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A 17-year-old girl drowned on Wednesday at Asa river, along the Harmony Estate bridge, Kulende area of Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The spokesman of the state fire service, Hassan Hakeem Adekunle, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Wednesday. ...

The Lagos Government has frozen the bank account of an amputee Mary Daniel, after it was discovered she lied to the public to raise N25 million in donations. Mary hawked ‘sachet water’ in Oshodi and peddled the tale that she ...

Dorathy Tirnom Yohanna, one of the five slain students of Greenfield University in Kaduna was buried yesterday.The funeral service for the 300 level student was held at ECWA GoodNews Barnawa High Cost in Kaduna, with many mourners decked in black. ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says Nigeria cannot afford another civil war because it will not augur well for the country. Osinbajo said this at an interactive forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) Anambra governorship aspirants, organised by the state chapter ...

INEC has fixed Saturday, February 18, 2023, for the conduct of the next presidential election in the country. INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu made this known at a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) bill 2021 today. ...

The heirs of Lee Kun Hee, the chairman of the telecommunications giant Samsung who died in October, will pay more than $10.8 billion in inheritance taxes. The Lee family disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement released via Samsung Electronics ...

  Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome its insecurity challenges. The former president said there would be light at the end of the tunnel. Obasanjo was joined by Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and his ...

A Muslim student who could pass for an Alhaja has celebrated writing her last paper saying there is no time for shalaye.She took to social media to celebrate saying student mode has been deactivated and it’s going to be debit ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has fined three top telecommunication companies in Nigeria the sum of N78.5 million. MTN, Globacom, Airtel, and 9mobile were all found to have breached the rules guiding them in the process of replacing SIMs for ...

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has imposed curfew at all entry and exit points with Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Imo States. The curfew runs from 8.00pm to 6.00am. Wike, in State broadcast on Tuesday said the curfew which ...

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday disclosed that about 2,000 motorcycles, popularly known as okadas were impounded in Lagos within two days. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde disclosed this at a ministerial news conference to mark the second year ...

  NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said, yesterday, that the chances of the party retaining the Presidency in 2023 were as bright as midnight star. He also said no president would intentionally want his ...

Nigerians on social media have called out Senator Oluremi Tinubu for attacking Senator Smart Adeyemi who spoke out on the spate of insecurity in the country.Senator Adeyemi, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, aired his opinion on Nigeria’s security challenges while ...

Seth Andrew, a former White House senior adviser for the Obama administration has been charged with stealing $218,000 and making false statements to a bank. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William ...

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, needs help to tackle rising insecurity in the country. He said it was clear that Buhari and the APC had been overwhelmed by ...

  A 25-year-old female student of Imo State University, IMSU identified as Divine Nwaneri, has reportedly been shot dead by a Nigerian soldier in Owerri, Imo state It was gathered that the incident happened near the Douglas House, the seat of ...

The husband, children and neighbours of a pregnant woman, Ramota Raheem, have been left in shock after discovering her remains in the bathroom of her apartment in the Agboju-Satellite Town area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Ramota’s children ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Tuesday said Channels Television has apologised over its infraction of the broadcasting code. NBC’s Director of Public Affairs Mrs. Franca Aiyetan said this yesterday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

Bandits have released a fresh video of students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State. Among them is a pregnant student. Between April 5 and April 8, the bandits released 10 of the abducted students, leaving ...

The Rivers state police command has arrested a man for allegedly being in possession of a “condom containing fluid.”The man’s brother today took to Twitter to call out the police over the arrest as well as his detention. In a ...

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday, said he has reviewed his past position of 2014 when he suggested that Dr Goodluck Jonathan should negotiate for the release of Chibok girls after they were abducted by Boko Haram. El-Rufai ...

The Nigerian Army says it will henceforth take legal actions against citizens who share indiscriminate pictures and clips of slain soldiers on social media. Army spokesman Mohammed Yerima in a statement on Tuesday said that the indiscriminate sharing of graphic ...

A 69-year-old grandmother from Nashville, Tennessee named Gwendolyn Beasley is going viral. The woman who is about to enter her 7th decade is being charged with felony aggravated child abuse after police say she attacked her 17-year-old granddaughter. Despite the ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday cautioned Africa to beware of China’s growing role as he vowed a greater US commitment in talks with Nigeria and Kenya. In what was billed as a virtual trip due to Covid-19 ...

Gunmen on Monday night killed two soldiers at a military checkpoint located at Timber Junction area in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. It was reliably gathered from a top security source that the incident took place at ...