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Buhari in Maiduguri

Be proactive, take fight to hideouts of terrorists: Buhari orders security forces

Buhari also directed the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and its agencies to come up…

Prophet Adetuberu storms Liberty Stadium Friday for deliverance crusade 

According to Adetuberu, the three-day crusade which is tagged 'captives of the mighty' would surely be a great turn around…
Ogbu

Lagos man Moses Joseph jailed 37 years for defiling minor

The prosecution had alleged that the defendant, on Sept. 17, 2021, about 11:00 p.m. indecently treated the minor by inserting…
Four members of blackmail syndicate who specialised in taking nude pictures of their victims for extortion arrested by police in Anambra State.

4-member sex blackmail syndicate busted in Anambra

The suspects used social media to lure their unsuspecting male victims into fake love/friendship affairs and thereafter take them to…
Lady Chidiebere Iloka

Soludo begins probe of LG chairman’s wife death

Mrs Iloka was said to have collapsed and died on Aug 7 but people alleged that she was a victim…
7 suspected bandits arrested in Mariri community of Lere LGA of Kaduna State: Hajiya Bilkisu was lynched for housing them

Kaduna woman Hajiya Bilikisu lynched for housing bandits

Aruwan listed arrested bandits as: Musa Adamu, Abdullahi Usman, Suleiman Hasidu, Usman Jibril, Saidu Isah, Hassan Abdulhamid and Idris Sani
Residents of communities around Kemta-Somorin road, Abeokuta, Ogun laments killing of Professor Oladipo Ademuyiwa by hit-and-run driver

Family of 7 die after eating ‘Dambu’ in Zamfara

Four of the victims including two married women and five teenagers died on the spot while the three others died…
Gov. Ikpeazu speaks after losing senatorial bid

Gov Ikpeazu releases N30m for Asa Electricity Project

Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Wednesday said he would immediately release N30 million to Ukwa West Local Government Area…
Managing Director of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Oshibodu,

BEDC disclaims fake videos alleging arrest of MD Osibodu

But the company, in a statement, said she was never arrested and that she had been in her office working.
Gov. Yahaya Bello says master plan for the establishment of Kogi State University, Kabba, will be submitted to the NUC on Monday.

Kogi: 2 kidnappers shot dead

According to reports, the kidnappers had been perpetuating havoc within the area and security operatives had been on their trail
The on-going work on the Lagos Blue Line Rail project in Marina as the final T-Beam is being launched by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, 17 August, 2022. Inset l-r: Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Federic Oladeinde; Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Engr. Abimbola Akinajo; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and an official of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) during the launch of the final T-Beam.

Lagos Blue Rail Line nears completion, two sets of light train coaches arrives October

With the laying of the final T-Beam, all difficult civil works standing in the way of the Lagos Blue Rail…
National Grid

Total blackout in Lagos as electricity workers begin strike

The DisCos said the picketing of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) by the union members had plunged customers under…
The honoured officers

Policeman SP Daniel rejects $200,000 bribe from robbers

Adejobi said the IGP had commended Amah for his integrity and exhibition of sound professionalism leading to the arrest of…
Elegushi Beach

Fatal swimming: Body of one of four drowned students recovered in Lagos

Ten students of Kuramo Senior College, Lekki, aged between 14 and 15, were swimming at the beach to celebrate the…
Woman

Police nab 3 members of cult gang in Delta

Edafe added that the trio were arrested nabbed on Aug. 5 by the Police operatives attached to the Quick Response…

Gunmen abduct 6 travelers in Kwara

The gunmen succeeded in abducting 6 passengers, but four of them later escaped as confirmed by the spokesperson for Kwara…
Left: 24-year-old Hadi Matar and writer Salman Rushdie who he attacked at a literary event in New York

Salman Rushdie: Mother of attacker makes strange revelations about son

Rushdie's life has been under threat since 1989 when the late Ayatollah Khomeini - leader of Iran's Islamic revolution –…
Abia Govt announces restriction in operation of tricycles and motorcycle in Aba and Umuahia between 7 pm and 6 am, with effect from July 1.

One dead as okada riders clash with Police in Lagos

Hundeyin in a series of tweets said, after a minor accident involving a car and a motorcycle occurred on the…
Elegushi Beach

How 4 students died celebrating WASSCE results in Lagos

While also confirming the incident, the management of Elegushi Beach, in a statement signed by Ayuba Elegushi said the students…

Sanwo-Olu sets December deadline for relocation of Oko-Baba saw millers

The State Government started the development of the Timberville during the Babatunde Fashola administration. The project was stalled afterwards, creating…
L-R: Omotoso, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde and Sola Giwa at the event

Stakeholders demand total ban of Okada in Lagos 

They said the pockets of riders still found operating on forbidden routes, especially highways, should be arrested and made to…
Police rescue four of the passengers abducted from commercial bus hijacked in the Omerelu axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road, Rivers State

Rivers man Chima attacks wife with cutlass over lover

Wakaego, now in coma, had challenged her husband for bringing his lover into their matrimonial home at Omerelu community, Ikwerre…
Sunday

My husband is too lazy, Mother of 3 tells court

Sanusi, a businesswoman, said she is further frustrated by her husband’s alleged ineptitude when he barred her from having access…
Eight family die in accident involving their vehicle and a stationary truck at the Amanwozuzu junction, Ikeduru LGA of Imo state.

Four dead, five injured in road crash in Sokoto 

The sector commander said the driver of the Golf car while on high speed tried to overtake a truck and…
Sani Gafar

Suspected male terrorist Gafar dressed in hijab rescued from lynching in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday rescued a suspected male terrorist dressed in hijab from being lynched at Ijora…
The suspected oil thieves

EFCC, Army crack record 120 suspected oil thieves in Port Harcourt

Uwujaren said the arrest of the suspects was made possible by intelligence on the alleged illegal oil bunkering activities in…
Mrs Cecilia Bolaji Dada, Commissioner for WAPA

Lagos moves to checkmate sexual harassment in tertiary institutions 

Dada stated that the aim of this policy was to address and prevent antagonistic situation that violated the dignity of…

20-year-old man remanded for raping friend’s neighbour

An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded a 20-year-old man, Musa Salimon, at the Agodi Correctional facility…
No less than six persons have been reported killed in an accident along Hassan Katsina road in Lokoja, Kogi State

Bus driver crushed while repairing vehicle in Ogun

According to the FRSC Sector commander, the accident was caused by speed on the part of the truck driver, who…
Fraud

Okpa Ijwo, another remanded for certificate forgery

Shaagee said that on July 4, Mr Martin Ogbeche of the College of Education Oju Benue reported the case on…