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The photos of the three-storey building before it collapsed, trapping residents, have been spotted online. According to photos from Google, here’s the building standing at 31 Ibadan Street, Ebute Metta. Unfortunately, the building caved in Sunday night, May 1, while ...

  A mortuary attendant working with MABOD at Oke-Yidi, Abule Oloni, Abeokuta, Kushimo Lukman, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Government-owned security outfit, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, for allegedly exhuming and cutting off the head a ...

The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested one Bako Anjeh, a 36-year-old man, for raping a 17-years-old girl to death in the Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of the state. In a bid to make her weak, the suspect ...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved N40,000 minimum wage for workers in the State from the former N30,000 to cushion the hardship being experienced by the workers, particularly the effects of rising food prices. Obaseki made the ...

A three-story building, on Sunday night, collapsed at No 32, Ibadan Street, Ebute Metta area of Lagos State. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service disclosed this late Sunday on its Twitter page. The service assured that rescue operations have ...

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed Nigerians in many ways. The union made this disclosure in a May Day press statement. The union in a statement signed by Chairman, University of Ibadan ...

As workers were in the mood for the 2022 May Day celebration yesterday, four people have been presumed dead while five others were injured on Sunday, on the Third Mainland Bridge, in Lagos. The accident occurred at about 5.50 am ...

Two Akwa Ibom children, Gideon Edet and Kingsley Edet, have been rescued from the hands of suspected ritualists by their grandmother, Mrs Bassey Ekong. Pu Menchtro learnt that the duo were rescued after their parents allegedly completed negotiation to sell ...

    The Police in Abia on Sunday confirmed the electrocution of a suspected thief popularly called “Bouncer” in Aba while stealing from a church. The Abia Command Police Public Relations Officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the report in an interview ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged Nigerians to eat healthily by adopting proper dietary and healthy lifestyle. Making the appeal through the church’s daily devotional, ‘Open Heaven’, with wake up topics: ...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan is expected to pick the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to contest the Presidency this week. A source told Vanguard that the Senate ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, declared yesterday that no political party will hold a convention to select any presidential candidate in Abuja. Peoples Democratic Party picked the Federal Capital Territory for its May Convention to select its presidential ...

    An Indian national, Devendra Singh, has allegedly committed suicide at his private office on Egbeyemi Street, in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State. Until his death, Singh, 42, was said to be a field worker at the Agro ...

Senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Imo East Senatorial district, Mr Chyna Anthony, has taken a swipe at the federal government over the loss of lives in the recent explosion at the site of an illegal ...

Oyo State Government has assured the people of Oyo Town that new Alaafin of Oyo would emerge soon, urging them to be patient. Gov. Seyi Makinde gave the assurance at the eighth day fidau/interdenominational prayer held in honour of the ...

Activist lawyer, Femi Falana has knocked the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its N100 million for Presidential nomination form, stressing that politics is now for money bags. Falana said it’s immoral and illegal for the APC to peg its Presidential ...

Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, a Catholic Priest and governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has sought support as he joined the 2023 governorship race in Benue. In 1992, Benue had a civilian governor and Catholic ...

Akinwunmi Ambode Campaign Organisation has vowed that the former Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, would send the incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, out of office in 2023. The chairman of AMCO and former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral resources, Wale Oluwo, ...

  Ralf Rangnick has been appointed as the new manager of the Austria football team, but he will be combining that role with duties as a consultant at Manchester United once his time as interim boss of the Red Devils comes ...

Investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has revealed what a ritualist told her regarding young ladies sleeping with dogs for the sum of two million naira. It’s no longer news that some girls now indulge in the act of sleeping with dogs ...

  Nigeria’s premier banking institution and leading financial services inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has won two awards: Best Bank in Nigeria 2022 and Best Banking Digital Transformation Nigeria at the International Investor Awards 2022, a print and online ...

Some unidentified gunmen today attacked soldiers at a checkpoint in Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. Sources said the gunmen wielded automatic riffles, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, just as they came in their numbers. They reportedly arrived ...

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says terrorists and bandits are denied access to telecommunication services with the ongoing implementation of National Identity Number, SIM linkage policy in Nigeria. The Director, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement NCC, Mr Ephraim Nwokonanya, represented by Head ...

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly, said the Canadian government planned to reopen its embassy in Ukraine soon. According to the local media report, Joly told the Senate foreign affairs and international trade committee that her objective was to do ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has received his N50 million governorship nomination and expression of interest forms from James Faleke, lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency. Faleke had earlier in the day picked the forms from the APC Secretariat in Abuja. ...