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  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has confiscated N20bn lodged in 103 bank accounts belonging to Lagos socialite and businessman, Mallinson Ukatu, who is being held in Ikoyi Custodial Centre for drug dealing. The NDLEA has also filed 23-count ...

  THE Federal Government has announced the selected preferred and reserve bidders for Nigerian airports concession. Sen. Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, made the announcement when he addressed newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, the preferred bidder ...

  The United States Department of State has granted “authorized departure status” to American citizens and Embassy staff in Abuja over imminent terrorist attacks in Nigeria’s political capital. In a notice on Tuesday evening, the US Department of States pledged ...

  Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo has said Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dele Momodu is only after Atiku Abubakar’s money. Festus Keyamo is the spokesperson of the Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC). Momodu, who holds ...

  A man in Adamawa State has been sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend and harvesting parts of her body for a N10 million prize allegedly offered by a buyer. The Adamawa State High Court sentenced Abubakar Mohammed to ...

  Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has vowed that he will reclaim his electoral mandate at the election petition tribunal. This is also as he reiterated his confidence in the country’s electoral process. Oyetola made this known while addressing Osun ...

  Priests and nuns watch internet p*rn, Pope Francis admitted while speaking with seminarians in Rome on Monday. Pope Francis said internet porn was a ‘vice’ shared between members of the church. ‘It is a vice that many people have, many laymen, ...

  Days after it issued a terrorist attack alert in Nigeria, the United States Government on Wednesday notified its citizens that insurgents are planning an attack on large gatherings in Johannesburg, South Africa. “The U.S. government has received information that ...

  Two Apapa clearing agents, Augustine Akunne, and Emeka Thomas have been arrested after being accused of duping a customer N5 million. Operatives of the Special Weapons and Tactical Team, SWAT of the Nigeria Police, at Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos ...

  A magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the northern Philippines, injuring 26 people and damaging houses and public infrastructure, on Wednesday. The tremor struck at 10:59 pm (1459 GMT) on Tuesday near Lagayan town in Abra province, 348 kilometres north of ...

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said it would take about 30 years of consistent investment to be able to control the current flood menace in different parts of the country. Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, disclosed this after the Federal Executive ...

  A prison officer who engaged in phone s*x and sent raunchy photographs to two serving inmates has been jailed. Emma Webster, 34, was caught “s*xting” the pair while serving as a guard at HMP Lincoln between August and November ...

  The Police Command in Cross River has confirmed the rescue of three of its men, including an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), held hostage by some community youths. The spokesperson of the command, SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the policemen’s ...

  The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four notorious armed robbery suspects, who specialized in snatching motorcycle from owners at gun point. The suspects were alleged to have killed one of their victims and injured many others in one ...

  Soludo Abolishes Levy Collection From Wheel Barrow Pushers, Vulcanisers, Hawkers In order to minimise tax incidence for which Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration has been heavily criticised, the Governor on Wednesday abolished the collection of taxes from income business owners, ...

Businesses came to a standstill along Kenyatta Street in Kitale Central Business District (CBD), Kenya when a Mercedes Benz hearse carrying the remains of a prominent business person failed to move, attracting people who came to witness the bizarre event. ...

  The Lagos State High Court sitting in Osborne, Ikoyi has granted an order of Mareva injunction restraining all commercial banks in the country from releasing or dealing in any manner with any money or assets due to Chinmark Group ...

  An Iranian man dubbed the ‘dirtiest man in the world’ for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media has reported. Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century, died ...

  The director-general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed, on Monday night, received another batch of 137 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Ahmed, who was represented by the Lagos Territorial Office Coordinator of the agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, said 137 ...

  The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of Aisha Alkali Wakil, aka “Mama Boko Haram” and two others. She alongside Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode ...

  Operatives of Nigeria Police in Ibadan, Oyo State, have launched a manhunt for a driver who allegedly mowed down 48-year-old woman, Mrs Abimbola Uthman with his car following an argument and ran away. According to News Agency of Nigeria, ...

  The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has reacted to the allegation of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) that it is disallowing Muslims from entering its camp along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. MURIC, through its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, made ...

  There is currently fuel scarcity in Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital, as queues have surfaced in parts of the state. Many filling stations in the metropolis are currently experiencing long queues of motorists. The situation, it was learnt, started ...

  WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, was inaccessible to users in several countries around the world for about two hours on Tuesday morning, including Britain, India, Nigeria and South Korea. The outage started around 3 a.m. Eastern time, according to ...

It has been observed that three out of every 10 Nigerians are battling one form of mental health challenge or another. The Provost of the Institute of Counselling in Nigeria (ICN), Dr. Tolulope Oko-Igaire however urged Nigerians to visit professional counsellors and ...