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Players of Argentina rejoice after victory over Poland in Qatar 2022 World Cup march

Football, Sports

Argentina outclass Poland to advance, in spite of Messi’s penalty kick miss

Lionel Messi missed a first half penalty kick but Argentina’s Alexis Mac Allister and Julian Alvarez scored in a 2-0…
Mbappe sends message of support to Brazil legend Pele

Football, Sports

Breaking: Football legend Pele rushed to hospital

Pele, currently undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer, went into the Albert Einstein hospital on Tuesday in what was an unscheduled…
A 27-year-old fraudster aka 'Yahoo, yahoo boy' Obeta John tells police in Ogun State why he beat his girlfriend, Idowu Buhari, to death

Metro

‘Yahoo boy’ Obeta John: Why I beat my girlfriend to death

He added that neighbours had raised alarm that John was hitting her girlfriend's head against the wall as he was…
Osun Government cautions residents against unprotected sex to minimise spread of HIV in the face of withdrawal of support from USAID.

World News

WHO report: Number of undiagnosed HIV cases on the rise in Europe

According to new data, since 2018 to 2021, more people became infected with HIV in the European Region than had…
NNPC Ltd attributes fuel queues across the country to ongoing road construction around Apapa area of Lagos and bad roads at depots

News

Petrol scarcity: NNPCL blames road construction in Lagos

According to the NNPCL, the movement of trucks being used to load petrol from the depot to different parts of…
Lagos

Headlines, News

Alleged defilement: Lagos doctor Femi Olaleye remanded

Oleleye is charged with a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration.
Former President of the Peoples’ Republic of China Jiang Zemin: dies at 96.

World News

Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies at 96

Jiang was the core of the CPC’s third generation of central collective leadership and the principal founder of the Theory…
With abandonment of its strict zero-COVID policy measures, the Chinese govt promises better medical treatment as well as supply of drugs.

World News

COVID-19 protests escalate as China lockdown anger boils

China Dissent Monitor, run by U.S. government-funded Freedom House, estimated at least 27 demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions took place across…

News

Osun: Adeleke inaugurates panels for recovery of looted assets, others

After inaugurating the four panels in Osogbo, Governor Adeleke also urged them to review all appointments made after July 17…
Operatives of LASTMA arrest Monday Amhe and a lady simply identified as Joy over alleged abduction of a lady inside their car in Yaba, Lagos

Headlines, Metro

Notorious Lagos ‘one chance’ robbers busted

Oreagba said that the two suspected abductors were arrested by LASTMA team personnel on Tuesday while monitoring traffic around the…
President Buhari and other leaders at the 16th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in Abuja

World News

LCBC: Chadian leader Mahamat Itno takes over from Buhari

By Ismaila Chafe Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, the President of the Transition Military Council of Chad, has emerged Chairman of…
President Buhari and other leaders at the 16th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in Abuja

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Russia -Ukraine war: Buhari raises alarm on influx of weapons into Lake Chad region

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has again called for tighter border security in the Lake Chad region to consolidate…
Police react to committal of I-G Usman Baba to prison over alleged refusal to obey court judgment reinstating a police officer, Patrick Okoli

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Police fault judgment committing I-G Baba to 3-month imprisonment

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, committed Usman Baba, to a three-month imprisonment over alleged refusal to…
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State

News

Kogi, Chinese firm sign MoU on provision of new security architecture

Bello, while declaring the workshop open, said he was confident that the project, which would be driven by 5G network…
INEC boss Yakubu Mahmood assures people of Ogun of credible election in 2023 despite recent burning of the commission's office in the state

Politics

Attacks on our offices will not stop 2023 election – INEC Chairman

Adejoke Adeleye,Abeokuta The National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Yakubu Mahmood has assured the people of Ogun…
Surrendered Boko Haram fighters

Headlines, News

X-raying handling of surrendered terrorists, rescued women, children in Borno

So far, available records show that over 82,237 fighters and their families have surrendered since July 2021, out of which…
No rift in Osun Assembly over Christmas gift from Adeleke: Speaker Owoeye

News

Adeleke to APC dominated Osun Assembly: I’m ready to work with you

By Olajide Idowu Gov. Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday promised that he is ready to work with members of mostly opposition…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday mourns the demise of Dr Paul Unongo, saying that the country lost an elder statesman.

