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The Anambra Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons said it has launched a manhunt for the woman allegedly behind the missing of a 16-year-old mother and her three-month-old baby. The State Commander of NAPTIP, ...

  Scores have been reportedly injured in a gas explosion in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. A resident told DAILY POST that the incident occurred Monday night when customs officers on border patrol allegedly shot at a vehicle. ...

Shocking footage captured the alleged moment that a “surgeon” tried to remove a live snake that infiltrated a woman’s ear. Video of the herpetological surgery has racked up more than 125,000 views as viewers speculate whether or not the squirm-inducing ...

  A self-appointed Nigerian football coach, Emmanuel Igwebuike who was found guilty of s3xually abusing seven teenage boys has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the United Kingdom. The 35-year-old was also handed a lifelong s3xual harm prevention ...

William Ruto has taken the oath of office and has been sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president today. This came in a week after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge by his main political opponent, Raila Odinga. Odinga faults Supreme ...

The Police Command in Plateau has confirmed the abduction of Rev. Bung Dong at Ganawuri community, Riyom Local Government Area of the state. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed the incident to newsmen ...

Some gunmen on Sunday invaded the palace of the Oba of Gbokoto land, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba G.O Olukunle, shooting repeatedly. The police spokesman in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident on Monday. It ...

The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has apologised to Christian clerics over the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. He also appealed to them to help talk to their followers about the need to forgive and give the ...

Minister of State, Labour and Employment and spokesman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo has alleged that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was planning to organise what he called fake assassination attempt on himself. ...

A man who apparently predicted the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s death has also given a warning over the new King Charles III. Logan Smith, who goes by the Twitter name of @logan_smith526, initially posted back in July that the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris enthusiastically reaffirmed her support for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid on Sunday even as a growing number of their fellow Democrats cast doubt on the commander-in-chief’s 2024 ambitions. During a wide-ranging interview on NBC News’ Meet ...

  Bandits are demanding N50m ransom from the family of a woman in Kaduna who gave birth in captivity. This was even as the nursing mother and her two sisters who are in the bandits’ den appealed for assistance from ...

Two children, Samat Saheed and a yet-to-be-identified girl, have lost their lives when the fence of a school, Covenant Point Academy, collapsed on them at Ajose Street, in the Amukoko area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the nine-year-old ...

  An unspecified number of police operatives have been killed at Enugwu-Ukwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State, as unidentified gunmen attacked the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. Sources said the gunmen opened fire on the convoy, and ...

Thirteen people have been feared dead in another canoe mishap. The incident happened at the Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State. It reportedly occurred Sunday evening when the passengers boarded a canoe from Dabi village to Sayango to console ...

A 32-year-old man has committed suicide by jumping into a river. The man, Peter Ajayi, reportedly plunged into the Asa River behind All Saints Anglican Church on Taiwo Isale road in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, on Thursday. Peter ran to ...

Police in Adamawa State have arrested one Ibrahim Muhammadu for allegedly hiring a man to set fire on a newly wedded couple because the bride had refused to marry him. Muhammadu, a resident of Gadawaliwol, Jabbi Lamba in Girei local ...

  King Charles III on Friday pledged to show affection for his son, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan. The King made this known during his first address as the British monarch, assuming the throne of his late mother who ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared a sit-at-home across the Southeast on Tuesday next week. IPOB tagged the sit-at-home, a day of civil action across the Southeast. The group declared the order ahead of the Appeal Court ...

    Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has died, ending a historic 70-year reign. She was 96. The Queen died at Balmoral, her beloved palace in the Scottish Highlands, which was purchased by her great-great-grandfather Prince Albert for Queen Victoria in 1852. She ...

  The Kogi State Police Command said it had recovered three vehicles used for bank robbery operations on Tuesday in Ankpa area of the state. The vehicles were said to have been abandoned at the scene of the robbery by ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) says the Abuja-Kaduna train hostage negotiator, Tukur Mamu, is in its custody. This is according to a statement released by the DSS spokesman Peter Afunanya on Wednesday following reports that Mamu was arrested in ...

Nigeria may witness yet another fuel scarcity as members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Wednesday threatened to pull out its entire workforce from oil and gas installations nationwide in protest of the ...

An ex-convict, Emmanuel Sunday has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for traffic robbery. The image maker in charge of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed this in a statement, signed by him and made available to ...

One of the security men drafted to work on the construction site of Ebonyi International Airport, at Onueke, in the Ezza South Local Government Area of the state, identified as Chukwuma Anyigor (aka Ite Igwe), has allegedly beaten a 17-year-old ...