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  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 ...

In order to rake in N10 million from his parents, a 23-year-old boy, Edward Okache, has arranged his abduction by some men in Ogun State. On Monday, police said Okache was nabbed with four others identified as: Asamoah Ernest, Isiah ...

The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the murder of a 15-year-old boy, Jerome Chukwuemeka, in the Ago-Okota area of the state. Punch Metro gathered that the victim’s father, after returning from work, found ...

  A middle-aged man has been struck dead by lightning in Alade-Idanre, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victim, a chainsaw operator, known in the community as ‘Shosho’, died on the spot while trying to fall a tree. ...

  A man who was locked up inside a room for twenty years has been discovered by environmental officers in Kaduna state. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the officers found the man in a house in Benin street, in the ...

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos state, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor has vowed to stop alleged extortion and harassment of traders by leaders of markets, otherwise known as ‘Mama loja’ in the state. Jandor, ...

  Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, the Labour Party has released the list of its Presidential Campaign Council list consisting of 1,234 members. The list was disclosed on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja The list was released ...