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  Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Atto, remains with his abductors even after the payment of N20 million ransom. The emir was abducted when bandits waylaid a convoy of vehicles he was travelling in from Kaduna to ...

The Appeal Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has set aside the judgement of a Lagos High Court, which granted a summary judgement in favour of Heritage Bank Plc over alleged N583, 977,998.73 facilities granted to an oil and Gas Products ...

WTF! The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says a group of drug cartels has abducted a retired NDLEA officer after its officers arrested a 19-year-old female drug dealer, Mngunengen Achir, in Benue State.   NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, further adjourned until Dec 1, Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, continuation in the trial of former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose over alleged N6.9 billion fraud. The case, which was listed in ...

The Director and Founder of the Muslim Rights Concern, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday urged Nigerians not to jump to conclusions over the viral video of some madrasa students being brutally flogged in Kwara State. Although he noted that the ...

Taliban fighters have been pictured shamelessly enjoying themselves at an amusement park even as they bring a reign of terror to Afghanistan. Pictures show the machine-gun-wielding jihadis frolicking as they took over a theme park and played on a carousel ...

Kibera woman, Kenya lands in court after she allegedly slapped a young boy whom she found sitting outside to a point of loosening his teeth. This was after she mistakenly accused him of throwing stones at her house. The court ...

The Serving Overseer, The Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has called for a change of guard in the country, saying those around the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) look tired. Bakare, at the state of the nation ...

A human rights activist and publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has replied the police saying there will be #EndSARS memorial protests on October 20. This is despite a warning by the Lagos State Police Command against protests that might disrupt ...

The Lagos State commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said the officers would resist any form of protest in the state in commemoration of one year after the #EndSARS protest. This is contained in a statement released on Monday by ...

A man, Ukeme Sunday, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly defiling a neighbour’s daughter in the Akodo area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, in a statement ...

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, well known as cooking gas, on Saturday, expressed worry over the supply shortage leading to persistent increase in the price of the commodity. They warned that 12.5kg of cooking gas currently selling between N7,500 and ...

The Coordinator of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), in Odogbolu local government area of Ogun State, Olamilekan Okunuga, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. It was gathered that Okunuga was kidnapped on Thursday his way from Ibadan, around ...

A Franciscan nun from Colombia kidnapped by jihadists in Mali more than four years ago has been freed, Mali’s presidency said. Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was taken hostage on February 7, 2017 in southern Mali near the border with Burkina ...

  Akintoye and Gani Adams have told the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho that he is not alone, as he clocked 49 years old today in a detention facility in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The ...

Some victims of Friday’s raid by security operatives who claimed to be on the trail of illegal oil bunkerers at Izombe community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, have decried the attack as “unwarranted.’’ Those who spoke with ...

  A student of Musbaudeen, a Madrasa (Arabic/Quranic) school in Ilorin, Kwara State, has reacted to the brutal flogging by the school authorities. The student, Nasirudeen Muhideen, while being interviewed by an unnamed teacher before the school assembly, said that ...

National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has affirmed the supremacy of God on every human being, saying only Him alone has the authority to take his life when it is time. He however, stated that he is ...

The National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG) today suspended the planned strike by its affiliate members, Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD). The strike, which would have kicked off on Monday, disrupting fuel supply, was shelved because of the intervention ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been giving 14 days ultimatum “to cut the N26 billion presidency budget for the construction of the presidential wing at the statehouse medical center, local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, and ‘welfare package.’ ...

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Saturday announced that its Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) will commence strike on Monday. The union gave ‘deplorable state of the nation’s highways and other issues as the reason for ...

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has revived the State’s Scholarship Board. Ikpeazu, through the board, sent some students from the State abroad to further their studies. A statement by the State government disclosed that the first batch of beneficiaries ...

  Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday aged 88, after decades of exile in France following his dismissal by parliament. “After a long illness, Abolhassan Banisadr died on Saturday ...

A man has cried out online after discovering the woman he is about to get married to has three children without his knowledge. He says they have lived together for 8 months and she hid the truth from him. The ...

.   The Abia State Police Command has arrested a Senior Secondary School 3 (SS3) student in Abia State, identified as Obinna Nwatu for stage-managing his own kidnap with intent to extort money from his mother, Mrs. Rose Nwatu. The 17-year-old ...