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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 22-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Arnold Maniru, for allegedly importing four kilogrammes of drugged cookies from the United Kingdom, spokesman Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday. ...

One hundred security operatives have so far lost their lives in the course of enforcing the Benue State Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranching Establishment Law of 2017. Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed on Tuesday in Makurdi, the state capital, while receiving ...

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games gold medallist Latifat Tijani says she was highly impressed with the hospitality, organisational structure and the Japanese people that the thought of not returning to Nigeria crossed her mind at some point at the global Games. ...

A fire tore through an overcrowded Indonesian prison in the early hours of Wednesday when most inmates were asleep, killing 41 people and injuring dozens of others, an official said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze – which was mostly contained within ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared that a former Miss Nigeria, Helen Prest-Ajayi, is entitled to 50 per cent of the net assets of her late husband, Dr Tosin Ajayi. Justice Tijjani Ringim gave the ruling on ...

A Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Dr. Ahmad Gumi, has called on Fulani ethnic group to ensure they register and obtain voter cards ahead of the 2023 general elections in the country. According to him, obtaining voter cards is very important because ...

Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party will meet in Abuja on Wednesday (today) to decide the fate of the party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus. The meeting will, among other things, consider the report and recommendations of ...

Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters, has accused the Nigeria Police Force of trying to frustrate his family after his younger brother was shot dead in Edo state. Sowore raised the alarm in a post via his Facebook account today. ...

Eight Brazil players are set to be missing from Premier League games at the weekend after the Brazilian federation invoked a FIFA rule that will temporarily suspend them. Premier League clubs had collectively voted to ban players from linking up ...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has blasted the Miyetti Allah Kataul Hore over plans to move against the anti-open grazing law in the state and other southern states. Akeredolu who is the Chairman of the South West Governors’ Forum ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is not welcomed to the Southeast. IPOB Director of Socials, Chika Edoziem, made the remark while ordering a sit-at-home in protest of Buhari’s visit to Imo State on ...

Barcelona defender, Gérard Pique has revealed that his relationship with Colombian music star, Shakira, had caused problems between him and former manager, Pep Guardiola. Guardiola left Pique behind at Barcelona to join Bayern Munich and is now the Manager at ...

The Nigeria Football Federation has admitted error in its earlier counting of Super Eagles’ captain Ahmed Musa’s record. The Federation said FIFA was right in its counting, in a statement titled, ‘NFF defers to FIFA on Ahmed Musa’s record’. While ...

The Director-General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Mohammed has been sacked after four months in office. His abrupt sack was contained in a statement on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to ...

The Lagos State Police command has invited Uzoamaka Ohiri, the former wife of comedian, Chinedu Ani, a.k.a Nedu. Punch correspondent learnt that policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, visited her home in the Ajah area of Lagos ...

The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to an Abia State High Court, over what he described as violations of his human rights. The Federal Government, the ...

Kylie Jenner has confirmed she is expecting her second child with rapper Travis Scott following weeks of speculation. The reality TV star and make-up mogul announced the news with a 90-second Instagram video featuring the moment she discovered she was ...

Angry protests, technological glitches and a plummet in value marked the first day of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. The price of Bitcoin on Tuesday crashed to its lowest in nearly a month, falling from $52,000 (£37,730) to ...

Veteran actor, Richard Mofe Damijo aka RMD has told his colleague, Sola Sobowale that he will make sure he kisses her before quitting Nollywood. He says for over three decades that they have portrayed the roles of married couples, he ...

Anxiety is mounting in Magboro Community of Ogun over a suspected Cholera outbreak, with about 10 people already feared dead. The suspected outbreak was first reported on Friday, when a resident of the community living in an uncompleted building died. ...

At least 17 patients have been killed after heavy rainfall caused flooding at a hospital in Mexico’s central Hidalgo state, officials say. They say a river burst its banks and water then cut the power supply at the hospital in ...

Barrister I. Awo, the counsel for the Department of State Service, DSS, has told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that the case file containing the fundamental human rights enforcement application filed by aides to the embattled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, marked their 54th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. Their last child, Leke Adeboye, took to his verified Instagram page to announce the ...

An assistant director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Mr Christopher Orji, has reportedly committed suicide in Abuja. Orji’s lifeless body was reportedly found dangling with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at his residence at Federal Housing ...

  Inibehe Effiong, the lawyer representing the family of late Kubiat Isaac Akpan, the prospective National Youths Service Corps member who died in Police cell in Akwa Ibom State, said that autopsy report revealed that the deceased was tortured to ...