man, said to be an indigene of Awgu, a community in Orumba ...

  The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday announced Akin Osuntokun, a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as the new Director General of his campaign council. Osuntokun replaced former DG of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday night condemned the “heinous and senseless” killing of Omobolanle Raheem, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) shot by on-duty policemen on Christmas Day. The President said he was deeply shocked and saddened to learn ...

Three separate residential buildings were gutted by fire on Christmas day in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital with property worth N37.4m destroyed. A statement by the spokesman of the state fire service, Hassan Adekunle in Ilorin, said the fire service ...