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Police explain how one Jafar, a student of IBB University, Lapai, Niger State, died after he was attacked at a Student Lodge in the town

IBB varsity offers employment to best graduating students

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

The overall best-graduating students in the 2019/20 academic session is Aisha Mohammed-Egbako of the Animal Production Department with a CGPA…
Sultan of Sokoto sends message to all Muslims

Sultan declares Sunday as 1st Dhul-Qadah 1444AH

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Dhul-Qadah, one of the four sacred months in Islam is the 11th month on the Islamic calendar which comes before…
Okoloke

Gunmen shoot two policemen dead in Imo again

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The attack came one month after five policemen and a couple were killed at the same junction on April 21.
The celebrant, Pastor Obafemi

Oldest living Nigerian ex-soldier Obafemi celebrates 110th birthday (Photos)

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

Obafemi, born on 20 May, 1913, is a war veteran, having fought in the Second World War before retiring from…
Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hidayet Bayraktar

Turkish Embassy strengthen ties with Nigeria

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Bayraktar said that one of the symbols of Turkish culture, which has always been famous for its hospitality was Turkish…
President Bola Tinubu pledges to continue to serve all Nigerians with the Supreme Court judgment affirming his victory in the 2023 election

Election tribunal: Court to consolidate all petitions against Tinubu

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

The PEPC panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani gave the directive on consolidation of the petitions in Abuja after parties…
Bola Tinubu returns to Nigeria after ‘working visit’ to Europe

BREAKING: Tinubu returns to Nigeria after nine days

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Tinubu who spent about 10 days in Europe, was received at the Abuja airport by Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Vice-President-elect…
Primate Henry Ndukuba

Election tribunals must not disappoint Nigerians – Primate Ndukuba

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rev. Henry Ndukuba has urged all election petition tribunals not to disappoint…
Retired Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi: Defence Minister

Magashi calls for vibrant Navy

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Magashi called on the participants at the review to vigorously examine and appraise the topics of the discourse to provide…
Senate clears Nyesom Wike for ministerial role

How my govt. achieved seamless delivery of democratic dividends – Gov. Wike

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the delivery of development projects, started and completed in various communities, without disruption was possible because…
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…
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