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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 ...

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 ...