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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)

World News

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

World News

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…
António Guterres,

World News

UN General Assembly highlights ‘world’s to-do list’ to rescue SDGs

The 2022 SDG Moment, which places an annual spotlight on the 17 Global Goals agreed by countries in December 2015,…
Medical staff attending to Ebola Virus victim

World News

Ebola virus breaks out in central Uganda

Uganda has had over five Ebola outbreaks in the last two decades, mostly along its western regions close to the…
Buhari will on Friday, 23rd September 2022, launch Nigeria's Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) for Sustainable Development on the margins of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77) in New York.

News

Buhari to launch Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework in New York

Nigeria's INFF was proposed within the broader Addis Ababa Action Agenda as a planning and delivery tool to finance sustainable…
Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment

News

FG to adjust workers salaries to current realities – Ngige

Ngige said that the Federal Government was very much aware that the N30,000 National Minimum Wage had depreciated.
Governor Nyesom Wike has come under attack by groups and opposition in Rivers over his appointment of 14,000 advisers, 319 ward Liaison Officers and 40 local government area liaison Officers on Tuesday.

News

Wike under fire over kidnappings on failed Emohua-Kalabari road

The latest of such kidnappings was on Saturday, September 17, along the road in Rivers State when gunmen hijacked a…
Court sentences 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, to seven years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student

Metro

Lagos teacher bags 7-year jail term for sexually assaulting student

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the defendant, as the survivor…
Sunday

News

2 men docked for giving false information to police in Edo

By Jethro Ibileke A 68-year-old man, Gabriel Ekhaigba, has been charged to court by the Edo State Police Command, for…
Missing 13-year-old Kaduna girl with 'spiritual problem' found in Borno

Metro

Rivers man ‘arrests’ teenager for refusing to sleep with him after monetary gifts

The man, said to be in his 40s, allegedly got policemen from Rumupeirikom(Kala) Police Division to arrest the girl for…
Mourners to miss queen’s funeral as rail lines to Paddington blocked

World News

Leaders, monarchs gather for final farewell to Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth died on Sept. 8 at her Scottish summer home, Balmoral Castle.
FRSC explains how a woman was pursuing her husband who was with a “side chick” died when she lost control of her vehicle in Calabar

Metro

How Calabar woman died in ‘car race’ with husband over side chick

Some reports had indicated that woman sighted her husband leaving SPAR shopping Mall in the company of another female and…
Police arrest 23-year- old Akaninyene Isaac for hacking mother to death over food in Oruk Uso Otoro village, Abak LG of Akwa Ibom State.

Metro

Nasarawa man Usman Danladi cuts off rival’s wrist in fight over girlfriend

Danladi told the police that he accosted Abdullahi for assaulting his girlfriend and a brawl ensued during which he dealt…
Obi and Oshiomhole

Politics

2023: Again, Oshiomhole tackles Peter Obi

According to the former Edo governor, Obi's record as governor of Anambra State between 2006 to 2014 does not suggest…
Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ooni of Ile-Ife asks Nigerians to stop blaming the government always, but to do something for the country.

Metro

Olojo festival: Ooni reveals what he will do in 7 days’ seclusion

Ooni, who appeared in his usual white traditional attire lace with colorful ancient beads, made this known to newsmen on…
Iwuanyanwu for grand burial

Headlines, Politics

Why S.East, N.Central can’t get presidency now – Iwuanyanwu

Iwuanyanwu said if the zoning principle must be observed, it should be across the country’s six geo-political zones to give…
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