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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said that without the intervention of his administration on rail and road projects, people, especially those from the South-West, could have been trekking from Lagos to Ibadan. President Buhari stated this when he received in audience ...

Managing Director of Brikari Nigeria Limited, waste management contractor of Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Bright Ayebakari, has disclosed that no week passes without officials discovering corpses of little children, severed body parts, arms and ammunition in refuse receptacles in the ...

The United Kingdom (UK) on Monday through its minister for Africa announced the payment of 210,610 pounds (about N120 million) as fraud compensation to the government of Nigeria. This is following a four-year corruption investigation led by the UK’s Serious ...

  A woman was unaware that she was divorced for 12 years after her signature was forged on official documents, a judge has ruled. Rachpal and Kewal Randhawa were married at Slough registry office, Berkshire in 1978, when they were ...

A tipper driver, simply identified as Justice, yesterday, allegedly committed suicide over yet to be ascertained reason in the early hours of Monday at Eagle Island in Obio-Akpor Local Council of Rivers State. The lifeless body of the man was ...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday allayed fears of Nigeria’s disintegration, saying the country will still remain. He stated this during the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Council of the WISE strategic ...

The Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) has arraigned two church workers of Mountain of Liberation and Miracles Ministry (a.k.a. Grace Nation International, Liberation City) at an Ikeja High Court for an alleged N13 million fraud. The duo, Ms Success Ibilibor ...

  Police in Runda, Kenya have arrested a 48-year-old man who killed his neighbour after he found him with his wife on their matrimonial bed in Githogoro informal settlement. According to police, Samuel Musungu, a casual labourer in Runda had ...

A Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, ordered that a 63-year-old ‘prophet’, Akin Aderiye, be remanded in the correctional centre in Ado-Ekiti. The police charged Aderiye, whose address was not provided, with defilement. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Bankole Oluwasanmi, ...

Gunmen have shot dead the Chairman/CEO, Ofoma Associates Limited, an estate surveying firm with headquarters in Port Harcourt, River State, Chief Gab Ofoma. It was gathered that the deceased, a native of Umunnealam, Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State, was gunned down ...

Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, is a diabetic and hypertensive patient, the suspended cop’s lawyer, Cynthia Ikena, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. The lawyer also prayed the court to release ...

Air France and Lufthansa are the latest airlines to suspend flights into Ukraine as fears of a Russian invasion grow. The French carrier said that it would cancel flights to and from the capital Kyiv on Tuesday as a “precautionary ...

Two repentant commercial s3x workers in the Bauchi State, Aliyu Usman and Sadiya Ibrahim, were on Monday, joined together as husband and wife by the Hisbah department of the Bauchi State Shariah Commission in Bauchi. The solemnisation of their union ...

A young security guard, whose name is yet to be ascertained, is currently cooling his feet in the custody of the police in Kano for allegedly tearing off and stepping on portions of the Holy Quran. The suspect, in his ...

  The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, declined to invalidate Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Force, which forbids unmarried police officers from getting pregnant. The Regulation provides that “an unmarried woman police officer, who becomes pregnant, ...

Oyo State Police Command has arrested suspected vandals whose trade in stock is the sale of railroad clips known as Pandrol. The suspects were identified as Ibrahim Saidu (20) and Muritala Abdulahi (30). Confirming the arrest on Monday, the state ...

The Minister of Transportation,Rotimi Amaechi, has advised film producers to strive for quality that would make them compete favourable internationally and boost the nation’s economy. Amaechi gave the advice in Abuja, while receiving the Chief Executive of Native Media, Mr ...

  Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministry has described the failure of Christians to pay tithes by Christians as criminal, noting that it is compulsory. The Cleric described those who fail to remit their tithes, (10 percent of all their ...

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has dragged the Federal Government to court to seek release from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Kyari, in his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, is praying the Federal High Court in ...

  Ecobank Nigeria has extended easy and low interest loans to market women in Idanre, Ondo State through its Ecobank Female Entrepreneurship Initiative (EFEI), to boost and expand their trading businesses. Unveiling the scheme at Owa’s Palace, Idanre, Head of ...

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday, said the Federal Government will ensure the responsible use of social media to curb social menace including the rising rate of ritual killings. The minister stated this during a media visit ...

No fewer than four personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were killed today in an early morning attack by terrorists on the Galkogo community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger state. Commissioner of Police in ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has pledged his support for the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adeyemi III made the pledge on Sunday during Tinubu’s visit to his palace ...

A Nigerian pharmacist, Blessing Mary Ocheido, has slammed females taking morning after pills! She says male contraceptives refused to sell because men understands self preservation. According to her, any man who encourages his woman to take morning after pills just ...

Vicky Ford, the UK Minister for Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, will visit Nigeria on Feb. 21. The British Deputy High Commission in Lagos confirmed the development. The Press and Public Affairs Officer of the Commission, Miss Ndidiamaka Eze, ...