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Some landlords and tenants of Dejuwogbo community, Oke-Ota Ona, Ikorodu, have fled their homes following a threat notice pasted in the neigbourhood by gunmen suspected to be robbers. Those who have not temporarily relocated are apprehensive about their safety as ...

Tragedy struck on Friday evening in Ondo State following an accident which claimed about five lives along Ikare-Akoko/Owo highway.   The accident occurred in Akungba-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that ...

A motorist struck about half a dozen people taking part in a protest in New York City on Friday, causing injuries but no deaths, police and eyewitnesses said. A spokesman for the New York Police Department told AFP that the ...

Members of the Senate Public Accounts Committee expressed shock on Thursday when the report of the Auditor General for the Federation revealed that officials of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources spent N116m to buy biros, letterhead and toners in ...

Governor Obaseki of Edo State minutes ago testified at The Redeemed Christian Church of God’s main camp on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, about how God gave hom victory at the just concluded Edo Governorship election.   Obaseki said about a year ago, ...

Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students.   Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by ...

The Nigerian police have released a statement on the incident that happened on Kaduna-Abuja road on the 8th of December, 2020 saying it was a case of lone vehicular accident and not that gunmen opened fire on innocent Nigerians like ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has gone into self-isolation after one of his close aides tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, 10th of December. Mr. Governor and other members of his team will be tested by the Lagos State biobank ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Daura, Katsina State for a week-long private visit. The aircraft conveying the President from Abuja landed at 4:45pm on Friday at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina. A statement issued by presidential ...

Felix Lucky, a petitioner at the Lagos Judicial panel told the panel his brother, Paul Lucky was shot and hacked to death by a police officer, Sergeant John Dagbo. The petitioner who was represented by Mr. F.O Udokporoh said his ...

The United States have commended the Nigerian Police for arresting two members of a trans-national kidnap syndicate involved in the abduction of its citizen, Philippe Nathan Walton. Nigeria Police Force earlier said it arrested two suspects in connection with the ...

A former supervisory councillor in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Kinikanwo Amadi, has been allegedly stabbed to death by a woman. Though details were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, it was gathered ...

21-year-old graphic designer, Okechukwu Nathaniel who was stabbed to death by hoodlums during the just ended #EndSARS protests which shooked the country has finally been laid to rest. Oke, a fresh graduate of computer science from the Federal University of ...

The World Bank (WB) has predicted three years of economic recession for Nigeria except economic reforms are sustained. “In the next three years, an average Nigerian could see a reversal of decades of economic growth and the country could enter ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has dismissed a ‘no case submission’ filed by internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, saying he has a case to answer. Mompha was arraigned alongside a company called Ismalob Global Investment Ltd  by ...

Days after making Dr Angbo who was battered by her Channels tv reporter husband, Mr Puis Angbo, Benue First Lady, Mrs Ortom has lead a walk against gender-based violence in Benue state. Recall Mrs Ortom was seen in photos and ...

The Kogi State Government has declared Friday 11th December 2020 as a work-free day to enable Civil Servants to travel to their towns and villages for December 12, 2020, Local Government election in the State. In a statement by the ...

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly said that the Republican Party “beat the living hell out of us” in the Nov. 3 election, due to calls by Democrats to defund the police. Biden made the remarks in a leaked audio ...

Melania Trump has been thinking about life after the White House and privately planning her future, according to a CNN report Wednesday. Sources close to the first lady told the outlet that she’d been preparing her move to the family’s ...

A woman who was struggling to tell her twins apart had one tattooed, leaving her mother-in-law furious.   The 31-year-old mum had her two little boys Adam and Jack after five years of trying for children. But because Jack was ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 675 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 71,344.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “On the 10th ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says Nigeria is working toward getting 20 million doses of vaccine on a first installment when the country begins to receive vaccines from other parts of the world.   Health minister Osagie Ehanire, ...

One of the leaders of #EndSARS protesters identified as Emmanuel Adebayo who is also known as “Captain” was arrested by the Directorate of State Service (DSS) on Thursday morning for alleged impersonation.   The Nation learnt that he was arested ...

World’s first patient to get Covid vaccine, 90, leaves hospital ‘feeling great’ A grandmother who became the first person in the world to have the Pfizer vaccine has been discharged from hospital after a ‘whirlwind’ day. Margaret Keenan, 90, made ...

Faisal, son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been arrested. Recall that Faisal was declared wanted by the Federal High Court in Abuja after he jumped bail since June 24. The Economic ...