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Lagos stae Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has cancelled the peace walk that was meant to herald the healing of the state. Sanwo-Olu had invited the youth, some celebrities, civil society organisations, the media and other groups to join him in the ...

Pope Francis has said that s3x outside of marriage is not the most serious sin.   The leader of the Catholic church said this during a press conference aboard his flight back to Italy from Greece on Monday when he ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with parents, relations and friends of the Ojodu Grammar School students who lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday, along the Isheri Road, Ojodu, in Lagos State.   His condolences were conveyed in a ...

Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola yesterday said the recent frequent jailbreaks across the country will not be a good reason for him to resign his position as minister. Aregbesola said this while addressing State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has barred all flights from Nigeria effectively ending all hopes for those planning to attend the lesser hajj. Although the reason was not expressly stated, it said all non-citizens with history of travel to Nigeria ...

The Ojodu Local Council Development Association has revealed the identities of secondary school students killed by a truck in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Tuesday. The students were going home after closing from school around 2 pm when ...

Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Punch correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside ...

The Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos will be shut today for four hours as President Muhammadu Buhari arrives the state for the book presentation of former APC interim chairman, Chief Bisi Akande. The event will take place at the ...

The man detained in Paris over suspected links to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is thought to be a namesake of the wanted suspect, a Saudi diplomatic source has told Sky News. France has 48 hours to verify the ...

The Federal Ministries of Finance, Environment and other critical stakeholders in the environment sector, on Monday, overwhelmingly rejected a Bill, which seeks to establish the Clean Nigeria Agency and prohibit open urination and defecation in the country. The Bill titled: ...

An industrial court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Army to reinstate one of its officers, A.S.H. Sa’ad, a brigadier general, who was dismissed in 2016. Mr Sa’ad was dismissed alongside 37 other officers. Delivering his judgement on Tuesday, ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday confirmed additional three more cases of COVID-19 with the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, the Omicron variant, in Nigeria. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant detected in ...

A fire incident in Burundi Central Prison has killed 38 people and injured 69 others, the Iwacu news outlet reports. The fire broke out in the prison, where at least 1,000 prisoners were kept at about 4 a.m. Staffers from ...

A 16-year-old boy has died after suffering a heart attack while walking around an alleged “haunted house” in Malaysia. The boy, who has not been named, was visiting the attraction in Bentong in the state of Pahang with a friend ...

A Kenyan police officer went on a rampage in Nairobi Tuesday with an AK 47, shooting six people dead, including his wife and then capped his madness by killing himself. According to the police report, the officer Benson Imbatu first ...

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), has apologised to consumers over power disruption in its franchise areas, following a strike by its workers. The DISCO assured consumers of speedy resolution of the strike by its employees that led to the power ...

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), has apologised to consumers over power disruption in its franchise areas, following a strike by its workers. The DISCO assured consumers of speedy resolution of the strike by its employees that led to the power ...

The World Health Organisation, on Monday, said the world was on the verge of a potential malaria crisis. This is as the global health body revealed in a report it released that Nigeria contributed the largest malaria deaths in 2020 ...

And old parent at Dowen College Lekki, who says all her children attended the school has narrated how she thinks the school loves to neglect their duties towards their pupils. She also explained how her last child was sick almost ...

Criminal gangs suspected to be sea pirates have demanded N25 million for an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and four civilians they abducted last Wednesday.   The five victims were attached to a kitchen contractor ...

Lagos State First Lady, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu on Monday commiserated with the parents of the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki in Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni who died last week, saying his death is a slap on the education sector. Already, ...

After petitions addressed to the Nigeria police force (NPF), the family of the late 12-year-old Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has hired the firm of a foremost human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, to prosecute the case against ...

  A 32-year-old Biodun Adebiyi of 35, Oladun Street, Ikotun Lagos has been arrested for allegedly beating a 30-year-old cigarette seller to death over N50 balance at Ajegunle Idiroko area of Ogun State. The State Police Command said the suspect ...

A middle aged man simply identified as Chikordi has allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife, Prophetess Chikordi.   The deceased was the General Overseer of the Ancient of Days Healing Church, Umunede in Ika North East LGA of Delta ...

Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has expressed shock and sadness over the death of Esther Kolawole, wife of the Speaker of the Kogi House of Assembly. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Muhammed Onogwu, Bello extended ...