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Dad beats 2-year-old son to death, flees

Women Lawyers under the aegis of Do Foundation, have vowed to pursue justice for the victim.
IGP Alkali Baba in Ibadan Oyo state

Nigeria Police Force set to recruit 20,000 junior officers: IGP Alkali Baba

The IGP said that the recruitment exercise would not only expand the capacity of the force in combating crime, but…
Demolished Sola Saraki Library in Ilorin

Bukola, Gbemisola Saraki slammed for comments on demolished Saraki library

Council chairman, Mukhtar AbdulGafar Omotosho slammed the criticism by the Saraki as sheer misinformation.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Sanwo-Olu makes two important appointments

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has appointed Salami Sikiru Adeniji as the Permanent Secretary/State Auditor-General and Ogunlana Obafemi Musa, as…
George Obiozor: leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo

2023 presidency: Why PDP will fail – Ohanaeze

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide on Monday said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will fail in clinching the presidency in 2023…
Governor Wike and Akpabio

Gov. Wike, Akpabio tangle before Buhari in Rivers

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio attacked each other verbally in an…
Commodore Jamila Abubakar

Navy disowns Commodore Jamila’s bombshell on Chadian soldiers selling guns

In a statement today, the spokesman of the Nigerian Navy, Suleman Dahun said the view of the officer does not…
Sikiru Smith

Lagos police break silence on gunmen’s abduction of Air Vice Marshal Smith 

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it had deployed all its machinery to rescue retired Air Vice Marshal,…
Afenifere leader, Adebanjo and Buhari

Afenifere to Buhari: Restructure Nigeria before 2023 elections

The Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political organisation, Afenifere has restated its call on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently restructure Nigeria before the 2023…
Nigerian

Trial of top FIRS officials, ex-directors stalled over absence of a defendant

The trial of some top officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and two former directors before Justice Bolaji…
Senate adopts the House of Representatives report on the establishment of the Nigeria Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023.

Senate moves to improve Nigeria’s power generation capacity

The Senate on Tuesday considered the Electricity Bill, 2021, which seeks to consolidate all legislations in the power sector into…
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Housewife Fiddausi Bello remanded for murder of 4-day-old baby

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano, on Tuesday, ordered that a 30-year-old housewife, Fiddausi Bello, be remanded in correctional…

Hair dresser Maria Taiwo docked for slapping policeman

A 55-year-old woman, Maria Taiwo, was on Tuesday docked in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping a policeman.
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

Gunmen demand N20m ransom for abducted Kogi varsity Don

Prof. John Alabi, Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences of the Kogi State University, Ayangba, has been kidnapped by…
Panic as nine members of the same family die under mysterious circumstances in Nagazi town of Adavi LGA of Kogi State

N20B Kogi salary loan diverted, EFCC moves for forfeiture

The EFCC which got wind of the money and was suspicious is now seeking a court order to freeze it…
policemen

Gun-duel in Osun: Robbers raid bank, shoot policeman dead

A police officer was feared dead as suspected armed robbers on Tuesday attacked a first generation bank in Iragbiji, Boripe…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Sanwo-Olu orders Lagos CP to fish out killers of CSP Abonde

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu to fish out the killers of a…
President Muhammadu Buhari

Buhari asks Senate to confirm ICPC, RMAFC Commissioners

The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the appointment of five Commissioners to fill vacancies…
Cultists kill 150 people in Edo, as Obaseki vows action against cultism

10 months after: Obaseki releases names of 11 Commissioners designate

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday forwarded the names of 11 Commissioners designate to the State House of…
Shiites protest in Abuja and the traffic jam caused, top left

Updated: Police, soldiers kill 8 Shiite protesters, arrest 42 in Abuja

DSP Josephine Adeh, the spokesperson for the police, said that the protesters who came from Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno and…

Oforma’s death in Anambra politically motivated- Andy Uba Organisation  

The Senator Andy Uba Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, SAUGCO, has called on the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano and security…
NSCDC nabs 27-year-old man posing as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member to defraud parents, students with fake scholarship scheme

Anambra NSCDC nabs 4 with adulterated crude oil

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Anambra has arrested four persons allegedly conveying about 90,000 litres of…
fleeing POS agent Bolarinwa busted for stealing employer’s N400,000 

Suspected fraudsters Tersoo, Terver defraud POS operator in Benue

The Benue Police on Tuesday arraigned Torhile Tersoo, and Azua Terver, both 21-year-olds, before a Makurdi Magistrates Court 3B for…
the tanker fire in Rivers Tuesday

3 dead, houses gutted in petrol tanker fire

Witnesses said the driver of the petrol truck was trying to evade paying bribe at a police checkpoint when the…
An empty COVID-19 isolation centre in Lagos

Bed occupancy in Lagos COVID-19 centres drops sharply

Lagos COVID-19 bed occupancy rate dropped from the 53 per cent reported on Sept. 5, to its current 36 per…
Senate adopts the House of Representatives report on the establishment of the Nigeria Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023.

Senate to FG: Consider N300bn fund for Emergency Intervention on roads

The Senate has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, consider an Emergency Intervention Fund to the…
The Buhari supporters

My takeaways from UNGA76, the protests and others

There are some from the so-called “Yoruba nation” group and the so-called “Indigenous People of Biafra” (IPOB) terrorist group who…
L-R Tobi, Olujobi Victor and Akinrodolu

2 fake U.S. soldiers Akinrodolu, Tobi jailed for romance scams

Akinrodolu and George were jailed alongside Oluwajobi Victor, slammed with a separate charge of fraud by the Economic and Financial…
House of Representatives hits back at Senate, ignore bills for concurrence

Supremacy battle: Reps hit back at Senate, ignore bills for concurrence

The House of Representatives and the Senate have again engaged in a battle of supremacy over Bills sent for concurrence.
Gov. Inuwa Yahaya says his administration will continue to borrow funds to address development deficits in Gombe

Gombe Govt. stops salaries of 731 workers

Gombe State Government has suspended the payment of salaries of 731 workers for being absent from work in the month…