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The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the withdrawal of his invitation to speak at this year’s Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference, is an “unfortunate embrace of injustice”.   El-Rufai said this in a statement signed by his ...

The Police Command in Oyo State has announced N500,000 bounty for useful information that can lead to the re-arrest of Sunday Shodipe.   Shodipe, 19, allegedly linked to the murder of 18-year-old Barakat Bello, 29-year-old Azeezat Shomuyiwa, and three others ...

Alaga Solomon Ari, a teacher at the Sudan United Mission Primary School in Agwatashi, Nasarawa State, has been arrested for defiling a 15-year-old pupil.   According to reports, the suspect had sent the girl to bring a broom from a ...

No fewer than seven persons are feared killed in Isia-Ama community of Oluasiri in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as two militant groups engaged in a bloody clash.   A community source, who craved anonymity for fear of ...

Zambia’s Vice-President Inonge Wina has tested positive for Covid-19, the presidency’s office as announced.   According to a statement released by the presidency, the vice-president tested positive on Tuesday following a positive result of her daughter with whom she stays ...

A man identified simply as Chinedu has abducted a baby and mother and later dumped the woman in a septic tank at Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State.   It was gathered that the woman was rescued three days ...

The brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, northwest England, in 2017 was on Thursday jailed for life.   Judge Jeremy Baker said Hashem Abedi, who was convicted in March of ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria has rejected the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (CAMA), dismissing it as “satanic”.   The apex Christian body said CAMA “would snuff life out of the church and rank the church as a secular ...

It was a huge sigh of relief for friends and relations as 2 of the 3 suspected killers of Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, were set free by the Kaduna State Magistrate Court 1.   ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has received a petition requesting the anti-graft agency to probe the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei. The ...

Two persons were reportedly killed while several houses burnt down in a renewed conflict between Tiv/Jukun in Kwararafa village, Gossol local government area on Thursday morning. An eyewitness told TheNations correspondent that the whole problem started on Wednesday when some ...

The police in Kano state have arrested one Haruna Ya’u aka Dangaru, for allegedly killing his friend, Sani Ibrahim, following a disagreement over N500.   According to reports, the incident happened at Dan Tsinke Quarters of Tarauni Local Government Area ...

Douglas Harold Green, 61, was charged with aggravated kidnapping in the course of committing unlawful detention and assault. Employees at the Provo River Resort told local police that the man threw his wife into the Provo River.   Green said ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 40-ft container loaded with Tramadol and other banned medicines at Brawal Terminal in Lagos. This was made known in a statement by Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs, of the agency, ...

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital with suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said.   The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Kira Yarmysh said, adding that they ...

A young housemaid has been apprehended while trying to pour insecticide into her madam’s drinking water.   In a video shared online, her said boss was heard questioning her and asked her to confess her crime. While many Nigerians thanked ...

Head of National Office, West Africa Examination Council, Patrick Areghan, said the body arrested some of its supervisors who revealed questions to candidates before the commencement of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination.   Areghan, who spoke during a ...

The Police in Ekiti State have arrested a lady, Mary Idris, for allegedly faking her own kidnap on August 9, 2020, with a view to extorting money from her parents.   The state Commissioner of Police, Tunde Mobayo, said the ...

The African Union (AU) has suspended Mali a day after its leaders were detained by mutineering soldiers and the president forced out. The AU’s 15-member security council “suspends Mali from the African Union until restoration of constitutional order and demands ...

Mamman Daura, a nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been flown to the United Kingdom for urgent medical treatment over an undisclosed ailment, SaharaReporters has reliably gathered. Daura, 79, was said to have been flown in a ...

Nigeria’s Covid-19 caseload surpassed 50,000 mark on Wednesday as the nation recorded 593 new cases.   The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, put the nation’s overall infection at 50,488, with 37,304 recoveries and 985 deaths. In the last four ...

The police in Katsina State have arrested three teenage boys in Danmusa Local Government Area for allegedly gang-raping and drowning a 13-year-old girl to death in a pond.   Police Spokesman in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this during ...

Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has lashed out at churches that refused to open for worship in Lagos State, describing them as fake.   Founder, The Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare; ...

Naira Marley has taking to Instagram to warn girls, especially those who follow him on twitter to try and make their OWN money as this will save them from unnecessary sex. The singer who tweets randomly, just woke up to ...

As part of the efforts to rid the streets of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital of beggars, the state government has repatriated no fewer than 78 beggars to five northern states in the country.   The beggars were repatriated to ...