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The Lagos State government has said that only final year students will go back to classrooms, as tertiary institutions reopen next Monday.   This was confirmed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Special Adviser on Education, Tokunbo Wahab, while speaking on Channels ...

As Nigeria joins other countries in marking this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day, no fewer than 264 suicide cases have been recorded in the country within the last 4 years. The theme of this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day is ...

The Delta State Police Command has arrested two notorious members of armed robbery and kidnapping gang terrorizing Otu-Jeremi community and its environs in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.   The two suspects include, Stanley Samuel ‘M’ 22 ...

There is panic, confusion and tension in the Lebanese capital Beirut after another fire broke out in the port area of the Beirut city, a little more than a month after devastating explosion at the same sight that the 4th ...

FFK has also waded into the debate of if it was right or wrong for APC National leader, Bola Tinubu not to have stood to greet Ooni of Ife when they met at a function.   Writing this morning on ...

Bandits have kidnapped three children of Zamfara State Sub-treasurer, Alhaji Yusuf Marafa, and also killed his neighbour in Nahuche town in the Bungudu local government area of Zamfara State.   The kidnapped children are Mansur Yusuf, Sa’adu Yusuf and Anas ...

Policemen attached to the Zonal Investigative Bureau, Zone 2 Command, have been accused of torturing a land agent, Yemi Taiwo, to death for allegedly planning to abduct a monarch in Lagos State.   Punch Metro learnt that Yemi had gone ...

Police in Kakamega, Kenya have begun investigations into the killing of a 13-year-old girl by thugs on Tuesday, September 8.   The criminals broke into the girl’s house in Shinyakha Village, Ikolomani Constituency in the afternoon, when her mother, who ...

Police in Shinyalu, Kakamega County, Kenya have arrested a 16-year-old boy on accusation of killing his 17-year-old neighbour over allegations that the deceased was eyeing his lover, a 14-year-old girl.   The suspect, a Form Two student, fatally stabbed the ...

The United Nation says the decline in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Nigeria shows a collapse in testing, adding that it has nothing to do with the containment of the virus.   The Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for ...

  On Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the committee that will spearhead the Nigeria Agenda 2050 and Medium-Term National Development Plan, which has been put in place to succeed Vision 20:2020 and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, 2017 – ...

A Mexican crime reporter Julio Valdivia has been found beheaded, the latest grisly murder of a journalist in the world’s most dangerous nation for newsmen.   The 44 year-old journalist, who specialized in the “nota roja” journalism that focuses on ...

A Nigerian doctor on twitter – Aproko Doctor has said a man’s pen!s stops growing at 19 and wants Nigerian men to stop patronizing Instagram vendors that sells products that makes a pen!s grow.   Many refer to him as ...

Three suspected armed robbers yesterday told a Magistrate Court in Osogbo, Osun State that they prefer Indian hemp to cigarette so as to avoid health problems.   The suspects, Samson Lucas, Ayo Olamide and Olalekan Omoniyi were arrested by police ...

Members of the University of Calabar chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) protested non-payment of their allowances at the university premises on Wednesday.   Addressing the protesters, the Chairman of the chapter, Dr John Edor, said the ...

No fewer than 25 women of Osun state origin have been rescued from Lebanon where they claimed that they were enslaved for over a year.   Recounting their ordeals on arrival at the state ministry of women affairs in Osogbo ...

Thousands of striking nurses on Wednesday called off their strike over pay and protective gear, three months after walking out of public hospital wards, their leader said.   Enock Dongo, president of the 15,000-member Zimbabwe Nurses Association, said they had ...

United Kingdom’s secretary of state for the home department,Priti Patel,has come under scrutiny over her comments on the $10 billion arbitration fine case between Nigeria and the Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).   Following last week’s UK court ruling in ...

The Oyo State Government has disclosed its plan to position the historical Irefin Palace in Ibadan to rival the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom.   This came as the government entered into an agreement with private partners to promote ...

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a marriage involving a trader, Sadia Abass, and her husband, Azeez, over a missing underwear.   Sadia had petitioned the Court to dissolve her marriage over allegations that he had stolen ...

Operatives of the Uyo zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested 22 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Imo state.   The all-male suspects, whose ages range between 20 and 41, were nabbed recently ...

A  Central Florida religious leader — a self-described prophet named Sylvester Ofori has been arrested and accused of gunning down his wife outside of the Orlando credit union where she worked.   Ofori, the 35-year-old pastor and founder of Floodgates ...

  The Debt Management Office on Wednesday released Nigeria’s total public debt stock as of June 30, 2020, and put the country’s entire debt at N31trn, indicating an increase of N2.38trn within a space of three months.   Nigeria’s total ...

The minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has dispelled rumor making the rounds that Federal Government was not committed to the welfare of health workers in the country.   Speaking when he appeared on Sunrise Daily, a programme on ...

The Police in Anambra State have arrested an Nnewi based acclaimed evangelist for allegedly r.a.p.i.n.g his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter.   The suspect, who gave his name as Chukwudi Ndubuisi, was said to have lured the girl and also had canal ...