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On Saturday, the Wife of the President, represented by Hajiya Nana Shettima, the wife of the Borno State governor, presented about N30m cash support to parents of the abducted Government Secondary School (GSS), Chibok, students in Borno, at a ceremony ...

Robbers in Lagos have deviced new tricks to gain entrance into houses with minimal effort by switching off running power generating sets or turning on tap water, to lure people out. The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Dolapo Badmos, ...

* Muslims are more marginalized The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has advised Nigerians to stop associating religion with anything negative in the country. He also said that Muslims felt more marginalized in the country, only that they ...

FRSC officer accused of causing an accident while trying to flag-down a motorist, chased, caught and brutalized at Jibowu, Lagos. See more photos after the page break

The governor made the declaration while appearing on Your-View talk show on TV Continental, this morning. Although street hawking is illegal in the State, it’s not yet being enforced, but Gov. Ambode said lagos state is ready to start massive ...

INEC’s Director of Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi, says this follows an order by the Abuja Federal High Court mandating INEC to immediately issue Certificate of Return to Mr. Uche Ogah who came second at the last PDP primaries in Abia State. ...

Novelist, poet and dramatist Captain Elechi Amadi died today at the Good Heart hospital, Port Harcourt, River State. Some of his works include: The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, Dance of Johannesburg, Peppersoup, The Road to Ibadan, ...

Mohammed Umar, a key member of the panel investigating the mismanagement of public funds meant for the war against Boko Haram, was arrested after Pres. Buhari received damning reports that he was involved in alleged money laundering and illegal possession ...

10 days after, police finally arrest the man who withdrew over N500k from someone else’s bank account using a stolen ATM card.

The identities of the two inmates who escaped from Kuje prison on Friday night, have been unveiled. They are Maxwell Ajukwu from Delta state and Solomon Amodu from Kogi. They were awaiting trial for culpable homicide, before their escape. Efforts ...