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Elephant

Metro

Elephant tramples Abner Petrus dead in his farm

Elephant tramples Abner Petrus, a 46-year-old farmer to death in his crop farm in northern Namibia, police confirmed Monday.
Fani-Kayode says Obidients and members of the "GEN-Z" generation, who are calling for a coup, are naive, gullible, ignorant and irresponsible

News

Fani-Kayode hits critics of his stand on killing of Fulani family in Osun

Former Minister, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, condemns critics of his stand on the killing of a Fulani family in Osun…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (second from right) with other military chiefs in Maiduguri

News

COAS Attahiru plots annihilation of Boko Haram in 7-day operational visit to Borno

COAS Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru will spend the next one week in Borno as part of his bid to raise…
Peter Phillip with the injuries sustained from hot water poured on his by his wife

Metro

Why I bathed my husband with hot water – Ogun housewife, Bisola Awodele

Police arrest Mrs. Bisola Awodele, a 43-year-old mother of five, for allegedly pouring hot water on her husband in Ogun
Benue secondary school student Terhemba Tyochivir commits suicide in Makurdi, the Capital of Benue State over yet to be deciphered reason.

Metro

Police nab one suspect over killing of Eunice Aganya, retired DIG’s wife in Benue

The lifeless body of Mrs Eunice Aganya was found lying in a pool of blood with a deep cut on…

Metro

Two police officers die in Kwara auto crash  

Two policemen on escort duty die when their vehicle rammed into a trailer after experiencing burst tyre on Ogbomoso-Ilorin road

News

Why probe of Air Peace’s burst tyre incident was ceded to NCAA – AIB official

A Boeing 737-300 aircraft operated by Air Peace Ltd experienced a burst tyre during taxing at Murtala Mohammed International Airport…

News

Makinde appoints aides on infrastructure, legal matters

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, appoints Special Adviser on Works/Infrastructure and Special Assistant on Legal Matters.

Football, Sports

AbdulRazaq unveils new Kwara Utd jerseys 

Kwara United Football Club launches the replica jerseys to increase its revenue base and to officially open its new merchandise…
A frontline Abuja-based medical institution, Alliance Hospital, has vehemently denied allegations of engaging in illegal kidney harvesting.

Metro

World Kidney Day: How to avoid kidney failure – Expert

By Stella Kabruk A medical practitioner, Dr Nuhu Sule, on Thursday, cautioned youths against cigarette smoking to avoid kidney failure.…
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan orders that Opeyemi Ajala be remanded for allegedly raping his 21-year-old daughter.

Metro

Kano housewife accuses husband of laziness despite 10 children in 9 years

Binta Bello tells court that while her husband stay in her house doing nothing, she has been responsible for providing…
Court

Metro

My wife cannot make ‘simple eba’ – Divorce seeking man laments in court

Customary court in Ibadan dissolves Stephen Akinseloye's 15-month marriage to Opeyemi over poor cooking skill and 'immaturity'

Metro

Police declare LG staff, Sabina Izuora, wanted for child trafficking, theft

Police says Mrs Izuora, a staff of Social Welfare Department of Ihiala LGA is wanted over alleged cases of child…

Metro

Rape: Governors’ wives donate N500k to family of late Uwaila

The cash gift is from the Nigerian Governors' Wives Forum's Victims Support Fund, being financed by the Ford Foundation, to…

News

Int’l Women’s Day: Obaseki launches N1bn fund for women

The N1 billion fund will be used to widows and vulnerable women whose livelihoods have been grievously affected as a…

Politics

2023: ‘Atiku for Nigeria’ inaugurated in Enugu

"Atiku doesn't have to be president again but we are all begging him to offer himself again in the interest…
Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, SSAP-SDGs

News

IWD: Orelope Adefulire calls for concerted effort to tackle poverty among women 

She added that while COVID-19 has made many women poorer, it has been established that SDGs cannot be achieved without…
Iskilu Wakili

Metro

Why we arrested OPC members over Iskilu Wakili – Police

Police says the OPC members were arrested and detained for their involvement in arson and murder during the arrest of…

Metro

Police bust Oweniwe Okpara led family kidnap gang in Ogun

According to the Police, the suspects were all arrested in Ajaka area of Sagamu for their roles in the kidnap…

Politics

S/Court judgment: Aguma quits APC, other Sen. Abe’s loyalists may follow

Speculations are rife in Rivers that other key members of Senator Abe’s faction may follow Aguma’s example.

Politics

Rivers APC: Amaechi loyalists celebrate S/Court victory, mock Abe, supporters

With the judgment, the Supreme Court has ended controversies about the authentic leadership of All Progressives Congress in Rivers State.
I did not see any of Reuben Abati's wild claims about Aso Villa - Femi Adesina

Opinion

The last Wailing Wailer dies

By Femi Adesina It was the end of an era Tuesday when Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing…

Metro

Anambra man, Kingsley Igwe, stabs wife to death with kitchen knife

The suspect allegedly ran amok and attacked his wife, one Oyinye Obi, 31, with a kitchen knife and inflicted multiple…

Metro

Seven impersonators of Rivers Task force members arrested

The suspects were caught while trying to extort N20,000 from a victim in the guise of being members of the…
Family members raise alarm over murder of retired judge, Justice Ifeoma Okogwu, in her Asaba home, Delta State

News

Salary disparity: Lawyers working Rivers LGs drag state govt to court

The lawyers want to the court to compel Rivers to pay them the same salary with their colleagues on the…

Metro

Fears of epidemic in Ogun secretariat over collapse of sewage system

The sewage system started collapsing about two years ago without any attention from the Ministry of Environment.  

News

Boko Haram: Troops move 26 humanitarian workers rescued from Dikwa to Maiduguri

The insurgents storms Dikwa, riding on many gun trucks in their determination to takeover the town and declare it one…

Metro

Police bust counterfeit currency gang, recover fake N5.7m notes in Abuja

The four men were among 11 suspects arrested for crimes ranging from 'one chance robbery', fraud and armed robbery along…
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo says federal government must renegotiate with states for solutions to the nation's current economic challenges.

Politics

Gov. Obaseki directs Council Chairpersons to handover to administrators

The council officials were inaugurated on March 5, 2018, following their victory in the local government elections of March 3,…

Entertainment

Why I’m neither a Christian nor a Muslim – Ajai Lycett

“Everybody else is going to mars and the moon and everything, we are crying ‘Jesus Jesus.’ It’s bankrupt. Rubbish. That’s…
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