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A female secondary school teacher at Community High School (Jnr), in Ilara-Yewa, in Imeko Afon Local Government Area of the state, identified as Mrs Akinbola Olusola Abosede, has been kidnapped. It was gathered that Akinbola left for Ilara-Yewa, on Sunday, ...

The Lagos State Government has released list of 88 health facilities approved to provide vaccination across the 20 Local Government Areas. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said vaccination can only be obtained at any of the 88 accredited facilities ...

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, ordered that alleged notorious Fulani warlord in Ibarapaland, Abdullahi Wakili, 70, be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Wakili alongside his sons Abu, 45; and Samaila, ...

The two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ogun State, kidnapped on Sunday have been rescued by the Ogun State Police Command. The students are Precious Adeyemo and Abiola Oyefule and were kidnapped in Ayetoro area of Ogun ...

About 8,000 Nigerians have received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, has said. Mr Shuaib while speaking at the weekly briefing of the Presidential ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) today said that bank customers are to begin paying N6.98 kobo per Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) transactions commencing today. The price replaced the former per session billing structure ...

A Nigerian woman, Idy Williams has welcomed a set of twins with her husband after ten years of marriage.  Facebook user, Ifeoma Uchenna shared the news on Facebook writing; “Indeed what God cannot do doesn’t exist. After 10 years of ...

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged housewife, Bisola Awodele, for allegedly killing and burying her newborn baby. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday, ...

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the nation’s education following the abductions of schoolchildren in parts of the country. Atiku, in a statement he personally signed and issued ...

Gunmen have abducted two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State. The victims Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola were reportedly abducted on Sunday night at OOU Campus in Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of the state. ...

Here are beautiful photos of female soldiers deployed to Abuja-Kaduna highway doing their jobs.The soldiers are pictured here on what looks like a patrol. Two more photos below…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Director-General, Nigerian Meteorological Organization (NiMet), Prof. Sani Mashi. No reason was given for the action but there are allegations of fraud leveled against the former NiMet DG. Mashi’s tenure is supposed to expire in January ...

No time! Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu today approved a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the state. Sanwo-Olu approved the jail term as he signed the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful Societies and Cultism 2021 into Law at ...

The Federal Government has described the reported formation of Biafra Customary Government by Asari Dokubo as a “theatre of the absurd by a joker seeking attention’’. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the development in Lagos on Monday, ...

Donald Trump hasn’t spoken publicly about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah because he doesn’t want to be ‘canceled’ like Piers Morgan, his former aide claims. Trump’s former senior adviser Jason Miller lifted the lid on his ...

The wife of a policeman based at the Gigiri Police Station, Nairobi has committed suicide while holding their seven-month-old baby. Police constable Mwela Chebai said that he returned to his house to find his wife hanging from their living room ...

Following continuous refusal of Emirate airlines to fly out passengers from Nigeria, the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 on Monday announced it will ban it from inbound and outbound flight. The ban is expected to take effect from midnight on ...

Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth II as its Head of State by November, according to BBC. The process of removing the Queen would be completed on November 21 when Barbados marks its 55th independence anniversary. “The time has come to ...

It was shout of thanksgiving today when a 40-feet container fell off a trailer and landed on several cars at barracks bus stop, Lagos.People at the scene were full of thanks as no life was lost and no injuries recorded. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the State House in Abuja. The WTO Chief Executive Officer, who assumed office on March 1, 2021, is visiting Nigeria ...

Mr. Louis Okoroma, a media aide to former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, has died, Paul Ibe the head of the Media Office said. Ibe said Okoroma died two months after the death of his wife. “The death of Mr. Okoroma comes ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday in a Federal High Court, played an audio recording in the trial of a former senator, Shehu Sani, charged with receiving 25, 000 dollar bribe. At the resumed hearing, the EFCC ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has told Nigerians to blame President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime if the union decides to resume its suspended strike. Ayo Akinwole, ASUU Chairman of the University of Ibadan branch, in a statement on Sunday revealed ...

A former militant in the Niger Delta, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo appeared to have hijacked the Biafra Republic struggle from its putative leader Nnamdi Kanu. In a surprise announcement on Sunday, that raised quite many eyebrows, Asari declared himself leader of the ...

Meghan Markle blogged about Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding years before claiming she didn’t know much about the royal family in her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey adding that she hadn’t researched her future husband. The American former actress ...