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Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to rig the Saturday’s governorship election. Speaking through Don Adinuba, the state Commissioner for information and Public Enlightenment, Obiano accused the APC of writing results for ...

Dr Olufunmilayo has waded into the Taaooma, Rinu and Nigeria skit industry award saga. Taaooma and her fellow comedians have been dragged online for daring to go and visit Vice-President Osinbajo in Abuja despite the youths of the country have ...

The number of persons rescued from the Ikoyi collapsed building increased to 15 on Saturday after six others were brought out of the debris alive. They are receiving treatment at the Police Hospital in Falomo, Ikoyi. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave ...

Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo Olu had been visiting the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi.   He visted again on Saturday and APC national leader, Bola Tinubu was among the notable faces that accompanied him to the scene of the unfortunate ...

  Toor! Aggrieved policemen have staged a protest at the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State on Saturday. The officers deployed for the election had lamented over the non-payment of ...

No fewer than five people died while several other persons sustained varying degree of injuries as a kerosene-laden tank exploded at popular Kubwa Village Market in Abuja on Friday night. The incident happened at the junction leading to the L.E.A ...

Until October 13, when Tordue Henry Salem, a Vanguard reporter covering legislative activities of the House of Representatives went missing after a close of work, nobody had envisaged that the journalist would all of a sudden become a subject of ...

The founder of Elizade Motors and Elizade University, Chief Michael Ade-Ojo, has said that he didn’t sell the land of the collapsed Ikoyi building to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He said this in a statement he personally signed in reaction ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government will distribute 100,000 yen ($880) in cash, vouchers or a combination of both to those 18 years or younger and make it a pillar of an economic stimulus package planned to be created by ...

The Taliban government are reportedly keeping a ‘kill list’ of gay people in Afghanistan which has forced many to go into hiding over fears for their lives. The Islamist government say homosexuality is strictly prohibited, with gay people facing death ...

Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps, Ondo State chapter, have intercepted three buses loaded with 18 suspected bandits and weapons.   This was announced in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Ondo State ...

An offshore rig under construction by Shelf Oil and Gas Drilling Company Nigeria Limited has exploded in the Atlantic Ocean close to Sangana, Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the explosion, which occurred at the Otuo ...

  On Monday morning, Onyinye Enekwe, a graduate of the Nnamdi Azikwe University, left for Ikoyi where she worked as second personal assistant to Femi Osibona, owner of Fourscore Homes. Chinedu Enekwe, her cousin, said she joined Fourscore Homes the ...

There was pandemonium on Command Road, Meiran, Lagos State, as a clash between men of the state police command and tricycle operators in the area left no fewer than three persons dead. Punch Metro gathered that trouble started when a ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared three days of mourning over the Ikoyi building collapse, which occurred on Monday. The state government claimed that no fewer than 32 persons are believed to have died in the incident. This was contained in ...

A 12-year-old girl who was rushed to hospital with stomach pains gave birth to her brother’s baby a short time later, a court has heard. The girl had been just 11 when she was raped by her 14-year-old brother in ...

A dad who sold his nine-year-old daughter to a 55-year-old husband has said he is “broken” with guilt – but had claimed he had no choice. Parwana Malik, who lives in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, fears being beaten by ...

The heartbroken family of an engaged teenage couple who were tragically killed in a horrific crash on their way to a Halloween party have paid tribute to the pair. Jack Paolucci, 19, and his fiancé Courtney Jennings, 18, died after ...

Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Igbo leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has called on her husband to intercede for the people of Anambra as their governorship election is held on Saturday. She wrote an open letter to him via her ...

The Kaduna State Government, on Wednesday, said that dozens of bandits had been neutralized and their camps destroyed by air strikes in parts of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, made the disclosure ...

A man allegedly killed his daughter’s boyfriend after discovering he had sold her to a sex trafficking ring, police have said. John Eisenman, 60, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after the body of a 19-year-old man was found ...

A dad has been jailed after marrying and having s.e.x with his 20-year-old daughter after abandoning her as a child. Travis Fieldgrove was jailed for having s.e.x with his wife, Samantha Kershner, who was also the daughter he abandoned shortly ...

A member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakkau Daji in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mr. Joshua Alamageni, has narrated how suspected gunmen numbering about 50 stormed the church in broad daylight, and kidnapped 66 members during service. Daily ...

The body of Mr. Femi Osibona, the developer of the collapsed Ikoyi High-rise building, has been recovered.   Reports monitored on Arise TV said two reliable sources confirmed that Osibona’s body had been found and identified.   The 21-storey building ...

  As the Independent National Electoral Commission makes final preparations, holding parleys with stakeholders and the security personnel and distributing permanent voters cards, government has also declared two days of public holiday to enable high voter turnout. This is amid ...