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A group of 31 Northern lawyers on Wednesday volunteered to defend Kyari against the FBI. They volunteered to render free legal services to the former commander of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner ...

Governor Seyi Makinde has appealed to World Bank not to withdraw its support for the Ibadan Flood Control projects. The governor made the appeal in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Taiwo Adisa. ...

Justice M. M. Abubakar of Bauchi State High Court has convicted and sentenced Sarita Aliyu Bello, Managing Director of Workman Microfinance Bank, Bauchi. She faced a two-count charge bordering on misappropriation and forgery brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

The First City Monument Bank, located on Murtala Mohammed Road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, was gutted by fire on Wednesday afternoon. The fire outbreak occurred at about 3.20 p.m. Customers and staff of the bank were seen scampering ...

Mohammed, son of the late fiery lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, is dead. The legal practitioner and Head of Mohammed Fawehinmi Chambers, was 52 years old. The activist died on Wednesday after complaining of difficulty in breathing. He was rushed to a ...

The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, said it arrested 28 suspected criminals after a raid on black spots in the state. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the command’s spokesman, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu. The statement said the ...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has appealed to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to discontinue its sit-at-home order handed down to the people of the South-East and explore other means to demonstrate support for its embattled leader, ...

One passenger has sustained serious injuries in a lone road crash along the Ikirun-Ila Odo road in Osun State. The incident according to Agnes Ogungbemi, the spokesperson of the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC), involved an Ash coloured Toyota Camry ...

An Ilorin Magistrate court on Tuesday remanded a sixteen-year-old girl, (name withheld), for allegedly setting her colleague, Fatimoh Jako ablaze over a minor misunderstanding that ensued between them. She was dragged before Magistrate F.O Olokoyo for alleged Criminal Trespass, Mischief ...

A public health expert has boosted hopes that the pandemic will be over next year – but warned of a “difficult” winter first. Professor Linda Bauld warned more restrictions may be needed if a new variant emerges which “challenges” the ...

The Federal Government has hinted that the over two months suspension of Twitter’s activities in Nigeria will soon be lifted following agreement that has been reached in most areas of contention with the platform. The government had on June 5, ...

The regime of President Muhammadu Buhari has approved reintroduction of toll gates on federal highways across the country, about 18 years after the Olusegun Obasanjo administration dismantled tolls and abolished the scheme. The decision for the reintroduction of toll gates ...

Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret lover has dramatically reappeared in public for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years. Former Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, 38, wore what appeared to be a wedding ring on her right hand in view of ...

A young bride never made it back to her newly-wedded husband after she was tragically killed in a wrong-way crash just hours after tying the knot. Angelica Dhondup, 26, was said to still be wearing her purple wedding dress when ...

Son of Pastor Moses Adeeyo shares happy times photos of family as he calls for prayers Recall soon as wedding pictures of Pastor Moses Adeeyo with the wife of one of his former church member hit the internet, his son who is ...

A 20-year-old trader Murtala Suleiman on Wednesday was convicted of stealing chicken and turkeys. Mr Suleiman was flogged 20 times in a Shari’a Court, Rigasa Kaduna, for stealing six turkeys and one chicken belonging to his stepmother. The judge, Salisu ...

The long standing political war between Bode George and APC National leader, Bola Tinubu may not end soon, with these fresh allegations levelled against the former Lagos state Governor by Bode George. George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the ...

A woman who tried to return from maternity leave only to be told her role ‘no longer existed’ has been awarded a £23,000 payout. Dr Katie Lidster, 38, was demoted from her position at the Government-backed UK Research and Innovation ...

One herdsman has been arrested in Ogun state with one AK 47 riffle. He was apprehended by the Ogun state police command on Tuesday, August 10. He identified himself as Mohammed. The suspect was arrested following information received by the ...

An administration police officer attached to Ngethu Water Treatment plant in Kiambu , Kenya on Monday, August 9, committed suicide by setting himself ablaze. According to a police OB report filed at Endarasha, Kanyagia Police Patrol Base in Nyeri County, ...

A pastor with the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, Jalingo, Taraba State, Reverend Eli Dilli, apprehended by the police for allegedly absconding without paying N518,000 hotel bills has been remanded in custody. Dilli, the presiding priest of LCCN, Majami’ar ...

Troops of Operation Safe Haven have arrested eight people for killing three women at Rafin Bauna community of Bassa local government area. Major Ishaku Takwa, the spokesman for the task force, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos. ...

A 32-year-old suspect has admitted to selling his girlfriend’s Toyota Landcruiser Prado after a disagreement. The case was heard by Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi at the Milimani Law Courts, Kenya on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. Paul Kihika Wangari confessed that ...

A seven-year-old boy died after being set alight when he was playing with matches and petrol. Utah youngster Kaisen Dam and a nine-year-old buddy who hasn’t been named were messing around by a metal fence in an alleyway by their ...

A popular Yoruba actor, Goriola Adeniyi Hassan risks being arrested for parading himself as the Oba of Imobi, in Ijebu-East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Daily Post reports. This is as the Ogun State House of Assembly threatened to ...