Popular Maiduguri-based Islamic praise singer, Dan Zaki Yaya, has dismissed widespread rumours of his death, describing the reports as false, malicious and intended to tarnish his reputation. The renowned qasida singer, whose real name is Zaki Dan Yaya, spoke with journalists in Maiduguri on Wednesday after social media posts...
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Sokoto State High Court has sentenced three individuals, including a foreign national, to death by hanging after finding them guilty of terrorism-related offences and illegal arms trafficking. The convicts — Jabbi Alhaji Yalle, a citizen of the Republic of Niger, Yusuf Muhammad, popularly known as Sallau, and Kabiru Muhammad...
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported that Lassa fever has claimed 214 lives nationwide, with the fatality rate increasing to 25 per cent. According to the agency’s Lassa Fever Situation Report for Week 23 (June 1–7, 2026), the figure is higher than the 18.9 per...
An Abeokuta court has granted bail to Abass Olalekan, popularly known as Ola Kamara, a Local Government Inspector (LGI) with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Abeokuta South, following his arraignment on charges of conspiracy and attempted procurement of abortion. The 27-year-old officer was detained by police after...
Amnesty International is calling on Nigeria’s federal and state governments to completely scrap the death penalty, warning that it is ineffective and incompatible with modern justice systems. Speaking during a stakeholders’ dialogue in Abuja to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Mrs. Barbara Magaji, Programmes Manager at...
A staggering 37 condemned prisoners, comprising 36 males and one female, are languishing on death row in Bauchi State, awaiting execution. The Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Bauchi, Mr. Ahmed Tata, said in an interview with NAN, that none of the democratically elected governors...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), on Wednesday, said that the number of prisoners on death row had risen from 3,590 in September 2024 to 3,688 in March 2025. This represents a 2.73 per cent increase or addition of 98 prisoners within six months. The Acting Controller-General of NCoS, Mr...
A Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Gerald Edeh, has identified ‘stress’ as a major cause of high blood pressure and sudden death among Nigerian adults. Edeh, who works with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday commiserated with the Government and people of Ondo State over the death of Temitayo Oluwatuyi, the Secretary to the State Government. Oluwatuyi, fondly called Tukana, died on Sunday following hospitalisation for serious injuries sustained in an accident on Dec. 15, 2024, Mr Bayo Onanuga,...
By BARBARA KALU, Yenagoa – Bayelsa State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Elizabeth Bidei, is dead Bidei, who was also a member of the Bayelsa’s Executive Council, died on Monday, Dec. 30. The Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mrs Ebiuwou Koku-Obiyai, confirmed this in a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Tinubu has condoled with the governor of Jigawa, Malam Umar Namadi, over the death of his mother, Hajiya Maryam Namadi. The deceased, who died on Wednesday, had been buried according to Islamic rites in the governor’s hometown of Kafin Hausa. The president in...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday ordered the remand of a 52-year-old man, Taiwo Olaniyan, in Agodi correctional facility for allegedly causing the death of his unborn child. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, who did not take the defendant’s plea for lack of jurisdiction,...
The Ebonyi Government says the death toll from the cholera outbreak in Ndibokote Village in Ezza-Inyimegu Community has hit 15. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Moses Ekuma, confirmed the number of deaths from the epidemic in the locality to newsmen in Abakiliki on Friday. Ekuma said that three emergency...
The Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP in the last governorship election in Kogi State,Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka has mourned the death of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi who died on Sunday This was contained in a statement he personally signed by...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said the number of confirmed Lassa Fever cases has increased significantly resulting a cumulative 162 deaths in 2024. The NCDC disclosed this on Saturday via its official website, saying that the country registered 10 cases of Lassa fever...
UN humanitarians said about 750,000 people were affected by flooding in eastern Africa, with 234,000 displaced and more than 236 killed. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said local authorities in Kenya reported more than 285,000 people were affected nationwide. “The United Nations and...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the Eze family over the passing of Sen. Ayogu Eze. The late politician represented Enugu North Senatorial Zone in the Senate from 2007 to 2015. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement issued by...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress [APC] in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume has described as shocking, painful and diminishing, the sudden news of the death of a political leader in Enugu State, Senator Ayogu Eze. Eze, who was once a spokesperson of the Senate, reportedly died...
Archbishop Emeritus of the Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has urged Christian faithful in Nigeria to remember death at all times. Onaiyekan said this when he spoke with newsmen at the “Requiem Mass” in honour of late James Okorie, the younger brother of Rev. Fr. Kenneth Agwu,...
National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu has said terrorism related deaths have drastically reduce in Nigeria from about 2,600 monthly to less than 200 currently. Ribadu made this known in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting, which opened on Monday in...