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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has revealed plans by the Federal Government to begin oil exploration in the northeast. Speaking during a recent interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight in Abuja, which aired on Monday, he said; ...

Mrs Zeenat El-Zakzaky, wife of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has tested negative for COVID-19 virus. The Acting Controller-General, NCoS, Mr John Mrabure, disclosed this ...

Men of Oyo State Security Network Agency known as Amotekun have intercepted a truck loaded with no fewer than 80 men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The men, who ...

A bandit leader, Auwalu Daudawa, and six members of his gang, on Monday, surrendered 20 AK-47 rifles and one RPG to security agencies in Zamfara State. They declared their repentance from banditry at a meeting with Governor Bello Matawalle and ...

A middle-aged man who allegedly confessed to be a serial r.a.p.i.s.t with mystical powers to unlock any door of his victims has been nabbed via community policing in Obrigbene Quarters in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta ...

The Chief Magistrate Court, Kaduna under the supervision of Mr Benjamin Hassan has adjourned the case brought before it against five suspects who were accused of organizing s.e.x party to February 22, 2021 for hearing. When the case came up ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 643 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 140,391. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. Nigeria also recorded six ...

The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Abba Moro, has demanded the immediate release of Elijah Ode, a young barber arrested for allegedly insulting Islam through the haircuts he gave two customers in Kano State.   ...

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode may be on his way back to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) six years after he left for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).He just met with chairman, Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has found six more cases of the B.1.1.7 Covid-19 variant in the country. This brings the total number of people who have tested positive to the variant in Nigeria to 13. ...

Two Christian men were publicly flogged in Monday in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Aceh province for drinking alcohol and gambling, in a rare instance of non-Muslims facing a punishment frequently condemned by rights groups. The caning comes less than two weeks after ...

Following the approval to reopen Lekki Tollgate by Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State government to investigate the October 2020 Lekki shooting incident, many Nigerians have taken to Twitter to protest that those who carried out ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has stopped the leadership of the National Road Transport Workers in the state from resuming collection of dues and revenues on behalf of the government at the motor parks and garages in the state. The ...

The Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps, Retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, has declared that Ibarapaland is safe and free of killers and kidnappers. The Oyo State Government had deployed 200 operatives of the Amotekun in ...

OMG! People joke too much… If only you know you don’t joke with God. Don’t give, but don’t mock, lol. A church usher took to Twitter to share a photo revealing what a church member dropped inside a offering envelope ...

The Federal Government has sealed an Abuja-based laboratory for issuing fake COVID-19 results to international travelers. The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this on Monday at the weekly press briefing of the Presidential Task Force ...

The Nigeria Police Force has said that the tenure extension of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, was not paid for. The Punch reported that the IGP’s tenure was extended by three months by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ...

A former pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries, Mike Davids, who has accused the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, of sleeping with his wife, has said he will expose the truths behind the Stephanie Otobo’s sex scandal.The cse ...

Eleven years old boy, Master Osasu Omoigui who was hit by a stray bullet on his genital during the #EndSARS protest has said he would like to be a medical doctor when he grows up. The primary three pupil of ...

The Federal Government has stated arrangements are ongoing to replace the Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) with the National Identity Numbers (NIN). The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Isa Pantami, who disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a tour ...

A member of the House of Representatives from Abia State, Ossy Prestige, is dead. The late lawmaker, Aba North/South Federal Constituency of Abia State, died after a protracted illness. He was elected on the platform of the All Progressive Grand ...

And more blows for Trump… The cancelling of Donald Trump continues, with the former president being barred from the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and the national board approved a ...

The Deputy Chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas, Oba Francis Alao, who is also the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, has advised herdsmen in the state to obey the anti-open grazing law put in place to regulate animal husbandry ...

  The leader of Fulani herdsmen and Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in Kano State, Zubairu Ibrahim, has disclosed that herdsmen from South West, South East and other parts of the country have indicated interest ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain a possible Ebola outbreak, after a woman died from the virus near the eastern city of Butembo. The woman showed symptoms on 1 February in the town of ...