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Two unidentified men have reportedly drowned while trying to save another man from drowning at the Baracuda beach, Abraham Adesanya, Ajah, Lagos. The incident occurred on Monday, which is Boxing Day, said Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency ...

Lagos State Government has ordered the full closure and suspension of activities at the Kiddies section of Wonderland Lagos, an event venue, after a guest was electrocuted. The event centres was meant to deliver a holiday experience of fun and ...

Suspected hoodlums attacked the office of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State in the early hours of Monday. The governorship candidate of the SDP, Magnus Abe confirmed this in a press briefing in ...

Two separate lone fatal crashes which occurred on Sunday and Monday in Bauchi State have claimed the lives of seven people while 18 others were variously injured. According to FIR from RS 12.12 Ganjuwa and Dass Station Offices update of ...

Tragedy struck on Christmas Eve in Obogoro Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area when a cow slated to be killed gored to death a former youth president of the community, Mr Sobokime Igodo. It was gathered that the deceased and ...

A pregnant woman (name withheld) has been confirmed dead in Dnakundna village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State after she was gangraped by bandits. The diseased woman was among the numerous villagers who were fleeing the village following ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said one-year imprisonment or a fine of N500,000 awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar said this in ...

Property and goods worth billions of naira have been destroyed by fire at a popular timber market, along Wethedral Road in Owerri, the state capital. Daily Post spoke to some of the traders in Owerri, on Monday and gathered that the ...

  Bandits have attacked Gaye and Shangel communities in the Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, killed two people, and kidnapped 10 others on Saturday. “The bandits came in large numbers to attack Gaye and Shangel communities on ...

Chief Israel Nwosu, former executive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has led about 600 members and supporters of the party across the electoral wards in Umuahia East Constituency to ...

  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reacted to the death of Lagos lawyer, Bolanle Raheem who was shot dead by a police officer on Christmas day around Ajah with children and her sister in the car. He sympathized with ...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday condemned the killing of one of its members by a trigger-happy cop in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The NBA said the “killer” of Bolanle Raheem must be swiftly prosecuted and justice ...

  Lawyer, Inibehe Effiong has shared a photo of the police officer who allegedly shot dead a female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem in the Ajiwe area of Lagos state on Christmas day. He gave the name of the officer as ASP ...

  Celebrity designer, Toyin Lawani, has revealed that the lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, who was killed by a police officer attached to the Ajiwe Police Station in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Christmas Day, was pregnant. Sharing a video ...

Medications worth N205.38bn were imported into Nigeria from January to September 2022, The Punch reports. The figure is contained in an analysis of the first quarter to the third quarter of the National Bureau of Statistics’ foreign trade reports. The ...

  The Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State has banned the employees of the institution from travelling out of the country without the permission of the governing board of the polytechnic. The institution declared that any of its employees that flouted ...

  A businessman, Dapo Olofinmakin, has accused his mother, Olufunmilayo, of exhuming the corpse of his late father, Segun, in a bid to sell his property on Sanya Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State, where he was buried. ...

  A San Bernardino County sheriff’s helicopter crew rescued a Colorado woman after she tumbled 200 feet down a trail in the San Gabriel Mountains early Saturday, authorities said. The woman, identified as 40-year-old Ruth Woroniecki, had left her campground ...

Consignments of Colorado concealed in vehicles imported from Montreal, Canada, and packs of cannabis juice flown in from South Africa, meant for distribution ahead of Christmas, have been intercepted. A statement on Sunday said men of the National Drug Law ...

  Operatives of the Kaduna State Police command have arrested a notorious Gun Runner in Zaria Local Government Area of the State. According to the spokesman of the command, DSP Mohammed Jalige, Police operatives attached to Tudun Wada Zaria while ...

  More than 50 people have been hospitalised in western Canada after a passenger bus crashed on a highway, provincial authorities said. The cause of the Saturday evening accident, which occurred on a highway some 330 kilometers (200 miles) east ...

A Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Mark Ojotu, Chaplain of St Mary’s Hospital, Okpoga, in Okpokwu Local Government area of Benue State, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. It was learnt that the incident, which happened on Thursday, barely four days ...

  There was pandemonium in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Sunday when a policeman attached to the Ajah Police Station shot dead a female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem. Punch Metro gathered that the incident threw the community into confusion ...

Pape Ale Niang, a prominent Senegalese journalist and government critic who has been on a hunger strike to protest charges against him, has been moved to a hospital, his attorney said on Sunday. Niang was taken to a hospital in ...

  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has underscored that he will retire to his hometown in Daura, Katsina State to rest and be far away as much as possible to avoid problems when he leaves office on May 29, 2023. The President ...