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Abiodun Israel Banjo, 45, a Nigerian living in Pretoria, South Africa, has been arrested with parcels of methamphetamine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, by officials of NDLEA, during the outward screening of passengers on a South African Airline ...

Binuyo Basari Iyabo, 55, was on her way to Medina for the 2016 annual hajj ritual in Saudi Arabia, when she was arrested, the other day, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. She has excreted the final wraps of ...

The man, named Dan Na’Ala, was said to be a dreaded gang leader who terrorized Makera, Kakuri, Kaduna State. The wanted murderer, rapist, kidnapper, who was also accused of killing a top civilian JTF member in Kakuri, was nabbed at ...

The Special Adviser to President on Social Investments, Maryam Uwais, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at an event to monitor the FG Social Protection Programme and Sustainable Development Goal. She said it became necessary because government was not getting enough ...

PRESS RELEASE   The Federal Government Friday explained that the flooding on portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was caused by structures built on water channels by some companies along the road even as it has directed the contractor handling the ...

This is Chnasa Chinedu Joseph. She is nine years old and lives with her widowed mother and her only sister at No. 33 Isaiah Eletuo Street Oyigbo Rivers state until disaster struck on the 12th of July 2016. Just about ...

The bodies of four Marine Police personnel have already been recovered from Abonnema waterways in Akuku-Toru Local Government Part of Rivers State. It was gathered that the policemen had set off on a gunboat for routine patrol the other day but ...

One Hausa dead, many sustain machete wounds as Hausa and Fulani youths fight in Abattoir, Agege, Lagos. Police on ground to douse the tension. See More Photos After The Page Break

The father of a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (also called Tompolo), Thomas Osen Ekpemupolo, aged 84, died in early hours of today, at Lily Clinic, Deco Road, Warri, the Gbaramatu Voice, a residential district newspaper in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, ...