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The dismissed Emir of Zurmi in Zamfara State, Abubakar Atiku, has died in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Atiku died in a private hospital in Abu Dhabi following a protracted illness. A family member, Sani Zurmi, informed The Punch that ...

  Commercial motorcyclists, popularly called ‘Okada’ riders, numbering thousands, stormed Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, office of Governor Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, with a plea to suspend the ban on their activities in six Local Government Areas, LGAs, scheduled to commence on September ...

The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has launched investigations into a shocking incident where a minor murdered four family members in Kiambu county, Kenya in a span of one year. The quartet was aged 15 months, 5 years, 7 years ...

A 37-year-old man, Saheed Adisa, has been arraigned before Magistrate F.M Onamusi of the Ogba Magistrate Court, Lagos State, for allegedly assaulting an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Salami Bukola, while she was on duty. Punch Metro ...

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, said it was unfitting to compare the realities of the Nigerian economy with those of other smaller African states. He argued that at least 10 Nigerian states “have bigger GDPs than those countries.” ...

  The number of Lassa fever infections since the beginning of 2022 is 894, with 168 deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The latest situation report released for week 33 by the NCDC also showed that there ...

The Sokoto State Police Command has said its men are still searching for the suspected killers of a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Samuel. Samuel was stoned to death in May, 2022, by some students believed ...

  The Nigerian Army has dismissed two soldiers attached to 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru, Yobe State, after finding them guilty on two-count charge. According to the Acting Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Abdullahi Osabo, the suspects were ...

A Federal House of Representatives, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Hon Shina Peller was yesterday honoured by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) with an award of outstanding Leadership and also inducted as a Life Patron. Shina who was at ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday, released $265m to airlines operating in the country, to settle outstanding ticket sales to check a brewing crisis in the country’s aviation sector. A breakdown of the figure indicated that $230m was released ...

The National Broadcast Commission, NBC has temporarily suspended the shutdown of the indebted Broadcast stations. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday and signed by the Director General of the Commission, Balarabe Ilelah. The suspension it said was ...

The Nigeria Police Force, NPF has suspended two Supernumerary Police Officers for what the force authorities described as discreditable conduct and violation of Social media policy. In a statement signed by the force public relations officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, CSP the ...

  The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned three women for an alleged conspiracy, trafficking of newborn twins and subsequent killing of their mother. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe. The statement noted that ...

  A 30-year-old man is begging for artificial arms after he was attacked by armed bandits, who cut off his hands. Alhaji Ismail Mohammed, an indigene of Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State narrated how he was attacked ...

  The Bauchi State Police Command are seeking for parents and relations of a 17-year old girl who boared a taxi and Lagos and foud her self in Bauchi state. The teenage girl was on an errand for her aunty ...

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Daniel Chigozie, for allegedly conspiring with two others to sell his three-month-old baby for N400, 000. City Round learnt that Chigozie, after allegedly conniving with his doctor, Musa Peter, and ...

  An irate mob has burnt to death a young man who specializes in robbing tricycle passengers along the Awka-Onitsha old road. The man, who gave his name as Chigozie Omaliko said he hails from Umudum village, Abatete community of ...

  Operatives of 4 Special Forces Command, Doma, Nasarawa State have arrested one Agbism Joseph for impersonating a Nigerian military officer. A statement issued by the Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel said the suspect was arrested ...

The Bishop of Ekwulobia, Peter Okpaleke, is scheduled to be one of 20 new cardinals to be sworn in on Saturday by the Catholic church. Pope Francis had earlier named Okpaleke as one of the new cardinals – many of ...

The vice-presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has said that he deliberately wore sneakers to the Nigeria Bar Association conference on Monday. The former Borno State governor had become a trending topic on social media and ...

  Outgoing Nigerian Bar Association, NBA President Mr. Olumide Akpata has said that any lawyer found complicit in vandalisation of conference booths, theft of phones, and assault on officials will be prosecuted. Akpata stated this on Thursday during the Annual ...

A 13-year-old boy, Abdulmateen Yahya, has been reported missing. He was said to have left home at Ijesha, Surulere, Lagos on July 30 and has not been seen since. The Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 student of Victoria High School ...

  A three-storey building has collapsed in Kubwa Satellite town, Abuja. According to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday. The building, which was under construction, collapsed at Hamza Abdullahi Street ...

Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has been released from Uyo prison on Friday after spending a month for alleged contempt of court. The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom state, Ekaette Obot, on 27th July, sentenced Effiong to prison after the ...

  Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, has rebuked those criticizing the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential running mate, Kashim Shettima’s outfit at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. Fani-Kayode said those criticizing Shettima’s outfit are behaving ...