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Kidnappers of the 23 students and a member of staff of Greenfield University, Kaduna have raised ransom for  the remaining 16 students in their den to N160 million. They had earlier reduced the N500 million they sought as ransom when ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has informed Nigerians that Peter Akpanke is no longer its staff. EFCC Head of Media, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement said Akpanke has no authority to represent or carry out any business in ...

Primate Elijah Ayodele, the Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church has said God is using President Muhammadu Buhari to deal with Nigerians.Primate Elijah said God was using Buhari to deal with Nigerians for refusing to call and look up to ...

Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has announced a shutdown of the Adoration Ministry for a period of one month. This may not be unconnected to the earlier directive given to him by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Monday said the State will give N220 million to families of eleven policemen killed by gunmen during recent attacks on police formations in the State. Each family will get N20 million, according to Wike. ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied a claim by the police that it was planning to attack Lagos state. Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader, said in a statement on Monday that the claim was made to fuel division between ...

A man found himself gripping on to the side of a bridge for his life as the walkway beneath his feet gave way above a 330ft drop. The walkway, located in the Piyan Mountain in the city of Longjing, China, ...

The remains of Nigeria’s former Minister of Women Affairs, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, were on Monday laid to rest in Jalingo, Taraba.Aisha, died on Friday at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt after a brief illness. She was 61. The former civil ...

  There was a burglary attempt on the residence of the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, at the Presidential Villa on Sunday. Some online media outlets on Monday alleged his residence and that of the Administrative ...

Five newspaper vendors in Owerri were arrested by the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Intelligent Response Team (IRT) on Monday for allegedly promoting activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Abutu Yaro, confirmed ...

Lagos State Government has announced the replacement of motorcycles and tricycles on Lagos roads with Last Mile vehicles, a move that could potentially throw thousands of operators out of job and create more hardship for commuters.   Gboyega Akosile, spokesman ...

The tactical team of Edo State Police Command and the local vigilante operatives, have rescued seven kidnapped victims, killing three of the kidnappers in the processes. The victims were rescued at the notorious Ahor axis, along Benin bypass, where 13 ...

Hundreds of worshippers on Monday night held a candlelight processions for late Pastor Dare Adeboye, son of the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye.Dare died last Wednesday night in his sleep. Earlier, service of songs ...

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man, Olumide Olajide, for allegedly defrauding traders in Ibadan with fake bank alerts. Olajide, who claims to be a Yoruba film actor, was among those paraded at the state police command headquarters, ...

Two ex-students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, who escaped from Boko Haram militants in 2014, have graduated from Southeastern University in the United States. Bishara and Pogu were among the 276 ...

  The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has alerted Lagosians of an impending plot of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to attack soft targets in the state. Odumosu, who delivered a paper on ‘Appraisal of Security Situation ...

Prophet TB Joshua has released the video of a prophecy for Nigeria which he gave almost seven years ago on July 27, 2014. In the video, the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) general overseer predicted that Nigeria would be ...

  Adams on Sunday accused Buhari of of being insensitive to Nigerians’ plight over the country’s insecurity crisis. Adams had his 51st birthday Thanksgiving programme at the Saviour Ministries Cherubim and Seraphim Church Worldwide, Alausa, Lagos State, on Sunday. He ...

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has explained that he never mocked the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, over the demise of his son, Dare.Igboho stirred the hornets’ nest ...

A lady who appears to be drunk or to have been drugged has been allegedly pushed out of a moving vehicle in Minna, Niger state capital.According to Nuruddeen Isyaku Daza, a broadcaster at Prestige FM RADIO, the unidentified lady was ...

A suspected thief has been nabbed in the act for allegedly stealing a generator and a new mattress.   The incident happened at Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday, Sunday May 9th.   It was gathered ...

The Korle Bu Police, Ghana are investigating a case involving the contamination of a medical doctor’s drinking water with HIV-infected blood by another colleague. The act is suspected to have been carried out by another doctor following a disagreement between ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria has said that no Christian leader in the country has kept quiet over the situation of Nigeria. CAN noted that it had no comment for popular Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday ...

No fewer than 127 civil society groups in Nigeria on Sunday fixed May 26 for nationwide mass action against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to stop the bleeding and carnage in Nigeria. The groups, under the aegis ...

No fewer than 28 bodies have been recovered by divers from the scene of Saturday’s boat mishap in Tijana village of Munya Local Government Area of Niger. Mallam Ahmed Inga, the Director General, Niger State Emergency Management Agency, told newsmen ...