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  The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the licence of Ahmad Isah’s Human Rights Radio for “recurring unprofessional conduct”. NBC issued a statement today, after meeting with the owner, Ahmed Isah, who host the Berekete Family Show on the ...

A band of Bororo herders with thousands of cows from Iseyin, in Oyo state, who tried to enter Ojoku-Ikotun axis of Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara state, have been chased out of the communities. They were chased out on ...

A Chinese national, Marra Thai and an aide of Gov. Abdullahi Sule were among the 15 people arrested for theft of rail tracks and rail sleepers in Nasarawa state. Governor Sule’s aide was identified as Yusuf Abubakar Musa, the adviser ...

Mr Jacob Oyedepo, the father of the late airman, Matthew Oyedepo, has said his son’s death will not make him stop the siblings of the deceased from joining the Army. Matthew died in the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 that crash landed ...

Private and missionary schools have shut down in Imo State as a result of the sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra on Monday, May 31, 2021, throughout the South-East region. Residents of Owerri also resorted to panic buying ...

  Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to flog former Governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu for calling him a dictator. Aliyu during an interview last week, said a certain “dictator in Rivers State” was behind the travails of ...

  A Nigerian woman has narrated her horrific experience after she was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She explained that she was on her way home from work on Sunday, May 23, when she entered a commercial mini bus ...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians that in spite of the current security challenges, the country is in safe hands. The Minister, who gave the assurance while receiving the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Oba ...

Friends of a Nigerian woman mourns after she was allegedly crushed to death by her husband as she tried to stop him from driving out of the compound with her phone. The woman’s husband identified as Makanjuola Ayedun is a ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Anambra State has paraded a 48-year old plumber, Thomas Igbo for allegedly Defiling his three underaged daughters. The daughters whose ages were given as eight, three, and one and half years were ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the license of Human Rights Radio. This was announced in a statement issued on Thursday. The travails of the station began after Ahmed Isah, its owner, who is also the host of Berekete ...

Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, said passport issuing offices all over the country will stay open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily to clear the backlog of applications. Babandede also announced an increase in its production ...

Leaders of Mali’s military have released interim president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane from detention following intervention from former President Goodluck Jonathan who is the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Mali. The ...

President Muhammadu Buhari today appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. Yahaya replaces the late General Ibrahim Attahiru who recently died in a fatal plane crash en-route Kaduna State along with other senior officers and ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday joined Lagosians in celebrating 2021 Children’s Day Celebration. The governor alongside his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, Lagos Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Jaji were ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN today, hosted students from the Northeast Children’s Learning Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State at the State House, Abuja.  

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday, visited the Obasanjo Market, at Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, with a promise to assist in having better structure and government backing. The visit at the Day Old chicks market recorded a massive turnouts of ...

Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Chief of Army Staff. Yahaya succeeds Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died last Friday in an Air Force plane crash. Yahaya’ s appointment was announced today ...

Mali’s interim president and premier have been released, a military official said on Thursday, three days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to be the country’s second coup in nine months. “The interim president ...

Remi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos central, was involved in an altercation with some Nigerians who attended the south-west zonal public hearing of the constitution review on Wednesday. The event held at Marriott Hotel in Lagos, with residents queuing to register ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that growing insecurity and other social vices were seriously affecting the national development of his dream but assured that everything possible would be done to end the ugly development. President Buihari who disclosed this ...

  Accountant-General of the federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris has backtracked after President Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie countered his claim of £4.2m Ibori loot being returned to the Delta state Government.   On Wednesday May 26, barely 24 hours after the Accountant-General said ...

  Residents of southern and northern parts of Kaduna State, yesterday, agreed to split, if it is the only thing that can guarantee peace. Speaking during the presentation and defense of their memos at the Senate ad-hoc Committee and the ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said two lovers have been arrested for impersonating its Executive Chairman, Mr Muhammad Nami, to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS, disclosed this in a statement issued ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested nine suspected members of Eiye cult group in Ajegunle area of Ibogun during a supremacy battle with members of Alora confraternity. The Command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the ...