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The president of the Nigeria Hypertension Society (NHS) Professor Ayodele Omotoso says one in every three Nigerian is hypertensive. The professor, who made the claim in a press statement issued to mark World Hypertension Day (WHD), explained that studies conducted ...

A professor with the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Jos, Grace Ayanbimpe, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The Punch learnt that the professor was abducted in the early hours of Monday alongside her husband by the gunmen who stormed ...

Dangote’s son-in-law, Jamil Abubakar has given a word of advice to those intending to marry asking them not to be a liability to themselves and others. Jamil in a tweet pleaded with his friends and family intending to get married ...

Gunmen in the early hours of Monday set ablaze the Ubakala Divisional Police Station in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia and killed two policemen. The attackers also set ablaze all the vehicles in the premises.     The ...

The depraved beast who allegedly raped and stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death has been arrested. Sergey Matyushin, 49, is said to have followed Anastasia Guzhvina for several days before attacking her in the village of Bolshoe Kozino in Russia’s ...

The immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Sources stated that the former governor has been under interrogation for the past seven hours at the EFCC headquarters ...

Confusion has set in among pastoralists in Taraba state as 40 cattle died after allegedly eating a type of poisonous grass called ‘killer grass’. According to Daily Trust, all the cattle belong to a pastoralist in Gamgam village in the ...

The five-day warning strike directed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the irregular sacking of civil servants began today in Kaduna State. What’s more to it is that, schools, banks and other business premises are closed. Also, while some ...

A major crisis was narrowly averted when operatives of the Department of State Services and some men that accompanied a Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, had an encounter on the premises of the palace of the Ataoja ...

  A young woman agitating for Youruba Nation has gone viral after she urged Internet fraudsters popularly known as the Yahoo boys to come and settle in South West. In a video shared online, the Yoruba agitators advised Yahoo boys ...

An Orthodox synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Giv’at Ze’ev northwest of Jerusalem has collapsed, killing two persons and injuring more than 100, Israeli emergency services confirmed. CNN reports that at least two people have been confirmed dead in ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ekiti State Command, has arrested a 20-year-old woman, Muibat Ahmed, for alleged possession of an illegal substance suspected to be cannabis sativa. The state Commandant, NSCDC, Mr Solomon Iyamu, said the suspect, in ...

The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Enugu State, was on Sunday night gutted by fire, most likely set by arsonists. The incident happened barely one week after the agency’s office in Obollo-Afor, Udenu was razed The ...

Kidnapped Deeper Life Bible Church pastor in Ondo, Otamayomi Ogedengbe has been released by his abductors. Ogedengbe was abducted by gunmen last Monday inside the church after the Bible Study and whisked away to an unknown destination. The abductors later ...

2023: YED4GEJ launches #BringbackGEJ project A group under the aegis of Youths Earnestly Demand For Goodluck E.Jonathan, YED4GEJ 2023, has asked all Nigerians to join in the efforts to convince former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the 2023 presidency race ...

Self-styled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, on Saturday, threatened to disrupt the 2023 general elections in Southwest states of Nigeria. Mr Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, spoke in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, during a Yoruba Nation rally, where participants ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has offered a gifted physically challenged artist, Ms Abosede Okeowo, a US online scholarship to enhance her skills. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the presentation was made recently at ...

A teenage girl from billionaire Ned Nwoko’s Idume Ugboko community in Delta state has dragged him to social media, accusing him of arresting her dad and several others over land matters. Nwoko had previously been accused of land grabbing to ...

A 70-year-old man, Michael Omolayo, suspected to be a ritualist has been arrested in Akure, the Ondo State capital, for packing human hair in large quantities at a barbershop. It was gathered that Omolayo was almost lynched by some irate ...

An 18-year-old auxiliary nurse, Rachael David, has relived her close shave with death at a suspected ritual killers’ den in Rivers State after she was kidnapped at Okuru Junction, Port Harcourt. David, who is currently receiving treatment in a hospital, ...

Five people suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been arrested in Isu Local Government Area of Imo State. According to a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Orlando Ikeokwu, in ...

A police sergeant attached to Kano Command’s Motor Traffic Division (MTD), Kabiru Isah, has been commended for returning over one million naira (N1,294,200.00) he recovered from the scene of a fatal accident.     A statement issued by police spokesperson ...

Heavy rain and wind on Saturday dispersed agitators of Yoruba Nation at the popular Nelson Mandela Freedom park via Old garage area of Osogbo capital of Osun State on Saturday afternoon. The Nation reports that scores of Yoruba Nation agitators ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday travel out of Nigeria to France on an official visit. The President would attend the African Finance Summit which will be focused on reviewing the African economy, following shocks from the Coronavirus pandemic and ...

A mother of four children, Mrs. Uchechi Kalu, a native of Ohafi in Ohafi Local Government Area of Abia State has cried out for help to save her son now in hospital and waiting to undergo medical surgery after a ...