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Physically challenged man who is Nigeria’s most wanted job scammer, arrested. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has arrested, Abubakar Rilwan, one of Nigeria’s most wanted notorious fraudsters involved in online advertising scams on non-existing vacancies in government agencies, PRNigeria is ...

For lacking federal character, among other gross irregularities the Nigerian Senate has rejected President Buhari’s ambassadorial nominees list.

In statement issued today in Abuja, the PDP Senator urged Gov. Fayose “to stop the needless mudslinging against Aisha Buhari.” He likened Fayose’s attempt to link Aisha with the Halliburton scandal as a “needless distraction and an amateurish shadow-boxing. His ...

Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has died. Tobi passed on in the early hours of Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja. His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital. The retired judge ...

Unrest reported at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, as police allegedly kills 2 students.

A commercial Toyota Sienna bus lost balance, somersaulting into the bush on Tuesday 7th June killing 1 woman and leaving 4 injured close to Ihiala LGA headquarters along Onitsha-Owerri Road in Ihiala, Anambra State. Eyewitnesses ran towards the accident scene ...

According Newsroom, Blessing Adenike Adeoye, 19, was taken to traditional midwives known in Yoruba as “elewe omo” probably because her Igando, Lagos-based parents couldn’t afford the cost of taking her to a proper hospital. She was the first of her ...

Chinese man arrested for attempting to assassinate his Nigerian business associate. Sun Hun was arrested in Lagos Island yesterday, after police operatives nabbed one Chika Eze, whom he paid N1.4m to hire killers. Chika got two men whom he paid ...

Around 6:45am today, 2 suicide bombers were shot dead by the Civilian JTF in Maiduguri, Borno state. The male suicide bombers who strapped IEDs on the bodies stormed Kusari, near CBN Staff Quarters and heading to a mosque in the ...