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Benue students have taken to the streets to protest killings in the state by suspected herdsmen.   They are asking the Meyitti Allah Vigilante Group to leave the State. The placard-bearing protesters blocked major streets leading to traffic grid lock ...

  Pregnant women and children were on Sunday denied access to churches in some parts of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, as they reopened for services after about four months closure.   Most of the churches visited were seen to have ...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has faulted the judgment of an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State sentencing a 13-year-old boy, Umar Farouq, to 10 years in prison for making derogatory statements toward Allah in an argument ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a syndicate that specialises in the cloning of Subscriber Identification Module cards of prominent deceased persons.   It was gathered that the gang leader, Osita Nwafor, alias Ossy, was arrested by the decoy ...

  The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Dr David Oyedepo, has advised the Federal Government to expunge the part of the newly-signed amended Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 that gives the supervising minister the power to ...

  At least five person escaped death as tragedy averted when an an articulated vehicle loaded with 40,000 liters of Associated Gas Oil (AGO) collided with a Mercedes Benz truck at River Niger Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra state. It was gathered that the ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC says 298 new cases of the dreaded respiratory infection have been recorded on Sunday. The health agency revealed that only one fatality was recorded for the day. It also disclosed through its verified Twitter ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has made an order of mareva injunction stopping Shoprite Checkers (PTY) Limited from disposing of or transferring its assets out of jurisdiction over a $10m judgment debt.   Shoprite has announced its plan to ...

A lawyer, Daniel Makolo, has been remanded in police custody for allegedly writing a petition to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, faulting the tenure extension granted to the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede.   A Karu Chief Magistrates’ Court ...

One Festus Olawale has allegedly committed suicide in his cocoa store in Gbongan, Osun State.   It was gathered that the deceased, a businessman dealing in cocoa, took his life by hanging himself in one of the rooms in his ...

  Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Dr Obadiah Mailafiya has been re-invited by the Department of State Security (DSS) for further discussions.   The Nation learnt Mailafiya is expected to be at the DSS office ...

When the news of the alleged forced labour in a rice factory in Kano State, where 126 workers were reportedly locked up in dehumanizing conditions for three months broke out few weeks ago, the rage and bitter feeling that greeted ...

Facebook and Twitter users are having a field day trolling a pastor in Imo state who organised a special ”international prayer session” for Donald Trump.   According to the information on the flyer, the prayer session is to pray for ...

A yet-to-be-identified man has been confirmed dead by the police, while another one was fatally injured in an accident that occurred at the celebration of Osun festival at Ido Osun town, Osun State.   The punch learnt that the death ...

Skeletal rail service between Lagos and Ibadan will begin mid-September, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said today. The Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria said the skeletal operations will be made of 16 trips daily on the Standard Guage ...

Ahmed Aminu, was 23 years old when his father and stepmother decided to cage him in an unused garage like an animal. For seven years, lived in the small space and in solitary confinement.   Gone was his freedom. Freedom ...

The public are being warned about a dangerously high-strength batch of ecstasy pills shaped like Donald Trump.   Bedfordshire Police raised concerns about the orange tablets which are made to look like the US President as they arrested a man ...

Another white cop has killed a black man, Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis in the state of Georgia, United States.   The killer Georgia state trooper was arrested and charged with murder on Friday after he fatally shot the 60-year-old man ...

The Cross River Police Command has arrested 11 persons during an initiation into a cult at Bishop Moynag Avenue, State Housing, Calabar.   The command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, said in a statement in Calabar on Sunday ...

The Oyo State Police Command on Sunday, confirmed the escape of a notorious Akinyele serial killer, Sunday Shodipe from their custody.   The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Nwachukwu Enwonwu, in a statement made available to newsmen, through ...

Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a community in Yobe State.   The attackers went into Mashio community in Fune Local Government Council and started shooting sporadically, abducting the village head, Isa Mai Buba, and his son. ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday announced that stringent Covid-19 regulations would be eased on Sunday as the country’s infection rate falls.   The government will remove “nearly all” restrictions on economic activity as of Aug. 17, lift restrictions ...

The Ruler of Dubai has ordered 14 tonnes of medical supplies and 20 tonnes of food supplies to Nigeria and Sudan, the Dubai Media Office said on Saturday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum “orders humanitarian aid flight to Sudan ...

The President of Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nnaji, yesterday decried Ghanaian authorities’ closure of shops owned by Nigerians doing business in the country.   Nnaji, who made this known in a telephone interview with newsmen urged the ...

  For Risiqot Ayegbami, a housewife in her late 20s, born with blue eyes, and her two little daughters with the same colour of eyes, the challenges they faced in her matrimonial home over their condition, has launched them into ...