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Eze Charles Iroegbu, the traditional ruler of Umuezie community of Nguru Mbaise in Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, has been kidnapped. He was kidnapped with some of his cabinet chiefs. Their three vehicles were abandoned on the road. The ...

Four leaders of gangs of bandits terrorising Katsina State have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the police, along with several arms and ammunition, as well as rustled cows. Parading the repentant bandits at the police headquarters in the state, Police Commissioner, ...

Union Primary School, Afaraukwu located in the Umuahia, Abia State has been closed after “suspected explosive devices” were discovered in the school. The State Commissioner of Information, Jon Kalu revealed this in a statement on Thursday noting that the government ...

The grieving mother of a teenager found dead in a forest lake said her heart “feels as if it has been ripped apart”.Police confirmed on Wednesday night that the body of a man found in a lake in Epping Forest, ...

Unidentified gunmen have abducted Oladunni Odetola, a medical doctor, and Mrs. Bamgbose, a nurse, while travelling on Abeokuta-Imeko road, Ogun state. Odetola heads the General Hospital in Imeko, headquarters of Imeko-Afon LGA. The doctor and nurse were whisked away on ...

The Federal Government on Thursday received one of the artefacts stolen from Nigeria and intercepted in Mexico. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, while receiving the artefact from the Chargé d’Affaires of the Nigerian Mission in Mexico, Yakubu Dadu, stated ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated he is taking “a short rest” in London, United Kingdom. According to a statement on Thursday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President disclosed this in a letter he ...

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, described the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, as an unusual kind of First Lady who has introduced many firsts in her interaction with citizens. He spoke during the presentation of the ...

                The police in Ogun State have arrested a 50-year-old man, Tayo Shobowale, who is in charge of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church Oke-Igbala Ifo town of the state for having unlawful carnal ...

                  A beautiful final year student of the University of Port Harcourt has been confirmed dead. The lady whose name was simply given as Gloria died a few days after writing her ...

The London Metropolitan Police has confirmed that the body found in a lake in Essex was that of a 19 year-old Nigerian student, Richard Okorogheye. The teenager went missing from his home in Ladbroke Grove on Monday, 22 March. Richard’s ...

  Gunmen suspected to be terrorising waterways in Ese-Odo local government area have razed 15 houses in a midnight attack on Asere riverine community. The gunmen were said to have attacked the community for allegedly tipping off security agencies about ...

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday said the concerns by some individuals that the constitution did not recognise the role of First Lady had been “forever laid to rest” by the performance ...

Fear continues to pervade the atmosphere in Imo State as gunmen in the early hours of Thursday attacked the Mbieri Divisional Police Headquarters situated in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state. Punch correspondent gathered from an indigene of ...

Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono, the 74 year-old minister of agriculture has reportedly married an 18 year-old lady from Kaduna. The secret wedding happened on Saturday in Jere town of Kaduna State, with few people as witnesses, reported Daily Nigerian. The ...

Prince William ‘auditioned’ Kate Middleton before asking her to marry him, a royal expert has claimed. The Duke reportedly wanted to make sure she’d be a right fit for the Royal Family and be prepared for the highs and lows ...

A pregnant mother of eight children, identified simply as Dada, has been arrested for stabbing her husband, Jonathan, to death in the Otomi community, Uwheru, in the Ughelli Local Government Area of the Delta State. It was gathered that the ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied it tortured Sa’idu Afaka, the President’s official driver to death. Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, National Headquarters, Dr Peter Afunanya, said this in a statement late Wednesday evening. It reads: ...

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Kazeem Olanrewaju, who absconded with a Toyota VENZA car with registration number APP 775 GB given to him to wash. The suspect, according to the command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested, ...

  Senior Pastor of Trinity Church, Ituah Ighodalo has bluntly said it’s only foolish Christians who will decline to take the Covid-19 vaccine premised on faith. The clergyman dropped the highly informative albeit controversial statement during an interview on Arise ...

Tiger Woods was driving at nearly double the 45 mph speed limit when he crashed in California in February, Los Angeles County’s sheriff has said. Woods’s SUV was travelling at up to 87 miles (140 kilometers) an hour before it ...

The federal government says it is preparing to publish names and photos of fleeing Owerri prison inmates in a frantic effort to recapture them, Peoples Gazette learnt. “As I speak with you, they (information about fleeing inmates) are being processed. ...

The University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan on Wednesday took delivery of triplets of the first In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)  carried out in the hospital. This is contained in a statement made available to journalists by the UCH spokesperson, Toye Akinrinlola. ...

The bureau of world football governing body, the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has suspended Chad and Pakistan from international football over government and third-party interference respectively. FIFA disclosed its decision to ban the Chadian Football Association and the ...

The Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Akure on Thursday said no fewer than four branches of the church had been seal up following allegation of doctrinal misconduct. The sanctioned branches of the church were alleged to be involved in fetish ...