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Police in Jigawa recover live ammunition, magazines abandoned by suspects

News

Police: Why Plateau Assembly will remain sealed

The deployment of police personnel to the assembly wasn’t targeted at any group or persons but to maintain peace, protect…
Sanwo-Olu lauches Eko Rice

Headlines, Politics

Lagos election: 4 parties ask tribunal to sack Sanwo-Olu

However, PDP, Labour Party, Allied People’s Movement (APM) and the Action People’s Party (APP) have now separately asked for nullification…
Roberto Calendar, agent of Napoli striker Victor Osimhen, threatens legal action against the club over a TikTok video mocking the player.

Football, Sports

Osimhen left out of Napoli’s squad for AC Milan game

In a post on their website, Napoli said Osimhen “worked separately” from the team during Tuesday’s training session.
An accident involving a bus and an articulated vehicle claims 12 lives at Ezillo end of Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja highway, Ebonyi State

News

12 die in Ebonyi road crash

By Chukwuemeka Opara An accident involving a ford shuttle-bus and an articulated vehicle claimed lives of 12 lives of people…
Works Minister says President Bola Tinubu is ‘God Sent’ to Nigeria, southeast region, deserves support of the region for reelection in 2027

News, Politics

Umahi: Tinubu’s inauguration as president unstoppable

Umahi said this while calling on those still bitter about the victory of Tinubu in the president election to have…
New aircrafts: Ohanaeze counters Obi, says Tinubu, Shettima's safety non-negotiable

News, Top Stories

Obi, LP’s petitions only fit for the dustbin – INEC tells tribunal

In the petition marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 filed by Obi and LP’s lead counsel, Livy Ozoukwu, they contended that Tinubu “was not…
Senate clears Nyesom Wike for ministerial role

Politics

Wike bombs Dino Melaye: Your ambition to be Kogi governor is a joke

Wike said giving PDP governorship ticket in Kogi State to Dino Melaye is like planning to fail because he doesn’t…
I will continue to promote religious tolerance in Rivers - Gov. Wike

Headlines, News

Wike: I’m against PDP’s plot to hijack leadership of National Assembly

Wike confirmed that a couple of aspirants for the leadership of the national assembly have reached out to him for…
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

News

Kogi: Gunmen abduct traditional ruler, 1 other, kill widow

There have also been a rampage of gunmen in parts of Kogi East Senatorial zone. On Sunday, 9 April not…
Enugu Police

Metro

Police, bandits in gun battle in Zamfara: 2 killed

Other members of the bandits who also sustained bullet injuries however ran away, Spokesperson for Zamfara Police Command, CSP Muhammad…
Adamawa

Headlines, Metro

Kidnapper shot dead while receiving N2m ransom in Adamawa

The suspected kidnappers sighted our men around the area and engaged them in a gun duel so as to escape…
What has become evident is that Obidients mismanaged their expectations because of the rising profile of Peter Obi.

Opinion

Obidients, give us a break

No one promised Obi a coronation party in Abuja and winning the presidential election is not a stroll in the…
NDLEA sets up special squads for dislodgement of notorious drug joints, arrest of drug dealers, seizure of drugs, others in FCT.

News

37 drug peddlers convicted in Kano in 3 months – NDLEA

Also, 955.304kg of cannabis sativa, 1,225.05kg Codeine and Tramadol, 25 grams of cocaine, 17 grams of heroine and 52 grams…
emselves for exit from Nigeria over unfair treatment

News

IPOB: Igbo must organise immediately for exit from Nigeria

IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said this in a statement while reacting to the killing of members by security operatives during…
President-elect, Bola Tinubu pays glowing tribute to deceased ex- Nigeria's Attorney General and Minister of Justice and jurist, Bola Ajibola

News

‘He brought honour, dignity to Nigeria’ – Tinubu speaks on late Bola Ajibola

Tinubu paid tribute to Ajibola, who is also a former judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The…
ADC fumes as Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo defends FG's planned ₦712 billion renovation of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos

