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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday, May 31, 2019, arraign the controversial official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chieshe who claimed that the missing N35 million (Thirty Five Million Naira) JAMB proceeds ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and other Nigerians escaped death on Wednesday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport when an Ethiopian Airlines plane almost crashed.

Adhering to a rain that destroyed houses and other valuables, residents of Kuta community, in Ayedire Local Government part of Osun State, are now homeless.

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command says it’s apprehended over 10 suspected traffic robbers and recovery of firearms and ammunition in numerous areas of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city. Their state police command made this known in a record issued ...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen, numbering at least nine, have attacked the palace of Onigedegede of Gedegede in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State, threatening to kill the monarch, Oba Walidu Sanni. The monarch said the suspected herdsmen stormed his ...

Life imprisonment, fine against rapist Katsina State government on Friday announced stiffer penalty of a death sentence against kidnappers and cattle rustlers in the state. This was also as it penciled life imprisonment against rapist as well as fine and ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested four suspected fraudsters for an alleged involvement in internet crimes. The suspects are: Salako Segun, Bryan Emeka, Jason Odunola and Daniel Ezo. The suspects were arrested on Friday, ...

“It is really me, l assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and l’m still going strong. I only get harassed by my grandchildren; they are getting too many.”   He made the declaration in Poland while reaching ...

He was admitted to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, on Tuesday, but passed on in the early hours of Saturday. He was 83 years old at the time of his death. Sun re o !

The Nigerian Union of Traders Association Ghana (NUTAG), has commended President Mohammadu Buhari-led government, ECOWAS, Ghanaian authority and others for their intervention in the reopening of Nigerians shops in Ghana. The President of NUTAG, Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, said this in ...