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  Hoodlums have beheaded a retired policeman in Ages in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Kpatuma. Punch correspondent gathered that the retired cop was killed on Tuesday. While the reason for his murder had not been ...

Nigeria’s four major aviation unions on Wednesday vowed to ground activities in the sector from Tuesday, February 8, 2022, over the failure of the Federal Government to release the negotiated conditions of service of aviation agencies since 2013 and the ...

There was tension at the Shehu of Borno palace in Maiduguri when a yet-to-be-identified policeman gunned down Donatus Vonkong, a Warrant Officer of the Nigerian Army attached to the Operation Hadin Kai. Multiple sources confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has withdrawn the personnel attached to the lawmaker representing lseyin/ltesiwaju/ Kajola/lwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives, Shina Peller. The withdrawal of the personnel followed the introduction of a ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Ogun State counterpart, Governor Dapo Abiodun, met in Abeokuta over the rising spate of kidnapping, robbery and other security challenges affecting the states. Makinde arrived at the Presidential Lodge, Ibara Housing Estate, ...

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja have lamented the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirits, PMS which has made movements within the city difficult. According to Daily Post, several commuters were stranded on Monday and Tuesday following the inability of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday embark on four-day trip to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for the 35th Ordinary Session of Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government. President Buhari will join other African leaders in ...

The lawmaker representing lseyin/ltesiwaju/ Kajola/lwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, has proposed scrapping of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. Peller proposed that the Nigeria Police Force to take over the responsibilities ...

Twenty-six people were electrocuted on Wednesday when an overhead high-voltage cable fell into a drainage ditch at a market in DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa, local authorities said, giving a provisional toll. “The cable snapped and the live end of it ...

Twelve people died and another 50 were taken to hospital in a northwestern suburb of Buenos Aires after consuming adulterated cocaine, authorities said Wednesday. Around 10 people were arrested after police raided a house in the poor neighborhood where they ...

Pope Francis has told religious sisters to fight back when maltreated by men of God. The Pope said this in a video message shared on February 1 via his verified Twitter handle. He urged religious sisters not to be discouraged ...

Weeks after the gruesome murder of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez, another Mexican journalist, Roberto Toledo, has been killed by assailants, the Associate Press reports. Mr Toledo, who works for Monitor Michoacan, an online news outlet, was reportedly shot dead by three ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has boasted that he is the most qualified person to rule Nigeria in 2023. The governor, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said no Nigerian possess his credentials and leadership experience. ...

Just like Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has also paid a courtesy visit to former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida ahead of the 2023 general elections. Sharing pictures of the visit, Mr Abubakar wrote: “At a courtesy visit ...

Gunmen have raided the home of Mr Abdurrahman Adamu, ASUU Chairman of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS). Five relations of the academic were kidnapped during the attack early today in Damba Quarters, in the outskirt of Gusau, the Zamfara State ...

The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps said on Wednesday that two persons died in a tanker explosion on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Ahmed Umar, told the News Agency of Nigeria in ...

  Suspected assassins have brutally murdered Mrs Ibironke Oluremi Adefila, a senior staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Ikorodu area of Lagos. Adefila was reportedly on her way to work in the early hours of Friday, January ...

Ex-Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has given the only condition that can make him contest in the 2023 Presidential election. He says this can only happen if his party, Peoples Democratic Party, zones the presidential ticket to the South. “Yes, ...

A school bus belonging to Pacemark International Schools has gone up in flames with the driver escaping by the whiskers. There were no students on board. The incident occurred at 6:30 a.m. It was an 18-seater bus. The driver of ...

A former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin has explained how a presidential hopeful, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is like President Buhari. Jibrin says in 2015, PMB was ahead of all APC Presidential aspirants and he eventually won. ...

A medical doctor Aghogho Owhojede on Tuesday said that the late Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, was not taken to a hospital for treatment. Owhojede, who has been the Oromoni family doctor for 15 years, offered the ...

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde says Muslims in the state can be assured of the protection of their religious rights. This was contained in a statement issued by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Islamic Affairs, Abdulrasheed Abdazeez, to ...

A Nigerian lady, Joy Shandy Okah has been arrested for trafficking three Nigerian girls to India for prostitution. The officials of National Agency for the Prohibition and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with New Delhi city police arrested Okah ...

The Secretary of the Almaroof-Kupoluyi Family, Abdulwasiu Almaroof-Kupoluyi, has said the Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, has a right to become the Oba of Oshodi. Punch Metro had reported ...

An assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Amabua Ashe Mohammed has been appointed the Police Adviser for the Multinational Joint Task Force in N’Djamena, Chad. With her appointment, ACP Amabua becomes the first female police ...