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The eyewitness account: “Today, I took my precious mum to the park, but when I was coming back, I met people gathered, when I parked, I was told a man boarded a taxi at Dangotte area of Ilorin, Kwara State ...

Train -vehicles crash at kila, kilometer 3 on ibadan-abeokuta road. Road blocked, ibadan -lagos express road through shagamu -abeokuta alternative route advised. A daf truck ( bbg 287 xe), toyota camry (rsh 306km) and a train (2219) were involved. No ...

The International Council for Ifa Religion, Oke-Itase, Ile-Ife, appreciates all those who graced the burial occasion of our father,The Adifase Awo Agbaye, High Chief Fakolade Aniyeloye of Imesi Ekiti, who joined the ancestors on Monday 11th July, 2016 and was ...

Tragedy averted as another container falls on the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos State. See more photos after the page break

Kabiru Ibrahim Dallah wrote: “I heard with one ear that the immediate past President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Tijani Usman Shehu was somewhere in Abuja last night to negotiate Secretary General for his anointed candidate Igwe ...

Muritala Olugunju, 38, from Ogun State, was said to have picked Mohammed at Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, for shopping, before taking him to a hotel where he wanted to stay. But as Mohammed entered the hotel to book a room, ...

National Chairman of APGA, Chief Ozo (Dr) Victor Ike Oye Ozo Chikwadolu celebrated his 60th birthday and 30th wedding commemoration at St. Patricks Cathedral Awka as of late. Shockingly police and civil defence authorities were spotted dragging buckets with other ...

The trio, on trial for alleged corruption, want to refund cash and surrender property to avoid going to jail, The Nation reports. An EFCC source said that the agency got requests from Olisa Metuh, ex-Chiefs of Air Staff Air Marshals ...

On Friday, some hoodlums robbed and killed a 35-year-old father-of-four, Habibu Maude, Punchng reports. He was shot dead at his suya spot along White House Street in Calabar, Cross River State. It was gathered that the deceased, from Sokoto State, ...

Ndifreke Ibuotenang, 28, said that he was brutalized, last Thursday, by a gathering of policemen attached to Mkpat Enin Police Division in Akwa Ibom State, while coming back from where he went to drink palm wine around 9pm. His two ...