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Osun State-based fufu (cassava flour) seller, Mrs Sariyu Akanmu, beaten by the police for participating in the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday, tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA her story Tell us more about yourself. I don’t know when I was born. My parents ...

…Wants North to break all alliances with the YorubaBy Omeiza Ajayi & Ezra Ukanwa ABUJA: A northern group, Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has accused the Southwest region of Nigeria of conspiring to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari’s government with the ...

A notorious phone dealer, Da-Silva, who specialized in buying mobile phones from armed robbers, cultists and pickpockets operating in Ogun and Lagos State has disclosed that he buys over 30 phones a week and made between N25,000 and N30,000 daily ...

POLITICSNIGERIA.COM The #RevolutionNow Organizers have released the ‘Rules of Engagement’ for Tomorrow’s massive protest all over Nigeria.Below is a statement sent to POLITICS NIGERIA by the group; “The Coalition of Revolution (CORE) seizes this opportunity to call on mass of ...

The presidential election of 2019 has come and perhaps gone. To some, it might have been confined to the dustbin of history but definitely not the throwbacks on the conscience of a nation which has been wounded by its blatant ...

A 52-year old man, Jacob Alonge, has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for raping his late 12 years old daughter, Gift Alonge. Gift was impregnated by her father from the sexual assault before her death. She and some members ...

Veteran Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi, was Thursday rushed to a hospital in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, after falling ill due to the stress associated with hajj exercise, TheNation reports .It was gathered that Afolabi had been showing symptoms of illness while ...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has said that the police will treat members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) as terrorists. Adamu said this on Tuesday at the monthly conference with senior police officers in Abuja, Igbere ...

A Nigerian Shiite group on Sunday condemned a court order that allows the government to ban it on “terrorism” grounds after a spate of deadly protests in the capital. At least six protesters, a trainee journalist and a senior police ...

A three-storey has reportedly collapsed in the Ososa section of Bariga, Lagos State. The building was said to own collapsed around 9.30pm on Sunday. Five persons were considered rushed to a personal hospital without any death recorded. As at Sunday ...