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Justice T. B. Adegoke of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State today November 30, 2020, sentenced Onus Osagie Amahian, a former staff of Access Bank, to five years imprisonment.   Amahian was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal ...

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved the 15-year-old marriage of a cleric, Yusuf Adeniyi, over infidelity. Yusuf’s wife, Rebecca, 44, sought the dissolution of the marriage, saying that she caught him cheating on her. Rebecca claimed ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has said, it has become apparent that President Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress regime he leads have become helpless as the nation’s security deteriorates. In a statement titled, “PDP Condemns Beheading of Farmers By Insurgents…Tasks ...

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said he received a vision from God that he would be Governor long before he joined the race. He said this while addressing a congregation at a service held to commemorate the second anniversary ...

Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has attributed the failure of the military in the North-East part of the country to the under-motivation of the soldiers. According to him, Boko Haram is fast taking over parts of Nigeria ...

US president-elect Joe Biden has a foot fracture and will likely have to wear a medical boot, his team said Sunday after the 78-year-old was taken to the doctor because he had slipped while playing with his dog. Biden, who ...

United Nations (UN) has revealed that not less than 110 civilians were killed by Boko Haram in the attack on a rice field in Borno State. A statement by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon on ...

No fewer than eight persons were reportedly killed in a fresh crisis that erupted in the Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incidents occurred between Saturday and the early hours of Sunday, a government statement said. Four persons ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today (Monday) re-arraign a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and six others, for an alleged fraudulent N544m grass-cutting contract, The Punch has learnt.   This will be the ...

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has arrested one Mary Ime, a resident of Umoh Obot in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, who reportedly butchered her mother, Eka Ime on Friday, 27th November, 2020, ...

A man has been charged with the murder of a rapper who was reportedly killed as he took shopping to his grandmother. Terrell Davis, who performed as TM1way, was stabbed to death in Ramilles Close in Brixton Hill, south London, ...

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has flagged off rabbits empowerment scheme for youths in the state, Daily Nigerian reports.   Speaking at the flag-off ceremony on Friday, Mr Uzodinma said he is determined to engage youths in productive ...

A Waldorf, Maryland housewife shot and killed her police detective husband in an apparent murder-suicide Friday evening.   Police say Christina Francis, 41, fatally shot Timothy Francis, 50, before turning the gun on herself in a murder-suicide that shocked neighbors ...

One person has been confirmed dead in a fuel tanker explosion at a mechanic workshop in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. Spokesperson of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Haruna Mohammed, who confirmed the incident to newsmen said ...

A truck driver identified simply as Taiwo has met his tragic end after he fell from a bridge in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State and drowned. Taiwo had reportedly parked a truck on the bridge on Wednesday to have ...

The police in Rivers State have arrested three suspects who allegedly detonated explosives at a Pentecostal church, Christain Universal Church International, located at Mile 3, Diobu area of Port Harcourt. The church is said to be owned by the father ...

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has revealed that it will cost the ministry N81m to cut the grass and clear the weed that have taken over the MKO Abiola National Stadium in Abuja. He stated this ...

Six persons have died in an accident along the Lagos-Ibadan highway on Saturday. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said one other person sustained injury in the accident involving a truck and a Honda Pilot Jeep. According to the ...

A 33-year-old man, Mr Emmanuel Ajomafuwe, is seeking justice for himself and his late 20-year-old girlfriend, Miss Adaobi Ifeanyi, with whom he was allegedly shot by a policeman. The alleged shooting which occurred during a traffic stop in Apapa, Lagos, ...

The abducted wife of the Chief of Staff to Ondo State Governor, Chief Olugbenga Ale, on Saturday regained freedom after spending two days in the captives of her abductors.   According to Nigerian Tribune, the woman who was abducted on ...

A German court has convicted four members of the Indigenous People of Biafra for attacking a former deputy senate president, Mr Ike Ekweremadu.   The IPOB had been prosecuted for assaulting the senator from Enugu State and sentenced to 20 ...

Onyinyechi Osuigwe, a 25-year-old mother of five, whose husband was allegedly killed by a soldier during the recent nationwide #EndSARS protests, has called on the government to fish out the killer of their breadwinner.   The nursing mother and resident ...

The Oyo State Commisioner of Police, Joe Enwonwu, on Friday said two suspects arrested in connection with the killing and dismemberment of some policemen sold two decapitated heads of the murdered cops for N1000.   The police boss said this ...

Nigeria’s Covid-19 death toll hit 1,171 on Friday, with 246 new confirmed cases recorded in the last 24 hours.   The NCDC made this known on Friday night, putting the cumulative infections at 67,220, out of 756,237 samples tested since ...

The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has ordered the Nigeria Police to pay N50million compensation to the family of Daniel Chibuike-Ikeagwuchi popular called Sleek, who was killed by policemen in the state.   The victim’s family had ...