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By Samuel Oyadongha & Dayo Johnson YENAGOA—Some members of a militant group that killed an army captain and two policemen at Ikorodu, Lagos State, last month, have been confirmed killed by troops of the Joint Task Force in the Niger ...

The absence of prosecution witnesses on Thursday in Abuja at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) again stalled the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. The senate president is standing trial over alleged false assets declaration while serving as governor ...

The Federal Operations Unit Zone “C” of Nigeria Customs Service in Owerri said it had seized 102,099 cartons of illegally imported frozen poultry products with duty paid value of N1.27 billion. Comptroller Mohammed Garba, the Area Controller of the zone, ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony. Trial Justice Binta Nyako said her decision ...

Osun govt, Assembly declare 3-day mourning By Gbenga Olarinoye, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Dapo Akinrefon & Rotimi Ojomoyela IRKED by the presence of Hon. Idiat Babalola, a commissioner-nominee of Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the burial of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, supporters of the ...

By Gbenga Olarinoye, Dayo Johnson & Charles Kumolu OSOGBO—THERE was tension in Osun State over the decision to carry out an autopsy on the corpse of the first executive governor of the state, Sen Isiaka Adeleke, who died, yesterday, in ...

The thespian, who had been sick since last year, according to family sources, underwent a surgery Friday night at University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan for an undisclosed ailment.  “His situation however gone bad during the procedure and he could not ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic event that took the lives of several Nigerians at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State, Thursday night. The President, in a statement released by his ...

The Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN, Commission, Dipo Famakinwa, is dead. Multiple sources close to Mr. Famakinwa confirmed his death to ODUARERE on Friday morning. Mr. Famakinwa’s organisation was responsible for designing and implementing the blueprint for ...

Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has caved in to pressure from the Nigerian Senate to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal. A statement by the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina on Wednesday said. Recall that ...