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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 ...

  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 ...