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Indian-hemp-farm: Security operatives arrest Ibrahim Usman, a self-confessed major distributor of Indian hemp in Central Senatorial District of Kogi State

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Major distributor of Indian hemp in Kogi, Ibrahim Usman nabbed

Usman has been handed over to NDLEA for further investigation and prosecution.
Tinubu appoints Bianca Ojukwu, six others new ministers

Politics

#AnambraDecides: Bianca knocks Gov. Obiano on APGA

Mrs Ojukwu blamed APGA’s present leader and the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano and his henchmen for the downfall of…
L-R: Senator Lee Maeba and former MOSOP President, Ledum Mitee after Ogoni stakeholders meeting with Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday.

News

OML 11: Ogoni leaders ask Wike to lead talks with FG

The meeting with Governor Wike is sequel to the meeting a delegation of Ogoni leaders had with President Muhammadu Buhari…
Police officer attached to Rivers State Taskforce on illegal Street Trading by with the injuries he sustained during clash with angry traders and hoodlums.

Metro

Police officer, 6 Rivers Taskforce members injured in clash with traders

"We were there to clear those involved in street trading. On arrival, we were taken unawares by the traders who…
60 gunmen ambush policemen, lawmaker in Ebonyi, two cops abducted

Metro

Kidnappers demand N100m ransom for 2 Edo students

The abductors allegedly made contact with the father of the students, Kola Momodu, three days after the kidnapping.
From right - Oyetola, Oduah, Dapo, Bagudu, Obi: Some Nigerians mentioned in Pandora Papers. Code of Conduct Bureau says he is investigating them. (Photo credit: Premium Times)

Metro

Pandora Papers: Code of Conduct Bureau probes Oyetola, Peter Obi, others

Isha also solicited the cooperation of public officers on effective conduct of verification of asset declaration.
Gov. Inuwa Yahaya says his administration will continue to borrow funds to address development deficits in Gombe

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Why Gombe will continue to borrow funds – Gov. Yahaya

He blamed the past administrations for huge borrowings which he said failed to address infrastructural needs of the state.
Justice Aniele, a pastor with Assemblies of God Church bags life imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14 year- old- girl

Metro

Woman jailed 15 years for murdering her 5 children

The prosecution alleged that she had first sedated the children and then drowned or suffocated them one at a time.
Dakuku Peterside: raises queries on claims by Gov. Nyesom Wike that N16bn has been spent on the building of a Law School in Port Harcourt.

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Peterside queries Wike’s N16bn expenditure on Law School

He said the huge spending was not approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly,
Cultists kill 150 people in Edo, as Obaseki vows action against cultism

News

Alaghodaro 2021 raises hope for Edo’s industrial development

The Alaghodaro Summit, in its fifth edition, is scheduled to take place between November 12 and 14, 2021
Panic as nine members of the same family die under mysterious circumstances in Nagazi town of Adavi LGA of Kogi State

Politics

2023: I’m ready to carry on with legacies of Buhari – Bello

Bello received traditional and political leaders from Daura, the President's home town in Katsina State in Abuja.
IPMAN says tankers will no longer load more than 45,000 liters of the product from Oct. 1. to reduce accidents and damage to roads.

News

#AnambraDecides: Petroleum marketers to shutdown Thursday

Motorists and those on election duty in Anambra advised to buy sufficient petrol on Thursday
Gunmen:

Metro

Gunmen kill 7 in Adamawa community

The assailants launched the attack on the community at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday.
Lagos Traffic Laws

News

Fashola lists major roads completed by FG

The minister reeled out the roads when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Works.
Residents of Uteh Community in Edo State protest over inability of management of NDDC to complete a road contract in their area since 2014.

