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Five members of staff and a student have tested positive for COVID-19 in a secondary school in Lagos State.   The Lagos State Government made this known in a statement on Friday. The statement was titled, ‘Lagos confirms COVID_19 infection ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has obtained a court order freezing the accounts of 20 #EndSARS promoters till January 2021.   The order was pursuant to a motion ex parte filed by the CBN before a Federal High Court. The ...

Ali Kwara, legendary hunter, vigilante leader, crime fighter, and nemesis of bandits and kidnappers, is dead.   The dare-devil hunter whose movie-like exploits against bandits, armed robbers and terrorists are well documented in virtually all the 19 Northern states, died ...

Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) operatives will begin to bear firearms to curtail the excesses of road users in Nigeria.   The House of Representatives Committee on FRSC made the disclosure during the corps’ 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget ...

A depressed dad has admitted slitting the throats of his two young children during lockdown.   Nadarajah Nithiyakumar, 41, attacked his daughter Pavinya, aged 19 months, and three-year-old son Nigash at the family home in Aldborough Road North, Ilford, east ...

  Friends and family are currently mourning the death of Esther Ita Stephen, a young girl who was allegedly gang raped and murdered by suspected hoodlums at Nsukara Offot community in Uyo LGA of Akwa Ibom. It was gathered that ...

Former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said ex-Oyo State governor Rashidi Ladoja was impeached because he was ungrateful to his late political leader, Chief Lamidi Adedibu and Chief Yekinni Adeojo.   He spoke on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State, at ...

A Federal High Court in Kaduna has jailed its former Registrar, Mr. Joseph Etefia Udoh, for four years for embezzling N80 million deposited in the court by a litigant.   The court also ordered the forfeiture of all assets seized ...

Vladimir Putin is set to sensationally step down as Russia’s President in a matter of weeks amid concerns he has Parkinson’s disease, according to reports.   The politician and former officer of the KGB is being urged to quit the ...

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday night again questioned the integrity of Tuesday’s presidential election and doubled down on his allegation of fraud against Democrats. In an address to the nation, Trump said he was hearing “horror stories” about ...

The management of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has suspended two students for one academic session for allegedly making inciting posts on their social media handles.   The affected students are Sunday Idongesit Okpokpo of the ...

  The Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijani Umar, has said the N1.3billion approved for Villa clinic was too small. Speaking with journalists in Abuja, on Thursday, November 5, he said: “The N1.3bn is absolutely inadequate when you juxtapose ...

Wife of a victim of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) brutality, Mrs Chidinmma Precious Edozieuno has recounted to the Anambra Judicial panel on activities of the unit and how men of the unit took away her husband in 2017 and told ...

A small town in Kentucky has elected a French bulldog to be mayor. Wilbur, a 6-month-old puppy, was elected as mayor in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky on Thursday. Amy Noland, Wilbur’s owner, told NBC News that Wilbur’s campaign was based around ...

Two security sources told AFP on Wednesday that nine Nigerian troops were killed in Borno State.   The soldiers were travelling in a convoy when the lead vehicle struck the land mine. According to the news agency, information about the ...

  A 21-year-old bricklayer, Biodun Owolabi, has been arrested alongside his accomplices Festus Simon, 20, and an Alfa for killing a 13 yr old secondary school boy, Quadri Olalekan, for money ritual in Ibadan, Oyo State. The incident happened on ...

Mel B allegedly claimed she could go bankrupt if she has to pay the full $500K to her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte.   A Los Angeles judge ordered her to fork out the hefty sum to her ex-husband – $400,000 in ...

Governor  Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has revealed that the country is about reaching its maximum capacity to borrow, hence the need to improve on other channels of revenue generation in the country. He made these remarks during his keynotes ...

The government of the Netherlands has returned a unique terracotta head to the Nigerian Embassy in the Netherlands in compliance with the 1970 UNESCO Convention of prohibiting and preventing illicit import, export of cultural property.   The unique and rare ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has lamented that Nigeria is not collecting as much public revenue as it can.   He says that there is still much potential for growing Value Added Tax (VAT) and independent revenues of the ...

A woman, Hajiya Habiba Aliyu, has filed a civil suit before the Federal High Court, Kano, seeking N250m damages against a textile firm and five others for alleged infringement on the rights of her deceased daughter, Nafisa Aliyu.   Habiba ...

                      Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Wednesday morning kidnapped a middle-aged woman, Mrs. Grace Ameh, after shooting her husband.   An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, told The Nation the ...

A man — Kofi Adjei Fosu, who sponsored himself through school has just graduated as the best student of his faculty — Law Faculty. Kofi who ride tricycle and also sold sachet water in order to pay his school fees ...

Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry commenced sitting on Thursday in Edo State with the first petitioner demanding whereabouts of his son who has gone ‘missing’ since 2011 when he allegedly was taken into police custody.   The Petitioner, Isaac Edoh ...

A Petroleum storage tank at one of the depots in Marine beach, Apapa area of Lagos State is currently on fire.   The fire broke out Thursday afternoon. The Petroleum storage tank reportedly belongs to Oando Plc. As at the ...