News

‘He was a colossus in public life’- Buhari mourns ex-minister Paul Unongo

A former Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum and former Minister of Steel Development in the Second Republic, Unongo held…
Kachalla Kallamu and the 13 other bandits were killed by Nigerian Army troops in two different operations in Sabon Birni LGA of Sokoto State.

News

Supplier of bulletproof charms to bandits arrested in Katsina

He said the police recovered four bulletproof charms enveloped in jackets and a talisman from the suspect.
Operatives of Amotekun Corps rescue five people from kidnappers in two overnight operations at Akure South LGA of Ondo state.

News

4 arrested over attempt to slaughter teenager for ritual in Ekiti

By Yinusa Ishola The South-West Nigeria Security Network also known as Amotekun Corps in Ekiti has arrested two suspects for…
The management of UPTH orders autopsy on the remains of social media influencer, Odeyemi Michael Folurusho, also known as YemiThePlug

Entertainment

Protests trail death of popular Port Harcourt blogger YemiThePlug

A group of angry youths on Tuesday blocked the entrance gate of the UPTH, protesting over death of Odeyemi.

News

Adeleke dissolves all non-statutory boards in Osun

All Accounting Officers of such Boards, Parastatals and Commissions are to take charge with immediate effect,
Ex-Minister Umar-Farouk: Why I didn’t honour EFCC’s invitation over 'N37bn fraud'

News

Quit if you aren’t ready for the Job, Reps tell Humanitarian Minister 

This followed her incessant failure to appear before various Committees of the House to defend the ministry’s 2023 budget proposal.
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (middle), his deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo (2nd right); Senator Barry Mpigi (1st right); former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Chibudom Nwuche (1st right) and former Rivers State PDP chairman, Felix Obuah (2nd left) at the inauguration the Rukpokwu-Rumuapu-Izo-Ogbodo-Igwuruta Link Road on Tuesday.

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Wike to Rivers people: I will soon tell you the presidential candidate to vote for

Wike is leading five governors of PDP who have refused to support the candidacy of Atiku over the continued stay…
Police arrest Enugu native doctor Odoh Emmanuel for killing his client Onunze Benedict, while testing bullet proof charm he had done for him.

Metro

Enugu native doctor kills client while testing bullet proof charm

According to police statement, the incident happened in Umuaram Village, Isi-Uzo LGA of Enugu State on 16 November, 2022.
Obasanjo

Opinion, World News

My Ethiopia -Tigray experience and the road to peace

A peace agreement was signed by the delegates and representatives of the Ethiopian Federal Government, TPLF and the Tigray people…
Police arrest Monday Ajasco for killing Abdulrazak Ibrahim who refused to buy beer for him with a horn in Bagel village of Bauchi State. 

Metro

Bauchi: Monday Ajasco stabs man to death for refusing to buy beer for him

According to the police statement, Ajasco had met Ibrahim at a beer parlor at Bagel village around 11 pm and…
defilement

News

Kaduna farmer Istifanus Musa docked for defiling 2 minors

The two girls’ case against the farmer, who lives in Mabushi, Zango Kataf Local Government Area of the state, were…
Businessman Gyang Dung jailed 3 months for stealing policeman’s phone

Metro

N500 for N1000 deal: Abuja man Dung docked for swindling chief, 99 others

Dung is accused of swindling the Chief of Jiwape Madaki community in Nasarawa State and other villagers of N52, 500.
Edo State Police Command says its anti-robbery team of Ugbekun Police Division, Benin City, has arrested "three dare-devil armed robbers."

Metro, News

Three in police net for armed robbery/cultism in Edo

Items recovered from the suspects are: one cut-to-size locally made gun and one Black Beret of Eiye Secret Cult Confraternity.
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