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Zamfara Government has said that repentant bandits have surrendered 203 sophisticated firearm, under the state government peace accord. The Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Garba Dauran, made this known to newsmen in Gusau. Dauran also said that 2,566 ...

The Nigerian Naira has suffered two consecutive days of melt down in the unofficial market as it tumbles by about N17 for each dollar. The market had some semblance of stability for weeks, selling and buying at between N480-485. But ...

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Thursday said Nigeria is on the verge of collapse as the 2023 general election is threatened in view of series of attacks on INEC offices. Falana spoke at the final sitting of the ...

The World Bank has approved a $700 million loan for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH). In a statement released yesterday, the bank said the credit will provide six million people with basic ...

Andrea Pirlo has been fired as manager of Juventus on Friday. Juventus made the announcement in a statement via their Twitter handle on Friday morning. Pirlo took charge of Juventus last year, replacing Maurizio Sarri. Juventus are now expected to ...

  Burna Boy and Wizkid have been nominated for the Best International Act at the BET Award Show for 2021. Burna Boy won the category in the last two years and Wizkid won it in 2012, when the category had ...

  Rita Daniels who is the mother of Regina Daniels, was not in the mood for trolling as she hurled curses at a fan who insulted her on Instagram. Many celebrities have to face online abuses from trolls on social ...

  The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the licence of Ahmad Isah’s Human Rights Radio for “recurring unprofessional conduct”. NBC issued a statement today, after meeting with the owner, Ahmed Isah, who host the Berekete Family Show on the ...

A band of Bororo herders with thousands of cows from Iseyin, in Oyo state, who tried to enter Ojoku-Ikotun axis of Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara state, have been chased out of the communities. They were chased out on ...

A Chinese national, Marra Thai and an aide of Gov. Abdullahi Sule were among the 15 people arrested for theft of rail tracks and rail sleepers in Nasarawa state. Governor Sule’s aide was identified as Yusuf Abubakar Musa, the adviser ...

Mr Jacob Oyedepo, the father of the late airman, Matthew Oyedepo, has said his son’s death will not make him stop the siblings of the deceased from joining the Army. Matthew died in the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 that crash landed ...

Private and missionary schools have shut down in Imo State as a result of the sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra on Monday, May 31, 2021, throughout the South-East region. Residents of Owerri also resorted to panic buying ...

  Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to flog former Governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu for calling him a dictator. Aliyu during an interview last week, said a certain “dictator in Rivers State” was behind the travails of ...

  A Nigerian woman has narrated her horrific experience after she was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She explained that she was on her way home from work on Sunday, May 23, when she entered a commercial mini bus ...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians that in spite of the current security challenges, the country is in safe hands. The Minister, who gave the assurance while receiving the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, Oba ...

Pre-wedding photos of 45 year old Popular Adamawa politician, Barr. Jamila Babuba and her 23-year-old lover, Adam Modibbo  has gone viral on social media. The couple got married on 18 of May and their wedding reception will hold on the 31st ...

Friends of a Nigerian woman mourns after she was allegedly crushed to death by her husband as she tried to stop him from driving out of the compound with her phone. The woman’s husband identified as Makanjuola Ayedun is a ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Anambra State has paraded a 48-year old plumber, Thomas Igbo for allegedly Defiling his three underaged daughters. The daughters whose ages were given as eight, three, and one and half years were ...

Talented Nollywood actor, Adeyemi has advised his fellow men to take time off to relax. Adeyeni says men also need some ”me time” and las las everyone will be alright. He says school fees and others will find a way ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the license of Human Rights Radio. This was announced in a statement issued on Thursday. The travails of the station began after Ahmed Isah, its owner, who is also the host of Berekete ...

Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, said passport issuing offices all over the country will stay open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily to clear the backlog of applications. Babandede also announced an increase in its production ...

Leaders of Mali’s military have released interim president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane from detention following intervention from former President Goodluck Jonathan who is the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Mali. The ...

Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has found lone, again. His new woman is Miss Ezenwa Chika Nerita who was crowned as Queen of Aso International 2019/2020. This comes a few months after he parted ways with the mother of his ...

President Muhammadu Buhari today appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. Yahaya replaces the late General Ibrahim Attahiru who recently died in a fatal plane crash en-route Kaduna State along with other senior officers and ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday joined Lagosians in celebrating 2021 Children’s Day Celebration. The governor alongside his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, Lagos Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Jaji were ...