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Bola Tinubu has cancelled the 13th edition of its annual colloquium as mark of respect for those that died in an attack on a Kaduna-bound train. Tinubu, a presidential aspirant in the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the event could ...

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has appointed 20 commissioners to work with him. Soludo made the appointments on Tuesday, just twelve days after his inauguration. The former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor took over from his predecessor, Willie ...

Armed bandits have reportedly ambushed another passenger train along the beleaguered Abuja-Kaduna track. The incident occurred near Gidan Train Station as the train was returning to Abuja from Kaduna. It was not immediately clear how many passengers were on board. ...

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has visited the victims of the Abuja-Kaduna rail attacks. Osinbajo paid the visit while on his way to Lagos to attend the 13th Tinubu Colloquium marking the 70th birthday of former Governor of Lagos, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday rejoiced with former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 70th birthday. Mr Tinubu celebrate his 70th birthday  today. “President Buhari affirms the contributions of the party stalwart to the political, economic and social ...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has suspended train operations along the Abuja-Kaduna route indefinitely. The NRC made this known in a post via its official Twitter handle @Official_NRC on Tuesday morning. In a terse statement, the NRC stated that the suspension ...

A young doctor, Chinelo was among those that might their untimely death when bandits allegedly bombed part of the Abuja-Kaduna railway and attacked passengers. Chinelo who was among the 950 passengers was shot by bandits, a thing she tweeted asking ...

  Suspected bandit terrorists on Monday March 28, detonated bombs on the rail track of the Abuja-Kaduna train.   According to reports, the attack occurred at a point between Katari and Rijana. The 6pm train, which took off from Idu ...

A Zuba high court sitting at Gwagwalada high court division, Abuja, has sentenced four suspects to death by hanging for offenses of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, house trespass, and assault on January 6, 2022. Force public relations officer, CSP Olumuyiwa ...

The immediate former governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has explained why he tried to leave Nigeria hours after he handed over to his successor, Chukwuma Soludo. Obiano handed over power to Soludo on Thursday, March 17 and was arrested ...

At least four persons have been confirmed dead in a head-on collision between a petrol tanker and a truck conveying cement along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. It was learnt that the accident occurred at Kaiyetoro end of the expressway by Eleko ...

Dr Betta Edu from Cross River State has emerged as the youngest female to become the National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress. Edu was born on October 27, 1986. She emerged alongside 76 other national officials at the ...

Suspended DCP Abba Kyari has started growing white hair in detention. Photos of him from a court sitting shows the very visible grey hair growing on the suspended super cops. NDLEA has been able to keep him and a few ...

Muhammad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, has asked the federal government to take urgent steps to address the high cost of food items in the country. The sultan spoke on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the 2022 national Qur’an ...

laGovernor Nyesom Wike has joined the race for the 2023 presidency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike in Makurdi, Benue state told PDP stakeholders gathering on Sunday that he wants to be Nigeria’s next President to ...

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested the Special Assistant on Rural Mobilisation to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for assaulting a traffic warden on duty along Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin. A video clip on how the governor’s aide, Mr Musibau Esinrogunjo, ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, described the invasion of Kaduna airport by terrorists, on Saturday, as an indication of how bad the security situation in Nigeria has gotten. Afenifere, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, ...

Bakers under the aegis of the Premium Bread-Makers Association of Nigeria have said a harsh business environment triggered by rising energy costs and increasing forex rates has caused some of its members across the country to shut down their business ...

The Taliban has banned the Voice of America (VOA) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from airing its news programs in Afghanistan. On Sunday, VOA condemned the Taliban’s actions in a statement. “We ask the Taliban to reconsider this troubling ...

While addressing the congregation, the Leader of Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, said that the Catholic Church has the most organised structure on earth. He said they have done a nice job as one can get materials that are 50 ...

Senator Abdullahi Adamu has emerged as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), about a year and nine months after the Adams Oshiomhole led National Working Committee (NWC) was dissolved. He was returned unopposed on Saturday at the ...

A 40-year-old woman from Misaro village in Siaya county, Kenya is nursing injuries at the Busia County Referral Hospital after her husband attacked her after she reportedly denied him conjugal rights. The lady, Judith Anyago, claimed that she was forced ...

Two men were yesterday sentenced to life in prison after a Mombasa court found them guilty of gang-raping, and attempting to murder a 31-year-old woman by tying her at the Kibarani Railway track in Mombasa county, Kenya. Mombasa Senior Principal ...

Two drug traffickers, Elvis Uche Iro, 53 and Uwaezuoke Ikenna Christian, 42, have excreted a total of 165 wraps of cocaine following their arrest at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement ...

Nigerian troops of Operation Desert Sanity have discovered a workshop for the making of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Sambisa Forest, Borno state. The startling discovery was made as the troops conducted further exploitation around Ukuba/Camp Zairo in the forest. ...