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

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

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

Afenifere to Buhari: Restructure Nigeria before 2023 elections

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

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

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

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

The trial of some top officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and two former directors before Justice Bolaji…

Senate moves to improve Nigeria’s power generation capacity

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

The Senate on Tuesday considered the Electricity Bill, 2021, which seeks to consolidate all legislations in the power sector into…

Housewife Fiddausi Bello remanded for murder of 4-day-old baby

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

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

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

A 55-year-old woman, Maria Taiwo, was on Tuesday docked in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping a policeman.

Gunmen demand N20m ransom for abducted Kogi varsity Don

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

Prof. John Alabi, Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences of the Kogi State University, Ayangba, has been kidnapped by…

N20B Kogi salary loan diverted, EFCC moves for forfeiture

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

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

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

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

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

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

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

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

Buhari asks Senate to confirm ICPC, RMAFC Commissioners

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the appointment of five Commissioners to fill vacancies…

10 months after: Obaseki releases names of 11 Commissioners designate

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday forwarded the names of 11 Commissioners designate to the State House of…

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

Nimot Sulaimon

5 years ago

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

Ademola Adegbamigbe

5 years ago

The Senator Andy Uba Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, SAUGCO, has called on the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano and security…

Anambra NSCDC nabs 4 with adulterated crude oil

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Anambra has arrested four persons allegedly conveying about 90,000 litres of…

Suspected fraudsters Tersoo, Terver defraud POS operator in Benue

PM NEWS Live

5 years ago

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

3 dead, houses gutted in petrol tanker fire

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Witnesses said the driver of the petrol truck was trying to evade paying bribe at a police checkpoint when the…

Bed occupancy in Lagos COVID-19 centres drops sharply

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Lagos COVID-19 bed occupancy rate dropped from the 53 per cent reported on Sept. 5, to its current 36 per…

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

Kazeem Ugbodaga

5 years ago

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

My takeaways from UNGA76, the protests and others

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

There are some from the so-called “Yoruba nation” group and the so-called “Indigenous People of Biafra” (IPOB) terrorist group who…

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

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Akinrodolu and George were jailed alongside Oluwajobi Victor, slammed with a separate charge of fraud by the Economic and Financial…

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

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

The House of Representatives and the Senate have again engaged in a battle of supremacy over Bills sent for concurrence.

Gombe Govt. stops salaries of 731 workers

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

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

Baba Ijesha defiled minor twice, Child Forensic Expert tells court

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

A child forensic interview expert, Mrs Anike Ajayi-Kayode, on Tuesday, narrated before an Ikeja Special Offences Court how Nollywood actor…

Supreme Court loses Justice Oseji to death

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Oseji who hailed from Idumuje-Unor community in Aniocha North local government area of Delta State was born 2 June 1954.

Gunmen kidnap Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith in Lagos

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Gunmen have abducted Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.), in the Ajah area of Lagos State.

Gunmen kidnap councillor in Akwa Ibom; third abduction in 3 weeks

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

Police on Tuesday confirmed the kidnap of Mr Samuel Ben, councillor representing Ward 6 Central in Eket Local Government Area…

PDP replies ex-Borno Gov. Ali Modu Sheriff

Michael Adesina

5 years ago

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the former Governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to perish the…

Chris Oyakhilome Foundation to build new school in Ewu

Taiwo Okanlawon

5 years ago

In its effort to contribute to nation-building and economic development, Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) through the Inner City Mission…

Chadian soldiers sell guns for $20 when broke: Nigerian Navy

PM NEWS Editor

5 years ago

Commodore Jamila Sadiq Abubakar, who represented Chief of Naval Staff, Awwal Gambo, said Chadian soldiers, when broke, pawned guns for…

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