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The police in Ogun State have arrested two men, Umar Mohammed and Aliyu Mohammed, suspected to be members of a kidnap gang. They were arrested on Wednesday following information received by policemen at the Ewekoro division that the kidnappers had ...

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has nabbed a fake traffic official in the Lekki area of the state, who was on fake duty and was kitted in the official LASTMA uniform. In a statement made available on Thursday by ...

  Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has ordered the immediate suspension of all mining activities by firms operating on the state’s mining licences. Adeleke’s spokesman, who disclosed the suspension in a statement, said the affected operators are to report ...

  To ease traffic movement for commuters during the forthcoming Christmas and New Year seasons, the Federal Government has temporarily opened the entire Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road. Until when the contractors are expected to be back from break after the festive period, ...

  The Thai King’s eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand’s royal palace says. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs north-east of Bangkok, the palace said. The 44-year-old was ...

Commercial banks will commence the circulation of the much awaited newly redesigned Naira notes from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to customers across the country today. This is coming after the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele revealed that the new ...

  A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is not an indigene of Lagos State. George spoke on Tuesday morning on Arise TV’s Morning ...

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has said that Nigerian skit makers, bloggers, comedians and other content creators using digital platforms will, henceforth, be punished for not getting approval before publishing their online advertisements. According to the federal government ...

  The Benue State Police Command has debunked a video trending on social media purported to be bags of rotten naira notes discovered in a store at the Police Barracks in the Wadata area of Makurdi town. In the said ...

  Kebbi State Police Command neutralized one bandit named Angulu while another, Abdulahi Altu, was arrested, recovering three AK 47 rifles, 47 live ammunition, seven live cartridges, a locally fabricated pistol and two locally fabricated Dane guns. According to a ...

  Police operatives in Bauchi have launched a manhunt for two suspect who plucked one of the eyes of one Najib Hussaini, a 12-year-old student of Arabic school at Unguwar Yamma community of the state. The student of a Qur’anic ...

A 28-year old man, Moses Ayomide, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for alleged armed robbery and killing of one Qudus Popoola. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State command, Abimbola Oyeyemi made the disclosure in ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has felicitated with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on his 55th birthday, despite their party crisis. Atiku prayed that good things would happen to Wike as he marks his 55th ...

  Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges. “S.B.F.’s arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has ...

  Three of the eight accused persons in the r3pe and murder of a 24-year-old University of Ilorin student, Olajide Blessing Omowumi on June 2, 2021, have been convicted and sentenced by the Kwara state High Court, Ilorin. While two ...

  President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for ...

  Two-time Kenyan Olympic champion David Rudisha said he was grateful to be alive after surviving a plane crash on the weekend in southern Kenya. The 800m world record holder had just taken off from a Kenyan reserve hosting the ...

  There was a fire incident at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Monday. The inferno, whose cause was yet to be ascertained, was said to have occurred on the second floor of the DHQ. It was gathered that personnel ...

  The wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, said the Muslin/Muslim ticket of the party will set a new tone in Nigeria’s political landscape come 2023. Tinubu said this on Wednesday during the APC ...

  Ahead of the forthcoming presidential election, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said his party is only worried about Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate and not about Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate ...

Co-founder and deputy managing director of Vetiva Capital Olaolu Mudashiru is dead. He was killed Sunday morning. The businessman was riding with a team of cyclists when a car rammed into him on Gerrard Road in the upscale neighbourhood of ...

Toyin Saraki, the wife of former Senate President Bukola Saraki, yesterday took to social media to mark the second death anniversary of her brother, Dapo Ojora. Mrs Saraki shared video clips of Dapo during his days as a polo lover. ...

The Police Command in Enugu State has dismissed a viral video ordering personnel to leave their duty post and remain confined in barracks in the state as unfounded, false and misleading. This is contained in a statement issued by the ...

Journalists in Lagos are currently mourning the sudden demise of their colleague, Mike Angelo. The popular journalist died on Saturday, December 10, after complaining of mild illness. He was reported to have been treated of the illness, but passed on ...

Twitter owner Elon Musk appeared to call for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be brought up on criminal charges in a tweet on Sunday that also poked fun at people who post their gender pronouns. “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk posted ...