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Joe Biden

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Russia wants to destroy ‘Ukraine’s right to exist – Biden

Biden said that Russia must be held accountable for any war crimes committed in Ukraine, adding that Washington was working…

News

Ekiti Varsity calls off ASUU strike, begins academic activities

By Yinusa Ishola The management of Ekiti State University said full academic activities begins on Thursday, Sept. 22. The varsity’s…
Uzodimma

News

Why security operatives burnt shops at Eke-Ututu Market – Uzodimma

By Peter Okolie Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo has given reason for Saturday’s security raid at Eke-Ututu Market in Orsu…
Dr Boluwatife Olurotimi has expressed optimism in the ability of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,

Politics

2023: Kogi businessman drums support for Atiku

Richard Elesho A Kogi State based politician and businessman, Dr Boluwatife Olurotimi has expressed optimism in the ability of Alhaji…
APC planning to cause civil unrest ahead governorship poll - Edo Govt

News

Obaseki rationalizes Edo MDAs

Edo State Government has warned head teachers against extortion of students in public schools by imposing illegal levies.
NANS vows to shutdown the country and disrupt political campaigns if FG fail to accede to the demands of the ASUU within two weeks.

Education

ASUU strike: NANS blows hot, vows to stop political campaign

The students had in separate protests grounded activities on the major highways in the country in the past one week,…
ASUU

Education, Headlines, News, Top Stories

UPDATED: Court orders ASUU members to call off strike

The Minister of Labour and Employment on behalf of the Federal Government had filed the matter before the court by…
EFCC deploys operatives across the 36 states and FCT to combat vote buying in next Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections.

Headlines, News

EFCC speaks on ‘invasion’ of Justice Ita Mbaba’s residence’

But while it agreed that its operatives was at the house, EFCC said the visit has nothing to do with…
President Muhammadu Buhari appoints Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos as the Director-General/CEO of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

News

Buhari appoints Dembos as NTA Director-General

Until his appointment, Mr. Dembos was the Executive Director, Marketing, of the NTA.
Police dock Abuja hairstylist, Chiamaka Nmonye for stabbing her apprentice, Joy Jacob with a scissors during an argument.

World News

Ex- police chief gets life sentence for $10m bribery

Gong received money and valuables worth about 73.43 million yuan (10.56 million U.S. dollars).
Deng Huilin, former deputy mayor of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking bribes.

World News

Ex-deputy mayor of Chongqing jailed 15 years for bribery

Deng was found guilty of taking advantage of his former positions in Hubei Province and the Chongqing Municipality between 1999…

Headlines, Politics, Top Stories

JUST IN: Wike’s camp pulls out of Atiku’s Campaign Council

The decision of the group was announced by former Deputy National Chairman of APC, Bode George after the meeting that…
Members of Mineral Resources and Environmental Management Committee, MIREMCO with EFCC officials in Ilorin, Kwara State

News

EFCC: 45 suspects, 14 trucks nabbed on raid in Kwara illegal mining site

The Ilorin Zonal Command of EFCC had on September 9 arrested a 29-year old Chinese, Gang Deng, for suspected illegal…
Three suspected armed robbery suspects who specialised in using charms to break into houses identified as Abdullahi Sa’idu, Umar Abubakar Faruk and Zakariyya Hussaini arrested in Katsina State.

Metro

Armed robbers using charms to break houses busted in Katsina

The suspects, according to the police, specialised in using charms to break houses in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of…
UNGA Opening 8: President Buhari with Former Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Chief of Staff Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama, Permanent Representatives of Nigeria to UN Prof. Tijani Muhammad-Bande and Minister of Finance Hajia Zainab Ahmed during the Opening of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York on 20th Sep 2022

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Buhari to address 77th UN General Assembly today

The Nigerian President were among world leaders that attended the opening of the General Debate of the 77th UN General…
Sunday

Metro

Lagos man Sunday Zabadi docked for stealing necklaces worth N8.9m

Zabadi allegedly stole and converted to his personal use, the parcel belonging to one Mr Temitope Badiru.
Edo High Court remands 38-year-old Pastor, Simeon Okehielem, for allegedly raping and impregnating a house wife, Mrs Isoken Vivian Aigbedo.

Metro

Lagos banker Blessing Bassey jailed 7 years for theft

Bassey, an employee of one of the old generation banks, stole the sum from her employer from April 15 to…
The people of Mariga town of Niger state are searching for more than 500 buried corpses suspected to have been washed away by Floods.

News

Floods wash away 500 corpses from cemetery in Niger

The community was in total confusion as it had to relocate about 100 other corpses from the cemetery to another…

Headlines, Politics

Sokoto APC: How we will defeat PDP, others in 2023

By Muhammad Nasir The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it will make its campaigns issue based campaign to defeat…
Dave Umahi

Politics

2023: INEC clears Umahi, 79 others for NASS elections

INEC also wwcleared 32 presidential and vice presidential candidates from the 18 registered political parties for the 2023 poll.
Police rescue four of the passengers abducted from commercial bus hijacked in the Omerelu axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road, Rivers State

Metro

Rivers: Again, gunmen abduct passengers on Emohua-Kalabari road

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Yet to be identified gunmen on Tuesday night attacked a vehicle along the now notorious Emohua/Kalabari road…
Four among the seven passengers kidnapped last Sarurday along the Emohua-Kalabari road in Rivers State have regained the freedom.

News

4 passengers abducted in Rivers regain freedom

DCP Muhammed Shehu assured that the Police were on the trail of the kidnappers, while efforts were on to secure…
APC planning to cause civil unrest ahead governorship poll - Edo Govt

Politics

2023: Nigerians may shock political class, parties, Obaseki warns

The Edo Governor noted that Nigerians are fed up with the inefficiencies and failures of government officials and others representatives…
Members of the community in Anambra protesting reference to their area as 'Nkerehi' instead of their preferred 'Umuchukwu'

News

Umuchukwu or Nkerehi? Anambra community at war over name of their area

Some members of the community who preferred the name 'Umuchukwu' recently staged a protest in Anambra Government House, Awka, during…
Islamic State (IS)

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Türkiye detains 10 Islamic State suspects

The Turkish government designated the IS a terrorist organisation in 2013, blaming it for a spate of deadly attacks in…
Court orders accelerated hearing in a N5 billion libel suit field by Sen. Yisa Braimoh against three factional members of the Edo PDP.

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Sen. Braimoh slams N5bn libel suit on 3 Edo PDP members

Sen. Braimoh, in the suit marked: FCT/HC/CV/1025/2022, is suing Omobumhe Bobmanuel Umaru (aka Jesus Army), Osilame Okuofu and Boniface Pascal…
Sunday

Metro

3 tenants fighting over ‘turn to fetch water’ land in court

The police charged Chidinma Orebiyi, 37; Favour Ikenna , 21 and Robert Ikenna, 24, who all reside in Oshodi, Lagos…
General Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar military junta in Jakarta for talks

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Myanmar military threatens jail for online ‘likes’ for opponents

Since the Myanmar coup, opponents of the military have used social media platforms to try to communicate their message more…
NAPTIP intercepts 13 victims of human trafficking on the way to Baghdad, Iraq at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA)Abuja

News

NAPTIP intercepts 19 Libya bound Nigerians in Kano

The victims were being taken to Libya, for commercial sex and labour exploitation,
Two children and their parents have been found dead in their house in the region of Brittany on the northern French coast, reports says

World News

French court convicts 3 policemen over 2015 death of black man

Amadou Koume, 33, died after he was pinned to the ground by officers in a bar and put in a…
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