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Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the dissolution of the Borno State Executive Council. The dissolution, which is with immediate effect, was contained in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Administration and General Services, Danjuma Ali ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused the Authority of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), of preparing Examination timetable covering Jumu‘ah prayers. It also said the arrangement was to force Muslim candidates to write examinations under duress and compel ...

The Progressive Project (TPP), an umbrella body of support groups backing Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for president, has allegedly picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) expression of interest and nomination forms for the vice-president. Kabiru Gaya, senator from Kano, picked the ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church has picked the All Progressives Congress, APC, expression of interest and nomination forms for the Presidency which costs N100m. Bakare picked the forms in Abuja today. In September 2019, the clergyman ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced a 42-year-old Stephen Omoniyi to death by hanging for killing a monarch. The convict was arraigned on one count charge of murder contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section ...

  Former President Goodluck Jonathan has remembered his former boss, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua 12 years after his death. He wrote; ”Twelve years ago, our nation lost a patriot, a selfless leader and a peacemaker who governed with sincerity and ...

Shina Peller has officially joined the race for the 2023 elections declaring his intention to contest the presidential seat on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as a senatorial slot in Oyo. Mr Peller, who ...

Rivers governorship aspirant Farah Dagogo has been transferred from the Police clinic where he was rushed in the early hours of Wednesday to another hospital where he has been admitted. Media Aide to the lawmaker, Ibrahim Lawal who has been ...

A 30-year-old man, Oluwagbemiga Shogbola, has reportedly stabbed his friend, Victor Olabiyo, to death over $150 (N61,950) proceeds of a business deal between them in the Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State. Punch Metro gathered that Shogbola, aka Oja ...

Footage showing “unknown gunmen” (UGM) parading a market in Abia State is trending. In the video, reportedly taken on Wednesday, about 50 armed men marched through the Ariaria Market in Aba. They all covered their faces, bearing weapons including AK-47s, ...

Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has declared a state of emergency on infrastructure, especially roads, in the state. Soludo made the declaration on Wednesday in Awka during a town hall meeting with traditional rulers, presidents-general of communities, youths and ...

The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday vowed to fish out owners of dogs who pay ladies to have s3x with their pets. Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement to journalists on Thursday morning. According ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the military authorities and other security agencies to do their utmost in apprehending those who beheaded a military couple and bring them to justice. The President, in a statement issued Wednesday by his media aide, ...

Lady found dead in Ebonyi hotel room A lady in her late 20s, identified as Ugochi Nworie, has allegedly been gang-raped to death in a hotel in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. It was learnt that the victim arrived at ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that his billionaire rival Elon Musk could potentially make Twitter a worse platform – and refused to say whether or not he shorted Tesla, as Musk has alleged. Gates spoke at The Wall Street Journal’s ...

A Lebanese, John Greg, has been arrested by the police after he reportedly crushed a woman and sped off. The hit-and-run driver was driving against traffic along Sanusi Fafunwa Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, around 7.45am on Wednesday, knocking down the ...

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, says his presidential aspiration is not an act of betrayal of his erstwhile political associate, Bola Tinubu. He spoke on Wednesday when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme. Fayemi, the current Chairman of ...

    Former Lagos State Governor and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday in Abuja described the increasing number of aspirants vying for the party’s presidential ticket as a plus for Nigeria’s democracy. Tinubu said ...

  Fleeing gunmen has shot dead an Assistant Superintendent of Police, identified as Ukam Efut at a security checkpoint at Agwa in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. The incident occured Tuesday evening when the gunmen after shooting ...

On Wednesday, a 48-year-old man, Emmanuel Amamchukwu, appeared before the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill his wife for using make-up. Mr Amamchukwu, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution ...

The Ikeja Domestic Violence and S3xual Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Oliseh, to life imprisonment for defiling his friend’s 12-year-old twin daughters. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, described Mr Oliseh, the assistant pastor of the Anointed ...

The European Union has declared its plans to ban trading with Russian oil by the end of the year. This is part of its sixth package of sanctions rolled out against Moscow for its three month military assault in Ukraine. ...

Business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, has joined the race for Ondo South Senatorial District on Wednesday when he picked the N20 million expression of interest and nomination forms of All Progressives Congress, APC at the party’s secretariat in Abuja. Ibrahim, the ...

Nigeria’s transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has promised to build the world’s largest rail in the Niger-Delta region if elected president. “If I don’t become the president of Nigeria, forget it (Lagos-Warri-Calabar railway project). Nobody will do that project. You know ...

  A mum who drowned her two-year-old son in the bath after becoming fixated with the idea her family were possessed by demons has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Natalie Steele, 31, admitted the manslaughter of her son ...