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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of $8.5 million to evacuate at least 5,000 Nigerians who are stranded as a result of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, announced ...

Yohanna Saidolo, an Adamawa State resident, has allegedly sold his neighbours’ six children after taking them away from home under the guise of enrolling them in a missionary school in the state. It was learnt that Saidolo deceived and took ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court presided over by Justice Bassey Nkanang has sentenced a 39-year-old man, one Monday Effiong, to life imprisonment for beating his 68-year-old father to death. The bricklayer who hailed from Mbiakpan Atan in Ibiono Ibom Local ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday said the construction of the Badagry deep sea port would start in June once the State is granted ratification by the Federal Government grants ratification in April. Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance during a ...

Kate Henshaw, on Wednesday lamented the worsening scarcity of petrol products in the country. The actress shared a video on her Instagram page, where she called on Nigerians to take actions concerning the future leaders of the country. This was ...

  The principal of Dowen College, Lagos, Mrs Adebisi Layiwola, on Tuesday wept before an Ikeja Corona’s Court while narrating how the death of a 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., was relayed to her. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

The Oyo State government has said the arrest of its accountant General, Alhaji Gafar Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is unconstitutional. The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, said this in a statement. ...

  As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, the stories and photos of those killed have started to show the human toll taken by war. Ukraine’s interior minister reported 352 civilians dead and over 1,600 injured this past Sunday, a ...

Bandits have invaded the hometown of the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane. The village, Matane, is in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State, which has recorded multiple attacks in recent times. Daily Trust gathered that ...

Two major U.S. manufacturers, Boeing and Ford Motor, suspended their business activities in Russia as the country escalated its war in Ukraine. Boeing said on Tuesday that it had halted major operations in its Moscow office and temporarily closed another ...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, has warned police officers in the Federal Capital (FCT) not to use crime prevention measures such as roadblocks and raids for extortion. Baba, who spoke in Abuja at FCT Command during a one-day ...

  An award-winning journalist in Ondo State, Shola Ilesanmi, who was a correspondent with the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, is dead. Ilesanmi gave up the ghost on Tuesday after a brief illness While describing the death of the journalist, who ...

  Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Monday, condemned the removal of state police from the amendment of Nigeria’s constitution. He called the development a disservice, noting that the prolonged spate of insecurity made the demand a necessity. ...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kebbi state command, Tuesday arrested and paraded a 40 year old suspect, Aminu Bello for allegedly raping his 13 year old daughter Hafsat. Parading the suspect, the Kebbi state commander Musa ...

A spare part dealer identified only as Dauda, has died after falling from a two-storey building in Ilorin, Kwara State. Punch Metro gathered that the victim, believed to be in his 30s, fell from the top of the building where ...

UK’s most wanted woman Sarah Panitzke has been arrested in Spain. Spanish police said Tuesday they had arrested the Briton over a £1 billion VAT scam, after nine years on the run. The fugitive, identified by Britain’s National Crime Agency ...

The first group of Ghanaian students evacuated from Ukraine arrived home on Tuesday as Nigeria and other African nations stepped up efforts to rescue stranded citizens following the Russian invasion. This is as many Nigerians, including students are still stranded ...

An unidentified man has burnt to death while trying to pull a stunt in a masquerader attire in Anambra State. Punch correspondent gathered that the incident happened at Ogbunike, during the Eli’m Ede Cultural Festival, on Saturday. The Eli’m Ede ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Tuesday, met the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in a bid to reconcile him and his estranged political godfather, Bola Tinubu. Though the details ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on another medical trip to London. He departed Abuja today for Nairobi, where he is billed to participate in the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme, scheduled for 3rd – ...

  Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, turned down the bail application filed by the detained former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner of ...

New Satellite images have shown Russian convoys bearing down on Ukraine as Monday peace talk failed to end the deadly invasion. The alarming images revealed a three-plus-mile convoy of Russian military vehicles snaking toward Kyiv. Hundreds of tanks, mobile artillery, ...

    The death of Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, founder and executive chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspapers has been announced by the family. According to the statement issued on Monday, Mr Ojeagbase who is also the ...

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, says the vision of his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, is most needed at the national level, saying Nigeria will be lucky to have him as president. Mohammed said though he has declared his intention ...

The United States has expelled 12 Russian diplomats at the United Nations over national security concerns, U.S. and Russian diplomats said on Monday. The U.S. mission to the United Nations described the Russian diplomats as “intelligence operatives” who had been ...