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*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 ...

The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has reportedly banned its female staff from wearing miniskirts and jeans trousers to work. This is contained in a statement released by its general manager of NPA where it warned that erring ...

Benue State Command of the Department of State Services,DSS has Some Kidnappers who have been terrorizing Benue state. Six School children have been rescued, some were united with their parents while some are yet to identify their parents. Addressing news ...

A pastor, Timothy Ngwu, was on Monday docked at an Enugu North Magistrates’ Court for allegedly marrying another man’s wife, daughter as well as another woman. The pastor’s wife, Veronica Ngwu, was said to have petitioned the court over the development. ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today turned down the application brought before it by the leader of the Shi’ites Islamic group in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, asking the court to order the Department of State Services, DSS, to release ...

CAN has lashed out at John Kerry, U.S Secretary of State, for excluding Christians and southern Nigeria in his meetings during his recent visit to Nigeria. Describing his action as discriminatory, personal and divisive, CAN president, Rev. Dr. Supo Ayokunle, ...