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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has debunked the trending report that the Republic of Benin was aspiring to be the 37 State of Nigeria. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the denial on Saturday in a statement by ...

Operatives of the Imo state police, Owerri, have arrested, a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha was arrested on Sunday after he unsealed the Royal Palm Estate sealed by the State Government. Imo Government on Friday had sealed ...

Some gunmen believed to be bandits have struck again in Niger State. The bandits were said to have abducted women and children in Gurmana village in the State. Disclosing this, former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani alleged that the bandits ...

Condemnations have trailed the detention of six protesters who held a procession to mark the 120th day that soldiers fired live ammunition at #EndSARS protesters at Lekki tollgate. During the shooting, some protesters reportedly died while others secured varying degrees ...

The pilot of the Nigerian Air Force Intelligence Reconnaissance Aircraft which crashed in Abuja, on Sunday, complained of engine failure barely moments after takeoff. A source at the control tower revealed this to The Punch on the strict condition of ...

Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from poultry to humans. Officials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected following an outbreak there in ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has returned N420,000 cash found at an auto crash site at Akinfosile, along Lagos-Ore expressway, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, to the family of the deceased. Mr Olusegun Aladenika, the Unit Commander ...

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has announced that military aircraft King Air 350 has crashed in Abuja. He disclosed this in a tweet on Sunday, saying the accident appears fatal. He said, “A military aircraft King Air 350 has ...

The Ogun State police command has arrested three suspected criminal herdsmen over “the role they played in the attack of Bamajo village in Ayetoro”, Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State. According to the Ogun Police Public Relations Officer, ...

The Federal Government has insisted that it would not pay any ransom to secure the release of abductees at Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this while speaking on a ...

A new study by reproductive health experts has found that air pollution is associated with increased infertility risk for couples by up to 20 per cent. The researchers say the association might explain the increased infertility rates in polluted areas. ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has disowned a list of ‘prayer points’ against Fulani herders circulated on social media.   In a tweet on Saturday, Adeboye branded the ‘prayer points’ as ‘fake ...

Former Minister of Education, Public Analyst/Senior Economic Advisor, Oby Ezekwesili has condemned the high rate of insecurity in the country whIle accusing the Buhari-led administration of bandits a thriving environment. Ezekwesili said this while condemning the abduction of 27 Kagara ...

Players and officials of Adamawa United FC have been attacked and their driver kidnapped. Sources in Adamawa State said on Saturday morning that the players were attacked at gunpoint on the Benin-Ore expressway. Their phones, money and other valuables were ...

A petitioner before the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings, Mr Sulaiman Badmus on Saturday narrated how three policemen gruesomely murdered eight travellers because of money. He added that the ...

The Kwara State Government on Friday ordered the immediate closure of some grant-aided schools in Ilorin pending the resolution of the controversy surrounding the use of Hijab in the affected schools. The schools, according to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ...

Highlife music legend and veteran producer, Pa Chris Ajilo is dead. The musician died at Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesha on Saturday morning after he was rushed there. Confirming his death are Orlando Julius and Latoya Aduke who are friends ...

Police in Anambra State have arrested two women in Onitsha, who allegedly specialize in abducting children and pounding them in mortars to make charms for politicians.The suspects are one Miss Rejoice Raymond, 39 and Mrs Chidi Nwafor, 80. A viral ...

A twitter user — @eguaba has called out Lagos council officials accusing them of making him pay them money ”illegally” under duress.The man in question also said he didn’t park illegally but was charged and then made him pay using ...

The General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Worldwide), Dr Daniel Olukoya, has won defamation suit against a United Kingdom-based blogger, Maureen Badejo, for libelous publications. Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of an Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta has ...

Armed bandits on Saturday evening launched another attack on Gurmana Ward in Shiroro local government area of Niger state. The Nation learnt that over 15 people are suspected to have drowned in River Kaduna as they tried to escape from ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, had expressed readiness for his country to be part of Nigeria. Onyeama, who stated this shortly after a close door meeting with Beninoise Minister of ...

FoFootage seen by MailOnline reveals the appalling state of Nigerian wet markets which have the potential to cause future disease outbreaks in humans.Myriad animals including pangolins, primates and sea turtles are held — both dead and alive — in confined ...

There are indications that the government might consider releasing some arrested bandits as a part of the bargains to secure the release of 27 pupils and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, in the Rafi Local Government Area of ...

Members of Fright Forwarders Transport Association have barricaded the Port Harcourt International Airport Junction, stopping vehicular movements.   The members of the Association blocked the roads with their containers in protest against an attack on one of their members by ...