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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Ibeh George Udoka, m, for driving away his principal’s Toyota car to Imo State for sale. On 4th May, 2021, at about 1pm, one Mrs Akinola Ibironke, f, came to Idimu Police Division and reported that her driver by name Ibeh George Udoka, m, whom she handed her Toyota Corola vehicle, with ...

Unknown gunmen numbering about seven on Thursday stormed Ogidi (close to Oyeolisa market) along the old Onitsha/Awka Road and set ablaze a highlander Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a wagon gulf parked adjacent to a bank. The gunmen, who drove on a black Pilot SUV without a number plate, had on arrival, started shooting indiscriminately into the air to scare ...

Management of Osun State University, Osogbo, had directed all newly admitted students yet to attain age 16 as of the time the admission was given to them to either defer the offer, or demand refund of school fees. Over 100 students that had initially been offered admission by the institution for 2020/2021 academic session were told to defer the offer ...

The Chief Imam of Enagi town, Alhaji Attahiru Alhassan, has been stabbed to death for allegedly having a sexual relationship with the second wife of one Umaru Jubrin. Jubrin, 35, was said to have caught the Chief Imam who was 48 years old and his wife in bed at a neighbour’s house. Jubrin was paraded at the police headquarters in ...

President Muhammadu Buhari condoles with the family, friends and acquaintances of Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. Odumakin was also spokesman to the then Gen Buhari in 2011, when he ran for President on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), now defunct. The President recalls Odumakin as dutiful, and a person of conviction, expressing sorrow at ...

Banks have notified customers that effective on Thursday (today), the old cheque leaflets will no longer be acceptable for clearing. They also urged the customers to get the new revised cheque standard leaflets introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Earlier, the Central Bank of Nigeria had extended the phase-out date for old cheque books from January 1 to March ...

A police officer, a vigilante leader and four others have been killed during a bank robbery in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. The incident happened on Tuesday around 5.30pm at the branch of a first generation bank beside the palace of the traditional ruler of the town. The robbers were said to have unleashed terror on ...

The governments of Katsina, Kaduna and Niger States have intensified efforts to free 109 abductees still in captivity, about three months after their abductions Then Prominent residents of Illela town in Sokoto State, including a local government chairman in the area, have resorted to sleeping at Ikonni town in Niger Republic every night to escape abduction by bandits In Katsina, ...

The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and strong ally, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is scarce in Aso Rock. “If the Asiwaju is not a frequent face in the Aso Rock Villa, it is on account of the fact that he is not a cabinet member of this government. The fact that he is not every day around the ...

The abductors of three teachers from the UBE Primary School, Rama in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have demanded N15million for their release. The gunmen had on Monday, March 15, 2021, stormed the school and abducted three teachers and three boys from primary 3, shortly after the school assembly. Teachers from the school later told our correspondent ...

Nigeria’s vice president Yemi Osinbajo Friday called for the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the country, as against the prohibition of digital currencies. “There is a role for regulation here,” Osinbajo said at the Bankers Committee Vanguard in Lagos State. “And it is in the place of both our monetary authorities and SEC to provide a robust regulatory regime that addresses ...

The confirmation followed over two hours of grilling by Senators who sought answers to various questions from the nominee. In all, 19 Senators asked questions which were articulately responded to by Bawa. Bawa, while answering questions, noted the EFCC establishment Act empowers the commission to investigate any person suspected to have acquired unexplained wealth without any formal petition in consonance ...

Few months after he lost his sister, Simi, to Covid-19 in London, Kitoye Branco Rhodes has died of Corona virus last night in Lagos. The reality of his sudden death has not sunk in for many of his friends and family members. Indeed, if money were a language understood by death, the deceased would be alive. But his time was ...

Alhaji Murtala Maiyadi, Chairman, Bababa Shopping complex, Bauchi, has disclosed that a fire outbreak has destroyed 90 shops and properties worth 50million, at the complex, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. He said that the fire, which began at 11.30pm on Friday, 12 Feb. 2021, lasted for six hours, after starting from a corner shop. “Officials of the state ...

The Anglican community was yesterday thrown into mourning when one of her priests, wife and their maid died under mysterious circumstances. The Archdeacon of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ariaria, Aba, Julius Dike and wife, Agnes were reported to have held a crusade within the church premises the previous night. They were said to have after the crusade, ate and retired ...

Abuja after his four days official trip to his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. Abuja after his four days official trip to his hometown, Daura, Katsina State.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the appointment of new Service Chiefs. Mohammed said Buhari made the best choices in the appointment of the new Service Chiefs. He made the remark while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Buhari said: “Based on available information at our ...

Major-General Leo Irabor replaced General Abayomi Olonisakin as Chief of Defence Staff; Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao replaced Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo replaced Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas as Chief of Naval Staff; while General Ibrahim Attahiru replaced Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai as Chief of Army Staff. Below ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration has been borrowing to finance the budget due to dwindling revenues. He urged Nigerians to be alive to their tax obligations as taxation is a required sacrifice for citizens if the country is to develop. The President spoke virtually during the First National Tax Dialogue held at the Conference Hall of the ...

Three persons were confirmed to have been burnt to death while several others sustained injuries in a tanker explosion in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Tuesday, around 8.00 a.m Five vehicles and two motorcycles got burnt in the explosion which occurred around the Guarantee Trust Bank, Presidential Boulevard in Abeokuta. Both the deceased and injured were taken to the ...