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Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed a bill to prevent open defecation across the state. The bill was passed on Tuesday during the House plenary presided by the Speaker, Hon Idris Garba Jahun. He said the bill is aimed ...

    Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal tour of the Caribbean in celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee continues to encounter resistance as a movement to remove the monarch as head of state of Jamaica is reportedly gaining traction. ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River State have disclosed that it has appealed the Federal High Court Judgment and also filed a motion for a stay of execution. This was contained in a release by the Special Adviser, ...

A toddler has died after being mauled to death by a ‘stocky Staffordshire terrier or Pitbull’, tearful neighbours have said. Bella-Rae Birch was 17-months-old when she suffered fatal injuries after being attacked by the pet, which the family only bought ...

A woman has set her 10-year old daughter on fire. Operatives of the Ogun State police command have arrested a housewife and mother of five for pouring petrol on her 10-year-old daughter and setting her ablaze. The suspect, Aisha Tijani, ...

Tens of thousands of girls were due to return to secondary school across Afghanistan Wednesday, more than seven months after the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. All schools were closed ...

0 Gunmen have killed 34 people in new attack in Kaduna State, including two soldiers, in latest attack blamed on heavily-armed criminal gangs. More than 200 homes were also destroyed in Sunday’s attack on four villages in the Kaura local ...

Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said he is confident that he will not have any problems with his predecessor, Willie Obiano. Soludo’s comments followed questions on whether his government would follow the same trend as those of other ...

Sunday’s funeral of a revered rabbi in Israel drew half a million mourners clad in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb, turning the streets of a religious suburb of Tel Aviv into a surging sea of black. The roads of Bnei Brak were ...

No survivors have been found yet in the horrific Monday crash of the China Eastern plane that plunged into forested mountainous area with 132 people on board, state media confirmed Tuesday. “Wreckage of the plane was found at the scene, ...

The Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) driver, Andrew Nice Omininikoron, accused of murdering 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwola, will be arraigned today (on Tuesday) before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) area of the state. The ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Monday, slammed Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his inability to halt the continuous security challenges in the state. Recall that youths in Kagoro had blocked roads, in Kaura Local Government area Kaduna State, protesting ...

A Moscow court banned Facebook and Instagram on Monday, describing the social media apps as “extremist” organizations. The ban is coming after authorities accused US tech giant, Meta of tolerating “Russophobia” during the military action in Ukraine. The Tverskoy district ...

Fully vaccinated travellers coming into Nigeria will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR COVID-19 test. This is according to the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee, Boss Mustapha. Mr Mustapha made the comment on Monday during a ...

A Lagos State Development and Property Corporation building in Ogba, Lagos State has been gutted by fire. The cause of the fire is still unknown but in a video making the rounds on social media, the top floor of the ...

Operatives of the Nigeria Police have arrested a man suspected to be a ritual killer at Barako Community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The suspect, identified as Sunday Kara, was accused of killing a 24-year-old girl in ...

Two members of a syndicate said to specialize in attacking taxi drivers have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos police command. The suspects, Michael Tobiloba, 23, and Ismaila Yusuf, 18, were arrested while trying to kill an Uber driver ...

Following the detention of the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, Women in Anambra state under the aegis of Anambra-North Women Empowerment Movement (AWEM) have vowed to protest n*ked at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

The Maria Assumpta Cathedral Catholic Archdiocese, Owerri, Imo State, on Sunday night went up in flames. An eyewitness said the fire started around 11:48 pm and affected only a section of the main church building and many equipment. A Catholic ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to a video showing former Anambra Governor Willie Obiano in custody. Recall a footage during the weekend showed him sitting, dressed in a T-shirt and matching shorts in their custody went ...

Two men, whose ages were put at 61 and 27 years, have allegedly r3ped four minors of the same parents, left in their care by their mother. Daily Post gathered that the children whose ages are 11 months old; 5 ...

Lawmaker representing Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola, Iwajowa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, has described former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as one of the politicians manipulating Nigerians for their selfish reasons. Shina said he was even more disappointed ...

Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he will relocate to Ghana if Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, becomes Nigeria’s president in 2023. In a press briefing in Lagos on Saturday, George said Tinubu ...

The Imo State government has told its workers to stop obeying IPOB sit-at-home order. The Government threatened to mete out sanctions against civil servants who adhere to Monday’s sit at home directive from the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The ...

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