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Governor Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, inaugurated the Board of the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency where the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, will serve as vice chairman. El-Rufai, while inaugurating the board, charged the agency to redouble its efforts in ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, set aside its order of interim forfeiture on the properties of Senator Olubukola Saraki, located on 17 and 17A MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State. The judgment came after counsel for the ...

President Buhari has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders. He directed the service to ensure that criminals did not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetrate their criminality. According ...

The Shepherd Superintendent of the Household of God Church, Rev. Chris Okotie, has described the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria as a parochial religious group. Okotie said this while reacting to the election of the PFN in which Bishop Wale Oke ...

A 35-year-old man, Kingsley Igwe, of Nise, in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has allegedly killed his wife, Onyinye. Igwe allegedly killed his wife after inflicting injuries on her with a kitchen knife. A source said ...

Renowned northern Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said if government could pardon coup plotters that committed treasonable felony, there was nothing wrong extending the same gesture to bandits. The Islamic cleric, while responding to the Christian Association of Nigeria in ...

The President of Eko Club, Alhaji Tajudeen Jaye-Agoro, has said the police have refused to vacate the premises of the club in Surulere, Lagos despite a February 25 court order. Jaye-Agoro, in a statement yesterday, urged the Lagos State Police ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 708 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 157,671. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 4th of ...

A Nigerian drug baron, Ekwegbalu James Nzube, 45, has been sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling drugs into the country. Nzube was sentenced to death by a court in the southern Tay Ninh Province on Tuesday for trafficking nearly ...

Nura, son of Max Air chairman Dahiru Mangal, is dead.   He died while riding his power bike along Dutsimma road, Katsina State. The crash occured close to Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic. Nura was confirmed dead at the Katsina General ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will commission the 1.4km Pen Cinema Bridge, Agege on Friday, 5 March 2021. The Agege Pen Cinema Flyover project started in 2017 under the last administration of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. It was completed by ...

The police have re-arraigned a female medical doctor, Bolanle Aseyan, before a Federal High Court for a r.a.pe allegation against popular Twitter influencer, Olufunmilayo Ogunsanya. Ms. Aseyan faces a five-count charge bordering on false publication on Twitter where she tagged ...

The United Nations has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime on its handling of the investigation regarding the abducted Kankara schoolboys. The schoolboys were kidnapped in Katsina, Mr. Buhari’s home state. UN experts said the purported investigation was poor. The UN ...

Police have seized thousands of counterfeit coronavirus vaccines in South Africa and China and have made more than 80 arrests after a criminal network selling fake jabs was uncovered, Interpol said on Wednesday. In South Africa, police officers found 400 ...

A teenager has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she was in labour. While pregnant Siobhan Buchanan, then 17, from Perth Scotland, was still a trim size six, had no bump, and had been using condoms when ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested four suspects over possession of N5.7 million counterfeit notes in Wuye District. In a statement, the command’s spokesperson, ASP Maryam Yusuf, gave the names of the suspects as Kamal Haruna, Frank ...

  On Thursday, Facebook-owned popular messaging app WhatsApp has officially rolled out voice and video call support for its desktop app. In a tweet today, WhatsApp announced end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls for its desktop app version and also shared a link ...

A soldier with the Nigerian army school of armour in Bauchi has killed himself. The soldier was said to be one of those newly recruited in 2020, and his first posting had been the army’s school of armour in Bauchi. ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded Ruwan Tofa village in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, abducting over 70 people, including nursing mothers and children. SaharaReporters gathered that the armed men riding motorcycles, attacked the village on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) will receive their COVID-19 vaccination on Saturday, a day after its roll out in the country on Friday. This was disclosed to State House Correspondents on Thursday during the regular presidential ...

The ancient tradition in Etinan council area of Akwa Ibom state which denied female children the right to inherit their father’s properties has been nullified. A High Court presided by Justice Pius Idiong quashed the practice yesterday while delivering judgment ...

South Korea’s first transgender soldier, who was forcibly ousted from the military after she underwent gender assignment surgery, has been found dead at her home. Emergency services found Byun Hee-soo, 23, in her home in the central city of Cheongju ...

The Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Oludare Kadiri has been impeached. A five-member committee set up by the House impeached Hon. Kadiri over an alleged public disturbance which he was found guilty. Hon Kadiri was on ...

Northern Nigeria Cattle and foodstuff traders have agreed to lift food embargo on southern Nigeria, following the intervention of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and a former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode. The traders, grouped as Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff ...

The Federal Government has said that Nigerians will not be mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora disclosed while speaking on Arise Tv, that although the government is capable of vaccinating everyone, no ...