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  President Muhammadu Buhari has invited some top leaders of the All Progressives Congress to an Iftar dinner at the State House, Abuja. The dinner will hold on Tuesday according to the letter of invitation sent out to guests. Those invited for the meeting include former Lagos State Governor and ...

  Several residents have been killed and an unconfirmed number of others wounded after an attack on Monday night by armed groups locally known as bandits on some villages in Kagarko Local Government Area (LGA) in the northwestern state of Kaduna in Nigeria, POLITICS NIGERIA reports. Sources told this newspaper ...

COURT ORDERS BANKS TO FREEZE SUSPECTED DRUG BARONS’ ACCOUNTS A Lagos Federal High Court, has ordered Zenith Bank Plc and United Bank for Africa, UBA, to place a lien, also known as Post No Debit (PND) on the accounts of two suspected drug barons, Basil Okafor Onochie (SIR) and Okwuchukwu ...

  A new-born-baby was early Tuesday morning dumped at a refuse dump along Enugu Road in the university community of Nsukka, Enugu State. The baby was wrapped in a blue waterproof, and packaged in a carton. As at the time of filing this report, the baby’s remains had not been ...

  The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi who died in Ekiti State on Friday night failed to carry out some of his plans before his death. The well respected Yoruba monarch before his death had plans to visit the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi. Oba Adeyemi before joining ...

  Members of the Nigerian Senate have been accused of diverting funds meant for constituency projects to non-existing projects. The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) made the accusation in its interim constituency and executive projects tracking report, Naija News reports. According to the report, the anti-corruption agency uncovered how the ...

  An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Monday sentenced a 21-year-old driver, Kenneth Divine, to one month imprisonment for stealing 14 cartons of ”Indomie” noodles worth N48,300. The police charged Divine, alongside Joel Olawale,34, with two counts of conspiracy and theft. Delivering ruling, Magistrate A .O. Adeyemi, sentenced the ...

  Nse Ekpenyong, the legislator representing Oron Constituency in the House of Representatives, Abuja, is dead. Oron is a coastal city and Local Government Area (LGA) in Akwa Ibom State. This newspaper learned that Ekpenyong, who showed no sign of illness, died on Sunday. He was 58. The deceased is ...

  Citizens of have re-elected President Emmanuel Macron in a tightly contested presidential election. It took Macron 58.5% votes to defeat his nationalist rival, Marine Len Pen in the runoff election on Sunday, Naija News reports. First-round voting results between the top two contenders, Macron and Len Pen are shown ...

  Some residents of Oyo town who thronged the Oyo Palace to mourn the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on Saturday were stung by bees. This happened around 10 am after Islamic clerics had arrived at the palace in preparation for the burial of Oba Adeyemi, ...