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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned down an offer by Washington to help evacuate him from Ukraine, US media outlets say. Mr Zelensky said “the fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride”, the Associated Press reported, citing a senior ...

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Friday sentenced Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, and his accomplices – Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu to life imprisonment. The court found Evans guilty of the kidnap of Mr Donatius ...

    A pregnant housewife, Jamila Ardo, has been remanded for allegedly kidnapping herself and collecting a ransom from her lover. Ardo, who hails from Wauru Jabbe in the Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly abducted herself ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. The President assented to the bill at past midday on Friday at a brief ceremony held at the Council Chamber of the Aso Villa in Abuja. The ...

A paramilitary officer attached to the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (task force), Monday John, has been feared killed during an attack on the agency around the Kara bridge area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. Punch Metro ...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin has ordered that a 23-year-old lady, Nike Owolabi, be remanded in a Federal Correctional Service Centre for allegedly abducting a newborn baby at Ajisafe Hospital, Omu Aran in Irepodun local government area of Kwara ...

The police in Ondo have arrested Nkanu Patrick for impersonating an Assistant Superintendent of Police. Mr Nkanu, 50, was arrested by a team of police officers from the Ore Division on Wednesday at about 2 p.m. The police team were ...

Troops of Operation Thunder Strike/Whirl Punch have killed 55 bandits around Labi general area along the Kaduna – Birnin Gwari road. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja Thursday. He said the bandits came ...

Again, the President, Major-General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), has disclosed that he is looking forward to when he will hand over the baton to the next president in 2023 and be addressed as a former president. The president said this on ...

Tension has again enveloped the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State following the kidnap of a traditional ruler, Diket Gupiya, by gunmen. Gupiya is the paramount ruler of Pushit District, the country home of the state deputy governor, Sonny ...

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has called for prayers for Ukraine which has been invaded by Russian forces. In a video on his verified Facebook page, Apostle Suleman said, “We are going to ...

  The Chairman, Innoson Group of Companies, Innocent Chukwuma, has so far received 109 cows from friends and associates, in support of his mother’s funeral. The contributors included banks, companies, individuals and others. The Nnewi businessman and the manufacturer of ...

  A man, who posed as a medical doctor, has been arraigned before a court yesterday in Ede, Osun State, for allegedly cutting off a patient’s hand. Yusuf Olaniyi is being tried for attempted murder, false representation, breach of public ...

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in an address on Friday said that his country had been left to fight Russia on its own after a full-scale invasion was launched on Thursday. Mr Zelensky noted that the attacks had killed over 130 ...

  The Lagos State Government, through the state Ministry of Transport, has urged Lagosians to always demand tickets from officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority when arrested. The Assistant Director, Ministry of Transport, Olayinka Olawole, who said this ...

  A newly discovered piece of destructive software found circulating in Ukraine has hit hundreds of computers, according to researchers at the cybersecurity firm ESET, part of what Ukrainian officials said was an intensifying wave of hacks aimed at the ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today, ordered the interim forfeiture of a property at Plot 1032 & 1033 Cadastral Zone AO3, Takum Close, Off Michika Street, Ahmadu Bello Way, Garki Abuja, belonging to former Imo State governor, Senator ...

The wife of a police officer who died at the home of the former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel, has said the family does not believe the official account of how her husband died. Abosede Ogunsola, the wife of the ...

Some Nigerians, who are currently trapped in Ukraine as a result of the crisis with Russia, have ruled out the option of returning to the country. Speaking with Daily Trust via telephone, they expressed cynicism about the federal government’s promise ...

A former All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has disclosed that Africa needs a third world war more than any other continent. Garba said a third world war would avail Africa a big advantage. In a Facebook post, ...

Edo State Police Command have arrested a 43-year old man, Ovie Oktogbo, who specialises in r3ping male teenagers in the Ugbowo axis of Benin, the state capital. In a statement endorsed by the state Command Spokesman, Kontongs Bello, Oktogbo, an ...

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an interim order forfeiting 10 properties of former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government. Some of the properties are located in the highbrow areas of Abuja, Kaduna, Zamfara and ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday extended the detention of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, by 14 days. The court granted permission to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to hold the embattled Kyari for ...

A yet-to-be-identified motorist has been arrested by the police for crushing a 15-month-old child to death along the DLA Road, Asaba, Delta State. Punch Metro gathered that the incident, which happened around 6pm on Monday, threw the community into confusion. ...

A man, Ibrahim Suleiman, requesting to name a three-month-old child he had with a lady, Justina Yakubu, has filed a complaint to the police after the boy went missing. Suleiman said he fell in love with Yakubu after she promised ...