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Rhoda Agboje, a 300-level university student has been arrested in Abuja for selling drugged cookies to schoolchildren and other members of the public. Her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo was also arrested by the FCT Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, ...

Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, his ...

Days after actress, Funke Akindele-Bello acquired a Lexus SUV.  Her husband,  JJC Skillz has also acquired a Prado SUV   Funke shared a video of him riding the SUV on her Instastory.   We say big congrats to them!

Members of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo state wing have refuted the claim that they had placed their weight behind the 2023 governorship ambition of Adebayo Adelabu. In a statement today by ALGON Oyo state Chairman, ...

The Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has announced the arrival of a contingent of 144 policemen and women from Nigeria to boost stabilisation efforts. The officers, including women, quietly departed Nigeria at the weekend. They have Samuel Ita as ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the death of three of its staff in a road accident in Borno. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, made the confirmation in a ...

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will not increase the ex-depot price of Premium Motor spirit also known as petrol in May. The Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari, made this known at the end of a ...

A 68 year-old monk Thammakorn Wangpreech in Thailand has chopped off his own head using a guillotine. He regarded his suicide as an offering to Buddha, hoping he would be reincarnated as a ‘higher spiritual being’. Thammakorn had reportedly been ...

A Nigerian property company, Persianas has been revealed as the buyer of Shoprite’s local business in Nigeria. Shoprite, with more than 2,300 stores across Africa, is awaiting regulatory approval on the sale of its Nigerian supermarket operation, though no further ...

The Ondo State Security Network Agency, the Amotekun Corps have arrested over 250 cows following a distress call and petitions by farmers in Ipogun, Ilara, Owena Dam axis in Ifedore Local Government Area of the State. The State Commander of ...

A man this afternoon was spotted on a mast in Opebi, Ikeja today sitting ion top of a mast. Onlookers watched in shock as the man sat down up there. In an update, he was later persuaded to come down ...

No fewer than eight repentant Niger Delta militants and kidnappers undergoing rehabilitation in the Omega Power Ministries (OPM) rehabilitation centre, are now pastors in the church, General Overseer, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has said. Chinyere, who is the founder of the ...

A suspected Nigerian scammer, Henry Chukwudi Opara, has been arrested in India over alleged Rs 18.50 lakh (₦9,397,082.50) gift scam. He was arrested by the Rachakonda Cybercrime Police in Hyderabad, India. Opara was said to have come to India on ...

At least, four persons died while 44 others sustained injuries in 34 road crashes across Ogun State between March 28 and April 11, 2021, being the Easter period. The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) explained that the ...

The family of the Obadu of Ilemeso Ekiti in the Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Oba David Oyewumi, and the people of the community are anxious to secure the release of the monarch from the den of kidnappers, ...

The Zonal Police Headquarters, Zone13, Ukpo, Anambra State, was razed in the early hours of Monday. It was gathered that about 20 gunmen stormed the police headquarters and razed some offices and scores of vehicles during the attack. A police ...

Another British-Nigerian, Toby Olokodana has been declared missing in London by the Metropolitan Police in Newham. The missing man is 28 years old. He studied at Newham College and Cumberland Sports College, according to his bio on Facebook. In a ...

Weeks after Yinka Odumakin’s death, PDP chiefs have decided to visit his widow.The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan and Treasurer, Hon Aribisala Adewale paid a condolence visit to his widow at the ...

Operatives of the Ekeki division of the Bayelsa State Police Command, have arrested a 35-year-old woman for inflicting life-threatening injuries with a razor blade on her 13-year-old daughter, Ebimi Tokoye over alleged theft of N1,500. The accused mother, Priye Richman, ...

A Nigerian national and his Indian accomplice, who cheated a city-based techie to the tune of Rs 18.50 lakh under the pretext of sending him a gift parcel from London, have been arrested by the Rachakonda police, New Indian Express ...

The Dean of Students, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo state was on Sunday found dead in his office after he reportedly went to the office and did not return. A source told Vanguard that the wife of deceased raised the ...

There was confusion in Owakande 2 in the Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State following the disappearance of the body of a lawyer, Mr Egbara Owan, which was scheduled for interment at the weekend. According to Vanguard, the ...

Though he endorsed the Western Nigeria Security Network (Operation Amotekun), Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the regional security outfit is useless to Lagosians. Amotekun was established on January 9, 2020, by the six South-West states. All except Lagos had inaugurated the ...

The Federal Government through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has grounded a private chopper belonging to Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at the Lagos Airport, investigations by Sunday Punch, has revealed.   It was learnt ...

Nigerians on social media have insisted that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, should be removed over some controversial comments he made in the past in support of global terrorist groups, Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Though the minister ...