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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed February 10 for the hearing of a suit seeking to stop the Nigeria Police Force and the Attorney-General of the Federation from arresting and extraditing a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, ...

Twitter has expressed its delight that the micro-blogging site is now available for use in Nigeria. This follows the Federal Government’s decision to lift the ban after seven months. In a tweet via its @Policy handle, Twitter wrote: “We are ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State whom has been mostly referred to as a Governor with a DIFFERENCE has been hailed online for actively using Twitter during the seven months of its ban by the Federal Government. He got a ...

Tragedy struck in the Ilisan-Remo area of Ogun State on Friday when a driver, Moshood Gbadamosi, killed two siblings, Olamide Opayemi, 14, and Damilola Opayemi, 11. Punch Metro gathered that the incident happened opposite their mother’s hairdressing salon. A neighbour, ...

The Federal Government has lifted the suspension on microblogging site, Twitter, seven months after it suspended the social media platform in Nigeria. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information ...

Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili has warned that money will fail Nigerian political leaders declaring to run for presidency in 2023. Ezekwesili stated this after the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu ...

The Police in Plateau State have arrested and paraded one Moses Oko, a 20-year-old suspected Yahoo boy who allegedly killed one Jennifer Anthony, a 300L UNIJOS Student whose dead body was found on January, 1st, 2022. The suspect was paraded ...

  The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said late former governor, Christopher Alao-Akala, will be remembered for his contributions to the development of the state. Alao-Akala, a former police officer, served as deputy governor before becoming governor of ...

  Controversy has trailed the death of a chef, Ogechukwu, in Enugu State. She was said to have died after battling ailments her friends identified as neurofibromatosis and spinal tumour. The woman had reportedly been sick for over 10 months. ...

Man kills his 3 daughters, hides corpses in freezer A 52 years old man, Ifeanyi Amadikwa has killed his 3 female children in Enugu. It was learned that Amadikwa, a resident of Nkwubor road, Emene in Enugu after commuting the ...

A newborn baby boy was savaged to death by a family dog after his mum fell asleep on the sofa and his dad went outside for a cigarette. Reuben McNulty was just 14 days old when his parents’ pet Staffordshire ...

Policemen at Sabo division of the Lagos State Police Command are on the trail of a barber identified simply as Keke, who allegedly stabbed his neighbour to death, Monday night, in Iwaya area of Lagos, on allegation that the deceased ...

The building housing Salvation Ministry, Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State has reportedly collapsed, trapping unspecified number of worshippers with over 10 persons feared dead. The building which is reportedly being used for the first time, collapsed at ...

The absence of Osi Olubadan, Rashidi Ladoja, and the Iyalode of Ibadan, Theresa Oyekanmi, yesterday, stalled the formal announcement of Lekan Balogun, the Otun Olubadan, as Olubadan-elect. Ladoja, a former governor of Oyo State, is next, after Balogun, in the ...

Former Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Alao Akala is dead. Details of his death are sketchy but sources close to the politician have confirmed the tragic incident. The politician, who had been battling terminal ailment for a while, died in ...

FORMER Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the 9th Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has said he would square up with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the presidential ticket of All Progressives Congress, APC if the zoning formula ...

Twelve people have died and at least 8 injured after a SUV burst into flames when it hit a 22-seater Mercedes Benz bus. The head-on collision happened in South Africa’s northwestern province of Limpopo. A spokesman from the Limpopo Department ...

Argentina is currently the hottest place on planet earth. The country is facing a historic heat wave with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104°F), making the country for a while the hottest place on Earth. The heat wave has ...

Following the death of a former Head of the Interim Government, Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed that the national flag be flown at half-mast. The President gave the order in a statement on Tuesday night ...

  A consultant pathologist at the Military Hospital, Yaba, Chikodili Nwigwe, has said that due process was followed during Sylvester Oromoni’s second autopsy. Last week, the Lagos State Department of Public Prosecution DPP in its legal advice exonerated the five ...

Mr Ojonimi Ossai, an official of Shell Petroleum Development Company, has been killed by his abductors. Ossai was killed despite a N5million ransom raised by his family. Daily Trust learnt that late Ojonimi Ossai was on his way the burial ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has warned men of God not to fight women, but run when members of the opposite s3x threatens to deal with them. Adeboye, who will ...

A court in Uganda on Tuesday charged a prominent author and government critic with “disturbing” the country’s President Yoweri Museveni and his son in unflattering social media posts. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was brought to court and charged with two counts of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has asked schools not to allow in teachers and students with high temperature. In its latest COVID-19 situation report, the agency said the detection of the Omicron variant has intensified the need to ...

A district court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan has sentenced a Protestant pastor, Zafar Bhatti, 58, to death for blasphemy. Bhatti, who has been in prison since 2012, was accused of sending blasphemous SMS text messages., according to a report by Anglican ...