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A Lagos resident, Nofiu Odusanya, alias Atere, has allegedly broken the leg of a community leader, Mutairu Olayiwola, in Isale Oja, in the Agege area of Lagos State for meddling in a fight. It was gathered that Odusanya, on Sunday, ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced the postponement of the planned unveiling of the digital currency, eNaira. The launch was initially scheduled for October 1. The apex bank’s Director of Communications, Osita Nwasinobi, explained in a statement that the ...

  Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Thursday, imposed 28 years imprisonment on Ilorin-based Alfa Jamiu Isiaka for an oil contract scam The cleric was arraigned for fraud and obtaining by false pretence. The offences ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his commitment to ensure that the country remains united despite agitations for secession in some parts of the country. This was contained in a speech delivered at the closing edition of Nigeria@60 celebration on Thursday ...

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has stated that if given an opportunity, Nigerians would pick an Islamic system of government over a system inherited from British colonial masters.   He made this claim in his ...

The Nigerian police have announced the burial arrangemnet of Chief officer, Abonde Kazeem killed last week thursday at Ajao estate, by Okada riders.   He will be buried at his residence at Abonde area in Oyo state, tomorrow, Friday October ...

Children of murdered Dr Chike Akunyili have penned an emotional message over the murder of their father in Anambra on Wednesday. The children described the murder as “brutal and senseless” revealing that “he was on his way from a memorial ...

Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to find ways to stop the killing of Nigerians across the country. Lamenting what he described as the senseless killings of Nigerians by suspected jihadists, the Pope called on the Federal ...

  Chidiogo Akunyili Parr is mourning her father, Dr.Chike Akunyili, who was brutally murdered by unknown gunmen in Anambra State, according to her, she spoke with her father a day before he died.   He was the husband of the ...

  A married woman has lamented over her husband’s infidelity as she shared details of how she caught him on different occasions cheating with her sisters. According to the Ghanaian lady who shared her story with Oyerepa FM, the incidents ...

    An Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia will today, Thursday hear the case of Nigerian journalist, Norah Okafor against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over unlawful invasion of her premises. Okafor had, in a Facebook post, narrated ...

  A United Kingdom-based forensic expert, Dieye Willie-Harry, has debunked claims that soldiers shot at #EndSARS protesters with live high-velocity projectiles last October 20. Willie-Harry told the Lagos State judicial panel probing the incident that from his investigation, he was ...

  A Ghanaian man has cried out after he discovered his wife had extra-marital affair with her ex boyfriend just 3 days after their wedding. He shared his story with Hitz 103.9FM, and it was read by an OAP live ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the gruesome killing of Dr Chike Akunyili, husband of the late Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dora Akunyili.   The president in a statement by his Special ...

The Nigerian senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists.   The Nigerian President was also asked by the Upper Chamber of the national assembly to declare known leaders of bandits in the country wanted and track ...

  The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed sadness over the “brutal killing” of Dr. Chike Akunyili, husband of the late NAFDAC DG, Dora Akunyili. Dr. Chike Akunyili was fatally shot by unknown gunmen alongside his ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to the murder of the husband of late former Minister of Information, Prof Dora Akunyili.   According to the group, his murder is politically motivated.   The former Director General of ...

  Reno Omokri has tackled President Buhari for wearing designer shoes to foreign meetings.   Taking to his Instagram page, Reno made reference to President Buhari’s Gucci shoes valued at $640. According to him, the President wears expensive designer shoes ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) and the police have apprehended a suspected cultist in Edo. Smart is allegedly a member of the Neo-Black Movement (NBM) popularly known as Aye Confraternity or Axe Men. Last week, he and colleagues tracked ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has asked residents to prepare for a shutdown of telecommunication services. In a chat with some radio stations, the governor said security agents are prepared to launch an offensive on bandits taking refuge in ...

The Nigerian Air Force has kept mum, three days after its fighter jets wrongly bombed a fish market in Daban Masara in the Lake Chad region. Initial death toll was estimated at 20. But a resident and a victim of ...

The Senate on Wednesday observed one-minute silence for Dr. Chike Akunyili, the widower of the late former Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili.   The medical was reportedly gruesomely murdered by unknown gunmen on Monday evening in Anambra State.   This ...

  A federal high court in Abuja has barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying Orji Kalu, former governor of Abia state, on allegations of money laundering. The EFCC had prosecuted Kalu alongside Ude Udeogu, a former ...

Unidentified gunmen have killed Dr Chike Akunyili, husband of late former Director General of NAFDAC and minister for information, Prof Dora Akunyili. Akunyili, a medical doctor was killed on Tuesday on his way from Onitsha to Umuoji at Eke Nkpor. ...

Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki, a sister to the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has expressed disappointment at the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrazaq Abdulrahaman, for demolishing a library named after her late father, Baba Saraki. In a tweet on her verified Twitter ...