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Less than 72 hours before the planned mega rally in Lagos State, a-yet-to-be identified gunmen have attacked the Soka Ibadan residence of Yoruba Nation Agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. Daily Post gathered that the attack occurred on Thursday ...

Police in Osun state on Tuesday evening arrested the custodian of the Masquerades, Chief Kayode Esuleke, that allegedly clash with Muslim worshippers inside a mosque in Osogbo capital of Osun,The Nation learnt. It was reported that one cleric was killed ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a couple for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting victims in a N935million ponzi scheme. The suspects, Emmanuel and Victoria Jaiyeoba, were arrested at their residence in Ibadan, Oyo State. They are parents to ...

The Kano Hisbah board, established to maintain the norms of Sharia, on Wednesday, announced the ban on mannequins used by tailors, supermarkets and boutiques to display clothes. The government agency is set to raid the state to remove the articulated ...

The Police at the Anthony Division, Lagos have arrested a security man, Wilfred Sugh, 25, and arraigned him before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly breaking into his employer’s apartment to steal his properties valued N2.5 million and escaped to ...

  The Federal government has condemned the alleged killing of a Nigerian Footballer, Kelvin Igweani, by the UK police. Recall that Igweani, a Nigerian Footballer, was shot dead by officers, who attended a call out to a house, where a ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the problem confronting Nigeria is Nigerians, and not ethnicity or religion as being opined in some quarters. According to a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President ...

  Bill Cosby has been released from prison on Wednesday after his conviction on sexual assault charges was overturned by Pennsylvania’s highest court. The 83-year-old Cosby walked out of the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday afternoon, ...

There was a mild drama at the Magistrate Court, Port Harcourt after two female defendants, Ada Ebere and Favour Godwin created a scene by rolling on the floor of the courtroom while crying that they cannot go back to prison. ...

The family of Nnamdi Kanu has narrated how the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) was ‘unlawfully’ arrested in Kenya. The Nigerian government had on Tuesday announced Kanu’s arrest and extradition to Nigeria to continue to face trial. ...

Shortly after news of the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, broke, aide to Lagos State governor, Joe Igbokwe shared a photo that had him kneeling with arms raised in celebration of the arrest. ...

  Tottenham on Wednesday announced the appointment of former Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo as their new manager, ending their long search for a replacement for Jose Mourinho.   Spurs have been without a permanent manager since Mourinho was sacked ...

The former Vice-Chairman of Lagos Island East Local Government Asekun Sakiru Kehinde was on Wednesday arraigned before a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on one count charge of exporting 1.000kg of cocaine. He was arraigned by the ...

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje narrowly escaped death as deadly bandits unleashed an attack on his convoy on their way back from Zamfara state. A security source, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that three security personnel attached to the ...

A member of the Zamfara House of Assembly, Mohammed Ahmed, has been shot dead by bandits along Sheme- Funtua Road in Katsina State. While announcing his death, the Clerk of the Zamfara House House of Assembly, Saidu Anka, said Ahmed ...

Chidinma Ojukwu’s mother has finally spoken out leading to more facts on the true identity of the 300 level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, who was arrested last week Wednesday over the murder of Chief Executive Officer, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced several senior officials after a “grave incident” in the country’s efforts to defend itself against the coronavirus, state media reported Wednesday. Pyongyang closed its borders in January last year to defend itself against ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, sentenced a 24-year-old man, Sola Jegede, to death by hanging for dispossessing some men of their phones and money. He was found guilty of using weapons, including a gun, ...

Malaysian police have arrested six Nigerians who are members of a transnational ‘love scam’ syndicate based in the Asian country. The group, according to the police, is believed to have scammed people of $64,000 in five different cases in Singapore ...

An Egyptian billionaire, Onsi Sawiris has died at 90. Onsi Sawiris, the patriarch of a family of billionaire businessmen who launched a group of multinational companies under the Orascom umbrella, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, chairman of ...

Men of the Ogun State police command have arrested two men parading themselves as police officers in Ibogun town, Ifo Local Government Area of the State. The suspects, Tajudeen Bankole and Fawoyi Rotimi, were arrested following a distress call received ...

The British High Commission has cleared air on the insinuations that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in the United Kingdom. Dean Hurlock, a spokesperson of the British High Commission, on ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday certified China malaria-free after recording zero cases for four years consecutively. It was a happy ending to a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease, in the world’s most populous country “We congratulate ...

Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of a fugitive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). ...

Aisha Yesufu, a popular Nigerian activist, has wondered how Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was extradited from the United Kingdom without a legal tussle. The IPOB leader was said to have been arrested by ...