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                                                               A passenger aboard an Abuja-bound aircraft from Lagos has said when he raised the alarm over violation of the Covid-19 social distancing protocol, his fellow travellers shouted him down and asked him to get down if he is not ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after just over a month, the Berlin medical facility treating him said Wednesday. “Based on the patient’s progress and ...

  The Federal Government has declared it will go ahead with the Water Resources Bill.   Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed told reporters the bill was not designed to cause water wars in the country. He said the ...

                    A Nigerian, Felix Osilama Okpoh, who is wanted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for his alleged involvement in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme that defrauded over 70 different businesses in the United States, has turned ...

                              The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday said all is now ready for a nationwide protest over the refusal of the Federal Government to reverse recent increase in prices fuel and electricity tariff.   The Federal Government had recently ...

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                                    The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented a certificate of return to Governor Godwin Obaseki, winner of the just concluded Edo State ...

                          A former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, has allegedly arrested and charged four of his staff working in his hotel to court for allegedly stealing ...

                  A young Uber driver has narrowly escaped death as riders who called him for a pick up stabbed and snatched his car.   This happened on Sunday just after Lagos Business ...

  The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury, Tuesday placed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his family members under close watch ...

                                                        The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) Nigeria, yesterday, released the preliminary report on ...

                                      Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has vowed to punish his erstwhile godfather Adams Oshiomhole and his “lions and tigers” if they ...

                                                An agent of one of the electricity companies has been arrested by the Police in Lagos ...

                        A woman in Benue State, Mary Jeremiah, has been arraigned for robbing a provision store with a locally-made pistol and knife.   She has been remanded in prison ...

                                                        US authorities have charged a New York police officer with espionage, accusing ...

                                                  The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in December will be scaled back this year ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), National Caretaker Committee has urged its former National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to congratulate Governor Godwin Obaseki, the winner of the Saturday’s governorship election in the Edo state. The Chairman of the national body, Governor ...

                                                                               Four Cameroonian soldiers have been sentenced to 10 years for their roles in shooting dead two women and two children in 2015.   The killings were captured on a video that circulated in 2018, which showed the victims being ...

                                                                 The All Progressives Congress has congratulated Governor Godwin Obaseki on his re-election as the Governor of Edo State.   This was contained in a statement by the chairman of the APC national caretaker committee, Mai Mala Buni, on Monday. ...

                                                  A gang member was arrested for the drive-by shooting of an innocent schoolboy after ‘confessing’ to the crime in a rap song he wrote.   Stephen Dunford, 26, sped past the youngster who was standing with some pals when ...

There was pandemonium Monday night when two out of a three-man gang were lynched along Marian road after robbing Sunnytex Supermarket, opposite Lion’s park in Calabar, Cross River.   Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at about 9:00 pm at ...

            A schoolgirl was allegedly gang-r*ped and killed by four migrants who dumped her on a building site and left her to die.   Desiree Mariottini, 16, from Cisterna di Latina, Italy, was found dead after being drugged and r*ped ...

                                                                   Police in Nakuru County, Kenya have launched a manhunt for a group of youths after a 26-year-old woman they gang-r*ped and brutalised died.   The unknown number of the youths are alleged to have also inserted a glass bottle ...

                                                        The Osun State University has graduated 1946 students during a virtual convocation of the institution, the first of its kind in the history of the nation’s public universities in Nigeria.   The institution awarded 35 First Class on a ...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested one Mohammed Idris Abubakar for allegedly defrauding POS operators in Minna and other parts of the state to the tune of N1.2 million.   Checks revealed that the fraudster, within a year of ...