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  Four suspected Yahoo Boys have told the Ogun State police that one of their friends, Uzoma Alexander, who came to learn about Internet fraud from them died after taking ‘Colorado’. Colorado is a cocktail of psychotropic drug currently trending among Nigeria’s young drug users especially teenagers. The Police Public ...

  Barely 24 hours after Governor Nasir El-Rufai sought aggressive presidential intervention against bandits operating in Kaduna State, the terrorists have reportedly kidnapped about 70 traders who were travelling along the Birnin Gwari-Kaduna road in the state. Following the killing of about 40 people after bandits invaded three communities in ...

  Commander of Islamic police known as Hisbah in Kano State, Sheik Harun Ibn Sina, has said the outfit would quiz parents of winner of Miss Nigeria beauty contest, Shatu Garko, over her participation in the beauty pagent. The 18-year-old beat 18 others to win the 44th edition of the ...

  An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has been crushed to death by a truck at Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Road in Ogun, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander, confirmed the incident to NAN in Abeokuta on Wednesday, saying that the accident ...

  The National Association of Nigeria Students has said it will mobilise its members in the South-West in protest against the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2010 Electoral Act (Amendments) Bill 2021 into law. The Coordinator of the NANS South-West (Zone D) Emmanuel Adegboye said this at ...

NIGERIAN ARMY PROMOTES SENIOR OFFICERS The Army Council has on Tuesday the 21st of December 2021, approved the promotion of senior officers to the ranks of Major General and Brigadier General respectively. A total of 41 Brigadier Generals were meritoriously promoted to the enviable rank of Major General, while 76 ...

  The federal government has declared Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th December 2021 and Monday, 3rd January 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day… The federal government has declared Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th December 2021 and Monday, 3rd January 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and ...

  Abductors of two clerics, Hussein AbdulJelil and Ilyas Muhammed Jamiu, in Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have released their victims after collecting N2.2 million ransom. It was gathered that the kidnappers who demanded N15 million ransom after abducting the clerics in the front of their ...

  Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has disclosed his intention for bandits terrorizing the state. El-Rufai said the intention of his government is to kill all bandits in the state. He disclosed this while speaking with State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The ...

Twenty years after the murder of a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka yesterday challenged the Federal Government to show the report of the investigations of the dastardly act. In a letter to Mrs Funso Adegbola, daughter of the late ...