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The Kaduna state Tuberculosis and Leprosy control programme has recorded 2,428 cases in the past six months. Dr Abubakar Sadiq, the state’s programme manager, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. He said ...

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state visited the home of Mary Odili, a justice of the supreme court. The governor arrived after army and police operatives stormed the home of the supreme court justice. The security operatives, who came with ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has said that a 22-year-old man, Shuaib Idris, has committed suicide in Gwanara, Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara, over his inability to have s.e.xual intercourse with women. This is contained in ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he has sworn by the Holy Qur’an that he will leave office by May 29, 2023. “I swore by the Holy Qur’an that I will serve in accordance with the constitution and leave when ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has said one person sustained a bullet wound, as gunmen attempted to kidnap two teachers at Osi in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara. In a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Babawale ...

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has expressed shock over the death of five students in a ghastly auto accident on Kano-Katsina road. Ganduje, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Abba Anwar, in a statement said: “We were ...

A man in search of a house has shared photos of a dirty looking apartment Lagos agents wants him to cough out N720k for. He says the rent is actually N600,000 annually, while he will pay an extra N120,000 for ...

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria has warned political parties against presenting presidential tickets with nominees of the same religion in the 2023 general elections. The Association stated that presenting a Christian/Christian or Muslim/Muslim ticket will heat up ...

The Rivers State Police Command on Thursday said it arrested a 51-year-old woman, Gladys Amadi, from Chokocho, in the Etche Local Government Area of the state for allegedly killing her husband, Napoleon Amadi, with a machete. The state Police Public ...

An uprising at one of the Edo correctional facilities known as White House along Sapele Road, on Thursday, caused panic in Benin as gunshots were heard around Ring Road and the Government Reserved Area. Commuters, drivers, passersby, and business owners ...

Terrorists and bandits are fast losing the anti-insurgency war to the Federal Government, Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed claimed yesterday. Insisting that Boko Haram has no caliphate in the Northeast or any part of the country, the minister ...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said he was prevented from boarding at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, for failing to obtain what the airline staff described as a ‘permit to travel’ to Nigeria. Soyinka spoke ...

Too many brands of energy drinks on the Ugandan market are partly to blame for the increasing cases of teenage pregnancy in the country, the state minister for gender and culture, Ms Peace Mutuuzo has said. “These days there are ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have deployed a Special Rapid Response (RRS) female squad to schools across the 21 Local Government Areas of Adamawa State. Commandant of the NSCDC in the state, Usman Waksha disclosed this on ...

A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Osborne area in Ikoyi has restrained all commercial banks in the country from releasing funds totalling N11.795 billion to Nigerian couple, Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi, who allegedly fled the country after duping ...

Four serving Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors today met with the former Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko behind a closed door in Ondo state. Their visit to the former governor, according to sources, was in preparation for the 2023 ...

Here are photos of President Buhari in Mecca as he prays for everlasting peace to reign in Nigeria and around the world.   Buhari, who is currently in the country for an investment summit, said the prayers when he visited ...

  The Federal Government has begun the process for the valuation of property belonging to several politically exposed persons, including the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Diezani property located in highbrow Banana Island Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, ...

A former Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Abba Ruma is dead.   He died on Wednesday at 59.   Ruma, from Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, was a minister under late President Umaru Yar’Adua.   Family sources ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday said that there was possibility of fourth wave of COVID-19 as the borders to the state would be opened to all in December. Sanwo-Olu said this during the inauguration of the Lagos ...

Billionaires Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Dahiru Mangal have all been pictured together in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.   The business moguls are there for prayers.   More photos below…      

The Kano State Government has shut down a private health facility in the state over cases of two deaths recorded in the hospital within the last six months. According to Daily Trust, the health facility, Green-Olives Hospital, situated at Sabon ...

The fate of the erstwhile Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, is hanging in the balance as the Police Service Commission awaits the recommendations of the Force Disciplinary Committee on his case. It was gathered ...

Shina Peller, convener of Lead Generation Initiative, and the lawmaker representing, Iseyin/IItesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency of Oyo State, has called on youths to seize the opportunity of the 2023 polls to make their voices heard and also re-write their story. This ...

The family of an artiste, Ifeanyi Kalu, has been thrown into mourning after personnel of the Nigerian Air Force, accused of driving on the Bus Rapid Transit lane in Lagos State, crushed him. Punch Metro gathered that Ifeanyi was on ...