Metro

Edo community laments neglect of road project by NDDC

The road leads to 12 communities and was awarded for rehabilitation to a contractor by NDDC in 2014.
Court jails Jonathan Best for racially abusing Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka ( pictured above) on Facebook for missing penalties the Euro 2020 final

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Euro 2020: England fan jailed for racial abuse of Saka, Sancho, Rashford

When approached by a Facebook friend to remove the grossly offensive content, Best replied: ‘It’s my profile, I can do…
Director of Environmental Health/Operations, Mrs. Helen Ohaka and other officials speaking with traders during RIWAMA sensitisation visits to markets in Port Harcourt

Metro

RIWAMA campaigns against blockage of drains in Rivers

Obuah warned that further acts of indiscriminate dumping of wastes would attract arrest and prosecution of defaulters by sanitation Marshals.
Cart pushers: Two cart pushers die in a fight over who should carry some goods purchased by a trader at Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State.

Metro

How 2 cart pushers died in fight over N200 in Aba

As the fight raged, people intervened, but the men refused to heed the pleas of the owner of the goods…
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

Politics

Anambra election, a test on Nigeria’s democracy, institutions – INEC

INEC says voting materials will not be supplied to 86 of the 5,720 poling units across the state
Police debunk reports that it directed its personnel in Kogi going to Anambra for governorship election to pay N10,000 as transport fare

Metro

Anambra poll: Kogi Police denies imposing levy on personnel

The Command described the report of imposition of levy on police personnel for transportation to Anambra as false.
Yahaya Bello grants 10O% hazard allowance to medical doctors, others in Kogi

News

Kogi paying monthly to defray N20bn bailout from Sterling bank – Commissioner

The Commissioner alleged that Sterling Bank opened the controversial fixed deposit account without the knowledge of the state.
Nkem Okeke, deputy governor, Anambra State: predicts victory for Andy Uba, of APC in the state's Nov. 6 gubernatorial election.

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Why APC will win Anambra election – Dep. Gov. Okeke

Anambra deputy governor, Dr Nkem Okeke, has predicted victory for Andy Uba, the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC in…
Bola Tinubu: Chicago State University issues statement

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Tinubu breaks silence on collapsed 21-storey building

The APC leader said government must get to the bottom of the ghastly occurrence
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN student, Obi Mirabel and grab from her twerking viral video (right): UNN says says it is probing, but has not suspended Mirabel Obi, a students seen twerking half-clad in a viral video,

Metro

UNN speaks on alleged suspension of student twerking in viral video

Mirabel has accused the school authorities of harassing her after the viral video where she was seen twerking went viral…
Edo State University Uzairue: to launch a radio station for the coverage of activities on its campus and its environs.

Education

Edo State University Uzairue to commission campus radio

The Vice Chancellor disclosed this at a press briefing to announce programmes lined up for the 3rd Convocation ceremony of…
Ogun housewife, Memunat Salaudeen and her accomplices, Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin arrested over plot to kidnap her husband for ransom

Metro

How Police foiled plot by Ogun housewife to kidnap husband

Memunat gave her three accomplices N8, 000 to buy a cutlass and a rope strong enough to tie a human…
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

Metro

Gunmen intercept school bus, abduct 2 pupils in Edo

The spokesman for Edo police command in the state, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed the abduction
Nigerian Army says two ring leaders of IPOB/ ESN were arrested during a raid in Mgbowo community in Awgu LGA of Enugu State.

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Army: 2 IPOB/ESN leaders arrested in Enugu community raid

Army denies that there was indiscriminate firing and unprovoked burning of houses during the raid as indicated in a viral…
Kogi State House of Assembly: Kogi government officials testify at the State House of Assembly on the controversy over alleged N20bn deposited by the state in Sterling bank

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Alleged 20bn scandal: Commissioner, others testify before Kogi Assembly

The Commissioner presented a comprehensive break down/ report to the House about how the N20billion facility was spent
Kwara govt says it will pay arrears of pension and gratuity for local government retires among others from N3.5bn Sure-P refund of FG

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Kwara Governor cries out over invasion of Fulani herders

"We saw a migration of herdsmen coming in, to the extent that in some villages, they are more in population…
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