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The mother of Princess Adeola Ogunwusi, daughter of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has refuted the claims that the king raised her daughter as a single parent. This comes as a response to the Ooni’s post on ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a 32-year-old drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja with 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7 billion in street value. NDLEA spokesman, ...

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, sentenced a 20-year-old secondary school student, Segun Dosumu, to three weeks imprisonment with hard labour, for threatening to kill his teacher. Dosumu, who resides at Iboro area of Ogun had pleaded guilty to the ...

Former US President Barack Obama has lost his last surviving paternal aunt, Hawa Auma Magak. She died early today of stroke. Hawa died in her home in Kokal Kambero village, Kasipul Constituency, Homa Bay County. She was 79, reports The ...

South African scientists have detected a new COVID-19 variant in small numbers, worse than Delta variant. However, the scientists are working to understand its potential implications, they said on Thursday. The variant – called B.1.1.529 – has a “very unusual ...

Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Garba Baba Umar, has been elected Vice President (Africa) and Executive Committee Member of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) – INTERPOL. AIG Garba, who heads INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) in Nigeria, was ...

The police in Rivers has arrested Onyema Ugochukwu,Okiri Godbless, Ogbonna Emmanuel and Okubo-Ebi Ugochukwu who allegedly specialised in the manufacturing fake engine lubricants. The four suspects were arrested on Tuesday at No. 47 Abel Jumbo Street Abel Jumbo street, Mile ...

Popular video-sharing App, TikTok is partnering with UN Women and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) NGOs to mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. The partnership which will create Gender Links, & the Tears Foundation in ...

A showjumping star with spina bifida is suing a GP claiming she should never have been born because the doctor allegedly failed to tell her mother to take a crucial supplement that could have warded off the condition. Evie Toombes, ...

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said the state gives N500 to pregnant women who deliver at primary health care facilities in the state. The governor spoke during Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. “Abia State has keyed into ...

Below are photos from the funeral mass of Dr Chike Akunyili. Dr Akunyili was murdered by unknown gunmen on September 28 in Anambra state. The funeral Mass is currently ongoing in his hometown, Agulu, Anambra state. Earlier in the monring, ...

The Lagos State Government will borrow ₦253,126,367,168.21. to finance the 2022 budget, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Wednesday. The governor had presented a budget proposal of N1.388 trillion to the House of Assembly for approval for the 2022 fiscal year. ...

Unidentified gunmen killed three students and one teacher in a bomb attack on a government school in Cameroon’s war-torn Anglophone region of Southwest. The assailants stormed Government Bilingual High School in Ekondo Titi locality by 7:30 a.m. local time on ...

The police on Wednesday arraigned the dethroned Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Ayiri Emami, before a Warri South Chief Magistrates’ Court in Delta State for allegedly stealing two royal crowns valued at N2bn. In the case with reference No: CR630/2021, the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has allegedly placed Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano on its watchlist, according to multiple newspapers. Obiano will handover power to the governor-elect, Prof. Charles Soludo on March 16, 2022 and by then he ...

The Zamfara State Taskforce Committee on Compliance to Gov. Bello Matawalle’s Executive Order on insecurity has ordered the closure of a filling station and bakery in Gusau and Tsafe local government areas of the state. Chairmen of Committee, Abubakar Dauran, ...

Apostle Peter Tom Udofia, the General Overseer of the Way of Salvation Church of Jesus Christ, in Calabar, is under intense criticism for allegedly marrying an 18-year-old chorister in his church. The 63-year-old clergyman married Sister Blessing Jeremiah Esu in ...

  Senator Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, has disclosed that Nigeria’s national airliner, Air Nigeria, is expected to take off by April 2022. He made the disclosure while briefing State House Correspondents on Wednesday after the week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) ...

  A video making the rounds on social media has captured the dramatic moment a pastor got into a tussle with a ‘mad man’ while trying to heal him in public. In the video, the pastor could be seen laying ...

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 ...