Karu and evirons were thrown into uproar due to reports of male genitals disappearing mysteriously. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in the past three weeks, more than 10 people in the communities reportedly lost their organs to some suspected ritualists yet to be apprehended.n Some...
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has appealed to indigenes of Ifon/Orolu in Irepodun Local Government Areas of Osun to give peace a chance over their land dispute. Ooni made the appealed at a Press Conference in his Palace, on Friday, warning that there is...
The Police Command in Ogun on Friday in Abeokuta said a Police Inspector and two security guards were injured after being shot by suspected armed robbers. SP Omolola Odutola, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in a statement disclosed that the robbers had invaded a hotel in...
Book Title: “The Price of Sonship” by Apostle Mercy Review by LINDA ASIMOLE ELLAH This Book – A Must-Read! Do you know that there is a school of God called the “Wilderness University”? The author wrote: “It is ironic to see men and women who...
The Lagos police authorities say there are pieces of evidence linking Naira Marley and Sam Larry with cyberbullying, physical abuse, a threat to life, and assault against Afrobeats star Mohbad. Mohbad, also known as Ilerioluwa Aloba, died last month in questionable circumstances. While videos of the...
The Lagos State Police Command says there are indications that the injections an auxiliary nurse identified as Ms Feyisayo Ogedengbe administered to the late Mohbad caused a chain of reactions that led to the Afrobeats singer’s death. Mohbad, whose real name is Ilerioluwa Aloba, died on...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, said it intercepted eight trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice and others worth N1.76 billion in September. The acting Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Mr Adewale Adeniyi, said this at a news conference on Friday in Lagos....
The Labour Party (LP) on Friday suffered a setback as all its 21 Local Government Chairmen defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the defected chairmen decamped to the ruling APC with with scores of their supporters. NAN also reports...
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, says President Bola Tinubu has demonstrated commitment to promote national unity and cohesion as key element of his Renewed Hope Agenda. Matawalle said this at the inauguration of the National Defence College (NDC) Course 32, with the inaugural lecture titled,...
Osun State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Ifon and Ilobu, in Orolu and Irepodun Local Government Areas of the state respectively over ongoing communal clash in the area. The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. Kolapo Alimo, disclosed this in a statement on Friday...
Justice Mohammed Madugu of the FCT High Court, siting in Bwari has ordered that one Cecil Osakwe, a defendant in a case of alleged criminal intimidation be arraigned before the court. Madugu ordered that Osakwe should be arraigned in the court on Nov. 6. The judge gave the...
The Nigerian Army has announced the launch of three training exercises across the country to forestall criminality during the Yuletide period. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.- Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, who briefed newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the training exercises would hold in the South...
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has said that Nigerian scholars `especially from the intellectual community’ were not nominated for the 2023 Nobel Prize because of poor research funding. The Secretary-General of the committee, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu was reacting to the recent announcement of the...
Abia Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia on Friday struck out the petition filed by the PDP Candidate, Chief Okechukwu Ahaiwe, challenging the election of Gov. Alex Otti of Labour Party (LP). The three-member panel in its almost four-hour judgement, read by Justice G.T.D Gwada, dismissed the...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced two of the four defendants alleged to have kidnapped Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to a 20-year-jail term each. Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, held that the prosecution had been able to establish the counts preferred against Kelvin...
The Country Manager of Zoho, a technology company, Mr Kehinde Ogundare on Friday described Nigeria as a market with very good potential for doing business in the world. Ogundare told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Friday that the Nigerian market could not be...
The troops of Joint Task Force South-East Operation, code-named ‘Operation UDO KA II’, has conducted clearance operations in the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its Eastern Security Network (ESN) affiliates hideouts in two council areas in Imo. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in...
The Federal Government says it targets to reduce poverty rate to 0.6 per cent and unemployment rate to 6.3 per cent by 2030 and 2050 agenda. The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Atiku Bagudu, said this at a news briefing for the 29th Nigerian Economic Summit...
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Dauda Biu, said preventing road traffic crashes was not only for FRSC but a shared responsibility involving all. Biu stated this at a one day workshop for 2023 Special Marshals Sectoral Workshop on Thursday in Kaduna. The News Agency...
The Minister of Works Sen. David Umahi says that the ministry needs a total of N217bn to reconstruct 260 road projects and eight bridges across the country. The minister disclosed this while inaugurating four road project committees on Thursday in Abuja. He said the committees were being inaugurated...