Category: Update
EXCLUSIVE: Bandits Write Christians In Zamfara To Shut Down Churches Or Risk Attacks
A group of bandits has written to the Christian community in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria to close churches or risk ferocious attacks, Nationnewslead...
UPDATE: Residents Flee As Boko Haram Terrorists Launch Fresh Attack
Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl...
How IPOB Gunmen Abducted, Killed Two Policemen, Filmed Corpses – Lai Mohammed
The Nigerian government has accused the Eastern Security Network, the militia wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of abducting and murdering two...
UPDATE: Gangsters Kill Popular Disk Jockey In Ondo
A popular disk jockey in Ondo State, Adedoyin Olowu, widely known as DJ Donnieyen, has been killed by gangsters. Nationnewslead learnt that Olowu...
Ballon d’ Or 2021: Full list of all winners
The 2021 Ballon d’ Or was announced on Monday night in Paris. Paris Saint-Germain’s Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’ Or this year ahead of...
Attack on Jos Correctional Facility: 11 killed, 7 critically injured, 252 still at large
Following the attack on Jos Correctional Facility on Sunday evening, the Plateau State Controller of Nigeria Correctional Centre, Samuel Aguda, said 11...
Why Buhari should not release Nnamdi Kanu – Northern Elders
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to release Nnamdi Kanu from custody. Recall that Buhari after a meeting...
HURIWA reacts as Garba Shehu accepts to travel on roads without security
Garba Shehu, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, has accepted a challenge posed to him by the Human Rights Writers Association of...
Students’ unrest: College of Education shut indefinitely
The management of the Adamawa State College of Education (COE), Hong, has shut down the institution indefinitely. A notice announcing the closure...
Jos Correctional Centre attack: Two parents return their escapee inmates
The Comptroller of Jos Correctional Centre (JCC), Mr. Samuel Aguda, on Monday, disclosed that two escapee inmates were on Monday returned to the facilities...
EFCC confirms arrest of 60 ‘Yahoo boys’ at Gbenga Daniel’s hotel
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of 60 suspected internet fraudsters a.k.a. Yahoo boys in Ogun. EFCC Head of...
Ailing actor, Clem Ohameze weeps profusely as he receives N8m from popular prophet
Popular Nollywood Thespian, Clem Ohameze was on Sunday left in uncontrollable tears as he was gifted the sum of N8 million from prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin....
Lawyers fault Keyamo over comments on EndSARs panel
Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Monday faulted the position of the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on the #EndSARs panel...
Omicron variant: Travel bans loom as Canada detects Nigeria-linked cases
Medical experts on Monday warned that Nigeria risked travel bans with Canada’s detection of Omicron variant of COVID-19 in two travellers from Nigeria....
We’re not against restructuring, our demand is Biafra, referendum – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra has said it is not against restructuring of Nigeria. The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma...
Electoral Act Amendments: Buhari writes INEC, seeks advice on direct primaries, others
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has written a letter to the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud...
Policeman breaks Lagos trader’s leg for querying nephew’s arrest
A trader, Esther Eyo, has demanded justice after suffering multiple fractures in her ankle when men of the Lagos State Police Command allegedly brutalised...
400-level female student dies of chest pain, varsity mourns
The management of Bayero University, Kano, has expressed shock over the death of a 400-level student of the Faculty of Education, Binta Isa. The Deputy...
COVID-19: Canada confirms 3 cases of Omicron variant
The Canadian Province’s Health Minister, Christian Dubé, on Monday confirmed first case of COVID-19 Omicron variant in Quebec, bringing the total to...
Plea Bargain: Court jails school leaver 7 years for housebreaking
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday sentenced a 26-year-old man, Solomon Oweicho, to seven years’ imprisonment for...
