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Unknown gunmen have killed an aide to the Deputy Governor of Enugu State. The gunman struck Tuesday night in Enugu, the State capital killing the aide-de-camp, ADC, to Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo. Although details of the incident are not clear yet, ...

  Lagos – A 25-year-old fashion designer, Jamiu Ayoade, has been shot dead by way of a trigger-happy officer in Lagos, based on dependable sources. The sources said officer, who’s thought to be a senior officer at Ijeshatedo Divisional Police ...

29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, who was in the news last year after she stabbed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne to death during an argument at home, over lotto tickets known as “Baba Ijebu”, has bagged a 7-years jail sentence.  The ...

23-year-old Seun Isaiah McMillan was stabbed to death in Southgate, London on Tuesday night, May 2.  Homicide detectives believe he was attacked four miles away in a playing field at Masefield Crescent, near to his family home. Witnesses said they alert the police ...

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 ...