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An Uber driver, identified only as Adewale, has accused a passenger, Laura, of stabbing him with a bottle during an argument in the Agungi area of Ajah, Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Adewale conveyed the lady from Ajao Estate ...

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has said the statement by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, rubbishing the report of the Lagos panel on the Lekki shootings, when his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, is awaiting the White Paper ...

The House of Representatives has urged security agencies in Nigeria to end the killings and kidnappings going on across the country especially in the South-East geopolitical zone. At the plenary on Tuesday, the lawmaker representing Nnewi-North/Nnewi-South Federal Constituency in Anambra ...

Ex-Imo Deputy Governor’s father, who is also the traditional ruler of Achi Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state, Eze Henry Madumere, has regained freedom after five days in kidnappers den. The monarch who is the father ...

The UK Government has told its citizens to leave Ethiopia now. Africa minister Vicky Ford said; “the conflict in Ethiopia is deteriorating quickly.” “In the coming days, we may see fighting move closer to Addis Ababa, which could severely limit ...

Activist and fierce critic, Tony Uranta has died after long battle with ill-health. He died at the age of 57. Sources closed to the deceased said Uranta died after serious battle with undisclosed ailment. On-Air Personality Jimi Disu announced the ...

Magdalena Andersson has been approved by Sweden’s parliament as the country’s first-ever female prime minister, after replacing Stefan Lofven as leader of the centre-left Social Democrats. Sweden is the only Nordic country never to have elected a woman as a ...

  North-West governors on Wednesday paid a condolence visit to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the Gerrard Road, Ikoyi building collapse, which killed over forty people few weeks ago. The Governors also sympathised with the people of the State and families ...

The world’s oldest ever person, Francisca Susano, and the last surviving woman born in the 19th century, has died at the age of 124. Francisca Susano, affectionately known as Lola Iska, died on Monday night at her home in the ...

The German Government has offered to train men of the Nigeria Police Force in the management of protests without the use of lethal weapons. To this end, a high-level delegation from Germany on Tuesday visited the Chairman of the Police ...

Barely three weeks after a fire outbreak at Kubwa Ultra-Modern Market in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja where many people lost their lives, another market located in Nyanya went up in flames on Tuesday night. The incident caused pandemonium ...

  Femi Fani-Kayode, has denied media reports claiming he was arrested by EFCC operatives yesterday 23rd of November 2021. According to a report by ICIR, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is investigating Kayod for allegedly forging hospital documents ...

  A Nigerian lady identified as Amaka Enekwe has died three weeks after her younger sister, Onyinye, died in the Ikoyi building collapse. It can be recalled that the 21-storey building collapsed on November 1, 2021, killing 43 persons. Onyinye ...

  Petrol may cost N340 per liter in 2022 as the subsidy regime for petroleum products will come to an end in February 2022. This was revealed by NNPC boss, Mele Kyari. Kyari made this known at the presentation of ...

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has dismissed the report of the Lagos state panel that investigated the #EndSARS massacre as fake news. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, he said the report submitted to Lagos state ...

Activist Rinu Oduala has called the MInister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed a pamdemic. Her reaction comes shortly after Mr Lai told journalists today in Abuja that the Lagos Endsars panel reports can not be relied upon and for ...

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho is currently under extradition procedure back to Nigeria, The Punch reports. In a series of court affidavits declared and signed on behalf of the DSS by one of its operatives, ...

Gunmen have attacked and burnt a police Divisional headquarters in Arondizuogu in Ideato Local Government Area of Imo state. The attack which happened around 2:00 am on Tuesday left one of the police officers on duty dead. Sources in the ...

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said that Nigerians would get N5,000 per month as a transportation grant after the removal of fuel subsidies. According to the Minister, the Federal Government will remove fuel subsidies by ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the development to PM News. He confirmed that the former minister, who rejoined the All Progressives ...

The Niger Police command has arrested a spiritual consultant to bandits, who were planning to abduct worshippers in a Church at Buku village, Abaji area council of FCT Abuja. Police spokesman in the state, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, made the disclosure ...

Police operatives in Delta State said 77-year-old and 65-year-old men are in their custody over crimes relating to arms-running, drug-pushing and other criminal infractions. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe, said in a statement that they were arrested ...

The Paramount Ruler of Iwoland, HIM Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has enjoined Yoruba monarchs, elders and stakeholders to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the release of Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, self-acclaimed Yoruba Nation agitator. This comes fater Igbo elders visited President ...

The Ebonyi State Police Command, on Saturday, arrested a lecturer, Prof Felix Anyaegbunam, with the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old pupil, in the state (name withheld). It was gathered the suspect who hails from ...

Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the weekend donated a furnished rented apartment to the family of Yoruba Nation rally victim, Jumoke Oyeleke. 25-year-old Jumoke, the first child and a shop attendant, died after a stray bullet hit her at Ojota ...