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Bandits take out 72 health centres in Katsina

Katsina government also said some of the health workers were kidnapped, but later released.
NIMASA DG, Bashir Jamoh

Metro

NIMASA raises alarm on fraudulent employment schemes

The Management of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has disassociated itself from viral messages on social media that…
Group warns that campaigns for 2023 election in Rivers will be characterized by violence following recent appointments by Gov. Nyesom Wike .

News

ASUU: Rivers warns workers against joining NLC solidarity strike

Godwin told the civil servants that they have no reason to participate in the strike as Rivers State Government is…
President Muhammadu Buhari mourns passage of his 'most valued friend' and classmate at Government College Katsina, Sen. Abba Ali.

News, Top Stories

JUST IN: Gunmen rain bullets on Buhari’s advance team

The gunmen shot at the convoy of cars carrying the presidential advance team near Dutsinma, Katsina State, Garba Shehu, the…
Golden Chioma; dumps APC

Politics

Golden Chioma chairman of Abe’s faction of Rivers APC dumps party

Golden Chioma, a lawyer, and represented Omuma State Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly when Rotimi Amaechi, former…
Prices of bread going up

Metro

Bakers hike prices of bread in Rivers

Mr. Orlu pleaded with customers and residents of Rivers State to show understanding and adjust to the new prices because…
Gunmen

Metro

Gunmen demand N3m to free abducted naval staff, Musa Lawal

The traumatised wife of the victim, Juliana, while narrating her ordeal, said one of her husband's hands was cut and…
Big Brother Naija (BBNaija season 7)

Entertainment

Date for kickoff of Big Brother Naija Season 7 announced

Big Brother Naija organisers, Multichoice Nigeria has announced the seventh edition of the television reality show will  premiere with a…

Metro

One-year old falls from 7th floor, dies

The incident is being treated as a sudden unexpected death in childhood
Ajaokuta steel plant

News

‘Why Ajaokuta steel coy should not be abandoned’

Asuquo said that coal and iron ore needed for iron making had been researched by NMDC, adding that only foreign…
Yahaya Bello: A Fugitive of Justice?

News

Yahaya Bello sends names of 3 commissioner- designates to Kogi Assembly

The nominees include former Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo who had resigned his appointment to contest for APC…
Ikpeazu

News

Gov. Ikpeazu sacks LG Chair, swears in Deputy

She was sworn in against the backdrop of the defection of the former Chairman, Mr Ibe Nwoko, from PDP to…
Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, at the re-election campaign of Gov. Gboyega Oyetola for Osun July 16 election on Monday

Politics

Osun election: Sanwo-Olu, Ganduje join Oyetola’s campaign train

In his remarks, Gov. Ganduje said the leadership and members of the party were resolute to deliver Osun to APC.
NAHCON announces date to begin transporting Nigerian pilgrims participating in the 2025 Hajj in Saudi Arabia back home

News

2022 Hajj: Why 150 intending Oyo pilgrims were barred

629 out of 43,000 slots given to Nigeria was allocated to Oyo State to perform 2022 Hajj, despite that over…
Italian Reverend Father, Luigi Brenda: Rescued after gun battle in which three of his abductors were killed in by police operatives in Edo state

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Police kill 3 kidnappers, rescue Italian Rev. Fr. in Edo

The 68-year-old members of Somascan Father’s Community, was kidnapped by the hoodlums along Ogunwenyi through Usen community, in Ovia South…
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and his team monitoring the mock accreditation exercise using the BVAS at Salvation Grammar School Alekuwodo Osogbo ahead of the #OsunDecides2022 Election that will take place on 16th July 2022 on Monday

Politics

Osun election: INEC commences mock accreditation

INEC mock accreditation exercise will take place in six local government areas, two registration areas/wards across the three senatorial districts…
Edo High Court remands 38-year-old Pastor, Simeon Okehielem, for allegedly raping and impregnating a house wife, Mrs Isoken Vivian Aigbedo.

