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The Special Adviser to President on Social Investments, Maryam Uwais, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at an event to monitor the FG Social Protection Programme and Sustainable Development Goal. She said it became necessary because government was not getting enough ...

PRESS RELEASE   The Federal Government Friday explained that the flooding on portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was caused by structures built on water channels by some companies along the road even as it has directed the contractor handling the ...

This is Chnasa Chinedu Joseph. She is nine years old and lives with her widowed mother and her only sister at No. 33 Isaiah Eletuo Street Oyigbo Rivers state until disaster struck on the 12th of July 2016. Just about ...

The bodies of four Marine Police personnel have already been recovered from Abonnema waterways in Akuku-Toru Local Government Part of Rivers State. It was gathered that the policemen had set off on a gunboat for routine patrol the other day but ...

One Hausa dead, many sustain machete wounds as Hausa and Fulani youths fight in Abattoir, Agege, Lagos. Police on ground to douse the tension. See More Photos After The Page Break

The father of a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (also called Tompolo), Thomas Osen Ekpemupolo, aged 84, died in early hours of today, at Lily Clinic, Deco Road, Warri, the Gbaramatu Voice, a residential district newspaper in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, ...

Olorogun Michael Ibru, the patriarch of the Ibru family and chairman of the Ibru organization, dies at 86

Ahmed Salkida, one of the 3 people declared wanted for alleged knowledge of Boko Haram, arrested upon his return to Nigeria from UAE

Tanko Abdulateef, a 22-year old House guard who allegedly killed his employer, Mabel Mba Okafor of No J68B, Close 9, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Ajah, on August 17, 2016, was arrested from his hiding in Bali, Taraba State. He was ...

Perutun Governor, a Pastor of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Zion,at Igando, Lagos, plus a mother-of-seven, Ebimabo Jojo, 47, have now been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly keeping guns and preparing food for militants. The boat ...