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  President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reassured Nigerians that he would hand over a Nigeria free of insecurity to the next set of leaders in 2023, assuring that his administration would root out all forms of banditry, criminality, terrorism and ...

  The Federal Government on Tuesday officially granted the Lagos State Government approval to build the Lekki International Airport. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika officially handed the approval document to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the ongoing Ehingbeti ...

  One of the farmers abducted in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Saturday has been killed. Recall that the Oyo State Government had confirmed the abduction of four farmers in Iseyin on Saturday. The government said it had deployed some security ...

  Three nurses at a private hospital (name withheld) in Asaba, Delta State have been arrested over the alleged missing sensory organs of a deceased baby. Parents of the deceased newborn alleged that the child’s ear, eyes and nose were ...

  The family of one-year-and-seven-month-old Dominion Akintan has accused the management of Okitipupa General Hospital, Ondo State, of negligence after he died at the hospital. Punch Metro gathered that the child, who was rushed to the facility on Saturday, October ...

  Flood at Igbogene community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has swept away a 16-year-old boy, Temedi Yerimene. The boy was reportedly swept off by surging waters into a deep canal in the community. The Nation learnt ...

  Political parties can no longer substitute the candidates they have nominated and have their names published on the final list published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it was learnt yesterday. The commission said only dead candidates and those whose ...

  King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal- KWAM 1 on Monday met with the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Abuja. Ayinde posted a photo of his meeting with Tinubu on his Instagram page writing; “A visit to the Man of ...

  Gunmen have abducted four oyo farmers, including a female. The abduction reportedly took place at Oke Ogun geo-political zone in Oyo State. The farmers were abducted around Ipapo/Iseyin communities. Sources said that about four of the farmers, among whom ...

Two suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys, have confessed to the police how they kidnapped a 40-year-old man and killed him for a money-making ritual. Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspects told the ...

  Three robbery suspects have been arrested by detectives of the Kwara State Police Command in a major crackdown on criminals around Kwara State University axis, Malete. They are Ridwan Abdulfatai (20), from Oke-Foma area in Ilorin, said to be ...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied calling Bola Tinubu a super politician. Obasanjo declared that from his experience, only military-trained personnel were good managers of people. The rebuttal by the ex-Head of State was issued on Sunday by spokesperson, ...

  Nigerians spent $609.5m on foreign education between January and August 2022. The figure is contained in the data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria, calculated based on the information provided on the amount spent on educational services under ...

  The All Progressives Congress, on Saturday, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to warn his ministers and other public holders to desist from working against the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. This is ...

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 2,465,000 tablets of Tramadol at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The pharmaceutical opioid weighed 2,256kg with an estimated street value of N1.04billion, the spokesperson, Femi Babafemi said in ...

  Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...

  Atiku, A Son Of Nobody, Got Himself To Where He Is Through Hardwork – Dele Momodu Says As He Begins Campaign For PDP A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Dele Momodu has said Atiku Abubakar is a son of ...

CEO of Uyi Technical conglomerate, Sir Uyi Omoruyi Oloton, is bereaved. According to reports, the Benin born billionaire businessman’s eldest daughter, Lilian took her own life on Friday nigh. It was gathered that the mother of three committed suicide for ...

  The Adamawa State Police command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Barnabas Abduneza over alleged murder of a minor. Abduneza, a resident of Kpasham, a village in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly attacked the deceased and her ...

  Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has announced he will be celebrating his 50th birthday with his online followers. Igboho in an Instagram post today, said he did not regret his struggle for the freedom of Yorubas. ...

  Hoodlums have allegedly killed a soldier while resolving the farmers and herdsmen conflict in the Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa State on Wednesday. Malam Musa Muhammad, the local government chairman, confirmed the incident to newsmen. According to him, ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the government’s correctional services department. Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of court after defying ...

  A 28-year-old Nigerian woman identified as Amelia Pounds, has reportedly died during liposuction surgery in India. It was gathered that the she died during the surgery at an undisclosed hospital in New Delhi yesterday An Instagram user confirmed the ...

  The lawmaker representing Adamawa North, Senator Elisha Abbo, has been expelled by the executives of his local government chapter of the All Progressives Congress for allegedly engaging in anti-party activities and tampering with the process of internal democracy of ...

  Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vincent Ogbulafor has passed on. Ogbulafor died on Thursday in Canada at the age of 73 years. Confirming his death, a family member who wished to be anonymous said Ogbulafor ...