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Forensic personnel investigate after the deaths of patrons found inside the Enyobeni Tavern, in Scenery Park, outside East London in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, June 26, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer.

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Anger, tears in South Africa after 21 teens likely accidentally poisoned in pub

Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana told Reuters that the youngest victim was 13 years
The three suspects arrested plucking of two eyes of a 16-year-old Bauchi boy, Uzairu Salisu

Metro

3 arrested for plucking eyes of Bauchi teenager Uzairu Salisu

Police operatives recovered the eyeballs in a calabash, following a prompt search of the prime suspect’s house.
Ekweremadu, wife accused of conspiring to harvest child organs in UK

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Organ donor’s claim: Ekweremadu, wife sue NIMC, NIS, others

Ekweremadu and his wife were, on Thursday, remanded in the UK police custody, after they were arraigned for alleged conspiracy…
The Railway contractors protesting in Abuja on Monday

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Railway contractors protest non-payment of N500m debt

The angry contractors were subcontractors to the major company called Deux Projects Limited, owned by one Dr. Tunji Olowolafe.
Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola campaigning in Modakeke for Osun governorship election on Monday

Politics

Osun 2022: Oyetola campaigns in Modakeke, makes promises

The APC governorship candidate seeking a second term advised the electorate to ensure that they get to their polling centres…
Scene of the killing of Aondohumba Terkula by the sergeant

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Sgt. Aondona arrested for killing truck driver over N3000 bribe

According to human rights activist, Ukan Kurugh, the trailer driver offered to pay N1500, stating that he didn’t have a…
FILE PHOTO: National Population Commission officials from the 2006 Census exercise.

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NPC to conduct trial census in 6 LGAs

Data generated during the trial census will not be used to arrive at figures for the 2023 census
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…
Kano Justice Ministry sacks state counsel over alleged forgery, misconduct

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

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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…
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