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A 45-year-old man, Yusuf Muhammad on Monday prayed a Sharia court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State to order his wife, Murjanatu Nasiru to pay him N1.6million in exchange for divorce. Muhammad made the request following Nasiru’s prayer for divorce ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has granted bail to the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, in the sum of N300m with two sureties in like sum. Justice Daniel Osiagor on Tuesday granted ...

The Nigeria Customs Service said it had seized 20 drums of carbide in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State. Addressing journalists in Ikeja on Tuesday, the Acting Custom Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Comptroller Ejibunnu ...

Bahamian Olympic sprinter Shavez Hart has been shot dead after trying to break up an argument outside a nightclub at 2am – just four days before his 30th birthday. Hart, 29, was killed as he tried to stop a group ...

  Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 elections, Festus Keyamo, has said that he didn’t sue then-Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, over alleged certificate forgery. “I never sued Tinubu. No. I sued the House ...

  Officers of the Rivers State Police Command have rescued 15 children from a child trafficking ring in Port Harcourt, the state capital. This was made known at a press briefing by the state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, at ...

  Two weeks after suspension of the nationwide strike by electricity workers that threw the nation into blackout, indications have emerged of a fresh looming strike over alleged unwillingness of government to resolve issues of unpaid entitlements to former workers ...

  An impostor, one Obiako Chukwuemeka pretending to be a medical doctor working with the United Nations as a humanitarian aid at the National Hospital, Abuja has been uncovered and handed over to the police. An impeccable source within the ...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has bemoaned what he described as irresponsible leadership from among the political and religious ranks, saying religion is only being used as a tool of oppression in the country. The Bishop noted ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two women, Ms. Christiana D’ivoire Iyama and Ms. Margaret Ogwu, for allegedly operating baby factory. The women, according to the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) for the Ogun State, Mr. Abimbola ...

  A 28-year-old Arabic teacher, Mohammed Algoni, was on Monday remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly sodomising his 11-year-old pupil in the Ifako area of state. The defendant was brought before the Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court on a ...

  The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari,has denied owning 14 assets, saying the uncovered assets linked to him by the federal government are not his. Besides,the former head of Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT,said contrary to report ...

Police in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, kENYA have launched investigations into the death of a 26-year-old man who was found dangling from the ventilation grills of the police cells. According to a police report seen by K24 Digital, Gideon Mwangi had ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the bill for a law establishing the Lagos State Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic Centre to support criminal investigations, law enforcement, preservation of evidence for the judicial system, and for other connected ...

  Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has decried Nigeria’s continued importation of petroleum products despite being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world. The governor made the submission while speaking with journalists at Ewohimi, Esan ...

  The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has apologised over its faulty escalators which injured travelers at the Lagos airport over the weekend. FAAN Acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, in a statement on Monday, said the airport authority ...

  The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accepted the resignation of the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako. A statement made available by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, announced this. ...

  The Nigerian Army has advised Imo residents to keep off the range area for its Range Classification Exercise slated for September 5-9. This is contained in a release by Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 34 Artillery Brigade of the ...

  A middle-aged man in Mombasa, Kenya shocked the Shanzu Law Court after he confessed that he was unable to recall the name of his wife of nine months. While appearing before Shanzu Senior Magistrate David Odhiambo, Richard Kiragu told ...

  Tension has gripped residents of Sapele, in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State as angry patients and visitors to the Central General Hospital in the town protest over alleged deaths of four newborn babies in the government hospital ...

  The police in Kaduna State have arrested three people at Maraban-Jos and Rigachikun communities in Igabi LGA of Kaduna State for allegedly serving as informants to bandits. The suspects, identified as Hafsat Ibrahim, Rabi Bala, and Bayero Adamu-all teenagers-were ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State on Sunday suspended a serving lawmaker and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dare Kadiri, indefinitely, for alleged anti party activities. Kadiri popularly called Maba was reportedly suspended indefinitely ...

  The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to ...

The Senator representing Kogi west, Smart Adeyemi, says he is proposing a bill to prohibit the nomination of candidates of the same religion on a joint ticket. If passed into law, a presidential candidate would not be able to choose ...

‘Abducted Zamfara Worshippers Working On Bandits’ Farmlands’ The 44 worshippers abducted from a mosque in Zamfara community last Friday have been subjected to physical labour on armed men’s farmlands, Daily Trust has learnt. Residents told Daily Trust that the bandits ...