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A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital has sentenced Assistant Commissioner of Police, Okubo Aboye to life imprisonment. The Police ACP was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside his mechanic, Niyi Ibrahim Afolabi who sold a stolen vehicle from ...

The UK could face a gonorrhoea outbreak once lockdown comes to an end, as high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) return, medics have claimed. Before the pandemic, Britain was experiencing the worst rates of STDs since the Second World ...

The Ministry of Finance, on Monday, released N10 billion to support domestic vaccines production to tackle Covid-19 pandemic in the Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made this known at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) Covid-19 briefing on ...

The Chief of Staff of the Biafra Nations League, BNL, and leader of Displaced Bakassi Peninsula Youths, Mr Linus Essien, has been arrested in Ikang-Cameroon border area by Nigerian soldiers. This was disclosed in a statement by the National Leader ...

The travails of Aisha Alkali Wakili alias Mama Boko Haram are yet over as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Maiduguri Zonal Office, have slammed fresh fraud charges against her. Mama Boko Haram was Monday arraigned before Justice Aisha ...

This is too sad. The FUTA Deputy Registrar attacked by gunmen on Ilesa-Akure highway is dead The management of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) confirmed the killing of its Deputy Registrar, Dr Amos Arijesuyo. Dr. Arijesuyo, before his ...

A Nigerian consultant anaesthetist Adekunle Okunuga based in the United Kingdom has been reinstated following his suspension from work for beating his son. According to Daily Mail UK report, Okunuga blamed his cultural upbringing in Nigeria for the act, because ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will spend the whooping sum of N3.4 billion on feeding and travel expenses in 2021. While Mr Buhari approved about N2.6 billion of the amount for his office, about N873 million ...

The Federal Government has asked schools to stop requesting for Covid–19 test results from returning students before they are admitted.   The government, in a short statement issued on Monday by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja has intercepted 21.9kg of cocaine. This is contained in a statement signed by the NDLEA airport Commander, Mr Kabir Tsakuwa on Monday in Abuja. The statement signed ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has asked the Federal Government to put an end to the abduction and killing of religious leaders by bandits in the country.   CAN’s Vice Chairman (Northern region), Rev. John Hayab, made the call ...

Ekiti State Government has said efforts were on to procure sophisticated drones and unmanned aerial vehicles as part of its efforts to boost surveillance, expose criminal hideouts and combat insecurity in the state. Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Mr. ...

Schools in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, on Monday turned back their students who were not wearing face masks. The Punch Correspondent observed that though the students’ population was low on the first day of resumption of schools in the state, ...

The de facto chief of South Korea’s Samsung business empire was convicted Monday over a huge corruption scandal and jailed for two and a half years, in a ruling that deprives the tech giant of its top decision-maker. Lee Jae-yong, ...

                An Anambra based Prophet, Onyeze Jesus, has been captured performing rituals on some young men in a river.   In the viral video which has now gone the prophet was seen spraying money ...

  The Federal Government on Sunday insisted that the deadlines given for the registration of all Subscriber Identification Modules with valid National Identity Numbers were still in force. It also declared that the NIN was mandatory for diplomats who reside ...

The Dangote Group has completed Nigeria’s longest rigid pavement in Kogi State. It is the first of its kind, according to top engineers. The 43-kilometre Obajana-Kabba road, built by Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), has been described by motorists as the ...

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said that the state government would deploy the over 800 Police constabulary personnel across the state to enforce strict compliance with the state’s regulations to check the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The ...

A deputy registrar in the Federal University of Technology,  Akure, Ondo State, Dr Amos Arijesuyo, has been reportedly shot by gunmen in the Iwaraja end of the Ilesa- Akure Expressway in Osun State. Arijesuyo, who worked at the Guildance and ...

Tragedy struck in Arue-Uromi, Esan-North East Local Government Area of Edo State on Friday, January 16, when six children were crushed to death by a Mercedes Benz car bearing a learner driver sign.   It was gathered that the children, ...

Unidentified gunmen killed two female judges from Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on Sunday morning, police said, adding to a wave of assassinations in Kabul and other cities while government and Taliban representatives have been holding peace talks in Qatar.   The ...

Prince William was cornered by a snarling police dog on the Sandringham estate, it has been revealed.   The Royal was enjoying a late night walk when the attack dog mistook him for an intruder. William escaped unharmed by standing ...

There was an uproar in Victoria Island area of Lagos weekend as Military personnel allegedly hired by the driver of a vehicle with covered number plate attempted to shoot operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in a bid to ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,444 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 110,387.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. “1444 new cases ...

                  A Chinese scientist who vanished after she was dubbed ‘the world’s first Covid patient’ is still missing despite a year-long manhunt amid fears of a state cover-up. Huang Yanling was named ...