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  The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 22-year-old primary school teacher, Margret Obano, for allegedly brutalising her two-year-old daughter and burning her buttocks. Punch Metro learnt that the incident happened on Friday, October 14, 2022, ...

  The South East Caucus in the Senate has called on the Federal Government to obey the ruling of the Appeal Court and discharge the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The caucus, comprising of ...

  The Labour party (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, Peter Obi, on Thursday, paid a visit to the victims of flood in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The former Anambra State Governor had on Wednesday suspended his presidential ...

  Bukola Saraki, former President of the Senate, in commemoration of the EndSARS anniversary today, said the ruling party, APC, is part of the problem. He said though the EndSARS protest came about from the negative actions of some members ...

  Suspected bandits on Thursday blocked the Kaduna-Zaria road and kidnapped several passengers. Onyema Nwachukwu, Brigadier-General, Director of Army Public Relations, in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred around Foundation general area within Birnin Yero Ward. “They opened fire on ...

  The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said that participants of the EndSARS memorial arrested at Lekki tollgate have been released. In an interview with Channels Television, Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin said the police only arrested a ...

  The Lagos State Government has stressed that the ban on activities of motorcycle operations in 10 Local Governments, LGs, and 15 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, of the state remain effective. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, in a statement ...

  The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has advanced copious reasons to justify the current dispensation of collaboration between the National Assembly and the Executive. Lawan said the prevailing harmonious relationship between the arms of government made the ninth National Assembly ...

  Mr Macaroni and singer Falz were this morning present as the #EndSARSmemorial procession began at the Lekki Tollgate. Others who were also there at the Thursday procession to mark the second anniversary of the Lekki shooting include Feyikemi Abudu ...

Liz Truss has resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK, after a month and half in office. She just made the announcement 24 hours after saying she was a fighter and not a quitter, and so would ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the disengagement of the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Okon Akwa, effective October 20, 2022. The President also approved the constitution of a new Management Team and Governing ...

  The United States has promised to provide $1 million in immediate humanitarian assistance for the people affected by unprecedented flooding in Nigeria. Provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S said the $1 million will allow ...

  Former Attorney-General (A-G) of Lagos State, Mr Olasupo Shashore, who was arraigned on Thursday before a Federal High Court in Lagos to answer to a money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) ...

  Smuggling: Customs Sack, Prosecute Over 2,000 Corrupt Officers The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) has disclosed that it has laid off and prosecuted over 2,000 of its officers that were found to have compromised the system ...

  The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the case of a late journalist and activist, Dele Giwa, who was murdered in Ikeja, Lagos on October 19, 1986, with a bomb enclosed in a ...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said 80 persons died from cholera across the country in September while it also registered 4,153 Cholera infections between September 5 and October 2, 2022. The NCDC said this via its official ...

  The Federal Government has ordered telecommunication companies to reverse their recent 10 per cent hike in calls and data prices. This decision means that telcos like MTN Nigeria and Airtel, who had initially increased the prices of their data ...

  Thousands of public and private workers are currently groaning in pains inside vehicles and by the roadsides as gridlock surfaced on the ever busy Abuja-Keffi road. The standstill is said to have arisen due to inability of both private and passenger vehicles ...

  A 38- year-old man, who specialized in defrauding unsuspecting people around the Ikeja Computer Village with fake foreign currencies has been arrested by the police in Lagos State. The spokesperson of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin identified the ...

  Ortom Says He Would Have Worked For Peter Obi, But For PDP Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said he would have worked for the success of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, if he were not a member ...

  ENDSARS: You Will Never Get Justice If Tinubu Wins In 2023, HURIWA Tells Youths Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on Nigerian youths to ensure that the presidential candidate ...

  The Defence headquarters yesterday warned politicians and their social media handlers to desist from misusing images and visuals of military personnel to campaign and promote their interests. According to DHQ, this does not only present the armed forces in ...

  25-Year Old Man Commits Suicide After Losing Tricycles To Thieves A 25-year-old man, Bulus Asuma, has committed suicide in Jos, Plateau State, over the loss of two tricycles belonging to his employers to thieves, the police said on Wednesday. Asuma of Angwan ...

  Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Mr Funminiyi Afuye is dead. Sources said he died this evening at an undisclosed hospital, where he was rushed to, following a brief illness. Afuye, a lawyer, who represents Ikere Constituency 1 at ...

  Attacked Celestial Church Recruits Youths Of The Church Into ‘Security Outfit’ To Protect Church The Celestial Church Christ (CCC), SBJ Oshofa Parish, Wasinmi in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, has assembled youths of the church into what ...