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  Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai’s tweet mocking Obi-dients has been reported to twitter. The Governor in an update revealed that supporters of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has reported his tweet to Twitter. Reall El-Rufai appeared ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed how some elders of the State ganged up against him because they didn’t scale through the primary to be the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. ...

The Nasarawa State Commissioner of information, Mohammed Yakubu Lawal and his son Mushab Mohammed Yakubu Lawal have been kidnapped at his residence, GRA, Nasarawa Eggon. Vanguard gathered that the commissioner was abducted at about 9pm Monday night. The gunmen stormed ...

A transformer vandal ghas been electrocuted in Osogbo. The man who remains unidentified was on Monday evening electrocuted as he attempted to vandalise an electricity transformer. The man, according to sources from the community, died when power was suddenly restored ...

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kaduna State Command, said it had arrested 611 suspected drug traffickers from January to July in the State. The agency’s Commander in the state, Mr Umar Adoro disclosed this to Newsmen on ...

  About 50 persons have been confirmed dead in Jigawa State and many others were displaced as floods ravaged parts of the state. Sani Yusuf, the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency, while briefing newsmen in Dutse, explained ...

  Gunmen, Sunday, reportedly invaded Orie market in Agbedo community of Igalamela/Odolu council area of Kogi State, killing one person and abducting another. The kidnappers afterwards demanded a N20 million ransom. It was gathered that the gunmen in their large ...

  A 55-year-old man, Abdulwaheed Lamidi, has lost his life while lodging with his girlfriend at the City International Motel, Council Bus-Stop, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Lamidi and his 32-year-old lover met online ...

  The Chairman, Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC, Barrister Segun Oladitan has disclosed that he has been receiving life threatening messages over the body’s plan to conduct local government election in the state. This is as he stated that ...

  Oyo state police command in its effort towards curbing crimes across all the geo-political zones of the state has on Monday paraded a suspected kidnap kingpin who wrote a notification letters to one new generation bank and one private ...

  Elder Statesman Senator Anietie Okon and a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has advised the party to give governor Nyesom Wike of River State national Chairman position to placate him. Senator Okon who spoke during an ...

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 19.64 percent in July, the highest since September 2005, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. The consumer price index (CPI), which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, ...

  Deputy President William Ruto has won Kenya’s presidential election, the electoral commission chairman has said. He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga, taking 50.4% of the vote. The announcement was delayed amid scuffles and allegations of vote-rigging by members ...

Justice Binta Nyako has sentenced notorious Taraba-based kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, to seven years without an option of fine. In the trial that lasted three years, Wadume was convicted on counts two and 10 of the ...

There are indications that the nation’s electricity supply crisis might worsen from Wednesday, as Organized Labour has directed workers in the Power sector to down tools and commence an indefinite strike over pending Labour issues with the Transmission Company of ...

  Nigerian senator and former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu is not happy with Nigerian youths as he has taken to his official Facebook page to lament the level at which the youths insult elders in the country. ...

  The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered the police and other security agencies in the state to fish out the killers of a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh. Odeh, who was the school’s beauty pageant ...

A Kremlin official has betrayed Vladimir Putin and offered to secretly negotiate with the West, it has been claimed. The unnamed Russian elite has reportedly been in touch with enemy intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI5. A so-called ‘situation ...

Pastor David Ibiyeomie, founder of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt on Sunday said if he were in office, he would sack many government workers because they are very useless. Ibiyeomie, in a sermon, said he had worked before to a point ...

  Gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest along Okigwe-Umunneochi Road, between Imo and Abia states, Nigeria’s South-east. The incident happened on Friday. The abducted priest, Chinedu Nwadike, is the deputy registrar of the Spiritan University, Abia State. He was abducted ...

  The Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, and Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have signed a peace pact to de-escalate religious tensions and ensure peaceful and secure atmosphere in the nation, ahead of the 2023 elections. The peace ...

Peter Obi Can’t Get Over 200 Supporters For Kaduna Rally Unless It Holds On Twitter: El-Rufai  Governor Nasir El-Rufai has mocked plans by supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to hold a two million-man march ahead of ...

  The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC) has put the current and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) under scrutiny. The committee said it discovered that the fund’s management failed to produce relevant documents to justify ...

Mr Dele Momodu has revealed his phone conversation this morning with PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He said Atiku’s aide had called him this morning and asked him to hold on for Mr President, who wants to speak with him. ...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the position of the Federal Government in the detention and trial of Senator Ike Ekweremadu for alleged ...