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An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan yesterday rejected a request by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN) to stop hearing a suit instituted against the Federal Government by Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemi(aka Sunday Igboho). ...

Billionaire businessman and industrialist, Prince Samuel Adedoyin, has lost another daughter, Lola Olobayo. The latest death comes about three years after another of Adedoyin’s daughter, Funke, passed on in 2018. Funke, then a member of the House of Representatives, died ...

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed 1,149 cases of COVID-19 in sixteen states across the country. The health agency made the revelation on Thursday morning via a post on its verified Facebook page. In the latest development, ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged a dean in the University of Calabar, Prof. Francisca Ime Bassey, to court over her alleged involvement in a contract fraud of ₦20.6 million. Prof. Bassey, who is ...

The Federal government has approved N658 million for the deployment of sniffer dogs at the Lagos and Abuja international airports. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the sum during its weekly meeting on Wednesday presided over by the President himself. ...

  Osun state government has declared Friday a public holiday to allow residents to celebrate the annual “Isese Day”. In a statement on Wednesday, the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Tajudeen Olaniyi Lawal noted that the festival would not be celebrated ...

The Taliban are slowly spreading their reign of terror across Afghanistan, despite promising to change the way of governance from their rule 20 years ago. Reports have been emerging from Kabul and other cities about Taliban fighters beating up women ...

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban, and now the undisputed victor of the Afghanistan war, is back in the country after 20 years.   In 2001, he was ousted from Afghanistan and the Taliban leadership on Tuesday claimed ...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has released the corpse of a 34-year-old football enthusiast, Emmanuel Samuel, allegedly killed by a policeman in Abuja. The deceased, with his fiancée and friends, went to watch a football match on July 11 ...

  Aggrieved youths in their hundreds on Wednesday morning, protested in front of the state secretariat, Agodi, over the alleged killing of a 17- year-old boy named Opeyemi by an Amotekun corp at Mokola area in Ibadan. The aggrieved youths ...

The Biden administration on Sunday froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in U.S. institutions, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision was made by Treasury ...

  This is the moment a Russian woman threw her one-day-old baby daughter into a rubbish bin. The woman, who is yet to be identified, was filmed on CCTV chucking the plastic bag holding the newborn baby into a bin. ...

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command on Wednesday, arraigned Princess Carol Ngozi alongside her company, Carolina Luxury Homes, on a 30-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. She was arraigned before Justice Hamza Muázu of the ...

Uganda is to take in 2,000 refugees who have fled Afghanistan after Taliban militants took power on Sunday. The deal was agreed following a request from the US government, Refugee Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC. The first group of ...

Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, two witnesses told Reuters. A Taliban source said one person had been ...

The 45 soldiers of the Nigerian Army, who were court-martialed and jailed seven years ago for demanding adequate weaponry to aid the fight against insurgency, have been released. The soldiers were convicted and jailed at Ikoyi Correctional Centre and Kirikiri ...

Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have attacked a bullion van in Ondo State. The bullion van belonging to a commercial bank was attacked at Emure-Ile junction, on Owo local government area of Ondo state. With details of the attack ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how he had been managing diabetes for the past 35 years. Obasanjo lamented that many of his friends have died of diabetes because they were unable to manage the disease. The former president said ...

A 32-year-old serial burglar who specialises in stealing plasma TVs has been arrested in Kwara, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said. Olaleke Tope, a father of two, is said to be a graduate of business and entrepreneur of ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted eight pupils of an Islamiyya school at Sakkai village, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Also abducted was one of their school teachers, The Punch was told on Wednesday. The identities of ...

Plans by some Shuwa Arabs, an ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno as the Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State, is generating palpable tension across Benin Kingdom. The coronation ceremony is slated to hold on Saturday, 21 ...

A 62 year old man identified as Moshood Lasisi has committed suicide in his room in Ayede ogbese, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. It was reported that Lasisi, who was walking on crushes, hung himself after his ...

Niger Republic on Wednesday declared 48 hours of national mourning after 37 people were killed in a fresh massacre by suspected jihadists. “Flags will be flown at half-mast across the country” with immediate effect, a government statement said. It reaffirmed ...

Students of the Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro, on Tuesday, celebrated the exit of the Rector as the institution was upgraded to the University of Science and Technology. Photos posted online show the jubilant students sweeping the Main Gate to express ...

A 36-year-old man, Adeyemi Tosin, who is a banker/marketer with a first generation bank, has been arrested by Oyo State Police Command for allegedly siphoning N10 million from the account of 78-year-old Oladele Adida Quadri. The bank account of the ...