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Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) has protested his detention for alleged $15 billion arms deals facilitated by the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA). He says the FG should allow his trial to begin, The Nation ...

Seriki Muktar Adebayo, a 26-year-old Tanzania-based Nigerian footballer from Osun State, was arrested yesterday, with 2.070kgs of heroin, onboard an Ethiopian Airline flight from Mozambique. He said: “After a fruitless search for a football club in Tanzania, I moved to ...

Yesterday, while celebrating the Id-el-Fitri with Muslims, the Edo State Governor attributed the crisis rocking PDP to God’s vengeance for the party’s alleged destruction of the country, adding that thieves that brought Nigeria to its kneels were now on the ...

According to Prof. Michael Faborode, the Secretary-General, Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU), the Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector have agreed on N2,500 as the fee for post-UTME screening. . He said ...

He died in a hospital in London at about 4:07pm today. He held the traditional title of Marafan Sokoto and was a native of Zamfara State. He was a Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs and a presidential aspirant in the ...

Bukky Ajayi Died Of Heart Attack, Buried At Atan Cemetery Yaba Lagos- Family Sources details later.

According to Punchng, 40-year-old father-of-five, Moruf Haruna who worked for Vintage Transport and Logistics, was allegedly manhandled by the officer at about 5am on Saturday, when an NDLEA team stopped his vehicle for a search in the Abaji area of ...

After being suspended by Twitter, Niger Delta Avengers migrate to Facebook, blow up another NNPC, NPDC, Chevron oil facilities.

Fola Orebiyi passed on the pavement of Portobello Road before frightened spectators who say he was pursued by a gang on bicycles at around 8.45pm the lastevening. Regardless of paramedics’ endeavors, he lost his battle for life.  Witnesses said he ...

**for allowing his daughter’s cry wake him up According to Facebook user, IG Wala: “This woman is allegedly shot by the man that she is working in his house as a maid. The man name Jamilu (with a traditional title ...