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There is the popular African proverb that says that when brothers fight to death, a stranger inherits their property. This powerful axiom could best illustrate what might likely be happening to one of Lagos’ popular families: Abiodun-Oniru siblings. For some ...

Three hundred and fifty-six (356) soldiers are formally exiting the Nigerian Army citing “loss of interest”, Premium Times can report, in a development insiders say is indicative of broken morale in the army. The army is currently engaged in various ...

A former Commissioner in Oyo State, Honorable Fatai Abimbola is dead. Daily post gathered on Saturday that Abimbola, a native of Ibadan, the state capital died in a road accident on Friday. Abimbola who is fondly known as Abogun served ...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday, paid a condolence visit to Mrs Florence Ajimobi, wife of Late Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi. The APC national leader was accompanied by ...

A 35 year-old Nigerian from Anambra state has been arrested for killing his four-year-old son with a cutlass and also burying the body in a shallow grave. The killer, Christian Alisigwe was arrested by policemen of Anambra Police Command on ...

The Lagos State Ministry of Health on Saturday said it had shut down the operations of a private laboratory in Banana Island carrying out COVID-19 tests without the required government approval. Banana Island is one of the most expensive neighborhoods ...

Unknown gunmen on Friday evening attacked Isinbode Ekiti in the Ekiti East Local Government Area of Ekiti State and whisked away three persons. Sources said that the gunmen, who numbered about 10 attacked a sawmill located along Isinbode – Ode ...

Dr Ayuba Musa has waded into the controversy of the property housing GLAM’D Africa, a business owned by Kiki Osinbajo. Musa’s reaction was sequel to a social media post by Jackson Ude, a New York based blogger, that Vice President ...

The 58 Nigerian doctors who were prevented by the Nigeria Immigration Service from boarding a plane to the United Kingdom were expected to earn between £51,384 (N25.1m) and £98,112 (N47.9m) per year depending on the experience they have. This is ...

Peace Busari, a Nigerian woman offered for sale on Facebook by a Lebanese, Wael Jerro, is on her way home from Lebanon. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this on Saturday. Also on the repatriation flight are ...

Harvard University has announced that all learning for the next academic year will be done remotely – but says tuition will remain at nearly $50,000. The announcement came as federal immigration authorities say international students will be forced to leave ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday announced that Nigeria recorded 575 new cases of COVID-19, bringing total cases reported in the country to 31,323. According to NCDC‘s post on Twitter, Lagos which remains the epicenter of the deadly virus ...

At 23, Enioluwa Adedayo, popularly known as Judgement, had made himself a dreaded armed robber terrorizing residents of Ibadan, Oyo State, and parts of Lagos State as he brazenly robbed people on his motorbike at the early hours of the ...

A Nigerian activist, who goes by the name ‘’Citizen Steven KefasonFlag’’ on twitter has shared photos of an IDP girl who was allegedly battered by her madam who is a deaconess. Steven shared the photos claiming the woman had promised ...

There was a mild drama in Isara Remo, Ogun East Senatorial District yesterday as former President Olusegun Obasanjo locked mourners outside during the burial of his mother in-law. The move was in ex-President’s strict enforcement of the Covid-19 protocols regarding ...

One of the suspects on April 5, 2018, Offa bank robbery, Azeez Salawu, yesterday told the court in Ilorin, Kwara state, how six suspects were killed in his presence by the policemen in Abuja. Azeez gave graphic details of how ...

One person was confirmed dead, while six others were rescued from the rubbles of a three-storey building, which collapsed on Freeman Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Saturday morning. The incident occurred at about 4.05am and the building suffered a total ...

There is an alleged plot to frustrate the probe of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the ongoing investigation of its suspended chairman, Ibrahim Magu, after some unknown people broke into the office of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence ...

A man has been found guilty of the murder of his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend and the manslaughter of their baby son. Aaron McKenzie, 26, of Peckham, south London, broke into Kelly-Mary Fauvrelle’s bedroom in the middle of the night and ...

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has evacuated 270 stranded Nigerians in Egypt. This was revealed via the official Twitter handle of NIDCOM on Friday. According to the tweet, the evacuees would arrive at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, at ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service has stopped 58 doctors from travelling to the United Kingdom. The doctors were stopped at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos today. According to the Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede, 56 of the 58 doctors billed to ...

A Kenyatta National Hospital nurse and a hotelier have been charged with uttering a false document, namely a Covid-19 test report purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the national referral facility. The two, Deleven Enock Moses and ...

The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ese- Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Samuel Olorunwa Ajayi, today July 10, resigned from his position as chairman as well as being a member of the ruling party. This comes ...

A policeman in Ibadan on Thursday afternoon allegedly shot a 32-year-old businessman, Yemi Ajayi, dead at the Iwo Road interchange, Ibadan, Oyo State. A witness who pledged anonymity told journalists that some policemen drove to the scene of the incident ...

The remains of the late lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Tunde Braimoh, has been buried. Braimoh who died earlier today after just two days of sickness was buried at the Ikoyi cemetery this ...