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  Rev. Dr. Obiora Ezekiel, the General Overseer of Christian Pentecostal Mission, CPM, is dead. The cleric’s death was confirmed in a statement by CPM Coordinator, Rev. John Ezeh. Ezeh said before his demise a few days ago, Rev Ezekiel, ...

Adamawa State University, Mubi has recorded what the police have described as its first cult initiation with 15 members in attendance. The cult group known as Neo Black Movement had been secretly recruiting members on campus until luck ran out ...

  Gunmen killed a student and a lecturer at Michael Otedola College of Primary Health Education in Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State. Officials of the college confirmed the attack to The Punch on Sunday. According to them, a ...

  The Lagos State Police Command on Saturday crushed 482 Motorcycles impounded in the state for contravening various traffic laws. They were destroyed at the Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja. The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, stated that the crushing exercise was ...

A former Nigerian Senator and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko, is dead.   It was learnt that the former lawmaker who represented the Ekiti South constituency between 1999 and 2003, died on Saturday after he collapsed in ...

Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger State has banned the sale of motorcycles in the state. Secretary to the State Government, Ahmed Matane, said in a statement issued in Minna on Saturday that the ban resulted from incessant security challenges in ...

Police officers and some civilians on Saturday scuttled the abduction of a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Nasarawa, Umar Nasiru. In a statement on Sunday, Public Relations Officer, ASP Rahman Nansel said the incident occurred at about 8:10pm. The ...

Railway workers have ended their three-day warning strike which was earlier declared to demand improved welfare. The workers announced the suspension on Friday, a day after they commenced the strike, shutting down passenger and cargo train services of the Nigerian ...

A Nigerian lady framed for drugs peddling and jailed in Saudi Arabia has become an NDLEA officer.   Zainab Habib Kila, from Jigawa State spent months in a Saudi Arabia jail in 2019 after being framed for drug peddling.   ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has rejected the calls for the legalisation of consumption of cannabis in Nigeria, asserting that it would spell doom for the country. A bill for the legalisation of cannabis for medical and scientific ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has raised the alarm that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be imminent in Nigeria by December. Abayomi, at a news briefing on Friday, said passengers coming into the ...

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested three suspects, including a herbalist linked to the beheading of a nine-year-old boy, Destiny Peter, who went missing in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Spokesman for the state police command, ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 61 Covid-19 cases Thursday, with no related deaths. The new infections jacked cumulative cases to 213,464, with 206,292 discharged. The 61 infections marked a decline from 82 reported on Wednesday. Nine states ...

  Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun has said that the Seyi Makinde led administration has paid over N14 billion on gratuities, while about 5,000 beneficiaries have benefited from the exercise. Dr. Olatubosun said this ...

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

The leader of markets in Lagos, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has said that the popular Oyingbo Market in Lagos was shut down due to its deplorable state and not due to traders’ failure to pay her N5 million bribe. Traders at the ...

A Lagos-based rights attorney, Festus Ogun, has filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state, asking for the immediate release the state’s #EndSARS panel report. In the FOI dated November 18, 2021, the lawyer ...

A group of Igbo leaders Friday met with President Muhammadu Buhari during which they asked for the release of Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Kanu, leader of the outlawed separatist group, IPOB, is being detained and prosecuted on treason charges. Details of ...

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said doctors told him that his brother, Sani, would die in an hour, and that he died when it was time, “watching the life support machine going down until it stopped working.” Dangote stated ...

A 56 year-old man, Festus James, who claimed to be a prophet, has confessed to have r*ped an eight-month pregnant lady at Agbabu village near Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. James confessed while being paraded with ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that 46 million Nigerians still defecate in the open. This report comes a week after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo called for effective collaboration among the three tiers of government and the private ...

Fire has erupted at Pinewood film studios, in Iver Heath, England, with emergency services rushing to the scene of the incident. The blaze sent huge plumes of smoke into the air above the site in Slough, Berkshire, reports The Sun. ...

A member of the Lagos Judicial Panel on #EndSARS, Ebun-Olu Addegboruwa, said members are now targets of persecution following their bombshell report. The report which confirmed a massacre of defenceless young Nigerians by the army and police on 20 October ...

Two cars were burnt on Thursday night in Ibadan, when a fully loaded petrol tanker, went up in flames. According to an eyewitness, Mr. James Oladeji, a commercial tricycle operator, the incident occurred at Agodi area of Ibadan, on Total ...