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The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has written to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to seek the “immediate” arrest and prosecution of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole. The Deputy Governor, Philip Shuaibu, who broke ...

A throwback video of the Lagos state governor, Sanwo-Olu saying he would regulate okada riders has surfaced online. Nigerians went in search of the video to counter the ongoing okada ban in Lagos, which a lot of people have frowned ...

Malawi’s constitutional court on Monday has ordered a new presidential poll after annulling the results of a vote that re-elected President Peter Mutharika last May, citing widespread irregularities including the use of correction fluid on ballot papers. Mutharika, who will ...

Two people were killed and a third was wounded Monday in a shooting at a residence hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce, according to reports. Campus police said the shooting occurred before noon at the Pride Rock Residence Hall, a three-story ...

  A man who banned his brother from attending his wedding is standing firm on the decision after he faced a backlash from his angry family. The 28 year old is set to marry his partner later this month, and ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned the member representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Nicholas Mutu, for alleged abuse of office and fraud involving about N320m. Mutu, a former Chairman of the House of ...

A fuel tanker has fallen at the toll gate inward Berger, spilling its content. The Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, who tweeted this, said traffic officials were already at the scene of the incident. Two more photos below…    

Nasarawa state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a quack medical practitioner for allegedly killing a three-year-old girl through illegal blood transfusion. Mohammed Mahmoud-Fari, state commandant of NSCDC paraded the 27 year-old suspect, Muddansir ...

  A man who was wrongfully convicted in a 1985 New York City sexual assault case has been cleared of all charges against him Tuesday. The Supreme Court of the State of New York granted a joint motion to vacate ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has made a strong case for state police. In the Maiden Memorial Public Lecture in memory of Late Professor Olumuyiwa Awe delivered today at the Trechard Hall, University of Ibadan, ...

Traditional rulers in Imo State have said that they may no longer fold their arms and watch the protests against Governor Hope Uzodinma persist. Speaking to newsmen on behalf of some traditional rulers from Owerri North council area of Imo ...

  Three persons died while 14 others sustained injuries in an accident around Saapade area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday. The spokesman of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta, ...

  The Police from Ijora Badia, Area B Command, on Monday, arrested 24 suspects for blocking major roads in Ijora, Lagos following the recent ban of motorcycle (Okada) and tricycle (Keke) by the State Government. The Lagos Police Public Relations ...

Daredevil kidnappers on Sunday, January 2, 2020, at about 7.30 pm, opened fire on a passenger bus, a Toyota Previa that carries eight passengers at Kwali, en route Lokoja to Abuja. The action of the kidnappers who suddenly jumped into ...

Thirteen children have died and more than 40 others were injured in a stampede that occurred as they left school in western Kenya today. “We have lost 13 children in this stampede and we have others in the hospital with ...

  Lagosians are comedians, lol. So a lot of horses were seen on major roads today in Lagos. No jokes… One of the horses used to convey people from a spot to another has now collapsed. In a viral video, ...

Six Turkish soldiers have been killed and nine wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in Syria’s north-western Idlib province, Turkey said. It said up to 35 Syrian troops had been killed in retaliatory fire. Syria’s media said there were ...

  The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, said the federal government does not have the jurisdiction to intervene in the recent ban of okada and tricycles in some parts of Lagos State. The Lagos state government started to ...

The FCT Department of Public Health has reiterated that there is no confirmed case of Coronavirus in the territory and advised residents to remain calm. According to a statement by Anthony Ogunleye, the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister,  ...

  Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom Inc chief executive convicted in one of the largest U.S. accounting scandals, died on Sunday, his family said in a statement. Ebbers, 78, a one-time milkman became known as an exacting, cost-obsessed boss, was ...

  A Lebanese has been arrested by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for alleged trafficking of Nigerian women to s.e.x slavery in Lebanon. The Nation gathered that the yet to be identified Lebenese was ...

  The Nigerian Army on Sunday identified and commended 37 officers and soldiers attached to the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East for their “gallantry and professionalism” in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents. The army authorities noted in a ...

  Russia plans to expel foreigners who test positive for the fast-spreading new coronavirus, Interfax news agency reported on Monday (Feb 3), as nations worldwide try to curb an outbreak that has killed 361 people in China since it emerged ...

  An evil mother who beheaded her eight-month-old baby has been jailed for 25 years while her sick accomplice will be executed with a bullet to the head. Natalya Kolb, 26, and her twisted friend Viktar Syarhel, 48, both lost ...

  The family of Philip Ataga, a Kaduna-based medical doctor, fell into the hands of the exact calamity he was trying to avert in his community, fresh details have revealed. Bola Ataga, his wife, was killed by kidnappers a week ...