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INEC has arraigned Professor Ignatius Uduk, a lecturer at the University of Uyo, for electoral fraud. The fresh trial of Professor Ignatius Uduk, a lecturer at the University of Uyo, commenced on Thursday at the Akwa Ibom State High Court ...

  A shocking video has covered the moment a teenage-looking Nigerian boy identified simply as “Akin”, slapped and punched his girlfriend for refusing to open her phone for him. The video has bothered man social media users, with many wondering ...

  Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden, saying the country is so badly run, he never knew things would become so bad. The former US Presideny reflected on the first year of the Biden presidency, and said the country ...

The Imo State Police Command paraded a suspect identified as Mr. Francis Chukwura, a dismissed employee of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, for allegedly luring his neighbor’s son into his room in an attempt to kill him for ritual ...

  A young man was apprehended by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives after spending some of the large sum of money credited to his account by his employer. According to the EFCC, on December 3rd, 2020, the young ...

  The National Economic Council (NEC) has told Nigerians to expect a decision on petrol subsidy in June, when the provision for its payment in the 2022 budget expires. Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdulahi Sule gave the update on behalf ...

A 30-year-old man, Abubakar Usman, has been remanded in Iyaganku Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan, on Thursday for allegedly killing three siblings. Usman is facing a count charge of murder. Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Philips Amusan, told the court that the ...

Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has met with former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB. Tinubu met with Babangida on Thursday afternoon in Minna, the Niger State capital. He ...

A medical doctor, Ikari Jolly who hails from Khana local government area of Rivers State has denied that he manhandled his wife, Naomi Jolly, an accountant at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital over her refusal to circumcise their daughter. ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has recounted his narrow escape from a bomb blast near the Kawo bridge in Kaduna state while travelling to Katsina State in July 2014. Buhari spoke at the newly constructed Kawo bridge executed by the Kaduna ...

Wilbina Jackson, the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development in Adamawa has decried low attendance of teachers and students, a week after the schools reopened. The schools reopened on January 10, for the second term 2021 academic session across ...

The Senate on Wednesday mourned the demise of Oba Saliu Adetunji, the late Olubadan of Ibadan land, who passed away on 2nd January 2022. Members of the Senate observed a minute silence in his honour, following a point of order ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to take strict action against drug peddlers and asked him to revisit the War Against Indiscipline introduced by his military regime. The monarch said in a statement on ...

A former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), has opposed President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned increase of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to N302 per litre.   The former dictator warned that the increase in fuel price would push more ...

Over 100,000 birds in poultry farms in Kaduna state are reported in danger following an outbreak of bird flu, avian influenza, confirmed in three local government areas of the state. The Kaduna State Government said the disease was threatening an ...

An aid worker has been arrested for allegedly r3ping an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The suspect, 35-year-old Huzaif Adam, is a staff of an international Non-Governmental Organization, allegedly committed the offence on Tuesday around ...

Using cannabis can affect memory, concentration and decision-making, according to researchers. Canadian experts reviewed the scientific evidence surrounding the drug. They warned the effects of cannabis — or marijuana — can persist well beyond the period of intoxication. University of ...

A domestic worker, identified only as Blessing, has gone into hiding after allegedly stealing money and jewellery valued at over N13.9m from her boss’ residence in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State. Blessing’s boss, Pearl Ogbulu, on Tuesday, said ...

A leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has apologised for a misleading claim he made concerning the Permanent Voter Cards. While addressing some of his supporters in Abuja, Tinubu had encouraged them to register ahead of the ...

  Man narrates how he found out that he got married to his sister. After learning that he was married to his sister, a man took to Twitter to express his grief. According to the man who shared the story ...

  A female Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Aisha Umar, stabbed herself to death after allegedly being raped by an official of an International Non-Governmental Organisation, Huzaif Adam in Borno state. According to Daily Trust, the deceased who was into menial ...

  The Federal High Court in Abuja, has dismissed a lawsuit by former Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, challenging the operations of Twitter in Nigeria. According to the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, Justice Abubakar gave the ruling on Wednesday. ...

Nigerian-born Alberta justice minister, Kelechi Madu, has been asked to step back from his ministerial duties following a traffic violation controversy that happened in 2021. Jason Kenney, the Premier of Alberta, Tuesday through his Twitter account, announced the decision to ...

Maria, widow of the late environmental activist and poet, Ken Saro-Wiwa, is dead. According to her daughter, Noo, Maria died on Sunday at the age of 72. Announcing the demise of her mother in a Facebook post on Wednesday, a ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday grilled a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Mr Olasupo Shasore, (SAN). An impeccable source at the commission told Daily Trust that the senior lawyer arrived the ...