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The Police have arrested a 20-year-old woman, Maryam Ibrahim for allegedly killing her co-wife, Hafsat Ibrahim with a pestle in Bauchi State. Police Public Relations Officer of the Bauchi State command, SP Ahmed Mohammad Wakil, who made this known to ...

  The National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, assured that attacks on its facilities won’t stop the conduct of the 2023 election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance at a meeting with the Africa Union Special Pre-Electoral Political Mission led ...

The Ogun State-owned Social Orientation and Safety (So-Safe) Corps has arrested a 29-year-old bricklayer, Shakiru Bello, for allegedly attacking a commercial motorcyclist and carting away his bike. Bello, who was said to have disguised as a passenger, was arrested on ...

The Federal Government has approved the commencement of 14 working-day paternity leave for federal civil servants. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, said this in a November 25 circular with ref no: HCSF/SPSO/ODD/NCE/RR/650309/3. ...

  The Bauchi State Police Command has said it has arrested a 29-year old man for allegedly stabbing a 30-year-old man to death for refusing to buy him beer. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Ahmed Walil, said ...

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke yesterday danced to the trending song – Buga, by Kizz Daniel has he resumed office on the first day. The governor who was sworn-in on Sunday immediately swung into action, sacking 12,000 workers, dethroning three ...

A Second Republic Minister of Steel, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, is dead. Unongo died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 87. The elder statesman died at a hospital in Jos, Plateau State. The former Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, ...

Honourable Sani Mamood Sha’aban, an in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His resignation follows the controversy, which trailed the governorship primaries of the ruling party in Kaduna. Sha’ban who lost the ...

Four men, including a teenager, have been arrested for their involvement in jungle justice, which led to the killing of a man in Edo State. The suspects are: Emmanuel Igube (19), Gabriel Akuba (20), Monday Nathaniel (30) and Matthew Gimba ...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged the residents of the state to vote the Peoples Democratic Party candidates for most positions, except the party’s presidential candidate, in the forthcoming general elections. Wike also requested them to wait until ...

One Idowu Talabi said to be a native doctor, has allegedly killed his 30-year-old co-tenant, Isau Oluwatobiloba, in Ogun State. Dailypost learnt that the suspect was arrested by the police on Sunday, following a report lodged at the Ikenne Division. ...

The wives of repentant Boko Haram fighters have given birth to no fewer than 263 babies in four months. The Borno State Government disclosed this to journalists in Maiduguri, the state capital on Tuesday. The delivery was conducted at the ...

The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants stowed away on a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria. A photograph showing the trio was distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday. They are seen sitting on the ...

  Famous Nigerian skit maker and social activist, Debo Adebayo, popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has called on the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, to go to court if she has any grievance over Aminu Adamu’s criticism. Mr Macaroni also advised ...

NDLEA has arrested one of two brothers who served as major sources of illicit drugs in the Southeast and South-South parts of the country, Onyeaghalachi Stephen. NDLEA’s spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday in Abuja. Babafemi stated ...

  The Osun State House of Assembly, on Monday, frowned on the decision of the state’s newly inaugurated governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to rename the state from “State of Osun” to Osun State. The Assembly argued that the anthem, crest ...

  A Labour Party’s women leader in Kaduna State, Mrs. Victoria Chintex has been shot dead by gunmen who stormed her house on Monday night. It was learnt that Chintex, was the Labour Party’s women leader of Kaura, Kaduna State. ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, committed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Usman Baba, to three-month imprisonment. The IGP was sentenced over his alleged refusal to obey a sister court judgment reinstating a police officer, Patrick Okoli. Justice Bolaji ...

The Tsangaya model boarding primary school, located at Kiyawa village, Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano state, was on Sunday gutted by fire. The fire was said to have completely destroyed 14 classrooms, 12 offices, and 21 toilets within the ...

An undergraduate of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Adamu, has been languishing in detention after security officials comprising the police and men of the Department of State Service, arrested him over a post on Twitter alleging that the ...

The Conference of Registered and Deregistered Political Parties (CPP) in Lagos State has endorsed PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) ahead of the 2023 general elections. Speaking, Dr. Akin Badmus, the Chairman of the CPP said that the endorsement ...

  A small museum in south-east London has begun the official process of returning looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The Horniman Museum, which houses a collection of 72 treasured items that were taken by force from Benin City in 1897, ...

The Ondo Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three secondary school students for raping a 14-year- girl. The spokesman for Ondo Police Command, SP Fumilayo Odunlami, gave the names of the suspects as Idris Matthew 17; Olawale Tobi 18 ...

  The World Health Organization announced Monday that “mpox” is now the preferred name for monkeypox. “Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out,” the organization said. Monkeypox was named in 1970, more than ...

The co-founder of a cryptocurrency company has died ‘unexpectedly’ at the age of 30. Tiantian Kullander, who co-founded the Hong Kong-digital asset company Amber Group, passed away in his sleep, a spokesman for his firm said. The father-of-one, named in ...