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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three residents of the territory for allegedly killing Terungwa Stephanie, a 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member. Stephanie was declared missing after leaving her residence for Community Development ...

The FESTAC Deanary of the Justice Peace Development Commission (JPDC), Catholic Church, says it has mobilised its officials ahead of the 2023 general elections. The commission, with its record in election monitoring and observation in Nigeria, disclosed this at its ...

  The governing Council of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) has appointed Professor (Mrs) Adenike Temidayo Oladiji as the eighth substantive Vice Chancellor of the University. The Council presided over by the Pro-Chancellor, Chairman of Council, Ambassador (Dr.) ...

Ibrahim Maqari, imam of the National Mosque, Abuja has reacted to Deborah Samuel’s killing saying indeed Muslims have some red lines that should not be crossed. Absolving her killers, Mr Maqari hinted grave consequences awaited persons who crossed the religion’s ...

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is dead. He died today, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. The ministry also confirmed there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags across ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has expressed sadness over the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto State. We had earlier reported that the student who was identified as Deborah ...

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele was on Thursday, spotted at the Presidential Villa Abuja, where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari. Although the meeting held behind closed doors, Emefiele failed to disclose his mission in ...

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court sitting at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos has sentenced a 31-year-old Physics Teacher, Oluwajuwon Soetan and his brother, Olugbenga Soetan, a driver with a bank in Lagos to cumulative ten years imprisonment. Oluwajuwon worked at Bizben ...

A Sokoto government official has allegedly threatened that more Christians in Nigeria will be murdered if they say things considered disrespectful to their revered Prophet Muhammad, following the gruesome killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian female student of Shehu Shagari ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, three bills aimed at improving the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing/proliferation financing framework in Nigeria. The bills are: the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, ...

Renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has advised the Federal Government to pay ransom to the terrorists holding the 62 abducted passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train. Gumi also advised the government to deal with the bandits with caution because of ...

Russia has said it will be forced to take “retaliatory steps” over its neighbour Finland’s move to join Nato. A foreign ministry statement said the move would seriously damage bilateral relations, as well as security and stability in northern Europe. ...

The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House. President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”. It’s the highest official total in the world ...

The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, speaks during an oversight of the Moniya Railway station in Ibadan on May 11, 2022. The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, on Wednesday asked the Chinese ...

A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and popular sociopolitical activist, Aisha Yesufu, has condemned the killing of a christian student in Sokoto State, identified as Deborah Samuel. In their separate reactions, Oby and Yesufu while condemning the incident, ...

    The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would employ both the manual and electronic methods in the transmission of the 2023 elections results. The commission also said there is a possibility of moving sensitive materials from ...

Vocal legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has condemned the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel. The 200 level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State was burnt alive today. The deceased was accused of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet ...

Irate attackers in Sokoto have just roasted a Christian female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Wamako, witnesses told Peoples Gazette. The deceased, identified only as Ms Deborah, was accused of passing unflattering comments about Prophet Mohammed on ...

Authorities on Thursday continued searching for survivors on a plane carrying 11 people that crashed in Cameroon on Wednesday. The aircraft, whose type and make was not made public, was flying from Yaounde-Nsimalen airport to Belabo, in the east of ...

    A TVC correspondent in Maiduguri, Jesse Tafida, has lost his wife, Mercy IIiya just 12 days after their wedding. The couple got married on Saturday, April 30th in Maiduguri, Borno State. Heartbroken friends and families took to social ...

The Lagos State Government has condemned the recent attack on the Vehicle Inspection Services Officials by a notorious gang along Airport road in Oshodi. The government warned that decisive actions would be taken against perpetrators of such heinous acts. The ...

  Court proceedings at the Mombasa law courts were briefly halted as Mombasa principal magistrate Vincent Adet ordered a mini Harambee to fundraise for a middle-aged woman who was charged alongside her husband with stealing a bale of wheat flour. ...

  A 16-year-old girl in Mulot, Bomet County, Kenya is being held in police custody after she stabbed a minor following a disagreement over a 2GB memory card. According to police, the minor stabbed her agemate on the left side ...

    Police in Ondo State have arrested a 39-year-old food seller, identified as Seun Sola, for stabbing her ex-boyfriend in the stomach during a scuffle over N500. The incident happened during a fight between the two lovers at the ...

  Reverend Father Joseph Akete of the St. John Catholic Church, Kudenda in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who was kidnapped eight weeks ago, has died in captivity. The Chancellor, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu ...