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Kuje community decries insecurity, bad road

Kuje community decries insecurity, bad road

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Residents of Pegi community in Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have decried the insecurity and bad road bedeviling…
President-elect Tinubu laments exit of banking giant, Subomi Balogun

President-elect Tinubu laments exit of ‘giant among men’ Subomi Balogun

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described Otunba Subomi Michael Balogun, founder of First City Monument Bank, as a giant…
Minister of Defence, Bello Matawalle

Go beyond sabre-rattling; spill the beans: EFCC replies Gov. Matawalle

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told Governor Bello Matawalle to go beyond issuing threats by revealing evidence…
Former Kogi SDP governorship candidate Murtala Ajaka urges protesters to sheathe their swords as President Tinubu has heard their demands

Kogi 2023: APC NWC member Muri Ajaka dumps party

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Ajaka sent his resignation letter to the APC on 17th April, three days after the Kogi State governorship primary in…
Wale Gbalajobi

Why Nigerian born Wale Gbalajobi received Queen Elizabeth II’s Medal in Canada

Ademola Adegbamigbe

3 years ago

The Premier of Alberta, Honourable Danielle Smith, on April 28, 2023, awarded Nigerian-born Wale Gbalajobi, the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II's…
Seun Kuti

Revealed: Seun Kuti’s terrible experience in cell, how he became prayer warrior

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Seun is being detained there on the orders of Yaba Chief Magistrate Court for assaulting a police officer on Third…
Police kill notorious kidnap gang leader, Aka Blacky, one other in raid on his hideout at Oyigbo/Igbo-Etche forest, in Etche LG of Rivers

Notorious kidnap kingpin Blacky, one other shot dead in Rivers

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Blacky was killed alongside another suspect identified as Peter Nwafor who was trying to escape during the gun duel with…
PCRC gives financial help to the family of Sgt. Ochoa Isaiah of Enugu state command, whose wife recently gave birth to a set of triplets.

PCRC gives financial support to Police Sgt. who fathered triplets

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

By Sumaila Ogbaje The Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) has extended financial assistance to the family of Sgt. Ochoa Isaiah…
Businessman Gyang Dung jailed 3 months for stealing policeman’s phone

Lagos businessman Joseph Unezugha remanded over N66m fraud

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

By Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos businessman, Joseph Okwudili Unezugha has been ordered to be remanded after he was arraigned over…
Police arrest Abu Hassan, AKA Danger and Abubakar Sodiq, the notorious kidnappers terrorising residents of communities Ekiti, Kogi States

Notorious kidnappers Danger, Abubakar Sodiq arrested in Ekiti

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The notorious kidnappers were also involved in terrorising communities in neighbouring Kogi, Ekiti State Police Commissioner, CP Ogundare Dare said…
Enugu Police

Edo: Police foil cult attack, nab 3 suspects, recover gun

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

He listed the items recovered from them as: One Pump-Action gun, Three live cartridges, and Some clothes with manphite insignia.
Wife of Edo Governor Betsy Obaseki threatens to prosecute those who marginalize women in appointments for gender-based violence.

‘God will demand report from you’ – Mrs Obaseki tells Governors’ wives

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Obaseki noted that though the position of First Lady is not constitutional, it can be used to drive positive changes…
Nigeria's President-Elect, Bola Tinubu reacts to gruesome murder of staff of United States Consulate in Ogbaru area of Anambra State

Tinubu: I’m deeply shocked by attack on US Embassy’s officials in Anambra

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Police in Anambra confirmed that seven people who were staff of the US Consulate in Lagos were killed in the…
Police recover a first of its kind gun from Toheeb Afolade a tailor turned armed robber who was arrested on Eko Bridge, Lagos

Lagos man Monday Alfred caught with two freshly cut human hands

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Alfred was arrested on Wednesday at about 2.15 p.m. by a patrol team from Imota Division, on Ori-Okuta Old Shagamu…
The suspects

EFCC arrests corps member, 23 others for cyber-fraud in Ibadan

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

A statement issued by EFCC's spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren on Friday, said they were arrested at different areas of Ibadan, Oyo…
Minister of Defence, Bello Matawalle

EFCC boss Bawa demanded $2m bribe from me, I have evidence – Gov. Matawalle

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has accused the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed…
Police arrest 35-year-old ex-banker, Gift Igbinosun, for defrauding two persons the sum of N14.9 million in Benin, Edo State

How I was stabbed in my neck, stomach – 8-year-old Kano girl recounts ordeal 

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The victim said the suspect stabbed her with a knife on her neck, stomach, left the knife stuck in her…
Some of the internet fraudsters convicted

23 Internet fraudsters sent to jail in Anambra

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The convicts are: Desmond James (aka Chris James, Fidelis Mmadukaego), Elechukwu Chukwuebuka Michael, Kingsley Okorie (aka George Wilson), Chinonso Edwin…
Ugochukwu Okpani

Shock, disbelief as Ebonyi man dies day he was to travel abroad for further studies

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The young man, Ugochukwu Okpani took to Facebook on Thursday, 18 May to announce that he had less than 22…
Cultists kill 150 people in Edo, as Obaseki vows action against cultism

Obaseki vows to arrest, prosecute AAU staff culpable of fraud

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

“I heard some people still call themselves union going around and addressing the press. We have said everybody who has…
President Bola Tinubu

Nobody can stop Tinubu’s inauguration, says Movement for Greater Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The MGL, which is being sponsored by a former Chief of Staff in Lagos State, Otunba Olukunle Ojo, has contributed…
Seun Kuti

Seun Kuti’s lawyers accuse police of flouting court order

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

Seun, a son of the late Afrobeats legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has been in police custody since 15 May, for…
Police dock 4 suspects for murder of 76-year-old traditional ruler of Umuezeokaha community in Ezza North LG of Ebonyi Christopher Ewa.

Four docked for murder of 76-year-old Ebonyi traditional ruler

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The Prosecutor, Insp Bassey Okon, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on Feb. 27 at Umuezeokaha community…
Sanwo-Olu

Sanwo-Olu mourns FCMB founder Subomi

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

Sanwo-Olu also sympathised with the Managing Director of FCMB, Mrs. Yemisi Edun and the entire management and Staff of the…
Yahaya Bello

EFCC floors Yahaya Bello’s government in Appeal court

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

The sum of N300, 000 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira) was awarded against the Kogi State government and its officials.
FCMB founder Subomi Balogun is dead

13 Astonishing facts about late FCMB boss Subomi Balogun

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

As a student in London, Balogun regularly attended fellowships and had the opportunity to meet some notable Nigerians such as…
Police parade two repentant Boko Haram members among110 suspects arrested for various crimes in Borno State during its in recent operations

Borno: 2 ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members nabbed for stealing

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The suspects were paraded before journalists on Friday by Borno the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar.
Dr Oluwatoyin Madein: the new Accountant-General of the Federation

Just In: Buhari appoints Madein Accountant-General

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The selection of Madein followed the successful conduct of a selection process to fill the existing vacancy, the Head of…

11 years after conception: Buhari unveils 21bn Medical Centre at Presidential Villa

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The N21 billion Presidential/VIP Wing of the State House Medical Centre, which was conceptualized by the previous administration eleven years…

FG inaugurates Kwara oxygen committee

Nimot Sulaimon

3 years ago

Present at the joint inauguration and training were the Executive Secretary of the Hospital Management Board, Dr Malik AbdulRaheem, representative…
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