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Kingsley Moghalu

Politics

Moghalu: I’m completely out of 2023 presidential race

Moghalu after losing the ADC primaries to Dumebi Kachikwu, on June 8 in Abeokuta, Ogun , resigned from the party.
Police receive 43 rape cases in Gombe in 7 months

Metro

‘How Lagos vulcanizer raped 15-year-old sister-in-law’

The survivor said the defendant, who was her sister’s husband and had been living with them for five years, allegedly…
Police say 24-year-old Joshua Kosoro hangs himself after telling his relatives that he was hearing strange voices in Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi

Metro

4 Ekiti men to die by hanging for armed robbery, murder

The four convicts had at Ijoka Area of Ado Ekiti conspired and robbed one Ibrahim Isiaka of his phone and…
defilement

Metro

Abideen Akinbola remanded for defiling 13-year-old daughter

Adebisi said that defendant will remain in the correction centre, pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Sen. Godiya Akwashiki

Politics

Senator Godiya Akwashiki dumps APC

Akwashiki explained that his decision to leave APC was due to the alleged manipulation of the delegates’ list, which compelled…
Police nab Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa, who has alleged been avoiding facing trial for forgery, impersonation of his senior colleague

News

Barrister Stella Achebe convicted of issuing N10m dud cheque

Justice Sodetan Ogunsanya found Achebe guilty as charged and deferred her sentencing until the defendant was produced.
Sunday

Metro

Kano man Abdullahi Idris docked for sodomising 13-year-old boy

Police said Idris lured the 13-year-old boy into his living room situated in Sheka Baranda Quarters Kano and sodomised him.
Rev. Father Christopher Odia

Metro

‘How Catholic priest Christopher Odia was killed by kidnappers’

The Edo Police Command has explained how the parish priest of St Michael Catholic Church, lkhabigbo, Etsako West local government…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday (24 March 2022) participated in meeting of G7 leaders to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the global response to President Putin’s brutal and unjustified war. Organised by Germany, and hosted at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the meeting came on the back of the NATO Summit which took place earlier in the day. (File photo).

World News

G7 aims to raise $600bn to counter China’s Belt, Road

U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders re-launched the newly renamed “Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment,’’ at their…
Activist lawyer Malcom Omirobo in Court in Lagos dressed in combination of a legal practitioner and native doctor (olokun) attire

Metro

Barrister Omirhobo storms Lagos court in Olokun robe (photos)

Akin Kuponiyi Again, human rights lawyer and activist, Barrister Malcolm Omirhobo causes a stir at Federal High Court on Monday…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila

Metro

Orelope-Adefulire congratulates Gbajabiamila on 60th birthday

The former Lagos State Deputy Governor congratulated Gbajabiamila for piloting the affairs of the House in the 9th Assembly in…
Kano Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Sunday received Alh. Usman Waziri Kiru, a chieftain of Kwankwasiyya, the political movement of his predecessor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwaso who is now the presidential candidate of Nigeria Nigeria People's Party, NNPP into the All Progressives Congress, APC.

News

Ganduje receives Kano Kwankwasiyya chieftain into APC (photos)

Ganduje received Kiru and his supporters into the APC in the company of his deputy and Kano state governor candidate,…
The Kwankwasiyya Movement accuses the APC of violent attacks and thuggery against its members engaged in lawful gathering in Kano.

Politics

2023: Kwankwaso reacts to rumours of NNPP/PDP alliance

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has dismissed insinuations that he may…
Health workers carry out bodies from the Enyobeni pub in East London

World News

Ramaphosa mourns death of 22 teenage South Africans

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, which includes East London, said earlier that more than 20 young people died in the incident.
Gov Okowa receiving the Speaker of Sokoto Assembly and others who jumped ship from APC to PDP in Sokoto

Politics

Sokoto Speaker, 3 ex-APC governorship aspirants defect to PDP

Receiving the defectors, Okowa said that the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has the quality and knowledge to solve…
Researchers eliminate HIV from cells in a laboratory using a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, thus, raising hopes of a cure