Metro

Osun herbalist Kehinde Ola remanded over 800k fraud

The defendant unlawfully and fraudulently obtained the sum of N800,000 from one Adesoji Omolewa under the pretext of taking care…
Ex- Ekiti governor Ayodele Fayose

News

N6.9bn fraud: Judge stalls Fayose’s trial

Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for N6.9billion fraud and money laundering charges.
The quadruplets of Naja’atu Isiyaka during donation of food and baby care items to them by Hajiya Aisha Matawalle, wife of Zamfara governor

Metro

Zamfara quadruplets get gifts from governor’s wife

Presenting the items to the families at the Federal Medical Centre Gusau, Hajiya Aisha Matawalle expressed delight and rejoiced with…
Some of the suspects arrested in recent operations by the police. They include five members of of fraud syndicate who specialized in hacking into bank accounts of individuals and corporate bodies to steal monies arrested while attempting to hack into a company’s account to steal N3.4 billion.

News, Top Stories

Hackers attempting to steal N3.4bn from company’s account busted

Police equally arrested a notorious arms dealers and two kidnap suspects in Kaduna leading to the release of two kidnapped…
4th from right: Ex- Borno governor, Kashim Shettima, Chairman of the investiture ceremony of the Managing Editor Northern Operation of The Nation Newspaper and Rotarian Yusuf Alli 5th from right) as the 11th President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Maitama, in Abuja and other dignitaries at the event

News

Nigeria lacks selfless, charitable leaders – Sen. Shettima

Shettima said he is not surprised that Rotn. Yusuf Alli was chosen as the as the 11th President of the…
University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH

News

UPTH speaks on ‘death’ of 19 babies in its incubators

The 'anonymous source' also claimed relatives are lights from their phones to aid doctors and nurses who were taking care…
Court remands police officer who allegedly defiled a 17-year-old girl at the Ogudu Lagos Area Command premises in Kirikiri prison

Metro

Enyi Friday arrested for impersonating police corporal in Ebonyi

Enyi Friday, who is not a police officer, was caught wearing the uniform of a Police Corporal, hence his arrest.
The heavy-duty truck that crushes four vehicles close to Karu Bridge on the ever busy Abuja- Nyanya- Keffi Express way on Sunday

News

Truck crushes 4 vehicles on Abuja expressway

Reacting to the accident, the Federal Capital Territory Sector Commander, FRSC, Mr Samuel Ochi, explained that the accident occurred around…
Fr. Mbaka and Peter Obi

Opinion

The politics of political correctness in Nigeria

The ambitious must therefore be careful, with the political correctness police on constant surveillance, a loose lip could sink your…
Face of two kidnap kingpins arrested in Ekiti State, Abashe Idris and Ibrahim Mumini Toyin

Metro

Kidnappers reveal how they invested ransoms in Ekiti

Idris and Toyin masterminded abduction of many high profile personalities in the area, including the kidnapping of one Adeeko Ademola…
The seven inmates of Port Harcourt Maximum Custodian Centre graduates from the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, after receiving their certificates

Education

NOUN: 7 Port Harcourt custodian centre graduates receive certificates

The Registrar of NOUN, Felix Edokan while presenting the certificates to the seven graduates said one of them graduated in…
Professor Wole Soyinka with Femi's wife, Dr Kofo Soyinka.

Metro

Laughter, fun at evening of tributes for Prof. Femi Soyinka

Salient features of the tributes to Prof. Femi Soyinka are the insistent roars of intermittent laughter that they elicited and…
Rep Jude Ise-Idehen

Metro

Obaseki mourns Rep Jude Ise-Idehen

Obaseki noted that Ise-Idehen was an illustrious Edo son who worked for the upliftment of his constituents in particular and…
Edo police command reacts to claim that CP Abutu Yaro, illegally released suspected oil thieves after collecting ₦7 million bribe.

Metro

Edo cult clashes: Court remands 7 suspects

No fewer than eight persons were killed between Wednesday and Thursday, in a resurgence of cult-related clashes in Benin, the…
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