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Mass defection rocked Kogi Local Government chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) weekend as over 1,000 members of the ruling party in the state defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Announcing their defection, leader of the defectors, Alhaji ...

  The Zamfara State chapter of the GSM Communication Union has lamented that 50 of its members were abducted by bandits between Sokoto and Zamfara States axis on Saturday evening. Addressing newsmen at the Press Center in Gusau, Zamfara State ...

Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje of the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Thursday, has ordered the remand of one Sakiru Oladosu, 50, and Tola Rasaq, 40, for defiling and impregnating a 13-year-old girl. Punch Metro gathered that the defendants took the victim ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a couple, Onyinmiebi (Miebi Baraza) and Beatrice Bribena, wanted. An alert by the anti-graft agency urged persons with information about them to contact any of its offices across Nigeria. The agency ...

  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Friday dismissed claims that he paid tribute to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Soyinka disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘I did not pay tribute to Tinubu ...

  A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has warned the All Progressives Congress against picking a Muslim as running mate to its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is also a Muslim. Lawal pointed out ...

  n Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing Olufunke Olakunrin, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. While four persons were accused of the crime ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria has rejected proposed Muslim-Muslim presidential tickets by major political parties in the country, claiming that the outcome of the proposal will be worse. According to CAN, Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in 2023 is a ...

The brother of Vice Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Kogi State, Opaluwa Okpanachi who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kogi has been found dead. Okpanachi, who is the brother to Kogi NLC Vice Chairman, Simeon Opaluwa was kidnapped ...

Clergyman, David Ibiyeomie, has berated men who are impotent and refuse to tell their spouses of their condition before they get married. The founder of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt, in a sermon preaching against premarital intercourse, said such men have breached ...

The Police in Oyo State have condemned the gruesome murder of a traffic personnel on duty at New Garage Area in Challenge, Ibadan, the state capital. The Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, in a statement Friday, said the incident ...

  The APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is meeting with the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello two days after the party’s primary. Tinubu and Yahaya Bello contested the APC Presidential primary. Bello polled 47 votes to come 5th ...

  The Lagos State Police Command on Friday said detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department, have arrested Rafiu Rahaman for faking his own kidnap. ‘Rahaman, 29, is a staff of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). Lagos Police Command’s ...

A couple have called off their relationship of one year after the lady refused to compromise on her stance of “no coitus before marriage.” Screenshots of their WhatsApp conversation is currently serving rounds online and has gotten people talking online. In the ...

  Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Wakilu Ogundairo for allegedly raising a false alarm on alleged Boko Haram invasion through a WhatsApp voice note. Ogundairo was accused of raising a false alarm of Boko Haram ...

The APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Thursday night paid a surprise visit to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja. Tinubu, who had earlier visited President Muhammadu Buhari stopped by to visit Osinbajo, one of his opponents ...

The longest serving emir in North western Nigerian state of Zamfara, Emir of Kwatarkwashi in Bungudu Local Government Area, Alhaji Ahmad Umar (Mai-Kwatarshi) has died. He died on Thursday at 93, having been on the throne for 61 years. The ...

There is panic among Taraba State politicians after some bandits reportedly warned them not to campaign. Although there is a ban on campaigns in the state, the bandits’ warning is said to have heightened tension among the politicians. The bandits ...

Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo has apointed late Dora Akunyili’s son into his cabinet. He named Obumneme Akunyili, the last son of a former director-general, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) late Prof. Dora Akunyili, as ...

  As the deadline for the conduct of political party primaries elapsed yesterday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reminded political parties not to submit candidates without running mates, saying such nominations would outrightly be declared invalid. Speaking at ...

A woman has been arrested after the discovery of seven aborted foetuses in a room she had been renting. The shocking discovery was made when the mother of the unborn babies – a 26-year-old hospital worker who was identified only ...

    The immediate past Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has emerged the winner of the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial primary under the All Progressives Congress platform. The first primary conducted on May 28, 2022, for the senatorial ...

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has revealed why he sacked no fewer than 1,000 teachers in the State. He said they were relieved of their appointments because they were employed in a hazy manner. The Governor stated that the ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of destroying billboards belonging to its candidate in the July 16 governorship poll, Senator Ademola Adeleke, across the state. A statement on Thursday by the ...

Founder of Salvation Ministry, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has cautioned against the use of popular s3x enhancer, Kayanmata, saying it has spiritual implications which can attract cancer and even death. In a sermon, the clergy called on users of the local ...