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The Inspector-General of Police has announced the disbandment of Federal SARS and the 36 States and FCT Commands of SARS following public outrage. Personnel to be reintegrated into other policing organs. Details to follow.

Hundreds of young anti-SARS protesters on Sunday stormed the Nigeria House in New York demanding transparency in the disbandment of the police unit back home. Among them was Stephen “Papi” Ojo, the artist, model and choreographer who stole the show ...

EDWARD NNACHI writes that the unending crisis between herdsmen, whose animals destroy produce, and farmers in Ebonyi State poses serious threat to food security in the state and its environsForty-nine-year-old Ibiam Uchenna-Ogbuewu, a native of Ebunwana Edda community in the ...

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced that 155 cases of the novel virus was recorded in Nigeria on September 7. The 155 recorded cases were spread across 15 states and FCT. Here is the breakdown of the new ...

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The Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, says the August 29 date for resumption of international flights as announced at the PTF COVID-19  briefing was not sacrosanct. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had also ...

A lawmaker in the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Musa Baraza, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that Baraza was killed by gunmen on Thursday night at his residence in the Dass Local Government Area. The lawmaker ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says the nation needs more weapons and platforms to win the insurgency war. He disclosed this in Abuja, the nation’s capital during a New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Thursday. “To ...

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Thursday said it would commence punishment for any broadcast station that violates any of its code. It warned that all broadcast stations should be guided by the ethics and code of the profession. Citing the ...

Global rights group, Amnesty International, has condemned the death sentence handed down to a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, by a Sharia Court in Kano State for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed. Amnesty also called on the Abdullahi Ganduje-led government to immediately quash the ...