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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, ...

  28 Year-Old Man Stabbed Nigerian Mother To Death In London A man has been charged with the murder of his Nigerian mother following a stabbing in east London. Nicolas Aina is accused of killing 64-year-old Caroline Adeyelu, who was ...

  MMA fighter Alexander Pisarev has tragically passed away at the age of just 33, with reports claiming his death was the result of food poisoning after he ate a poisoned watermelon. Pisarev, who had five professional MMA fights and ...

  She grabbed my manhood, says man who killed, buried his daughter in shallow grave…. One Ime Sunday, who allegedly killed and buried his daughter in Omum Unyiam village, Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, told the ...

Some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State have opposed Governor Seyi Makinde following his declaration not to support the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. They spoke in Ibadan on Wednesday at the emergency meeting ...

  The first draw of the ongoing Polaris Save & Win promo is scheduled to hold on November 4, 2022. The draw which would be conducted electronically, holds at the Bank’s Victoria Island, Lagos headquarters, and would be broadcast live ...

  Operatives of the Edo Police Command on Wednesday recovered 10 male dead bodies aged between 23 years and 25 years on a bush path by Ibillo- Lampese axis along the Lagos-Abuja Expressway. SP Chidi Nwabutor, the state Police Public ...