Police intensify search for Super TV CEO’s killers, block account
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said efforts are on to arrest the suspected killers of the Chief Executive Officer, Super
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Gunmen kill radio anchor, DJ, in Ibadan
An on-air-personality based in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has been shot dead by two masked men.Titus Badejo popularly known as Ejanla was
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Kidnap suspects accuse police of demanding N35m bribe
Three kidnap suspects in police custody in Nasarawa State have accused the command of demanding N35 million to secure their freedom. Commissioner of
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15 Niger kidnap victims escape from Zamfara forest as drunken guard sleeps off
NOT less than 15 persons recently abducted by bandits in Tegina town of Niger State on Sunday escaped from their captors’ den in
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Trigger-happy police inspector kills five Enugu youths, injures four
Enugu State Police Command on Sunday said it had arrested a trigger-happy police inspector who allegedly killed five people, while leaving four others
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Court clears man of cocaine possession charge
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday discharged and acquitted a businessman, Frankline Chukwudumeme, of an unlawful possession of cocaine charge. Chukwudumeme, alias
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FULL LIST: UTME 2021: JAMB delists 25 CBT centres
The centres are: BENUE STATE HARRY PASS POLYTECHNIC CBT CENTRE, OFF GBOKO AMELADU ROAD, ALONG ORTESE MARKET AFTER CDM ACADEMY, GBOKO, BENUE STATE
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FG will complete 2nd Niger Bridge next year: Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has reaffirmed that construction of the Second Niger Bridge would be completed next year.
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KAMARU USMAN: Why I chose ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ as nickname
Twenty-six years after leaving fatherland Nigeria for the United States of America (USA) the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight title champion Kamaru Usman
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Obaseki demolishes loyalist hotel in Benin
RESIDENTS of Adeyan Street, GRA, Benin City, were thrown into confusion, following the alleged demolition of almost completed hotel by Governor Godwin Obaseki.
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A’ Ibom leaders call for dialogue, true federalism over agitations in Nigeria
LEADERS of Akwa Ibom States have advocated the need for a dialogue to address the various tribal and religious agitations that are threatening
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My brother begged in vain to live for his pregnant wife, kids –Relative of DSS man killed by soldiers during argument
Sixty-seven-year- old Mr Lawrence Olubodun and his 61- year-old wife, Grace, residing in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, have yet to come
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‘My neighbours denied me access to my home for 15 years’
A businessman, Martins Egbunine, has accused his neighbours of blocking him from driving into his premises in Lagos for over 15 years. Egbunine,
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Banditry: Nine Kebbi pupils, teachers rescued, three dead, 90 still missing
Seventy-two hours after bandits attacked the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, 10 persons comprising 94 pupils, four teaching and four other
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I make N400,000 monthly selling bread to bandits in Kaduna — Suspect
Operatives of the Force intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested three bread sellers, who specialized in supplying bread to bandits operating from Damari,
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Dad converted his garage to classroom to teach us maths, others – Ayo-Aderele, CU first class graduate
Adediwura Ayo-Aderele, who studied Industrial Mathematics-Computer Science at the Covenant University and graduated with first class honours, having finished with 4.77 CGPA, tells TOBI
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My four-month-old daughter watched as military officer shot her dad in head –Wife of Germany-based Nigerian killed in Imo
Mrs Ijeoma Unachukwu, the wife of a Germany-based Nigerian, Mr Oguchi Unachukwu, who was allegedly shot dead by Air Force personnel at the
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Civil servants more corrupt than politicians, Senate panel declares
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has declared that its investigations so far revealed that civil servants are more corrupt than the political class.
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Kano ‘blasphemous’ singer apologises as DSS intervenes
A singer, Ahmad Abdul, accused of blasphemy in his latest song has apologised to the Muslim Umma, Kano government and Islamic scholars. Abdul’s
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Many injured, vehicles razed as gas tanker explodes in Lagos
Many persons on Thursday night sustained varying injuries while properties, including vehicles destroyed after a gas tanker exploded along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way,
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Polls: Only 15 parties declared election expenses, says INEC
ONLY 15 out of the 31 political parties which participated in the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states on September 19 and
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Navy impounds 251 bags of smuggled rice, seizes boat in Akwa Ibom
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB), Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, has impounded 251 bags of smuggled rice and
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EFCC: we recovered N6b, $261m, houses in 100 days
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has, in the last 100 days, recovered $261 million, N6 billion, and 13,000 pounds illegally acquired
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I’m a proud dot in a circle
I had no personal relationship with Abba Kyari, a lawyer trained at Cambridge University in England, who amassed more power than any of his
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Pastor beats wife to death over alleged infidelity in Akwa Ibom
Residents of Ikot Abia village in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have been thrown into a state of disbelief following
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You lack comprehension of the workings of government. PDP governors bomb Garba Shehu over ‘poorly worded’ Presidential statement
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic, Party, PDP, Thursday, flayed Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, over the statement he authored on
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75 Northern groups place N100m bounty on Nnamdi Kanu
A coalition of 75 Northern groups under the aegis of Northern Consensus Movement on Thursday announced a reward of N100 million for persons who can
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Kwara suspends two top officers for alleged N170m fraud
The Kwara State Government has suspended two senior officials from the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Result (SOML-PforR) to allow for a
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PDP group demands Secondus, NWC members’ resignation
A fresh crisis may be brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party as the Concerned PDP League, also known as ‘PDP Watchdog’, demanded the
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Hoodlums raze ex-Imo AG, lawmaker’s houses
Hoodlums who reportedly disguised themselves as local vigilante groups in the early hours of Wednesday stormed the private residence of the immediate past
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