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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 ...

The Saf Ron Kulere, the traditional ruler of Bokkos and Chairman, Bokkos Traditional Council, Plateau State, Lazarus Agai, was yesterday murdered in his home village of Sha by suspected Fulani gunmen. He was reportedly murdered with his aides by the ...

Gift Etim Ikono and her two sisters, Esther Etim Ikono and Florence Victor Ikono, have been arrested by the Cross River State police command for allegedly selling their babies to yet-to-be identified persons.   Akwa Ibom State-born Gift, who resides ...

IGP Ibrahim Idris has asked his predecessor, Solomon Arase, to return the excess number of police vehicles he took away on departure from office. He accused him of taking away 24 vehicles including top of the range armoured BMW cars. ...

Two suspected kidnappers burnt to death at Bristow roundabout, Gboko, Benue state, while the third was handed over to the police