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  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 ...

  Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), says despite the number of Nigerians aiming to leave the country, there is also a significant number returning to the country. Dabiri-Erewa, who spoke at a press briefing at ...

The Katsina Police Command today said the 25-year-old man, Najib Shehu, who used a pestle to kill his stepmother last Thursday in katsina would be arraigned in court anytime from now. The command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, made the disclosure ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, today met the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in London. The meeting was held a few hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of Labour Party, ...

  A 17-year-old pilot became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed today in Bulgaria, where his journey began five months ago. Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed on an ...

  The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the killing of an Inspector by gunmen on Wednesday in Coker Aguda area of Lagos. The spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ...

  Suspected herdsmen have been alleged of attacking two farmers at Ifira-Akoko in Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victims, who were hospitalised and in critical condition after the incident. According to a youth in the ...

A three-year-old girl woke up at her own funeral after doctors allegedly wrongly told her parents she had died from a stomach bug. Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza was declared deceased 12 hours before the service on August 17 but began ...