Category: Update
Police arrest 1 over killing of retired DIG’s wife
The Police Command in Benue has arrested one suspect in connection with the gruesome killing of Mrs Eunice Aganya, wife of former retired Deputy Inspector General...
Student commits suicide over alleged seizure of phone in exam hall
Nationnewslead reports that A 300 level student of Biochemistry Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, identified as Daniel Mba, Friday night, plunged...
Unknown gunmen assassinate retired DIG’s wife
The Benue Police Command has announced the assassination of Mrs Eunice Aghanya, wife of retired Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Mr Ibe Aghanya, in...
Assailants kill four policemen, drag bodies in street after botched raid
Nationnewslead reports that Haitian authorities said Saturday that four police agents were killed and several wounded the day before during a botched anti-gang...
BDCs link forex speculators to naira crash to N485/$1
Nationnewslead reports that The continued fall of the naira at the parallel market and Investors’ and Exporters’ (I&E) Forex window has been linked to...
COVID-19: 50,911 residents recover in Lagos
Nationnewslead reports that The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has revealed that 50,911 residents have recovered from COVID-19 in...
Ex-Middleweight champion Marvin Hagler dies at 66
Nationnewslead reports that Boxing legend Marvin Hagler, the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987, died on Saturday at age 66, his wife said. In a...
FG halts USSD banking services proposed disconnection
Nationnewslead reports that The Federal government has directed Mobile Network Operators to put on hold the impending suspension of Unstructured Supplementary...
Protesters attack bus carrying president
Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday as he visited an area devastated by forest...
Chad president kicks off campaign for sixth term
Nationnewslead reports that Chad President Idriss Deby Itno kicked off his campaign for a sixth term on Saturday, calling for unity after rival protests were...
With SIM card I can empty victim’s account in five minutes – Suspected hacker
Twenty-six-year-old Ayoola Olalekan, who was recently paraded as a suspected cyber fraudster by the Osun State Police Command, tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA what it takes to hack...
Senate probes works ministry over RCCG’s N145m road project
Nationnewslead reports that The Senate is currently probing the Federal Ministry of Works for paying N145m to a construction firm as reimbursement for a road...
Farmer-herder crisis: Six states reject FG’s livestock scheme
Nationnewslead reports that Six state governments, namely Delta, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, and Edo have said they will not donate any land to be used...
Trailer damages 3 flyover bridges on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Nationnewslead reports that A low bed trailer carrying excavator on Saturday damaged three flyover bridges on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway Mr Olaseni...
Ekiti NLC gives govt May 1 deadline to pay outstanding Workers salaries
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ekiti State Chapter, has given the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, till May 1 to pay all outstanding salaries of workers in...
Nigerian Polytechnic Bans Students From Driving Private Cars On Campus
Nationnewslead reports that The Management of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, has banned students from driving private cars on campus. The polytechnic,...
Okonjo-Iweala arrives Nigeria on working visit
Nationnewslead reports that The new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Saturday, arrived in Nigeria on a one-week...
Herdsmen fighting losing battle against modernity — Tinubu
Nationnewslead reports that All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, backed the ranching system as a way to end the near perennial...
We won’t allow criminals destroy our education system – Buhari
Nationnewslead reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration would do everything possible to defend the nation’s school system against...
Kaduna students beg in video as kidnappers demand N500m
Nationnewslead reports that Gunmen, who abducted 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Mando Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna...
