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A final year student of the Federal University Dutsinma, FUDMA, Yusuf Abbas, has died while swimming at Zobe dam, in Dutsin-ma Local Government Area of Katsina State.   Abbas, a student of Geography Department had gone to the Dam along ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 520 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 146,184.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. Nigeria also recorded ...

A medical practitioner, Dr. Kema Onu, says the proper and continuous use of condoms is the only realistic measure to end HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) by 2030. Mr. Onu, who leads the Abuja chapter of AIDS Healthcare Foundation ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Federal Government against further increase in fuel price in the country. PDP said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Saturday. Mr Ologbondiyan said Nigerians ...

A gang of unidentified gunmen said to be terrorising Ughelli and environs in the past few weeks struck again yesterday at a church in the town killing a police inspector and taking away his rifle. The incident happened at the ...

Three days after the passing of Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the late first Civilian Governor of Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has received two notes left for him by Jakande before his death. Sanwo-Olu led a delegation of top government functionaries ...

The abducted reporter with NTA Port Harcourt, Chidiebele Julian Onyia, has regained her freedom after spending five days in captivity. The nursing mother was said to have been released by her abductors in the early hours of Sunday February 14. ...

The Lekki Estates Residents and Stakeholders Association (LERSA) has urged the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) on the provision of quicker, more efficient, and safer tollgate services, following its plans to resume operations. Olorogun James Emadoye, the LERSA President, made the ...

Twenty suspected internet fraudsters, also known as Yahoo Yahoo boys have been arrested in Owerri, capital of Imo by EFCC operatives from Port Harcourt. They were arrested on Friday, February 12, 2021 at New Owerri, Eminike Estate, Norble Abode, Owerri, ...

“If you kill a herder, don’t go and sleep, we will revisit you,” National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhassan Saleh has said. He said people attack herders, and that in one way or the other, herders have found ...

A lady took to the micro blogging platform, Twitter to reveal how a police officer attempted  to arrest  her and her friends for discussing police brutality at the Lekki tollgate protest.The lady identified as Stargious on twitter was not aware ...

Abdulrosheed Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwoland, has promised to reintegrate repentant herdsmen in the South-west  into the town. Oluwo, in a statement on Saturday by his media aide, Alli Ibrahim, described the peace and mutual understanding between the Yoruba and ...

Jasmine Chidimma Uwajumogu, the 24-year old daughter of late Imo Senator, Benjamin Uwajumogu is dead. She died on February 1, 2021, and was buried on Friday, February 12, at Victoria Garden Cemetery, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. Her sister Ugonna Victoria Uwajumogu broke ...

An aide to President Buhari, Lauretta Onochie has commended the Nigeria Police Force over the way its operatives conducted themselves during the #OccupyLekkiTollGate protest in Lagos on Saturday. Onochie gave kudos to the Force, saying nobody was hurt during the ...

A Lagos mobile court in Yaba has granted bail to 40 protesters who took part in a campaign to block reopening of Lekki Toll Gate. A magistrate, granted the protesters, including entertainer Debo Macaroni, N100,000 bail after taking their no-guilty ...

Fortune finally smiled at Dr. Isa Akinbode as he was rewarded with a sum of N13.9 million and a brand new car for serving voluntarily at Monguno after he retired in 2016.. The retired doctor was presented the cheque by ...

A former governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Saturday revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is the former governor’s first public appearance since 2019. Since handing over to Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the governor of Lagos ...

Hundreds of Lagos party goers were sent out as they revelled on Saturday. Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, and scores of operatives stormed FM Mogame Event Center at Joel Ogunnaike Street, Ikeja. CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, Public Relations Officer of the ...

A middle-aged man from Nyangena Village in Kisii South Kenya has been arrested after he conspired with his wife to escape from hospital, leaving behind their newborn child. Jacob Onsare’s wife, Victoria Wambui, had just delivered a son on Thursday, ...

Charly boy, on his Twitter page, joined in condemning the reopening of the toll gate, even as he insisted that Nigerians have right to protest and should not be stopped. His tweet read, “I know these animals have turned Nigeria ...

There was tension in Ogun State as suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded some villages in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State on Friday night. Four persons were said to have been killed, and many, including children sustained varying degrees ...

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ile-Igbon Division, Surulere Local Government Area of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Adepoju Ayodeji, on Friday allegedly shot an operative of Amotekun for arresting Fulani herdsmen who allegedly destroyed a cassava farm. The Amotekun ...

A middle-aged woman from Baraton Location in Kiminini, Trans Nzoia County, Kenya has set her matrimonial house on fire after her husband allegedly married a second wife. Edina Ng’eno set the house alight at 9:30am when her husband, Elijah Nandwa ...

No fewer than 10 protesters have been arrested by security operatives at the Lekki toll gate, one of the coordinators of #OccupyLekkiTollgate has said. Kunle Ajayi told Punch correspondent that the protesters were detained in a black maria and are ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has secured commitment from Dangote company for compensations for the students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, killed during a road mishap. Six students of the university and nine others ...