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The Federal High Court in Enugu on Tuesday sentenced a final-year student of the Institute of Management Technology, Enugu, Okoro Joseph, to eight months’ imprisonment over $15,000 fraud. Joseph was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice ...

The body of a yet-to-be identified woman has been found by a road side in Ibadan.The body was found dumped around Osuntokun Avenue, Bodija on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Men of the Fast-Track Emergency Rescue Operation squad of the Oyo ...

Katsina State Government h reportedly banned whatsapp in schools and prohibits Facebook among workers.This is contained in a circular by the state Ministry of Education. The Ministry ordered principals of government schools to abolish all existing Whatsapp groups in their ...

It was not a pleasant scene around Jakande in Lekki axis of Lagos State when a commercial bus driver attacked an officer of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) enforcing traffic laws on the Island.  Trouble started when the driver, ...

Gunmen have abducted the lawmaker representing Nguroje constituency in the Taraba State House of Assembly, Bashir Bape. Mr Bape was kidnapped Tuesday night in his residence in Jalingo, the state capital. “The gunmen who came in numbers overpowered the vigilantes ...

Chisom Adams, a 24-year-old man, suspected to be a Nigerian, has bagged a 40-month jail term for using a secret s.e.x tape to blackmail his former girlfriend after they broke up. Adams, who had secretly taped the s.e.x act with ...

Margaret Keenan, a grandmother who turns 91 next week, and 81-year-old William Shakespeare were the first and second persons to be injected the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK on Tuesday. The two were the first persons in the world to ...

A driver and one of his passengers have died in an auto crash in Ogun State on Tuesday. It was gathered that five other persons also sustained injuries in the accident, which happened around Foursquare Camp Ground, along Sagamu/Interchange-Abeokuta highway ...

The Federal Government has claimed the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had promised to call off their nine-month-old strike before Wednesday, December 9. This was contained in a statement from the media office of the Minister of Labour and ...

Betty Akeredolu, the wife of the Ondo State Governor, has knocked Channels TV’s Benue reporter Pius Angbo, saying “Real men don’t beat their wives.” This came after Ifeanyinwa, the medical doctor wife of Angbo, accused him of battery. However, the ...

APC and PDP supporters have continued to clash in Ondo state and this time it happened at the tribunal. There was pandemonium today at the High Court Road, Akure, the Ondo State capital as the supporters of the All Progressives ...

The Federal Government has denied allegations by the United States of engaging in systematic and egregious religious freedom violations.   In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said Nigeria did ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and the governors of the 36 states of the federation just ended a crucial security meeting at the State House in Abuja. Although none of the governors would agree to speak to State House Correspondents, it was ...

The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwarra, on Tuesday disclosed that the country’s population figure is now officially 206 million.   Kwarra, said this while briefing reporters in Abuja on the commencement of the next Enumeration Area ...

The lawmaker representing Benue South Senatorial District, Abba Morro, last weekend gave out his daughter in marriage. But has the Senator left home for the venue of the wedding, there was traffic jam. Reports says he jumped out of his ...

Ovie of NotJustOk.com has joined many Nigerians to say the immediate reconciliation of channelstv reporter and his wife — a medical doctor who was battered by her husband is wrong. Many Nigerians have condemned the act while asking Channels tv ...

The United States has placed Nigeria for the first time on a religious freedom blacklist, pressing an ally as Christian groups voice growing insecurity. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” for religious freedom, ...

Against speculations, the sacked former national chairperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed the possibility of leading the party again even if the party’s NEC decides in his favour on Tuesday. “That chapter of my political ...

Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Fatai Ismai, 23, aka small, a notorious armed robber who has been terrorising residents of Langbasa Area, Ajah, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Fatia was arrested by the police, with the help of some community ...

A 27-year-old man, Promise David, has beaten his 18-year-old baby mama, Miss Esther Pascal, to death during a fight over food and welfare money for their baby. The incident happened on Sunday night on Ebis Mechanic Road, Yenagoa, the Bayelsa ...

A White House official said Monday that President Donald Trump was willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine on TV – but he may not be the best candidate because he already beat the disease. ‘He’s expressed his willingness,’ an official ...

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have splashed out on a $30 million-plus dollar lot of land on Miami’s uber-swanky and high-security Indian Creek Island — known as the “Billionaire’s Bunker” — Page Six reports. Ahead of President Trump’s exit from ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, said his regime will deal decisively with “any act of hooliganism hiding behind peaceful protests.” He said although his regime believed in the rights of citizens to embark on peaceful protests, such must be done ...

Florida police on Monday raided the home of a former state data scientist who claimed she was fired from the Department of Health for refusing to doctor coronavirus figures. Rebekah Jones posted video on Twitter showing officers with the Florida ...

The Federal Government has announced a reduction in the pump price of premium motor spirit, otherwise known as petrol, from N168 to N162.44 per litre with effect from December 14. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, disclosed ...