Metro

Taraba confirms 77 new HIV cases

36,396 victims of HIV in Taraba were already under regular treatment while 20,200 others had been virally suppressed.
Items recovered by troops troops and other security agencies during raid of camps belonging to IPOB/ ESN in Anambra and Enugu States

News

Troops clear IPOB/ESN camps in Anambra, Enugu, recover weapons

By Sumaila Ogbaje The Nigerian Army has said its troops of 302 Regiment and security agencies have dislodged camps belonging…
Reverend Father Christopher Odia,

News, Top Stories

Breaking: Kidnapped Catholic priest killed by his abductors

The 41-year-old Rev. Fr. Christopher Odia, was kidnapped while preparing to go for Sunday service at St Michael Church, Ikabigbo.
Late former VC of UNIBEN, Prof. Osayuki Oshodin

News

Controversy trails ex-UNIBEN VC’s burial, as ‘first son’ surfaces

Oshodin was born on August 9, 1950, and was Vice Chancellor of UNIBEN from 2009 to 2014.
Minister of Defence, Bello Matawalle

Headlines, News

Insecurity: Zamfara asks residents to get guns for self- defence

Zamfara State government has rolled out measures to tackle incidents crimes associated with terrorism and banditry in the state, including…
Gabriel Volts: arrested by police operatives in Delta for cutting off the head of his one year and eight months old son for ritual

Metro

Delta man Gabriel Volt cuts off son’s head for ritual

Volts was arrested after his wife reported to the police that the child was missing.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Metro

Oyetola congratulates Gbajabiamila, Sanwo-Olu on birthday anniversaries

Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun has congratulated the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and Lagos State Governor,…
Governor Akeredolu addressing leaders of Christians Judges and Lawyers under the aegis of Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) Southwest, at the Cocoa Conference Hall of the Governor’s Office, Alagbaka, Akure, Ondo State on Friday

News

Owo attack product of Nigeria’s absurd federalism, says Akeredolu

Governor Akeredolu stressed that the issue of state police, for example, won’t be a problem if the country has embraced…
Kwara Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq

News

Kwara: Traditional rulers deliver verdict on Gov. AbdulRazaq’s govt

The Emir of Gwanara, Alhaji Sabi Idris, also commended AbdulRazaq for executing many developmental strides in the community.
Police Constable Nura Mande: rewarded with a letter of commendation and N30,000 for finding and returning 800 dollars to its owner in Katsina

Metro

Police Constable Nura Mande rewarded for finding, returning $800 to owner

By Abbas Bamalli A police Constable, Nura Mande who found and returned missing 800 dollars to its owner in Katsina…
Shireen Abu Aqleh: Al Jazeera reporter

World News

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed by Israeli soldier -UN

The journalist was killed during an Israeli military operation in Jenin in the northern West Bank.
The mother of the girl uncovered the act after she discovered a whitish slimy substance on her daughter’s underwear while doing laundry, Osun Police Command spokesperson, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi said

Metro

Herdsman remanded for raping housewife at gunpoint

The herdsman, while armed with a dummy gun, waylaid and raped his victim, a housewife, at Kaiama LGA of Kwara.
Embattled Edo Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu, denies plan to dump PDP and his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki for APC

News

Shaibu takes over in Edo as Obaseki proceeds on vacation

Obaseki also wrote to the Edo Assembly, to intimate the house of the development in accordance with constitutional requirements.
de arrest over allegation that he been raping 14- year- old daughter

Metro, News

Native doctor Edwin Iordye remanded for rape of minor patient

The victim’s cousin reported that her cousin suffered a leg pain and was taken to Iordye, to treat her.
Police

Metro

My friend lured me to bush, plucked my two eyes – Bauchi boy

By Ahmed Kaigama A 16-year-old boy has narrates how his friend, he simply identified as Wakil lured him to his…
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