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  Two Ibadan nurses, security men docked for cutting flesh from corpse An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Ibadan on Friday, granted bail of N200,000 each to two nurses and two security operatives working with Ibadan Central Hospital, Ibadan, ...

  The Nigeria Customs Service in Adamawa says it has intercepted bags of foreign rice concealed in a PMS tanker and Urea fertilser concealed in black polythene bags, among other banned items worth over N144 million. The seizures were made along the ...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has increased the number of his Special Assistants on Political Unit Affairs from 100,000 to 200,000. He announced the increase while inaugurating the second and last batch of the initial 100,000 assistants from the Rivers ...

  Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has expressed concern over the alarming rate of emigration of Nigerians to foreign countries describing it as a “worrisome phenomenon”. The Comptroller of Immigration Service (NIS) in Enugu State, Mr. Joachim Olumba, made the disclosure ...

  Four sick men have pleaded guilty to drugging their wives and sharing them around so they could “fulfil wife-sharing fantasies”. The foursome, from Singapore, were said to have sedated their wives and even filmed the creepy exchange of s3xual ...

  A young mum has died after sneaking to the top of a waterfall that was closed off to the public to take a selfie. Amanda Franco dos Santos, 26, the mum of a five-year-old, tragically passed away after she plunged ...

Armed robbers have invaded the staff quarters of the University of Ibadan, killing Mr Vincent Odinko, an occupant of one of the buildings. The sad incident happened last Friday night, according to reliable sources. The night marauders broke into the ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says three state governors are being monitored over their moves to launder stashed billions of naira through table payment of salaries to workers. Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman of EFCC, in an iinterview with ...

  The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile-Ife, has said the institution’s former Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anthony Elujoba who was involved in an auto crash has not died as widely rumoured. The Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju ...

  The Osun State Election Petition Tribunal has admitted the alleged forged school certificate of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the July 16 governorship election of the state, Senator Ademola Adeleke. Counsel to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command on Thursday secured the conviction Emmanuel Adeyi before Justice I. Mohammed of the FCT High Court Gwagwalada-Abuja on an internet related fraud charge. The one count charge indicates that ...

  A two-year-old accidentally shot and killed himself after finding his dad’s loaded gun in a pick-up truck. Warren Bennett Oser, from North Carolina, US, was found by police with a gunshot wound to his head after responding to a shooting on ...

  The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has declared that mentioning the name of the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Funke Akindele, (in his presence) is an insult. He said ...

  Imran was shot in the country’s east today, wounding him in the process, his aide said. The attack took place in Wazirabad, about 200 km (120 miles) from the capital, Islamabad. According to a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ...

  A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Kano has remanded two persons, Mubarak Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala in custody for alleged defamation of character of the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje. The presiding magistrate, Aminu Gabari, remanded the duo in custody ...

  The Osun State Government demolished two floors marked from two buildings razed by fire at Akindeko Market Alekuwodo Osogbo, the capital of Osun State on Thursday The midnight inferno razed a popular complex, Art Deco, where furniture materials, interiors, ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike on Thursday swore in Batch 1 of newly engaged 100,000 Special Assistants (SAs) on Political Unit Affairs with a charge that they are to determine the decision Rivers people would take towards the new political dispensation. ...

  Emirates Airlines yesterday announced the indefinitely suspension of flight operations to Nigeria over its inability to repatriate blocked funds. The airline, in a statement, said the suspension took effect from October 29, saying that its position had been communicated ...

  At least nine passengers travelling in a commercial vehicle along the Emohua Local Government axis of the East-West road in Rivers State were kidnapped on the night of Wednesday, November 2, 2022. A source from one of the communities ...

  Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says he is worried about the naira’s fall against the dollar. Though concerned over the development, he hopes that the situation will be reversed soonest. “I am extremely worried,” he said on Wednesday ...

  The Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, says it has arrested a total of eighteen migrants with possession of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVC, scheming to participate in the 2023 elections in the state. This was ...

  Operatives of Delta State Police Command, yesterday, arrested a 58-year- old gunrunner and nine others at Agba quarters, Emuhu Community, in Ika North-East Local Council of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident, said the ...

  The leadership of Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria, JDWAN, yesterday, suspended its seven days strike, over alleged extortion by officials of the Lagos State Park and Garages Management on major roads in the state. The suspension is pending ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has moved the candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ismaila Atumeyi, who was arrested in Abuja for alleged bank fraud, to Lagos. The politician, seeking to represent Ankpa 11 ...

  The two suspects detained in connection with the death of three-year-old Ifeanyi Adeleke, son of music artiste, Davido, and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland, may remain in police custody until they are cleared by an autopsy report. A credible source, ...