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  More than 900,000 people in France rushed to set up appointments to get vaccinated on Monday night after President Emmanuel Macron warned of new restrictions. He said curbs would be imposed on the people if they did not have ...

  Two residents of Oyo State that contracted the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus are dead. State Incident Manager and Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre, Dr Olabode Ladipo, disclosed this while speaking with Tribune Online, in Ibadan, on ...

The Nigerian Senate has declined Lauretta Onochie’s nomination as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Onochie’s non-confirmation followed the report by the Senate Committee on (INEC), Senator Kabir Gaya who said her nomination breaches Federal Character ...

  An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 26-year-old man, Sixtus Chinedu , who allegedly abducted and defiled a 17-year-old girl should be remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre The police charged Chinedu, who resides at No. 6, ...

Flood caused by a heavy downpour has submerged a graveyard in Gashu’a town, the headquarters of Bade local government area of Yobe State. The heavy rainfall, which lasted for several hours, was said to have started in the late hours ...

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). In his resignation letter dated July 9, 2021 addressed to PRP chairman in ward 6, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, ...

  Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has vowed never to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from where he was chased away in 2020, while seeking the party’s ticket for re-election. He was forced to join the Peoples Democratic ...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba has failed to grant bail to the 49 Yoruba Nation Agitators detained by Lagos Police Command, The Nation has learnt. The Lagos Police Command had paraded 49 suspects arrested in connection with last week’s ...

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu, has cried out over her inability to reach her husband since his arrest. In a recent interview which she granted to United Kingdom newspaper, The Sunday Times, ...

The Governor of the State of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, has made it compulsory for all the public and civil servants to wear Adire to work every Thursday. The governor, who launched mass production, promotion and marketing of Adire Osun, also ...

A lightning strike killed at least 11 people as they were taking selfies in a storm. The victims were on top of a watch tower in northern India when the flash of lightning hit. Some people reportedly jumped to the ...

  The war against criminality in Lagos State has gone a notch higher as the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, personally arrested a gang of suspected criminals, which specialises in harassing motorists and road users in traffic. The gang of suspected criminals ...

For the second time in one month, the National Assembly has been confronted by flood caused by the leakage from the complex roofs Areas majorly affected were the central lobby at the White House section of the complex, which adjoins ...

A Federal High in Abuja has threatened to issue arrest warrants against former Aviation Minister, Stellah Oduah and eight others named in a charge pending should they fail to attend court on the next date. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the ...

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday dismissed a trending video of Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the  murder of the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in which she made a u-turn, denying killing Ataga. In ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, arraigned Naankang Dawan, his companies – Taen Nigeria Ltd and Lataen Engineering Ltd – alongside Moruf Tunji Olukanmi before Justice D. V Agishi of the Federal High Court, Jos, Plateau. They face a ...

The Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called on the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to save the country from a third wave of COVID-19. Sanwo-Olu charged NIS with a statutory responsibility of preventing further spread of the virus, saying they ...

The Emir of Kajuru in Kaduna state, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, who was abducted on Sunday, has regained his freedom. Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) today, ...

A Nigerian man has slumped to death after the DNA test showed that he is not the biological father of his son. According to reports, the man caught his wife cheating on him with another man on Snapchat and flew ...

  Chidinma Ojukwu, the University of Lagos student who allegedly murdered SuperTV CEO, Usifo Ataga has shared more personal details about the deceased. The 21-year-old who was recently interviewed by Crime Fighters revealed that Ataga that the Super TV CEO ...

Dele Momodu has testified to how Late TB Joshua helped him financially many times. Mr Momodu disclosed this when he paid a condolence visit to Synagogue Church of All Nations. Watch the video below… View this post on Instagram A ...

  Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, said the state has started experiencing a potential third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with dire consequences. Sanwo-Olu, who gave the alert while giving an update on the Coronavirus pandemic situation ...

  The 190 passengers of American Airlines’ Flight 1774 boarded the plane last week in an orderly manner and took their seats for an approximately two-hour ride from Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte. Elizabeth LaClair was sitting in Row 2 when ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Office has secured the conviction of one Jacob Samuel on an amended one-count charge of cheating. Justice J.O. Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja convicted the defendant after ...

  Bola Tinubu is yet to comment on his Presidential ambition, but many of his followers have been pushing ahead. We have seen posters and other materials championing this, and now a cap. Tinubu 2023 people???