Category: LOCAL NEWS
Gunmen kill father, kidnap daughter in Abuja
Armed men have killed a father, while they abducted a 12-year-old girl in Chukuku in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. The armed men...
I was into haulage business, not kidnapping, Evans tells court
Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, said on Friday that he was innocent of the charges slammed against him before the Lagos...
Aggrieved APC factions shift battle to court, accuse party of contempt
The internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress may not fizzle out any time soon as aggrieved factions of the party have shifted the battlefield...
Aregbesola blames social vices surge on lack of parental guide
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has attributed the current social vices bedeviling the society to lack of parental guide. ...
BREAKING: Osun Poly ASUP Issues Strike Notice, Gives Govt 7 Days Ultimatum To Address Their Demands
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, chapter has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Osun Government to address the...
Nigerian Military Bombs Boko Haram, ISWAP Camps Discovered In Borno’s Lake Chad Region
The Nigerian military has killed many fighters of the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly...
Nigeria vs Ghana: Super Eagles receive big boost ahead of Black Stars’ clash
Shehu Abdullahi has returned to full training with his Cypriot club Omonia, after being sidelined with injury. Abdullahi announced this via his...
N57.8m Fraud: Boy sent to prison after posing as ‘American prostitute’
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Friday convicted 20-year-old Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas. The native of Atiba Local...
Court convicts fake lawyer in Ekiti
An Ekiti State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, has sentenced one Abayomi Kayode to six months imprisonment for unlawfully parading himself as a...
Suspected kidnapper arrested by police in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command, on Friday, announced the arrest of a transborder kidnap suspect from the Republic of Benin in Baruten Local Government Area...
Osun APC: TOP sheds more light into Oranmiyan House attack, accuses Gov Oyetola
More facts have emerged on how armed men attacked the Oranmiyan House Campaign office of Rauf Aregbesola, the immediate past governor of Osun State and...
Panic as prison official found dead along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway
The lifeless body of a man, identified as O.O Bawa, has been found near a military checkpoint along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. The victim, who was identified...
Police arrest prison escapee over beheading of ex-officer
The Imo state police command on Friday disclosed that it had arrested the leader of a court group over the beheading of a retired Chief Superintendent of...
Osun 2022: PDP can’t match what we’re doing, says Oyetola
The Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, has said the Peoples Democratic Party has no extraordinary chance of rivalling the All Progressives...
Aregbesola’s faction demands Osun CP’s removal over attacks
A faction in the All Progressives Congress supported by the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osun state, has demanded the removal of the state Police...
Osun to help decongest Apapa Port, says Oyetola
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state has pledged the readiness of his administration to help decongest the Apapa Port in Lagos State. Speaking shortly...
Police arrest killer of retired CSP
The Imo state police command has nabbed one of the alleged killers of a retired Chief Superintendent of Police in the state, Christian Kpatuma. State...
FG put smiles on faces of retired military veterans as MPB begins payment of 24-month arrears of minimum wage increment
Authorities of the Military Pension’s Board (MPB) on Friday disclosed that payment of the 24 months minimum wage salary arrears owed veterans and retired...
Declare me the winner of Plateau bye-election, Kwande begs APC
An All Progressives Congress, APC aspirant in the controversial Bassa/Jos North federal constituency bye-election, Hon. Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande has...
US court postpones sentencing of Hushpuppi by five months, mum on Kyari
The United States Attorney’s Office at the Central District of California has postponed the sentencing of alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon...
