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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 50 suspected internet fraudsters in Oyo State. They were picked up at Alaro Sango, Agbaje Ijokoro and Apete Aladura areas of Ibadan, the capital.     EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren announced ...

The Senate on Tuesday finally laid to rest the lingering controversy between the Nigerian Postal Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service. The two agencies have been on each other’s throats over who is statutorily empowered to collect Stamp Duty ...

French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face on Tuesday by a man in a crowd of onlookers while on a walkabout in southern France, video of the incident showed. Macron’s security entourage quickly intervened to pull the man ...

Fire has engulfed the Federal Secretariat complex along Okpanam Road in Asaba, Delta State. At the moment, the raging inferno seems to have overwhelmed the fire fighting machinery stationed at the complex. Even the state fire service is battling to ...

Seems Pastor Chris Okotie just referred to late televangelist, TB Joshua has a wizard in his latest Facebook post. The Household of God Church International Ministries, General Oveerseer celebrated the demise of a certain wizard named Emmanuel who just passed ...

The Senate today observed a minute silence in honour of the late Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, who died on Saturday at the age of 57.   The Deputy Leader of the Senate, Professor ...

The House of Representatives has said it will, within 10 days, investigate the factors responsible for the Federal Government’s decision to ban Twitter in Nigeria and the laws upon which the action was based. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, in his ...

The UK government’s main website was unavailable this morning, as several international media platforms went down, including The Guardian and the Financial Times newspapers. The portal gov.uk and the newspaper sites all showed error messages. The BBC was also temporarily ...

  A Nigerian pastor has courted attention on social media after he preached that sin can never take a man to hell. Speaking during a church service, the cleric averred that Jesus Christ died to pay for the sins of ...

  Government agencies across Nigeria have reportedly resorted to old ways of communication amidst the ongoing Twitter ban in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had last week announced the suspension of Twitter after the ...

Popular Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday, declared that bandits want peace. Gumi, in a chat with Daily Post, explained that bandits want peace because they are tired. The Kaduna-based Islamic scholar said bandits were ready to lay ...

DAAR Communications PLC, owners and operators of Africa Independent Television, Raypower FM and Faaji Radio, has said that they will go to court to challenge the National Broadcasting Commission’s stance on the suspension of Twitter announced by the Federal Government ...

As June 12 commemoration of Democracy Day approaches, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has directed Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police in states and FCT to deal firmly with any person or ...

The family of late televangelist, TB Joshua has lamented that the wound of his passage wound take a long time to heal. Speaking with vanguard, the deceased immediate elder brother, Abimbola Balogun said that the family members were yet to ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari had intended to suspend both Twitter and Facebook’s operations in Nigeria after being angered by removal of his ‘civil war’ posts, a report by Daily Beast says. The US media platform made this known in a ...

  Destruction of public assets and facilities will henceforth be treated as a terrorist act, the government has said. Such infractions will attract dire sanctions, including a possible death sentence, the government added. This position was made public on Monday ...

  A former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala said that he has no preferred aspirant among those jostling to pick the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in 2023. He made the clarification in a statement issued by ...

Belarus Premier League side FC Vitebsk have said the drowning of Nigerian footballer Kelvin Odenigbo was an “accident.” The club doctors on Monday explained that following forensic examinations, no violent marks were seen on the 20-year-old’s body. “According to the ...

  The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has commissioned an all-female combatant squad, as part of its ‘Safe Schools Initiative’. It has consequently announced the first phase of deployment of some of its personnel, to schools in the ...

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, ...