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There was pandemonium at the All Progressives Congress (APC), secretariat at Garrison in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state, after some thugs were involved in a clash. The political thugs gathered at the secretariat amid the brewing tension between the two factions of ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released Ita Ekpeyong, the former director-general of the State Security Service (SSS) Mr Ekpeyong was arrested on Thursday afternoon following a raid of his Abuja home by anti-graft detectives.  He was moved to ...

The accident occurred after a traveler bus collided with a truck on East road just after Choba bridge close to the University of Port-Harcourt, in the state capital. Report has it that the passenger bus was overtaking the flatbed truck ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen all bank accounts belonging to Akwa Ibom State government.  Reasons behind the freezing of the state government’s bank accounts by the anti-graft agency are not yet known. Meanwhile, the state commissioner ...

Another group of Internally displaced persons (IDPs) have began trooping into Jalingo, the state’s capital city.  This followed after armed militias launched an unprovoked attacks on Thursday night and early hours of Friday on the Hausa-Fulani’s town of Kunnini and ...

“The [Ashanti] Regional [Police] Commander told us that the Nigeria High Commission had called him over the same issue. He said he had sent a police patrol team to Suame Magazine, Kumasi. But when some of our people open their ...

The Katsina Police Command has succeeded in arresting a notorious armed robbery suspect, one Abdulbasiru Lawal ‘m’aged 30yrs of Manunnu village, Faskari local government part of the state.   That is found in a statement signed by the state’s police ...

John Abebe, the brother-in-law of former president Olusegun Obasanjo was remanded in Ikoyi Prison, Lagos today over an alleged forgery slammed against him by the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.  Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court ...

Three suspected cultists have already been killed at Somolu, Lagos Mainland after rival cult groups went berserk. Those killed include leader of Eiye cult group in the community, Tunde Awokoya, 36, alias Chop-Up, one Gabriel and another unnamed man. It ...

Chief Williams Ibori, the former Unugbrogo of Oghara kingdom in Delta state is dead. The deceased who’s the elder brother of a former governor of Delta state, James Ibori – reportedly died very early today (while some say he died ...