Metro

‘They’re beginning to sound forlorn’ – Keyamo hits Obidients again

Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and minister of state for Labour spoke against the ongoing criticisms of Nobel Laureate,…
Kidnappers of former deputy governor of Nasarawa State, Professor Onje Gye-Wado releases him after receiving N4 million ransom, reports say

News

Kidnappers free ex-Nasarawa deputy gov Gye-Wado after N4m ransom

Gye-Wado who was abducted in his village in Rinza of Wamba local government area of Nasarawa state last Thursday was…
Delta Government explains why it returned Ogochukwu Nwabude, a woman begging for alms in Asaba with her baby to her home state of Anambra

Metro

Why we returned female beggar to Anambra – Delta Govt

Nwabude has been begging at the spot with her small baby for about two weeks before she was allegedly taken…
MACBAN alleges that killings of innocent herders by a vigilance group is going on in Sokoto State with 16 lives lost so far.

Headlines, News

MACBAN: Wanton killings of herders going on in Sokoto

MACBAN National Secretary, Malam Bello Aliyu-Gotomo, stated this in Abuja while urging the Sokoto State Government to intervene to stop…
President Tinubu pays tribute to MKO his wife, Kudirat, Alfred Rewane, others who sacrificed their lives in defence of Nigeria's democracy

News, Top Stories

Tinubu: APC asks tribunal to throw out petitions by 3 parties

The three parties had in their in their separate petitions, challenged the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect.
Wole Soyinka granted an interview to Channels TV. That interview was not all about Datti or a criticism of Peter Obi.

Opinion

Re: Is Soyinka, the god, unravelling?

In the same interview, Wole Soyinka had opined as dangerous, the statement made by Datti and the fact that he…
VP Yemi Osinbajo pays glowing tributes to former Nigeria's AGF/ Commissioner of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola who died midnight Saturday.

News

‘I’m actually his first born’ – Osinbajo speaks on late Bola Ajibola

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo worked as special adviser to Prince Ajibola when he was the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General…
Court remands police officer who allegedly defiled a 17-year-old girl at the Ogudu Lagos Area Command premises in Kirikiri prison

Metro

Controversies trail ‘death by hanging’ of Ekiti man Akindunbi

Many who saw the remains of Akindunbi as hung on the tree suspected that he may not have hanged himself…
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) boss Hameed Ali urges Nigerians not to engage in smuggling or patronising smugglers in Easter message

News

‘Shun smuggling’ – Customs boss Hammed Ali tells Nigerians in Easter message

Ali gave the charge to Nigeria in his message of felicitations to Christians on Easter celebration issued on Sunday.
PGMOL apologises to Brighton & Hove Albion over denial of penalty kick during their Saturday’s 2-1 Premier League loss at Tottenham Hotspur.

Football, Sports

Brighton get apology after refereeing body admits penalty kick error

It is the latest show of greater transparency from Webb and a further example of his efforts to engage in…
fire

News

15 burnt to death in Enugu highway bus, truck collision

The travellers, who were all in the Toyota bus were burnt beyond recognition, according to a statement by spokesperson of…
Late Bola Ajibola being buried at Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday

News, Top Stories

Buhari leads tributes as eminent jurist Bola Ajibola is buried

Bola Ajibola, also a former High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom, Former Minister of Justice died at 89,…
A- yet- to be identified operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has committed suicide at his residence in Abuja.

News

EFCC raises alarm on fake recruitment website

EFCC in a statement on Sunday asked members of the public to ignore the website and the content.
Police confirm that a senior lecturer at Kogi varsity Olabode Abimbola Ibikunle, died while having sexual affair with a female student.

Education

Kogi: Audu Abubakar Varsity’s VC alleges plot by some Alumnus to incite crises

Prof. Tenuche disclosed that the Management of the University had, for many years, been dealing with a few individuals, who,…
Hardly a secret: the failed conspiracy to scupper the last general election and foist an IMG on Nigeria that Prof. Soyinka just spoke of.

Opinion

Vilification of Soyinka

There is a whole industry devoted to misattributing various sentiments to the Nobel Laureate on virtually every subject under the…
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