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‘I lost my parents, pregnant sister, other siblings to Boko Haram attack in one day’
21-year-old mother of two, Aisha Abdullahi, who, along with her husband, escaped death by the whiskers to Lagos from Maiduguri, following a gruesome Boko Haram attack...
Police dismiss inspector who ‘killed’ Lekki businessman for questioning search
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed one of its inspectors, Jonathan Kampani, for the alleged murder of a businessman in the Lekki area of the State....
JAMB announces new date for 2021 mock-UTME
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) says that the 2021 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), earlier scheduled for Saturday,...
Ekiti 2022: Lere Olayinka appointed Spokesperson of Bisi Kolawole Guber Campaign
Otunba Bisi Kolawole, one of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Ekiti State, has appointed Lere Olayinka as Spokesperson and...
Allow us to operate in Ibadan motor parks, RTEAN beg Makinde
The Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) Oyo State chapter, has urged Governor Seyi Makinde to allow members of the union to operate in Ibadan...
Oyo Central should produce next governor – APC chieftain
As preparation for the 2023 general election gathers momentum, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Mr Abisoye Fagade, has advised the...
Police arrest six suspected car snatchers
Six suspected car snatchers have been arrested by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command along Kubwa, Garki and Lokoja axis of Abuja. Three of the suspects...
COVID-19: NPHCDA vaccinates new 9,255 people in Nigeria
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency says additional 9,255 people received their first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria on...
ICYMI: I ended seven-year relationship after ex said he was dating me out of pity –Ojo, Amputee graduate
Yewande Ojo, a Banking and Finance graduate and an entrepreneur, who lost a limb to an auto crash at nine, tells ALEXANDER OKERE life lessons living as an amputee...
58 dead in Baghdad Covid hospital fire
Fifty-eight people were killed in a fire that ravaged at a Covid-19 hospital in the Iraqi capital overnight Sunday, according to an official toll. “The number...
Probe ‘missing $30m safe school fund,’ SERAP tells Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and...
Battery problems: FRSC ‘bans’ Ampera vehicles on Nigerian roads
The Federal Road Safety Corps has alerted Nigerians on the withdrawal of about 10,000 Ampera Motor vehicles by its manufacturer, Frankfurt-Opel. In a statement on...
Kidnappers told me to sell my house, car, others to raise N100m ransom – Ekiti farmer
A farmer in Ekiti State, Isaac Agbanigo, who was recently kidnapped on his farm and regained his freedom four days later after ransom payment, tells ABIODUN...
Fayose: Presidency now employer, defender of terrorists, bandits, Nigerians should restrict their movements for safety
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has described as appalling, the present situation of Nigeria, where the Presidency has become the employer and...
FG, states broke, another recession looms
“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the...
State of Nation: Things’ll soon turn around for better — Kumuyi tells youths
AS Nigerians continue to grapple with socio-economic challenges, the Founder and General Superintendent, GS, of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DLCM, Pastor...
Students’ killing: Fear grips parents as bandits insist on N800m ransom
Fear has gripped parents of the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, who are still being held by bandits, following the killing of three of the kidnapped...
More knocks for Presidency over comments on Pantami
The Presidency drew more flak from the public on Saturday over its defence of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami. There had been...
Edo 2020: The good, the bad, the amazing
The 20th National Sports Festival tagged Edo 2022, which ended April 14 in Benin City, was as usual, a convergence of the country’s brightest sporting talents....
NAPTIP reunites victim with family after 20 years
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Offences (NAPTIP) has reunited a victim of human trafficking with her family after...
