The Plateau State Local Government elections will hold as scheduled on Saturday, as the Jos appellate Court dismissed the Peoples…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday made a strong pitch for the integration of Taiwan with the mainland amidst heightened…
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the…
Thugs have attacked Mr Waziri Enwongulu, the Legal Adviser, All Progressives Congress (APC) of Wakama ward, Nasarawa State. Enwongulu, while…
Former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attairu Jega, has said the two major political parties in the…
Five more kids from Bethel Baptist School in Maraban Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State, have been set free by bandits. This was confirmed by the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev Israel Adelani Akanji, on Friday night, October 8. “Glory be to God. Five of our Bethel Baptist High School Kaduna students and the Matron have just…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, in her defence of Nigeria’s mounting debt has insisted that…
China ordered miners in Inner Mongolia to ramp up coal production and oil prices jumped on Friday as a record…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has given a hint on its presidential flagbearer for the 2023 general elections. The National…
Nollywood filmmaker and actor, Ernest Obi has come out to react to the arrest of veteran actor Chiwetalu Agu by…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Alhaji Musa Danmadami, has expressed palpable fear that the party congress in…
A war-of-words has ensued between the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, regarding the…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced on Thursday that the firm is relocating its headquarters from Silicon Valley to…
Gunmen attacked the Isu and Onicha-Igboeze communities in the Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Thursday, killing at least ten people, including two police officers. Two police officers are said to have been killed in Isu, while others were killed in Onicha Igboeze. During the incident, two lawyers were also alleged to have been killed by the shooters. The two lawyers were in a vehicle when they were approached by shooters in a Lexus SUV, according to reports. The intruders were reported to have slain the lawyers, set fire to the SUV they were driving, and then fled with the lawyers’ vehicle. Gunmen and alleged security officers are said to have killed people in Onicha in the last three months. Last month, a woman and daughter of a monarch in the area, Elizabeth Agwu,…
During a shootout with agents of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun Corps, a suspected kidnapper was slain by a member of his gang. According to reports, the deceased, named as Funmi Adenuoye, was accidentally shot dead by his colleague, Kunle, while attempting to flee from Amotekun Corps troops pursuing them during a kidnapping operation. The deceased and two of his gang members, Kunle and Tayo Ibrahim, were also said to have abducted a 58-year-old cement merchant, Alhaji Shakirudeen, in Ogun State on Wednesday. According to a source, the three kidnappers drove their victim to Okitipupa, Ondo State, with the purpose of negotiating a ransom there. The Amotekun Corps, on the other hand, struck and arrested Ibrahim, while Kunle fled.The Amotekun Corps was believed to be on the lookout for the kidnappers. “Our trustworthy intelligence network picked that certain criminals are driving carelessly,” said Amotekun Commander Chief Adetunji Adeleye. We didn’t know what was in the truck at the time, but their driving suggested concerns. So we set up an ambush for them in Ondo State’s Okitipupa area and apprehended them. “They engaged our men in a shootout and we were able to…
The Police in Zamfara State have rescued 187 people abducted and held captive by bandits in Tsibiri Forest in Maradun…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared Wednesday’s Nasarawa State local government council poll. Mr Ayuba Wandai, Chairman of the…
The last may not have been heard about the 2019 governorship election in Ogun State and the legal battles that…
The Federal Government has applauded the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) for suspending its nationwide strike, adding it has…
President Buhari has presented a budget of N16.39 trillion for the 2022 fiscal year titled budget of economic growth and…