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Detained former Imo State Governor, Anayo Rochas Okorocha is to remain in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) till Monday, May 30, when he will be arraigned in court over the N2.9 billion money laundering criminal ...

The lawmaker representing Kabba/Bunu Ijumu Federal constituency, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf, has defeated Senator Dino Melaye to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial ticket in Kogi State. Recall there was a deadlock in the Kogi West PDP Senatorial primary election where ...

One of Alaafin of Oyo’s wives, Queen Damilola Adeyemi has taken to social media to mourn the monarch on his first month’s death anniversary. She mourned him yesterday, exactly a month into his death. Sharing special moments of herself and ...

The General Overseer of Omega Power Ministry, Chibuzor Chinyere, has donated a mini estate and a car to Garba Emmanuel, the father of slain Deborah Samuel. The cleric also relocated the family to Port Harcourt and promised Deborah’s seven siblings ...

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the sacked chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos branch, Alhaji Musilu Akinsanya and other transport unions to stop the collection of levies from non-union commercial drivers ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared the Rivers State Accountant-General, Fubara Siminayi, and 58 others wanted for N435 billion fraud. Siminayi, and four other Rivers State government officials, among others, are wanted for suspected N117 billion fraud, ...

Gunmen have kidnapped two priests from a Catholic church in Katsina. The incident happened at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State. It was gathered that the gunmen broke into the rectory in ...

The Federal Government has activated a passport tracking system that allows applicants to monitor and know the status of their application online. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said this during Tuesday’s passing out parade of the 47th Basic Superintendent ...

A plane has reportedly crash landed at Ikeja, Lagos. According to many social media users, the plane crash landed yesterday night. Though a plane was seen on the busy Agege Motor Road near the Ikeja Along Bus Stop with one ...

Adam Namadi, son of former vice president Namadi Sambo is asking Kaduna delegates to refund his money following his defeat at the primaries despite having paid about N76 million, Peoples Gazette reports. The younger Namadi was hoping to become the ...

A House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Philip Okwuada on Monday reportedly fainted after losing the party’s primaries in Delta State. Punch learnt that Okwuada who was contesting to be the party’s flag-bearer ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have stormed the residence of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha. The anti-graft agency operatives stormed the residence of the former governor in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory ...

The Nigerian Association of the Blind has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest over the inability of their members to independently access financial services across the country. The group said the Nigerian Bankers’ Committee in 2012 adopted nine principles ...

Members of the association led by the chairman, Evangelist Oluwatosin Jeremiah presented to the gift to him shortly after a closed door meeting with Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Jeremiah told newsmen that the association had visited ...

Drama ensued in Kakamega, Kenya after a robbery suspect was attacked by bees while carrying a television he is alleged to have stolen from a house in the suburbs of Kakamega town. The said house was attacked by thieves who ...

Billionaire businessman and politician, Ned Nwoko, has clinched the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial ticket for Delta North district ahead of the 2023 general elections. To celebrate his win, the politician splashed over N10m on his staff, as he gifted N100,000 ...

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said there are no specific treatments available for the monkeypox infection. The centre also urged Nigerians to take certain measures to prevent contracting the disease. This is just as the Minister ...

Commercial flights resumed on Monday at the Kaduna International Airport two months after it was attacked by bandits. The bandits had on March 26 launched an attempted invasion of the facility, killing a private security guard attached to the Nigerian ...

  A cute little baby girl has been reported being abandoned by the roadside by her mother due to the fact that the mother can’t provide for her.The baby who will be up to a year plus was found by ...

A 27-year-old man identified as John Aipoh is in police net for allegedly killing his 24-year-old lover, Precious Ikpikhumi. Police statement revealed that John killed precious, a final year student of the Institute of Health Technology, University of Benin Teaching ...

Terrorists who attacked and kidnapped the 28 March 2022 Abuja-Kaduna bound train passengers have threatened to, within seven days, start killing the passengers in captivity if their demands are not met. They called the government to, as a matter of ...

    An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Monday sentenced a dismissed policeman, Mohammed Alidu, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old school girl in a police barracks. Justice Abiola Soladoye, in her judgment, held that Alidu ...

Campaign billboards of Senator Ademola Adeleke are being set ablaze in Ejigbo town, Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State. A mob was observed destroying and tearing down the billboards in parts of the town. Senator Ademola Adeleke is the ...

The National Population Commission (NPC) Badagry office located at Town Hall near Topo Garage, in Lagos State has been attacked by robbers. A staff member of the commission, Mrs Funmilayo Bojrenu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Anamekwe Chukwunyere Nwabuoku to oversee the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. Nwabuoku is to take over the position pending the outcome of the EFCC investigation of the suspended AGF, Ahmad Idris. Buhari’s ...