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Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information, has made it clear that Nigerians who accessed Twitter, including Pastor Enoch Adeboye, should expect prosecution. Lai Mohammed stated this in an interview with BBC Africa Focus on Monday when asked if Mr. Adeboye ...

  Ohanaeze Ndigbo has claimed the elders in the Northern part of Nigeria are behind the insecurity in the South East parts of the country. The Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isigurozo, stated this in reaction to comments by the ...

Yoruba Nation Agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho on Monday evening stormed Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo state. His visit, according to his spokesman Olayomi Koiki, was over weekend’s attacks by suspected herders in the ...

  Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said their is nothing wrong in the fight for sovereignty, especially by Biafra and Oduduwa agitators. In a statement, the professor criticised the use of force against the agitators of self-determination, insisting it is ...

  The Amotekun Corps has not been integrated into the security architecture in Lagos State because the state lacks a formal operational base for the corps to function, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said yesterday. The governor spoke yesterday on Arise Television ...

  Mr Abimbola Balogun, elder brother to the late founder of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, has narrated his last encounter with the Prophet. Balogun, on Monday said he saw the late charismatic pastor last, ...

  Popular man of God Prophet Joshua Iginla has reacted to the death of his colleague, Prophet TB Joshua TB Joshua who passed away on Saturday leaving many in shock as to his sudden death. In a statement released on ...

  The Federal government has stated that no condition was given to the envoys from the UK, US, Ireland, Canada and the European union for the lifting of a suspension placed on Twitter’s operations in Nigeria. On monday, Minister of ...

  As the people of Arigidi Akoko continue to mourn the late televangelist, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, markets and shops were shut yesterday in his honour. Arigidi Akoko in Akoko Northwest Local Government Area of Ondo State is the hometown ...

One Michael Sunday has allegedly stabbed a 45-year-old bricklayer, Avonse Abraham, to death in the Alli Isiba area of Sango-Ota, Ogun State, over a N20,000 debt. It was gathered that Abraham was returning from work on Saturday when he was ...

  Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that the destruction of public infrastructure and facilities is also an act of terrorism. He stated this during a town hall meeting on the protection of public infrastructure organised by ...

  A young Nigerian man identified as Aminu Umar Musa (Al-Ansar) has died in Kano state, just six days after his wedding. According to multiple reports on social media, Al-Ansar got married to Aisha Sani Muhammad on Saturday, May 29, ...

A site engineer is in police net alongside three others for allegedly masterminding the stealing of a power generator from a mast belonging to his employer, MTN, in Sango-Ota area of Ogun State. The suspects, Clement Idenyi (the Site Engineer), ...

Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month. “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling ...

At least 15 people have died after a blaze swept through a sanitiser factory in the western Indian city of Pune on Monday, police said. “We have recovered 15 bodies so far,” an officer in Pune’s rural police control room, ...

A woman died after an ex-security guard at a Pakistani hospital posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her, police said Monday. Shameema Begum, aged 80, died on Sunday, two weeks after Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat her ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has said that the Yoruba oracle, Ifa, indicted politicians over the crisis in Nigeria. The monarch said this on Sunday at his palace in Ile-Ife while marking the end of the Annual World ...

  At least three persons have been reportedly killed in Ogun State by herdsmen believed to be among those who wreaked havoc in Igangan, Oyo State, on Sunday. The victims were identified as Femi Bara, John Taiwo and Tunde Taiwo. ...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye has made it clear that the Redeemed Christian Church of God will continue to use Twitter despite the suspension of the microblogging site by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The Buhari regime had last Friday suspended Twitter but ...

The Federal Government has summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union in Nigeria over their recent comments on the suspension of microblogging site Twitter in the West African Country. Canada, EU, UK, US, ...

Two persons were reportedly shot and injured on Saturday after residents of a community, recently attacked by bandits, blocked the convoy of Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State while protesting against insecurity in the state. The protest followed the killing ...

The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Abutu Yaro, has ordered a probe into the extra-judicial killing by soldiers of Uguchi Unachukwu, a Germany-based Nigerian. Unachukwu was shot dead on 31 May near Sam Mbakwe Airport during a stop and ...

The federal government has given a condition to lift its indefinite suspension on Twitter in Nigeria. Daily Post reports that Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made this known to newsmen at a meeting with some envoys on Monday. Onyeama ...

Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, Enugu Catholic Priest, has said he would rather feed the poor than acquire a private jet like other pastors. Mbaka at his Adoration Ministry on Sunday queried why he should acquire a jet when there are ...

The Director-General of The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr. Halilu Shaba has said the country’s satellite has expired since 2018 and it’s only just give them necessary data based on ‘grace’. Shaba made the disclosure in an ...