Category: LOCAL NEWS

Biafra: Why IPOB became terrorist organization – Okorocha

    An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha has suggested why members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, became...

Courtroom overcrowded as Ogun teenage killers arraigned, remanded

    An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo, Ogun State, on Thursday, ordered that four teenagers who allegedly murdered a 20-year -old girl, Sofiat...

ASUU vows to commence strike, says ‘we’ve lost trust in FG’

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday expressed doubts over the ability of the Federal Government under the regime of the President, Major...

Man arraigned for beating policeman, stealing N80,000, beret

    A 21-year-old man, Stephen Monday, has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, on charges of assault and theft. The...

I was kidnapped, trafficked for sex in 4 countries – 16yr-old student

    On June 11, 2021, when 16-year-old Senior Secondary School, SSS 2 student, Deborah (not real name) of a government secondary school in Benin, Edo State,...

Oranmiyan House: Osun govt condemns attack, orders search for perpetrators

    The Government of the State of Osun has condemned Thursday’s attack on the Oranmiyan House, the political edifice of the immediate past governor and...

[BREAKING] Osun 2022: Oyetola Submits His Nomination Form

    Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun has submitted his governorship nomination form.       He was accompanied to the All Progressives...

Police Confirm 19 Travellers Dead In Auto-Crash

    Nineteen persons, mostly women and children, have been confirmed dead in a ghastly auto-crash in Yobe State. Nationnewslead had earlier reported that the...

BREAKING: Hoodlums attack Aregbesola’s campaign office in Osogbo

    Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs, on Thursday evening, attacked Oranmiyan House, the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola’s campaign office...

Two dead as Yahoo boys ram into stationary trailer

    At least two persons were confirmed dead when Yahoo boys in their Lexus RX 350 ran into a trailer between Effurun-Otor and Ekiugbo junction, on the...

Benin Prison: We’ll free Sunday Igboho magically ― Agbekoya

    Agbekoya farmers society of Nigeria has disclosed that it will deploy magical power to free detained Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, (popularly...

Varsity urges JAMB to add entrepreneurship to UTME subjects

    The Vice-Chancellor, Veritas University, Abuja, Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, has asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to consider adding...

Ladoja joins kingmakers to endorse Balogun as next Olubadan

    The Osi Olubadan High Chief Rashidi Ladoja on Thursday joined other kingmakers to endorse the nomination of Dr Lekan Balogun as the next Olubadan of Ibadan...

One feared dead, other injured in Kwara hijab crisis

    Controversy over hijab-wearing by Muslim students in Oyun Baptist High School (OBHS) Ijagbo, Oyun local government area of Kwara state turned bloody on...

Fela nominated for 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced Afrobeat pioneer, as one of its 17 nominees for induction into the Rock Hall’s Class of 2022 It is the...

Eight countries that have never qualified for AFCON

    Playing at the highest level is every professional football player’s dream, a status that the African Cup of Nations and other continental competitions...

BREAKING: Senate Deputy Minority Leader defects to APC, meets Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, welcomed Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Bwacha, into the ruling All...

Gunmen attack community, kill village head, four others

    Gunmen killed a village head, Alhaji Jafaru Rabi’u, and abducted a yet-to-be-identified lady. at Daddara Liman, Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina...

We supply food, drinks to kidnappers on Lagos-Ibadan expressway — Suspects

    SUSPECTED kidnap syndicate, has confirmed their involvement in the recent kidnap operation at Onigari on Lagos-Ibadan expressway which led to the death of...

2023: S-West APC govs divided over Tinubu, Osinbajo, Fayemi

    Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-West zone are divided over the presidential ambitions of former Lagos...