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The new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has bestowed new titles on his mother, Gladys Durorike Emiko; and wife, Ivie Uhunoma Emiko, following his coronation as the 21st ruler of the Warri Kingdom. His mother, erstwhile Olori Atuwatse II, ...

An Afghan mother has gone into labour on evacuation flight, forcing military plane to descend in altitude. The plane landed at a base in Germany. Air force officials said the woman gave birth to a baby girl at the Ramstein ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, “over his failure to probe allegations that N106bn of public funds are missing from 149 ministries, departments and agencies.” The suit followed the grim allegations by the ...

The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has said it will soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, disclosed this in Abuja in an interview with NAN ...

The Varsity don, Ishaq Oloyede who remitted N30bn to FG has been reappointed as JAMB registrar. 66-year-old Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence brought innovations to the Joint Admissions andMatriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar ...

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has begged the government and people of Ondo for forgiveness over the August 14 killing of 23 Muslim travellers from Ondo, who were passing through Jos after attending a religious event in Bauchi. The apology ...

The Nigeria Police announced on Sunday that they have busted Gloria Okolie, the spy girl of the Eastern Nigeria Network, accused of being the mastermind of violent attacks against police targets. The alleged spy is 22 years old from Umutanza ...

Without showing any remorse, Stephen John, a farmer in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo state confidently said that he derived “so much pleasure rap!ng old women in the farm”. Stephen was arrested by police detectives in the state after ...

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has presented a staff of office to Nasiru Bayero, the emir of Bichi. Bayero was appointed emir of Bichi by Ganduje in 2019 following a split of the Kano emirate into five. Speaking at ...

Tunji Olurin, a former Oyo state Military Governor is dead.   Olurin, who hails from Ilaro in Ogun state, was said to have died on Saturday at the Lagos state University Teaching Hospital. His death was confirmed by his brother, ...

  Jerry Gana, a former minister of information and former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria has the highest number of “miserable people in Africa”. Gana said this on Saturday at a retreat organised by the ...

Jerry Gana, a former minister of information and former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria has the highest number of “miserable people in Africa”. Gana said this on Saturday at a retreat organised by the Kogi ...

  An arms smuggler has been apprehended in Nasarawa State. The man identified as Likita was caught with 52 magazines and over 200 live ammunition. A joint team of the Police and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) apprehended him ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has rubbished the reports that farmers killed in Toro village, Modakeke is a renewed crisis between Modakeke and Ife. Ooni described the killing in Modakeke as sheer criminality. ”What happened at Toro ...

Two suspects, Desmond Okafor and Iyke Egwuonwu, have been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly kidnapping a minor, Daniel Chukwudi, in the Ajangbadi area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle ...

  Nigerian Army troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force under Operation HADIN KAI have arrested one Yusuf Saleh, a suspected Boko Haram fertilizer supplier. He was apprehended at Bayamari village in Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State. Troops ...

About five persons have died in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, following a ghastly motor accident along the LNG junction, Tombia-Amassoma road of the state. The accident, which caused traffic gridlock along the road leading to the state-owned Niger Delta ...

  An ex-convict once arrested and convicted for impersonation and motorcycle theft has gone back to his old ways after returning from prison. The ex-convict this time around was caught adorning the Nigeria Correctional Services uniform unlike the previous time ...

Umar Hassan, an assistant headmaster at Goron Dutse Primary School in Dala Local Government of Kano State, was convicted on Friday. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Zuwaira Yusuf of the Kano State High Court for false ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said Nigeria will not prosecute repentant terrorists “because there are international conventions” that must be followed. Lai Mohammed stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

  Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode on Saturday defended his fond appellation of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, after labelling the Islamic scholar a ‘sociopathic Jihadist’ some three months ago. According to the ex-minister, politics is ...

An official of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Debowale Adegbite, has urged parents to watch out for withdrawal symptoms, to know when their children are abusing drugs. In particular, parents should be mindful of changes in the temperament of ...

A United States court, on Friday, sentenced a Nigerian, Ismaila Fafunmi, to 51 months in federal prison. US district judge, Karen Caldwell, convicted Fafunmi for money laundering of the proceeds of romance fraud and grant fraud schemes targeting senior citizens. ...

  The Taliban have been carrying out more brutal murders and dumping their victims in mass graves, it has been claimed. Terrorist fighters swept across Afghanistan and took over the capital Kabul on Sunday, August 15. As thousands try to ...

  There is tension in Ile-Ife and Modakeke in Osun State as at least five persons were found brutally murder while going to their farm. Sources told Daily Post that the bodies were found in Modakeke in the early morning ...