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Abidemi Rufai, charged in over N312 billion unemployment fraud in the United States, will not be released on bail after the FBI uncovered vagrant irregularities in the surety he presented before the court, court documents seen by Peoples Gazette said. ...

Lagos socialite, Kayode Badru who was burnt to death at a Celestial Church shortly after returning back to Nigeria has been buried. He was buried yesterday at his residence in new Oko-Oba lagos. May his soul rest in peace.  

An Ohio mother is facing an abuse and neglect complaint for allegedly fabricating her daughter’s terminal illness to “obtain funding for trips, housing, and other expenses of the last several years,” according to a complaint filed with the Stark County ...

The Nigerian government says there will be no increase in the pump price of petrol in the country in June. The government said this in a statement signed by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, on Friday. In ...

The burial of the Chief of Army Staff, late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, and six other senior military officers who died in the Beachcraft 350 aircraft that crashed at the Kaduna International Airport on Friday will hold today, Saturday May ...

A security guard at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Abubakar Aliyu, has been arrested with two others, Abubakar Yakubu aka Dogo and Isaa Kabiru aka Wicked, for the alleged kidnapping of two lecturers in the institution. The lecturers ...

Adesina Ogunlana, one of the lawyers representing embattled actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has said he volunteered to represent the actor in his s£xual molestation case because he felt pity for him. He also stated that he ...

A former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has mourned the death of COAS, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru and others who died in a plane crash yesterday. Atiku says it’s a dark day for the nation and a rude shock across ...

The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru is dead. He was killed in a plane crash in Kaduna. Mr Attahiru was appointed chief of army staff on January 26, succeeding Tukur Buratai. He was 54. Mr Attahiru was killed ...

  The lifeless body of Alphonsus Bello, a reverend father, was found this morning, May 21, on a farmland behind the Catechetical Training School, Malumfashi in Katsina State. The training school is part of Sokoto diocese under Bishop Matthew Kukah. ...

Residents of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, have been thrown into panic as unknown armed men stormed the area, shooting sporadically. It was gathered traders and motorists in the area took to their heels with their wares to avoid ...

The United States has made it clear that the $7million bounty placed on Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram sect, will not be given to the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP). The US made this known ...

  The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to direct the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt with immediate effect, the proposed increase in electricity tariff scheduled to take effect from June 2021. Adopting a motion sponsored ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said yesterday it had concluded arrangements to resume Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) on June 28. Its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at the commission’s meeting in Abuja with the Resident Electoral Commissioners ...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission has said Nigerians will have to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity of their phones to it from July. The regulatory body said this in the commission’s Revised National Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration. ...

The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has criticised the shoot-at-sight order by the Inspector General of Police, describing it as reckless and undemocratic. The organisation in a statement by its acting leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, yesterday said the order endangers the ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said state governors do not run the affairs of the corporation, stressing that negotiation to determine a new pump price of petrol was still ongoing between the organised labour and the Federal Government. ...

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, who became the latest governor to defect from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said he took the step to re-classify his state. He told visiting APC ...

A 10-member bi-partite committee was yesterday mandated to resolve the dispute between the Kaduna State Government and organised Labour. The panel was raised at a meeting convened by Labour and Employment Minister Dr. Chris Ngige, who waded in the industrial ...

Dozens of Air Peace passengers on Thursday night, slept inside the Arrival Hall at the MM1 wing of the Lagos airport, Nigeria’s busiest. The P4 7125 flight from Abuja initially scheduled for 9:00p.m., eventually took off at 11:00pm and landed ...

A gas explosion has also rocked the sprawling Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, with two persons feared dead and tens of others panic-stricken. This is coming about 48 hours after a similar gas explosion occurred in former ...

Alhaji Bashir Saidu Namaska, son of the Emir of Kontagora, has been killed by bandits in Niger state, the police said on Thursday. Bashir was on his way to the father’s farm at Lioji village of Kontagora Local Government Area ...

A 47-year-old woman, Olanshile Nasirudeen, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing her 51-year-old husband to death over an allegation of impregnating another woman. The command, in a statement issued by its spokesman, DSP Abimbola ...

There is no such thing as a “safe” level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, according to a new study. In an observational study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers from the University ...

  Nigerian lady, Intissar Bashir Kurfi used sachet water commonly known as pure water nylons to make interlocking tiles, and accolades are streaming in for her on social media. The 29-year-old founder of Ifrique Design, said she engages students in ...