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Senator Ademola Adeleke has arrived Nigeria after a two-year academic sojourn to the United States of America where he went to pursue a Diploma in Criminal Justice at the Atlanta Metropolitan State College, Georgia   Adeleke, it is anticipated, would ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Tuesday ordered the interim forfeiture of the funds and properties traced to Mr Abidemi Ganiyu Rufai, the suspended aide of the Ogun Governor facing wire fraud charges in the United States. The order ...

It’s been claimed Nigeria holds the record for highest number of missing persons in Africa. According to the Executive Director, CLEEN foundation, Dr. Benson Olugbuo who quoted the International Committee Red Cross (ICRC), stating that within the last 10yrs, about ...

  The new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has announced the dissolution of all traditional council, committees, and sub-committees in Iwereland with immediate effect. This was contained in a statement issued from the royal palace in Warri dated September ...

Two days after Bishop David Oyedepo rained curses on Fulani herdsmen and terrorists, gunmen stormed Living Faith Church in Kogi and abducted church members. The gunmen reportedly stormed the church while rehearsal was going on and abducted three members. On ...

  Despite the criticisms trailing the nation’s increasing debt profile, the Federal Government on Monday says it is borrowing “sensibly and responsibly.” The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said this at a press conference in Abuja. ...

A new militant group, ‘Biafran Motherland Warrior’, has emerged in the South East. The group, which is said to be deadlier than the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), reportedly operates ...

’ A young woman has been stabbed to death in a busy street after reportedly refusing to marry her cousin in an arranged marriage. Nourzan Al-Shammari was brutally murdered in Baghdad, sparking anger across Iraq after footage of the disgusting ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks to publish names of customers who try to break the rules on Forex acquisition on their website. The CBN on Monday, August 30th issued a circular (BSD/DIR/PUB/LAB/14/059) to all ...

  Minutes after US military forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, armed Taliban fighters were seen entering a hangar at the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul where four heavy-duty Chinook helicopters are stationed. The video captured by LA Times ...

The Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka Mc Oluomo, has summoned the branch chairmen in the areas where commercial transportation was grounded following a protest against the state task force and the ...

Civil servants in the Edo Ministry of Health have been given a seven-day ultimatum to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic. The ultimatum was contained in a memo dated Aug. 30, with reference number: HA.429/1/16 and issued by Permanent Secretary ...

Nigeria on Monday recorded 460 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 191,805. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) gave the figure via its website on Tuesday morning. The 460 fresh cases reported on Monday is an increase from ...

  A teenage girl has died after being electrocuted when her home was struck by lightning while she was using her mobile phone as it charged. Radja Ferreira de Oliveira’s phone was plugged into the mains at her house in ...

  This is the shocking moment an Afghan TV news presenter reads out the headlines while surrounded by armed Taliban thugs. The clip was shared online by the TV studio after the militants stormed the building and demanded the news ...

The United States of America, USA has expressed its readiness to help identify sponsors of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Monday by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard during a ...

The Oyo State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has sought spiritual solution to the incessant deaths among its members. No fever than four journalists in the state have died in the last one year. Among those who died ...

Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in the Afghan capital as the United States completed the withdrawal of it forces from Afghanistan, nearly twenty years after it invaded the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks ...

The Deputy Provost, College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lafia, Dr Peter Aboki, has dragged a former Nasarawa State Commissioner for Agriculture and Water Resources, Prof. Alanana Otaki, to an Upper Area Court for allegedly snatching his wife, Mrs Felicia ...

A 40-year-old man in Adamawa State, Iliyasu Suleiman, has killed another for taking over a position he was sacked from. Iliyasu had been sacked from where he was working as a security guard on suspicion that he was stealing company ...

A South African mother, aged 20, residing in Libode has unexpectedly given birth to a child with a rare medical condition known as progeria. Children born with the rare condition known as progeria suffer from rapid ageing. Noticeable signs were ...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has insisted that the agenda of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria is to conquer the entire nation. The Governor, while speaking with BBC pidgin at the weekend, said he has documents to back up his ...

  A woman in California has rescued her five-year-old son from an attack by a mountain lion. The boy was playing outside his home in Calabasas in the Santa Monica mountains, west of Los Angeles, when the lion pounced on ...

  The UK Government today said it had received assurances from the Taliban that anybody wishing to leave Afghanistan after August 31 will be allowed to do so. British troops have already left Kabul and US military personnel will be ...

Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and leader of the Living Faith Church Worldwide -Winners Chapel, has advised unmarried young men and women not to jump into marriage because of money.   Oyedepo shared this piece of advice whilst delivering a ...