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  The Rivers State Government has sealed the premises of a popular hospitality spot, EUI Events Centre, on Abacha Road, GRA, Phase 3, over obstruction of traffic. The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Chris Finebone, disclosed this while briefing ...

  The Edo State Police Command has warned the citizens of the state to desist from the use of fireworks during the Christmas and New Year season, promising to provide adequate. In a press statement on Thursday, the Spokesperson of ...

  Three persons were killed with property worth N860 million destroyed in different fire incidents from Jan. 1 to Dec. 7 in Sokoto state. Mr Nuhu Lawal, the Fire Prevention Officer of Sokoto State Fire Service, disclosed the figure at ...

The first coins bearing the official effigy of the King will appear in circulation in post offices around the UK from Thursday. The King’s portrait will first appear on a 50p, with the reverse, or “tails”, side of the coin ...

A man was arrested after having s3x with a goldendoodle in front of children while taking the dog out for a walk before he ran to a nearby church, wreck a nativity and attempted to steal a car. Chad Mason, ...

The federal government says the Second Niger Bridge will open to traffic on December 15. Jimoh Olawale, federal controller of works in Delta, made this known in an interview with NAN on Wednesday. He, however, said that the bridge would ...

  Jaylen Smith has become the youngest mayor in the US just at age 18. He won the election Tuesday night. This makes him the youngest Black mayor in his country. According to election results, Smith received 218 votes while ...

A former deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and candidate of the Labour Party in the July 2022 Osun State governorship election, Lasun Yusuf, has officially joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Yusuf’s defection to the PDP was ...

A man who shot Lady Gaga’s dogwalker during an attempt to steal the singer’s prize French bulldogs was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday after pleading no contest to attempted murder. James Howard Jackson and two other men ...

  The Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says the queues at filling stations will soon disappear as marketers commence massive loading of petroleum products. Mr Ahmed Farouk, Chief Executive of NMDPRA, gave the assurance during a stock ...

The police in Lagos have commenced investigation into how two teenagers, residing at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State, sold their organs to a medical doctor in Abeokuta, Ogun State, last two months for N200,000 without the consent of their parents. ...

  Nigerians of voting age resident in the United Kingdom and various parts of the world have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking enforcement of their fundamental ...

Ekpe Ogbu, the abducted Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, has regained his freedom. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Catherine Anene confirmed the commissioner’s release this evening on the command’s media platform. It was earlier ...

An infighting between the late Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), has reportedly left scores of terrorists killed in the last three days. Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst ...

  Worried by the potential harm of taking part in the ‘Invisible Challenge’ on short-form video hosting service, TikTok, the Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) Computer Security Incident Response Team has warned Nigerians that the viral challenge exposes devices to Information-Stealing ...

  The owner of the Mercedes Benz SUV found by the police under Otedola bridge has recovered his car. The Rapid Response Squad arm of the Lagos State Police Command revealed this on Tuesday evening in a Twitter post, attaching ...

  Public power supply to parts of Abuja, the nation’s capital, has been disrupted following the destruction of a transmission tower at the outskirts of the city by a truck. The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, in a statement explained ...

  “Together Till Dèath” – Nigerian Nan Says As He Takes Blood Oath With His Girlfriend   A Nigerian man who seeks to spend forever with his girlfriend, has taken a blood oath with her as a mark of their ...

The management of an old generation bank has dragged its staff, Emmanuel Ayegbusi, 26, before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court for allegedly withdrawing N2,200,000 from the account of his employer without authority. The accused was alleged to have withdrawn the money ...

  The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that men of the Rapid Response Squad have recovered a Mercedes Benz SUV under the Otedola Bridge in Lagos. In a Twitter post on Tuesday, the police said a patrol team recovered ...

  Liz Truss will fight to keep her South West Norfolk seat at the next general election. A spokesperson for the ex-PM confirmed the news this morning, as the deadline for Tory MPs deciding if they want to run for ...

  A one-year-old boy lost his life when he fell into a bucket of water. The boy made his way to where the buckets of water were arranged outside and fell inside one of the buckets as the siblings were ...

  Suspected armed robbers have killed a man, Wale Adeyinka, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Adeyinka, who was said to be a worker with Henkel Nigeria Limited, was shot dead in his house at Elebu, in the Oluyole Local ...

  A woman, Balaraba Shehu, and her boyfriend, Amadu Sale, have been arrested by operatives of Police in Jigawa State for burying their newborn baby alive. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu, who confirmed the development, said Balaraba after delivering ...

An Assistant Superintendent of Police was allegedly stabbed to death during an altercation with some naval personnel in the Satellite area of Lagos, weekend. Three other persons said to have attempted to intervene were reportedly also attacked by the naval ...