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  The watchman of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State was involved in the abduction of the schoolgirls on February 26. This is according to the state governor, Bello Matawalle, who revealed this on Wednesday during an interview on ...

A mob at Onimalu on Koloba Road, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos State, on Wednesday morning tied a teenager to an electric pole for allegedly stealing his mother’s cooking stand. The teenager, identified simply as Sunkanmi, allegedly stole the local cooking stand ...

#NoWaterInEnugu is currently trending on twitter as Enugu twitter users say there’s shortage of water at the moment because of dry season. While some say it’s an everyday thing and not because of the season. As expected other users from ...

For failure to pay examination fees of its students National Examination Council, NECO, has withheld results of the over 30,000 students of Niger State. Following this development, affected students risk forfeiting their admissions into higher institutions for one or more ...

The former governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday said that the  plan to recall him would fail completely. Okorocha through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, spoke in Owerri as he ...

The Nigerian Army has declared 12 officers and 86 soldiers missing in the wake of last week’s Boko Haram attacks on Marte and Dikwa local government areas of Borno State. A signal dated March 1, 2021 from Operation Lafiya Dole ...

Nura, son of famous business magnate, Dahiru Mangal, has died in a road crash.  It was gathered that Nura was involved in the accident while riding his power bike along Dutsimma road, Katsina. The incident reportedly happened not too far ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 464 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 156,963. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 3rd of ...

Pastor Bulus Yakuru of the Church of the Brethren (EYN) has been freed by Boko Haram. He is with the Department of State Services (DSS). It was gathered that the agency and the Kalthum Foundation for Peace negotiated his release. ...

Buckingham Palace said it was “very concerned” about reports in the Times newspaper on Wednesday that assistants working for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had been bullied by her. The report comes days before the broadcast of an interview that ...

A cleric, Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing a charge for the r3pe of his member’s teen daughter has allegedly sold his church building and fled to an unknown place to establish another ...

Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47. Shehu, who disclosed this in an interview with the BBC, said the president directed a clampdown on bandits who have refused ...

Workers and visitors to the Ogun Government Secretariat’s Complex at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta are now confronted with filthy sight of faeces and the accompanying stinking odour as a result of the collapse of the sewage system of the  Ministry of Environment. ...

The Ekiti State Police Command has banned the use of covered number plates, blaring of sirens, and use of revolving lights by unauthorised persons. The State Police Commissioner Tunde Mobayo who made the announcement in a statement described the illegal ...

A Nigerian man has reportedly died a day after his wedding.The man is identified as Ango Adamu and he got married to his heartthrob on Friday, February 26 in Matumbi, Niger State, however, he didn’t live to enjoy his marriage ...

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu on Wednesday disclosed that the #EndSARS protesters who stormed his palace last year stole his $2 million and N17 million. He spoke at the Glover Hall Memorial Commissioning, Lagos on Wednesday. Akiolu told the people ...

Bishop Francis Wale-Oke, the Presiding Bishop, Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Ibadan, has been elected as the new National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) for a four-year tenure. A statement by Kayode Oladeji, media aide to Mr. ...

A loving mother who struggled with lockdown took her own life as she was haunted by flashbacks of a gang r*pe. Nicola McIntyre, 32, had suffered from mental health issues since she was a child, but an inquest heard how ...

Babcock University has reacted to a now-viral video which showed one of its 100-level students being assaulted by a colleague over slippers. In a statement on Wednesday by Joshua Suleiman, Babcock’s marketing and communications director, the institution stated it has ...

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said the state will not provide land for ranching as it believes it is a private business. Makinde said this to clarify a tweet in which he revealed that Oyo State will ...

Gun wielding men suspected to be bandits have reportedly kidnapped a sister in law and brother to Bashir Gorau, Commissioner for Youth and Sport Development in Sokoto.The incident occurred in Gorau town during the wee hours of Wednesday, Mr. Gorau ...

The nation’s 36 Governors are to meet on Thursday to strategise on the handling and distribution of the coronavirus vaccines just received in the country. According to a statement by the spokesman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, ...

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 13 suspected Internet fraudsters for conspiracy, possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money under false pretence. Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said ...

A court in China has agreed with a textbook’s description of homosexuality as a mental disorder, upholding a ruling by a lower court. The decision of the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern province of Jiangsu was called “random ...