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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 ...

A 38-year-old businessman, Ofure Siakpere, was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court for defiling and impregnating his 14-year-old in-law (name withheld). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye ...

Three robbery suspects were arrested on Tuesday night in the Agege area of Lagos State, the Lagos Rapid Response Squad has said. The suspects had attacked a pedestrian, Yusuph Ahmed, smashed a bottle on his head and dispossessed him of ...

The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has said he will declare his intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election after the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress. This is as he revealed that youths and women ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two dismissed police sergeants and six others for allegedly hijacking four trucks with goods valued at N25m. The dismissed cops, Nwafor Onyebuchi and Idakole Benjamin, were part of seven suspects who ...

The four wedding guests abducted on Sunday by hoodlums around the Isara area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, have regained their freedom. Punch correspondent learnt that their families, however, paid N7.5m for their release. The hoodlums, who were dressed ...

The world’s oldest man has died less than a month short of his 113th birthday. Father-of-eight Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia passed away at his home in the northern Spanish city of Leon on Tuesday morning. The retired shoemaker was ...