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  Iyorchia Ayu, the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reacted to allegations of fraud leveled against him by one of the governors of the party, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Wike, who has been at the vanguard ...

  A 39-year-old man identified as Jeremiah Mfon, has allegedly confessed how he impregnated his 13-year-old daughter in Ogun State, saying he was under a spell when he did it. The police in Ogun State said the man, a resident ...

  Lagos PDP Governorship candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR) said that it is evident that the people of the state are now wiser after 4 years of ‘inhuman administration’ under the Sanwo-Olu-led APC government. The PDP candidate said the ...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Yola has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election which produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa State. Ruling on suit FHC/YL/CS/12/2022 filed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the ...

  A 65-year-old man, Felix Adeyemi, was on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for alleged N27. 2 million Forex fraud. Adeyemi, whose residential address was not provided, is charged with obtaining money under false pretence and theft. ...

  Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has announced payments by families burying their loved ones, before they can paste posters of the deceased. A letter by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, ...

  Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor has paid the over N500, 000 accumulated mortuary bill of late fashion designer, Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwola, allegedly murdered by a BRT driver. The 22-year old Ayanwola was allegedly r3ped and ...

A neighbour of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, Grace Nnaji, on Thursday told a Federal Capital Territory Court in Abuja, that the singer, on many occasions begged her not to report her husband, Peter Nwachukwu’s abuse. Nnaji, a tailor, told ...

A 30-second video clip showing the final moments of a former reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey, at a hospital in Lagos State, has attracted condemnation from members of the public. In the clip recorded by one of ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has upgraded the appointment of Special Assistants on Political Units from 28,000 to 50,000. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by the governor’s spokesman, Kelvin Ebiri. “Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo ...

  The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has reacted to the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday quashing the charges against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi ...

  Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Thursday, sentenced a 27-year-old mechanic, Adebayo Bolaji, to 12-month imprisonment, having found him guilty of offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent funds. Adebayo was arraigned on a ...

  House rent, wasted full academic year; issues as Students of UNILAG, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, UNN others return to school after eight months   The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action ...

Osun Speaker Timothy Owoeye and some of his aides are receiving treatment in a hospital after his convoy was involved in an accident on Thursday. The Nation gathered that the accident occurred around 2pm along Ilesha/Osogbo when the Speaker was ...

A 51-year-old man, Oluranti Badejo has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command, for allegedly beating his 40-year-old wife, Folasade Badejo, to death. The incident occured on Wednesday, at Orimerunmu, Mowe in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, quashed the terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. It discharged and acquitted him of the seven-count charge pending against ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has condemned the recent release of 101 members of Boko Haram terrorists from Ikoyi Prison by the Federal Government. IPOB said while the government released known terrorists, it was illegally detaining IPOB’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ...

  Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and TV broadcasts deemed to glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming and weapons. The government said the ban is meant to cut back on material that ‘could give the wrong ...

13 Year-Old Girl Electrocuted To Death After Getting Out Of Shower And Touching Her TV A teenage girl has died after being electrocuted by her TV when she touched it fresh out of the shower. Iorrany Ravick Soares Rodrigues, 13, ...

A former banker with First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Emeka Okafor, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for forgery and altering of documents to steal N2.5m in a fixed deposit of one Donatus Ogbonna, a customer of the bank. Okafor, according ...

  Operatives of Hisbah have arrested 31 people, including 25 women, in Kazaure Local Government Area, Jigawa, over alleged “immoral acts”. Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, the Hisbah commander in the state, disclosed this on Wednesday in Dutse. He explained that the ...

Governor Nyesom Wike has come under attack by groups and opposition in Rivers over his appointment of 14,000 advisers, 319 ward Liaison Officers and 40 local government area liaison Officers as announced on Tuesday. While reacting to the appointments made ...

The Makurdi Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has arrested a 49-year-old woman, Mrs Augustina Ikyor, for adopting twins in Benue State. The Zonal Commander, Bai Iveren, in a statement, said the mother ...

  The Minister of Power Abubakar Aliyu, has insisted that the Federal Government has no plan to privatize the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN. The Minister in a statement by his media aide, Isa Sanusi, yesterday, urged the public to dismiss ...

  Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Patrick Fakoya better known as Rico Swavey, is now on life support and in need of N30,000,000 (Thirty Million Naira) for medical expenses. Recall Rico was involved in an accident on Monday and has ...