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Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on Wednesday refused to admit to bail Mr. Frank Akpan, and his daughter, Anwan Bassey Akpan, the second and third defendants respectively in the alleged murder of job seeker Iniubong Umoren. The ...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1, 424 new COVID-19 infections in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its Website on Thursday morning. The NCDC said with the 1,424 ...

Gunmen have reportedly murdered an Owo High Chief, Tunde llori Elerewe over land dispute. It was learnt that another high chief who was equally attacked but escaped by whiskers, sustained injuries and presently on admission at the Federal Medical Centre ...

Fifty students of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have been rewarded with N5 million by the Chinese embassy for their outstanding academic performance. The ambassador of China to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, presented the awards to the students on Wednesday ...

A man has been accused of murdering his wife so he can inherit her properties, including her thriving business. Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome murder ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Thursday, leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey.   According to the organisers, the theme of the Summit is ...

A National Diploma certificate holder, identified as Lekan Odunare, has reportedly jumped into the Lagos Lagoon in an attempt to commit suicide. The victim, whose body had yet to be recovered, jumped into the lagoon in the Epe area around ...

South Africa’s High Court has ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgement showed on Wednesday. The 79-year old began medical parole in September and ...

The Lagos State government has commenced prosecution of inbound international passengers who fail to submit themselves for Day Two and Day Seven PCR tests as mandated by the Federal COVID-19 protocols and guidelines. This is as the state government expressed ...

Three suspected cultists have been arrested at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State.   The suspects were nabbed while trying to force their way into the venue of an event organised by the graduating students of Moshood ...

The Ondo State High Court has sentenced a woman, Patience Godswill, to seven years’ imprisonment for stealing and selling a two-year-old girl, Blessing, in Omifon town, in the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. The convict and two other ...

The Federal Government has approved a 20 per cent increase in salaries for personnel of the Nigeria Police Force. Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House Correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council ...

  A video of a young sickle cell patient crying over severe pains in his body has thrown social media users into a state of mourning. According to the video which was first shared by popular Nigerian blogger known as ...

Seven passengers were feared killed in the early hours of Wednesday when an 18-seater bus was involved in a lone accident in Osun State. It was gathered that the accident occurred at about 3:45 am. The bus rammed into a ...

A police Sergeant, Onatunde Joba, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for alleged indiscipline.   He appeared to be drunk in a viral video.   Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, a Superintendent of Police, said on ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, said insurgents would have achieved their aim of declaring an Islamic State in Nigeria if not for decisive actions taken by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). However, the ...

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has screened and confirmed a 28-year-old lawyer, Hannatu Abimiku, and 14 other commissioner-nominees sent to it by the State Governor, Abdullahi Sule.   Sule had last Thursday, nominated the 28-year old law graduate who ...

The Department of State Services has said federal lawmakers who will soon begin their recess and other vacating public and private workers were susceptible to kidnapping, assassinations and armed robbery among others during this period. It therefore urged all Nigerians ...

Africa is being hit by the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the Omicron variant, after recording the fastest weekly surge in new cases since May 2020. “Africa is now officially in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 ...

A 37-year-old man, Azeez Ilias, identified as the son of a traditional ruler in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, and a woman, identified only as Deborah, have been found dead in a car parked in front of ...

Following the gruesome murder of the Katsina State Commissioner of Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, at his residence last Wednesday, the state Governor, Aminu Masari, has said Nasir’s death has nothing to do with banditry. This is as he ...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said Tuesday that police had assaulted his party members and put him under house arrest to prevent him from attending a campaign rally for a local by-election. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said ...

The United Kingdom is expected to remove Nigeria from its red list and the travel bans it imposed over fears of the Omicron variant. The Guardian Uk reported that all 11 countries on England’s travel red list are to be ...

Gunmen have abducted the mother of the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello, Abdulkarim Asuku, in Kogi State. Seriya Raji, the victim was reported to have been abducted from her residence on Monday evening at Inese/Ovakere New Layout in ...

The Olowu of Owu Kingdom in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oba Adegboyega Dosunmu is dead.   The news of the demise of the first class monarch was announced on Tuesday night by the Ogun State government through a statement issued by ...