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Parents of the 27 abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, have commended Niger state government for securing their release, along with 15 others. Gunmen on 17 February abducted the students, three staff and 12 family members. They were released ...

Hundreds of coffins and two chapels fell into the sea after a landslide caused a portion of a cliffside cemetery in northwestern Italy to collapse earlier this week.   Workers captured footage of the walls of the traditional Italian cemetery ...

The Department of State Services, DSS, has broken the silence on purported attempt to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Ighoho on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The DSS, in a statement said it never attempted to arrest Igboho at any time, saying the report ...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Friday, called for the arrest of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, for saying journalists are criminals for calling bandits criminals. The union expressed reservation on Gumi’s remarks during an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday ...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine, has reacted to the fresh abduction of Nigerian school girls. Recall over 300 students in the early hours of friday were abducted from their school hostels in Zamfara. Bobi while reacting to the abduction says ...

Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the Vice President of Nigeria, has disagreed with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to ban cryptocurrencies. Osinbajo on Friday, Feb 26, 2021, called for a regulation of the industry instead of an outright ban. Osinbajo said ...

Some armed robbers have attacked the residence of the acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Akin Oke. Daily Post gathered that the residence of the acting Chairman located at Oluyole area was attacked on Friday. The armed ...

The Apapa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted 554 cartons of tramadol and 989 cartons of unwholesome pharmaceutical products concealed in ceramic tiles at Lagos port. The Duty Paid Value (DPV) of the drugs, according to the ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested the Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Oludare Kadiri. Kadiri was said to have been arrested on Friday over an alleged attack on some politicians in his constituency, Oru-Ijebu, ...

Foremost Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, on February 26, 2021, criticized the Nigerian President, President Muhammadu Buhari over his reactions to insecurity in the country. Yesufu while speaking in an interview ...

The Department of State Services has arrested Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a social media aide to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, barely hours after he criticised President,  Muhammadu Buhari. Yakasai had in a series of tweets on Friday in reaction ...

The kidnapped students and staff of Government Science College Kagara have finally regained freedom from the armed bandits in Niger State. A top security source involved in the counter-kidnapping operation in the State told The Punch. The boarding students were ...

Dangote Group of Companies has paid N500,000 to each family of the eight students killed on Jan. 23 when one of its trucks lost control at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State. The Students’ Union Government of the university ...

The Federal Government has announced the reopening of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State.   Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing announced the reopening on Saturday. In a tweet, Fashola said the bridge reopened from midday of Saturday. ...

The Commissioner of Police in Zamfara, Abutu Yaro, has assured that the over 300 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe early Friday morning by yet to be identified gunmen will be rescued safely. “l can assure you ...

Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has told the Federal Government to channel its energy towards arresting Boko Haram leader, Ibrahim Shekau and Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who has been holding meetings with bandits. He was reacting ...

The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry has said he stepped back from the royal family last year because the British press was “destroying” his mental health. Prince Harry said this in an interview during “The Late Late Show” while discussing ...

There was panic in Imo state on Thursday night as hoodlums set the Aboh Mbaise Divisional Police Headquarters ablaze. The Nation gathered policemen on duty fled as the hoodlums who were mobile carried out the arson on the facility. On ...

Attempt by a joint team of soldiers, Department of State Services, DSS and policemen to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho was today resisted by youths. The joint team laid ambush for Igboho, but his youthful supporters resisted the move. Igboho ...

Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, spokesperson of Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed Nigerians in the area of security. Tanko-Yakasai was reacting to the abduction of students from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata-Mafara local government ...

The Zamfara State Government has confirmed the abduction of female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of the state. The confirmation was made by the Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar ...

Ahead of the nation’s moves to install the controversial 5G network, the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) has stated that Nigeria would risk a security threat, if the network was deployed wrongly in view of its sophistication. The ...

A Nigerian, Julia Oparah, has been named the provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco (USF) in the United States. Mrs Oparah is currently the provost and dean of the faculty of Ethnic Studies ...

Travelers were this morning stranded as Ghanaian airport workers began strike this morning. Travelers who have to fly via the International airport of the country, the Kotoka International Airport are seen stranded and wandering as workers at the airport began ...

Scores of travellers were abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Thursday along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway. A source told The Punch in Maiduguri that the insurgents ambushed commercial vehicles plying the highway on Thursday afternoon and abducted many passengers. One of ...