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Trace confirms one dead, two injured when a vehicle lost control and rammed into a culvert in Sagamu-Ikorodu Highway of Ogun State

Metro

Truck crushes 2 bike riders to death in Ogun

The motorcycle rider rammed into the truck in the course of losing control and concentration, thus killing the two passengers…
Murder

Metro

Michael Uchenna remanded over threat to kidnap 2 Ekiti radio presenters

The complainants reported to the police that the defendant called and told them that they should transfer N5 million to…
Fred Ajudua

Metro

$8.4m fraud trial: Ajudua to undergo compulsory COVID-19 test

Court gave the order following Ajudua’s failure to appear in court for his trial for three consecutive times over claim…
Ogun government rolls out figures to disprove claim of diversion of funds allocated to LGs in the state from Federal Govt by Gov. Dapo Abiodun

News

2023: Gov. Abiodun asks appointees with political ambition to resign

Abiodun noted that while it was legitimate to have such ambitions, he would not tolerate any activity that could undermine…
Fire outbreak An inferno in Burundi Central Prison killed 38 people and injured 69 others,

World News

Just in: 38 dead, 69 injured in huge prison fire outbreak

The fire broke out in the prison, where at least 1,000 prisoners were kept at about 4 a.m. (02.00 GMT).
Head, Corporate Communications of Ndorama Petrochemicals, and former General Editor,Newswatch magazine, Dr Jossy Nkwocha delivering lecture.

Metro

Nsirim: Journalists must hold public officials accountable

He admitted that journalists are facing challenges from attacks from hoodlums, thugs, and even security agents.
Some of the demoted Obas who pledged loyalty to Governor Dapo Abiodun after their legal victory

Metro

Court victory: 75 Ogun Obas pledge loyalty to Gov. Abiodun

The coronet Obas were Baales before they were elevated by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun at the tail end of his…
Unexploded devices found on Orlu-Owerri road by Nigerian Army

News, Top Stories

Troops uncover IPOB/ESN bombs hidden on Imo highway

The troops also recovered four wraps of unexploded ordinances, one motor cycle battery, two vehicle alarm devices, one detonator, wires…
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

Kogi man, Ebenezer Olorunleke to die for killing brother

Ebenezer and others, now at large, conspired to rob his blood brother, Sunday Olorunleke, of his Bajaj Motorcycle with Registration…
Gov. Dave Umahi with members of Youth Wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide in Abakaliki on Monday

News

Umahi fumes over suspension of Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth President

Umahi said it is illogical for a group of persons to allege to have suspended the Ebonyi representative in the…
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi

World News

Suu Kyi’s prison sentence reduced to 2 years

A special court in Myanmar’s capital, sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison…
APC

Metro

Edo: PDP battles APC over Obaseki’s 2022 budget

PDP said APC exhibited crass ignorance, unforgivable deliberate deceit and told barefaced lies in its criticism of the budget proposal

News

Yahaya Bello blames in-house saboteurs for Buhari’s failures

However, Bello who is eyeing the presidency in 2023, said he would fix the country if he is elected.

Education

AAU sacks 4 lecturers for gross misconduct

They were dismissed from the service of the University for alleged illegal collections of unauthorised fees, alterations of students results…
Dr David Atte: invited by DSS after comments on Sheikh Gumi's visit to Fulani communities in Kogi

Metro

DSS invites ex-commissioner over comments on Sheik Gumi

The environmentalist and former governorship aspirant had in a statement objected to Gumi tour of the Fulani settlements in the…
Ini Edo

Entertainment

Ini Edo’s torturous journey to motherhood

An actress who sure knows how to get what she wants, no matter the odds and obstacles, she has always…
The 120-bed Muhammadu Buhari Mother and Child Centre delivered by OSSAP- SDGs in Gashua, Yobe State

Metro

OSSAP-SDGs delivers 120 – bed Mother and Child Centre in Yobe

The intervention is directly linked to the achievement of SDG-3 on ‘Quality Health and Well-being for all’ as well as…
a policeman

Metro

Rice farmer, Sani Adamu rescued from kidnappers in Kaduna

The victim was abducted while working on a rice farm around Afaka village in igabi Local Government Area in Kaduna
Former governor Ibrahim Shekarau with National leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the meeting in Lagos on Sunday

Politics, Top Stories

Shekarau visits Tinubu amidst battle with Ganduje for Kano APC

Some analysts had said last week's court judgment which gave control of Kano APC to Shekarau was a setback for…
APC

Politics

APC clears Ekiti LG election

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), boycotted the election
Master of Jesus College Sonita Alleyne, left and Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments Professor Abba Isa Tijani pose with Benin cockerel statue

Metro

Buhari orders return of repatriated artifacts to Benin palace

"The general public is hereby invited to join His Royal Majesty in receiving the Benin Bronze cast of Okpa “Cockerel”…
Esther Zenab Kolawole, wife of Speaker of Kogi assembly dies at 50

Metro

Wife of Kogi Assembly Speaker is dead

50- year-old Esther Zenab died on Sunday morning in a Lagos Hospital after a brief illness.
The house about to be painted in the tragic incident which claimed the lives of 70-year-old Solomon Odogbor and a painter

Metro

70-year-old landlord, painter electrocuted in Benin

“The landlord and his son were holding the scaffold when they were electrocuted. They were burnt beyond recognition” he said.
Former Anambra governor Chukwuemeka Ezeife explains why the just concluded 2023 Presidential Election should not be cancelled

Politics

2023: Southeast ready to kneel, prostrate to get presidency – Ezeife

He said that it was time to give Igbo people the chance to build Nigeria to the standard God wanted…
Maria Oredola Igbinedion

Metro

Obaseki: I’m saddened by Lucky Igbinedion mother’s death

Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion was allegedly strangled last Thursday by her house maid
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State (left) and James E. Daniel (right), who was rewarded with N50 Million and automatic lectureship appointment in Rivers State University by the governor for bagging a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree

Education

Lucky Ph.D. graduate, James Daniel gets N50m, job offer from Wike

Wike said the honour bestowed on Dr. Daniel is in recognition of his academic excellence and for being a source…
Governor Duoye Diri speaking on the Ijaw ethnic nationality question.

News

PIB: Ijaw will continue opposing 3% allocation to host communities – Diri

He also said that the country for too long has operated a unitary system of government instead of true federalism…
Chief Olusegun Osoba and the senators who visited him in London on Saturday

Politics

Osoba asks Buhari to sign Electoral Act Amendment Bill

"I am confident that the President, as a product of direct primary, will do the right thing. I want to…
ecurity operatives nab 6 suspected kidnappers in Kogi

News

6 suspected kidnappers busted in Kogi

The suspects have been terrorising inhabitants of Oshokoshoko, Obajana and Akpata Communities along Kabba road.
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan orders that Opeyemi Ajala be remanded for allegedly raping his 21-year-old daughter.

Metro

Rivers man, Progress Phimia remanded for defiling 5- year- old daughter

Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt A 40-year-old father, Progress Phimia, was remanded on Friday by a Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt…
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