Category: News
Monarch flees as flood sack Akwa Ibom community
Flood has sacked over 500 residents and destroyed more than 120 houses in Ikot Obio Atai community of Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State It was gathered that the palace of the village head of the community, Mkpong
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Woman allegedly slaps policeman, lands in court
A cook, Yengi Best, appeared in a Grade I Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a police officer. The police charged Ms Best, 40, for impersonating a public servant, criminal use of force and voluntarily causing
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Sokoto killings: Tambuwal, Sultan beg FG to deploy more troops
Following the latest killing of over 40 persons at Goronyo market in Sokoto by bandits on Sunday, the state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, and Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, have appealed to the Federal Government to deploy more troops
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FG scraps DPR, PPPRA, PEF, sacks CEOs
The Department of Petroleum Resources, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund are all officially scrapped and do not exist anymore, the Federal Government (FG) said on Monday. FG also said while workers of the three
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Gunmen kill Lagos director at Agege hotel
Aggrieved family members of a civil servant, Abiodun Adenuga, have called on the Lagos State Police Command to track down the gunmen who shot him at the Sindende Guest House in the Agege area of the state. It was gathered
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RCCG member shot dead during church service in Ilorin
A sixty-one year old estate agent based in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, Mr Sina Babarinde, was on Sunday morning reportedly shot to death by some yet to be identified gunmen during a church service at the Redeemed Christian Church of
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Conditions for lifting Twitter ban to be applied to other social media platforms – FG
The Federal Government says the recommended conditions for the lifting of the suspension imposed on Twitter will be applicable to all Over-The-Top and other social media platforms in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this
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Court orders Immigration to return ex-gov Odili’s seized passport
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and its Comptroller-General to return the international passport seized from a former Rivers Governor, Peter Odili to him. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Monday in
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Two arrested over pornographic content on Port Harcourt billboard
Police in Rivers state have taken two suspects in custody for complicity in the display of pornographic content in a Port Harcourt electronic billboard. Police Public Relations Officers, Rivers Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, in a Sunday evening statement on the
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EFCC grills ex-Kano gov Kwankwaso over alleged N10bn fraud
The immediate past Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, is currently being grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged fraud to the tune of N10bn among others. It was learnt that Kwankwaso was invited for allegedly
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Widow of late Abubakar Gumi, Aminatu Bintu, is dead
The death of Hajiya Aminatu Bintu, the widow of late Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, has been announced. Bintu is the mother of Brigadier General Abdulkadir Gumi and also stepmother to Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi. READ ALSO: WOMAN IMPREGNATED TWICE BY
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British lawmaker David Amess stabbed to death
Conservative British lawmaker David Amess was killed on Friday after being stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. Local police did
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Cambridge University to return Benin bronze cockerel stolen in 1905
A bronze cockerel kept at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom that had been looted in a British raid on what is now Benin City in Nigeria will be handed back this month, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported. The
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Eid-ul-Mawlid: FG declares Tuesday public holiday
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, October 19, 2021, a public holiday to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Mawlid celebration in commemoration of the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made this declaration on behalf
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Court orders interim forfeiture of Mompha’s designer glasses, wristwatches, iPhone
A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of 11 high-end designer items confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha. The items – five luxury sunglasses, five luxury
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Teenager gets 12 strokes of the cane for stealing two iPhones
A Kaduna Chief Magistrate Court on Friday ordered that Nurudeen Kasim, 19, be given 12 strokes of the cane in open court for allegedly stealing two iPhones. The police charged Kasim, who resides in Degel I, Kaduna with housebreaking and
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Deadly explosion hits Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar
At least 32 people have been killed and 45 others wounded after an explosion went off inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, according to public health officials in the province. The explosion on Friday afternoon took place
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Former US President Bill Clinton hospitalised for non-Covid infection
Former US President Bill Clinton has been admitted to hospital with a non-COVID-related infection, a spokesman said on Thursday evening. Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center, Angel Urena wrote on social media. He gave
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Court jails Zuckerberg’s impostor, 4 others for internet fraud in Kwara
A 21 year-old Jatto Umar, who claimed to be the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, in order to defraud unsuspecting victims via online relationship was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to jail by a Kwara State High Court, sitting in
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Benue industrialist Denen Tofi dies at 103
A renowned Benue industrialist, Chief Denen Tofi, has died at the age of 103. One of his sons, Aondoakura, disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Thursday. He said that his father,
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