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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 ...

*Police Investigating Possible Murder Residents of Aboru, Lagos State, were on Sunday thrown into pandemonium, as some labourers working in a nearby building discovered the body of a 28-year-old motorcyclist, Tunde, dangling on a rope in an uncompleted building. Police ...

Pictured is the lady and the cutlass she used to carry out the act. A Facebook user, Odunsi Idowu, who shared the pictures of the husband lying on a hospital bed, 3 days ago, wrote: “A woman did this to ...

The former and present Group Managing Directors stated this after having a one-day meeting they held with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja. The NNPC in its statement said, “They (the GMDs) noted that the ...

Chelsea Hotel was seized from the state’s first civilian governor, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, and was handed over to the government of Bayelsa State on September 7, 2009, but the hitherto money-spinning edifice is rotting away in Abuja. A Federal ...

A 37-year old man allegedly set the home of his in-laws on fire at Isampou in Ekeremor LGA in Bayelsa state, killing the mother-in-law, after his wife divorced him. The brother-in-law, who sustained first degree burns later died at the ...