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The mother of three siblings, all undergraduates of the Adekunle Ajasin University, were among those crushed to death by a Dangote truck in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, on Saturday, died immediately she learned of her children’s death. Two of them ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed the State Government’s plan on Coronavirus vaccine rollout and the effort to bolster mass vaccination of residents in the State. Sanwo-Olu disclosed, he is aiming to achieve 60 per cent vaccine rollout ...

Dino Melaye has dedicated a track to Sunday Igbowo, with the Yoruba leader becoming the latest person Melaye will sing for. In the song released on his Instagram page as usual, Melaye praised him saying  he is a true son ...

Twitter users have tagged policemen in Lagos in a video shared on twitter, which saw beggars knocking on motorists’ cars windows begging for alms. Damilare Asiri, a popular comedian had raised the topic saying the way beggars now beg in ...

The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Marwa (retd.), has ordered the state commanders of the agency to mop up illicit drugs across the country. He also hinted that the agency would seek government’s approval ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has lost the money laundering case against Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, a lawyer to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.   Uyiekpen, a senior lawyer in the firm of Africa Law Practices (ALP), and his brother, ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a probe of the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, for allegedly sleeping with the wife of Pastor Mike Davids, threatening his life and denying him access to ...

A court in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Monday discharged four out of six protesters arrested in November for demonstrating outside the National Assembly. Last year, Africa’s most populous country was swept by weeks of widespread protests sparked by anger over ...

Lagos police command, on Monday, confirmed that there was a fire incident at Agboju Market in Festac. According to the police, the fire started at about 0230 hrs. A statement signed by CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said: “The command contacted the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Monday said although the country is facing security issues, the security situation is better than it was during the 2015 government. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this claim while speaking at a ...

Deji Adeyanju, has called out Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President for abandoning Nigeria for Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. According to Adeyanju, Atiku, who contested the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ...

                      Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended three men for beating a 23-year-old man, Samuel Ajibade, to death over an alleged phone theft. The suspects narrowly escaped ...

A man, David Omoruyi, has been arrested by policemen attached to the Area ‘E’ Command of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly having in his possession a fake police identity card and 30kg of weeds suspected to be Indian ...

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Sunday on Twitter that he had tested positive for the Coronavirus. Obrador added that his symptoms were light and that he was receiving medical treatment. Mexico is in the grip of a ...

The Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs Bridget Esene, has been kidnapped by suspected gunmen in Benin on Sunday. It was gathered that Esene was kidnapped at Ikhueniro near Benin City. The ...

  Diego Maradona’s personal doctor did forge the football star’s signature to get copies of his medical records, prosecutors have confirmed. Leopoldo Luque was nailed by handwriting experts called in to examine documents seized in a raid on his home ...

                The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) said it has forwarded a petition to the Nigerian High Commission in South Africa, seeking investigation into the killing of a Nigerian, Adedayo Abudu. Abudu was ...

  Suspected kidnappers have abducted seven children from the Rachael’s Orphanage Home, Abaji Area Council, Abuja. The gunmen also abducted a security guard identified as Joseph Mathew, including two housewives; Rukaiyyat Salihu, and Suwaiba Momoh, during the attack on Saturday. ...

Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State on Sunday recounted their ordeals in the hands of Fulani herdsmen. The community leaders,  who spoke during a visit of the state government delegation to the town, stated that they ...

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the world’s busiest airport with 43.768 million passengers in 2020, the airport said on Monday, the first time for a Chinese airport to reach this ranking. The data broke the record of the Atlanta International ...

Attahiru Jega, erstwhile chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, has excoriated the Buhari administration over its perceived mediocrity and laziness in handling critical national issues. Reeling out the scorecard of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Jega, a professor of political science, ...

The killer of soldier Lee Rigby is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus while serving his sentence at Broadmoor, according to reports. Michael Adebowale, 29, has reportedly been taken from the high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, to a ...

Former Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki has expressed his disappointment over silence from major stakeholders on the recent killings and criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen in the Southwest. The former governor also called on political leaders to rise to quell ...

Nigerians on social media have reacted to a souvenir shared online from a wedding believed to have taken place between an elderly grandfather and a young girl.The wedding allegedly took place in the Northern part of the country. Many said ...

  Prof. Johnson Fatokun, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Anchor University, Lagos, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of his abductors. The professor was released last week after spending three days in kidnappers’ den, and according to him, he together ...