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The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade, last week freed no fewer than 38 inmates, who were awaiting trials in the five prison facilities across the state. The prisons are located in Abeokuta, Ilaro, Sagamu and Ijebu Ode. ...

The troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested a man said to be a supplier of fuel and food to members of the Boko Haram sect at Daban Shata, a suburb of Baga, Borno State.   Director of Defence Information, ...

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, has constituted a post-election assessment committee to review and evaluate the party’s performance in the just concluded general elections. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Olisa Metuh, the ...

The death toll in the clashes between some villagers and soldiers  in three villages of Kadarko, Kurmi and Wadata  in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State has risen to 39 as nine more bodies have been uncovered. Soldiers, said ...

The Federal Government on Sunday called on oil marketers to be patriotic in their decisions by considering the interest of Nigerians who always bear the brunt of their actions, noting that they should not by their actions hold the country ...

Maiduguri recorded its first rain for the year on Sunday, making occupants to express delight following a long time of serious warmth, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The downpour, which began at around 5.30pm and went on for about 30 ...

Sounds like something from a Nollywood film. Social activist and Coordinator of Walkagainstrape, Esther Ijewere recounts a tragic story of how two sisters wound up with the same man and how he supposedly murdered one of them. See more tweets bellow.

In a press release, the Senator-Elect for Lagos West Senatorial District and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Solomon Adeola has called on the incoming Federal Government and relevant financial and auditing regulatory bodies to ...

A mother, her three youngsters, a relative and a house-help were all smoldered to death in a flame incident at their home in Jos, Plateau state yesterday May 2nd. As per inhabitants in the range where the incident happened, the ...

Faces of the fleeing members of a kidnap gang that connived with an evil nanny, Funmilayo Adeyemi to abduct three Orekoya kids and oth­ers in Lagos have been unveiled. They are two brothers identified as Rasheed and Hakeem Kareem. The ...