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  Officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi, Lagos were thrown into mourning on Wednesday following the death of the centre’s Director of Finance Brigadier General Audu James. Channels Television gathered that General James lost ...

An ex-aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has said that the Governor of Anmabra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, is indulging in political delusion, saying his latest comment on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, ...

  A middle-aged woman, Sadiya has been rescued after her husband allegedly detained her in his house for one year without food in Nguru town, Yobe State. The impoverished victim, who is a mother of four children, is from Kano ...

  A total number of 159 stranded Nigerians returned from Libya. The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, received the Returnees on arrival at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja. NEMA Director General, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed received ...

  Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has advised supporters of politicians not to kill themselves while demonstrating support for their candidates. Kukah stated that opposition politicians are friends fighting for their piece of the national cake and ...

  A family-of-six was wiped out after they ate dinner together.   The father, mother, and their four children died after sharing a meal on October, 8, 2022.   The family — father Augustine Tochukwu Nwokedi, 41, mother Josephine Nkeiru ...

  Another chieftain of the APC in Lagos, Chief Juliana Dupeola Awodogan, popularly known as ‘Iya Oniyan’ is dead. Her death came the same day an APC chieftain and a lawmaker at the Lagos House of Assembly, Sobur Olayiwola Olawale ...

  The Italian women Members of Parliament (MPs) have been granted the right to breastfeed their babies in the Chamber during debates, as announced by the committee responsible for the Chamber’s rules. According to the declaration on Tuesday, breastfeeding members ...

  Despite the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) protest against payment of alleged incomplete October salary, the Federal Government, on Wednesday, insisted it would not pay for works not done. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, expressed Federal Government’s ...

  Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike on Wednesday apologised to former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Wike apologised to Oshiomhole at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the ...

  A United States District Court in Hattiesburg, Mississippi State has found two collegiate athletes, Emmanuel Ineh, 23, and Toluwani Adebakin, 25, guilty of transferring thousands of dollars to Nigeria as part of a complex fraud scheme. The case was ...

  An Istanbul court, on Wednesday, sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison in a retrial, local media reported. Adnan Oktar led television programmes surrounded by women wearing ...

  Ivanka Trump has decided to bow out of US politics and not actively join her father’s bid to retake the White House in 2024, saying she has chosen “to prioritize my young children and the private life we are ...

  A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale, yesterday slumped and died at Jos Airport, Plateau State. The lawmaker has the nickname “Omititi”. It was gathered that Olawale was in Jos where he attended ...

  An attack took place on Tuesday night at the Maikatako village, Bokkos local government area of Plateau State leaving about nine people dead and seven others injured. Even though the attackers have left the community, the area is still ...

  A 23-year-old man, Khalil Sapp and his twin sister Kianna were electrocuted and confirmed dead while travelling under Hurricane Nicole in a suburb of Conway, Florida, US. The tragic incident happened on Thursday morning when they made contact with ...

  Shan George, has confirmed that Nollywood veteran Hanks Anuku is fine, hale and hearty. George made the clarification following a viral video showing a man identified as Hanks Anuku roaming the streets in tattered clothes. In the viral video, ...

  Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has signed an Executive Order 22, banning political parties from the use of buildings in residential areas as campaign offices without approval. According to the Order, such approval must come from the Rivers ...

  A judge, Malam Ishaq Hassan, on Tuesday ordered a 24-year-old unemployed man, Valentine Nmoye, to sweep the Karu Upper Area Court, Abuja, premises for three hours for stealing three bottles of perfumes worth N4,000 from a store. Hassan gave ...

  Kabale University in the Western Region of Uganda has sacked a Nigerian lecturer, Dr Nafiu Lukman Abiodun, the Head Department of Economics and Statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences over his alleged involvement in the s3xual ...

  Kano commodity market popular known as Kasuwar Singer located within Kano Central Business District has been engulfed by fire outbreak. Information on the development is still sketchy as at the time of filing in this story. A call put ...

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested six Bureau De Change operators who allegedly conspired to abduct an eight-year-old child of their colleague. Disclosing this in a terse statement tweeted on Tuesday, the police spokesman in the state, Benjamin ...

  A man, Yusuf Adamu was on Sunday shot dead by his stepson while testing the efficacy of a protective charm against firearms in Adamawa state. Adamu reportedly ordered his stepson, Suugbomsumen Adamu to shoot at him in order to ...

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs says the global population has reached an estimated 8 billion. With 216 million projected people in Nigeria, the country is home to 2.7 percent of the global population. The UN said ...

  Former US President, Donald Trump, has announced he will run for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. Trump is seeking to return to the White House after he had lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden in 2020. ...