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Lady Adanma Okpara, wife of the Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara is dead. She reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday, August 22, 2021. The late Lady Okpara will be 97 in December 2021. ...

The Caretaker Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile and former Chairman of the party, Adelowo Adebiyi and five others have been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court. Other five persons who were also arraigned; ...

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the National Association of Resident Doctors to suspend its ongoing strike. Justice John Targema made the order on Monday while ruling on an exparte application by the federal government. Having looked ...

Residents of Edo State without evidence of COVID-19 vaccination, will no longer be allowed access to public and private places, including banks, event and worship centres, from the second week of September. The State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, announced this ...

Australian police were on Sunday called by fed-up neighbours of Chris Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy in Sydney as members gathered for another service despite COVID-19 lockdown. When police arrived, there were 60 devotees in attendance, half of them children, when police ...

BBN’s Dorathy Bachor has accused EFCC of breaking into her home early hours of this morning, saying they almost gave her mother a panic attack. She said they claimed they were looking for someone who ran into the estate and ...

Taliban fighters are reportedly flogging Afghan civilians in the streets for wearing ‘westernised’ clothing such as jeans as they cement their power in Afghanistan. Several young Afghans posted on social media they had been beaten and whipped by members of ...

The Nairobi County government has introduced a raft of new rules and regulations aimed at keeping the city clean and hygienic. The new regulations are contained in the Nairobi City County Public Nuisance Bill, 2021 that has been signed into ...

Former first lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead. Chief Mrs. Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, wife of late Nigerian Head of State, Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead. The former First Lady died peacefully this morning. She was 97. Her husband, and the Supreme ...

The leadership crisis currently rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened on Monday as High Court in Rivers State has restrained Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party. The order was given by Justice ...

In the wee hours of last night, a male police officer stationed at the Njoro Police station, Kenya, walked to Njoro Subcounty Hospital, peacefully though with his gun seemingly fully loaded with bullets. Police Constable Bernard Sivo, 28, walked into ...

The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche, has said many Nigerians would have killed themselves in recent times if not for the church. Enenche spoke about the church giving people hope through the world of God ...

NDLEA operatives arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Abibu Miminu, during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy via Addis-Ababa for ingesting illicit drugs, at the Lagos airport. While under observation at the Agency’s facility between Saturday 14th ...

Following the killing of 22 Muslim travelers, and subsequent killing of students of the University of Jos, the Abia state Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, Monday, ordered the evacuation of students of Abia origin back to the state. Disclosing this in ...

Bakers in the country have lamented the increasing rates of flour, saying they may double the price of loaves. The President of the Bakers Association of Nigeria, Daud Suleiman, said there was no basis for the continuous increase in the ...

There were drama, anger, confusion, and protest at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State when activists, a lawyer, and family members went to demand the corpse of an allegedly murdered student activist, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as ...

  A 17-year old girl, Aisha Kabiru of Shekar Maidaki Quarters, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her 28-year old neighbour, Bahijja Abubakar to death. Police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who paraded ...

The Lagos State Ministry of Health has said that over 500 deaths have been recorded in isolation centres across the state. Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Health, Lagos State, ‘Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, made this known in a press statement on Sunday, ...

Twelve persons were confirmed to have been killed by bandits who stormed Duba village, Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, late Saturday night. Sources said the bandits numbering over 300, armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the community at 10.45 ...

  The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no Nigerian university was among the top 1,000 in the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, his wife, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were among dignitaries at the luncheon organised for Yusuf and Zahra Buhari in Abuja. The event, which held at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, ...

The remains of 34-year-old football enthusiast, Emmanuel Samuel, allegedly killed by a policeman in Abuja have been buried amid tears, Punch reports. The deceased, with his fiancée and friends, went to watch a football match on Sunday, July 11, when ...

FIFA and the player’s union FIFPro are cooperating to evacuate male and female footballers who wish to leave Afghanistan, the global body’s secretary general Fatma Samoura told AFP on Sunday. Last week, hardline Islamist militants the Taliban took control in ...

A fresh batch of 15 students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, were freed on Saturday, after they had spent 48 days in captivity. Baptist Convention President, Rev. Israel Akanji, supervised the reuniting of the freed students with their ...

Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, a drug dealer wanted for attempting to export 69.65kilograms of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United Kingdom (UK), has been arrested. The suspect had tried to move the substances through the NAHCO export shed of the ...