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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it has secured the conviction of one Friday Ogbodo, a manufacturer of fake Emzor paracetamol. The agency’s Media Consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, made this known in a statement. ...

Miss Ayomikun Ajibola, a part two student of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has died after she fell into a soak-away in BVER, one of the private hostels in the Students Village. ...

A two-year-old girl has died after reportedly eating a poison-laced cookie that was intended for a dog. Heidy Valeria died after suffering two respiratory arrests in the municipality of Tototlan in the Mexican state of Jalisco on February 3. The ...

  The Management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc says the Oyo State Government has illegally sealed off its offices following the disconnection of electricity supply to the State Secretariat which also houses the Governor’s Office. The electricity distribution company ...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday said a state of emergency on ritual killings in the country should be declared by the Federal Government. The lawmakers also called for a campaign against the menace, saying the effort of parents, schools, ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo paid a condolence visit to the family of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar in Kano earlier today. Hanifa was taken captive while returning from Islamiyya school when a tricyclist offered her a ride. The proprietor of the school ...

  The senate has passed a bill seeking the establishment of law school campuses across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The bill was passed after a report presented by Chairman of Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, ...

  An Air Force officer (name withheld) is currently being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old maid at the Air Force Barracks in Ikeja, Lagos state. According to Vanguard, the officer sneak home to rape the teenager every morning, ...

Senator Rochas Okorocha has said the statues of prominent personalities he built put Imo state on the world map. In a post shared on social media today February 8, Okorocha said he and his family have been under attack due ...

Mali has accused France’s military of deliberately dividing the West African country and of committing espionage during its fight against Islamist militants. Choguel Maiga, appointed interim Prime Minister following a coup in 2021, did not provide evidence for his claims, ...

A mutant goat with a cyclops eyes in the middle of its forehead has been found on a Turkish farm. Ahmet Kartal, 40, said he had been raising animals for 25 years in the village of Gokmusa, in the province ...

A Twitter user who uses the handle @marvie has shared how of her adopted sister nearly ended the life of her parents. She revealed that her adopted sister who is ten years old tried to kill her parents because they ...

The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin; and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021. The Punch learnt ...

Twitter users have expressed their dissatisfaction after a child was spotted at a party dancing with adults and then chilling with a bottle of star radler. Some called it child abuse saying it is unacceptable and it is bad parenting. ...

Donald Trump may have a new gig – playing the role of disc jockey at The Mar-a-Lago Club, the former president’s Florida resort. Members of the club, which has been owned by Trump since 1985, received a memo Wednesday that ...

Residents of the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, began the new week, yesterday, with some level of anxiety and confusion as fuel scarcity appeared in some parts of the state, especially on the Island axis. With an estimated population of 15.3 ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said it will enforce from April the ban on the movement, sale and consumption of Fulani cows throughout the Southeast. In a statement on Monday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB ...

Former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde standing trial over an alleged N5 billion fraud on Tuesday in Abuja opted for a plea bargain with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission ...

  Popular Nigerian priest, Fr Kelvin Ugwu, has taken to his page to share an extremely sad story of how a lady he was called upon to pray for, died after it was discovered that doctors had forgotten a piece ...

A civil society organisation, Disability Rights Protection Initiative, has dragged an airline, Dana Air Limited, before Justice F. O. Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Enugu, over the alleged discrimination against a physically challenged passenger, Gloria Nwogbo. The case comes ...

A former Minister of Sports, Barr. Solomon Dalong has told politicians beyond the age of 65 i.e, Tinubu, Atiku, to perish the idea of contesting for any executive office come 2023. Dalung, who was part of the Buhari administration in ...

The Parish Priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, Rev. Fr. James Anelu, has been “suspended” for banning Igbo songs and choruses in his parish. The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Alfred Martins, in a “disclaimer”, directed ...

A lady has cried out on social media after her friend used her BVN and account number to obtain a N400,000 loan. According to a Nigerian lady identified as Queen Lolo, her friend defrauded her by using her BVN and ...

Amid tensions between Ukraine and Russia the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has called on the country’s citizens living in Ukraine to be security conscious. The crisis stems from the protracted Russia-Ukrainian war that began in early 2014. The call ...

A Nigerian man identified as Adesile Mayowa, has been jailed in Ekiti state for stealing six packs of bottled water. He however got an option of N10,000 fine. The 38-year-old received his three months imprisonment sentence at the Ado-Ekiti Chief ...