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  Agidigbo FM, a prominent private radio station, has denied involvement in the ill-fated children’s festive party that tragically resulted in multiple de.aths on Wednesday morning in Ibadan, Oyo State. Recall tragedy struck on Wednesday morning at the Islamic High School ...

  The Police have confirmed the de.ath of 35 children and arrest of eight suspects in connection with Wednesday’s stampede during a children’s funfair at Basorun Islamic High School, Ibadan, Oyo State. SP Adewale Osifeso, the spokesperson for the Oyo ...

  The South East chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has canceled a birthday celebration planned for Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. The celebration was cancelled following the tragic de.aths of over 35 children in a stampede at a funfair ...

  The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of Queen Naomi Silekunola, Ooni of Ife’s estranged wife alongside six others in connection with the de.adly stampede at a funfair in Ibadan on Wednesday. The police today confirmed 35 ...

  The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has expressed sympathy to the families of children who di.ed at a funfair in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday. The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed at least 35 persons ...

  Men of the Oyo State Police Command have detained the principal of Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan, Mr. Abdullahi Fasasi. Fasasi was invited by the police on Wednesday and has been detained since then. The principal’s detention is in ...

  The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revoked land allocations belonging to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation George Akume. Additionally, 759 other ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State have dragged the member representing the Ethiope-East/Ethiope-West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Erhiatake Ibori-Sueni, daughter of former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe, the Speaker, House of Representatives ...

  Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has confirmed the arrest of the organizers of a children’s carnival where a stampede claimed the lives of an unspecified number of children The tragic incident occurred in the Bashorun area of Ibadan, as ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday disclosed that the federal government is targeting an exchange rate of N1,500 to the dollar to support the effective execution of the 2025 budget This marks a decrease of roughly N200 from the current ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a N47.9 trillion budget for the 2025 fiscal year to a joint session of the National Assembly at the House of Representatives chamber.   Dubbed The Restoration Budget, it aligns with the 2025-2027 ...

  The Oyo State Government, on Monday, vowed to prosecute a reckless driver found culpable in the de.ath of an officer of the State Traffic Management Authority, Kehinde Fabunmi, at Agbowo in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of the ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the duo of Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, staff of one of the new generation banks, for allegedly selling newly-minted N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) The Enugu Zonal Directorate ...

  Inflation in Nigeria has risen to 34.60 per cent in November 2024, reflecting a 0.72 per cent increase from October’s rate of 33.88 per cent. According to the latest Consumer Product Index report released by the National Bureau of ...

  The Jamaican government has made a move towards removing King Charles as its ceremonial head of state in order to become a republic. On Dec. 10, Jamaica’s Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte tabled the Constitution ...

  A controversial United Kingdom-based pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, has dismissed claims by the leader of the British Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, that Nigeria is a country that drives its citizens to engage in questionable behaviours Badenoch, who had been trolling ...

  The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a suit filed by Chief Ambrose Owuru, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel ...

  The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has described report that the French military has established or is planning to establish a base in Nigeria as totally false and mischievous The Defence Headquarters said this in a statement by its director of ...

  A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a 17-year-old student and a trader Daniel Abok, 23, to six months in correctional centre for illegal possession of firearms The Magistrate, Shawomi Bokkos, summarily tried and sentenced the convicts after they ...

  Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has stated that he did not ask anyone to plead with Afe Babalola (SAN), who took him to court for defamation. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State following a petition ...

  The Presidency on Monday described the remarks about Nigeria made by the newly elected United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, as a “cock and bull story” President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, ...

  A tragic collision on the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge in the early hours of Monday, December 16, 2024, claimed the life of one person and left five others hospitalized. The accident occurred at Ilubirin, inward Sura, around 6 a.m ...

  Troops from the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have apprehended notorious bandit leader and arms dealer Bako Wurgi, alias Baka NaGarba. Wurgi is suspected to be responsible for the murder of the Emir of Gobir, Isa Mohammad Bawa, ...

  A 16-year-old boy in the US state of New Mexico has been arrested for ‘wiping off’, his entire family. He was taken into custody Sunday after an alleged quadruple homicide of his family members, police and officials said. The ...

  Former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has called on the Federal Government to go back to the drawing board in governing the masses. Shekarau, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the recent #EndBadGovernance protest was ...