1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (351+ words) Former Governor of the defunct Gongola State and one-time National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was on Sunday buried in Yola after funeral prayers at the Lamido of Adamawa’s Palace Mosque. The Janazah prayer took place…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (352+ words) The Ondo State Government has imposed a ban on the sale and distribution of unverified alcoholic drinks and other substances across the state. The directive is coming after about 30 persons died after consuming a local herbal alcoholic mixture known as…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (498+ words) An elderly man identified as Ordue Ikye, aged over 80, has reportedly died after he was allegedly attacked by a mob following accusations that he used witchcraft to cause the death of a younger relative in Gwer East Local Government Area…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago   (401+ words) The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State Command, CP Baba Mohammed Azare, has ordered the detention of an officer of the Quick Response Squad, QRS, over the alleged shooting of a seven-year-old boy in Uyo, the state capital. A statement…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (750+ words) Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted two shipments of synthetic cannabis, popularly known as Colorado or Colos, concealed in consolidated cargoes from the United Kingdom. The agency also recovered two other consignments of Colorado hidden…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (249+ words) 12 people have been killed and two others sustained various degrees of injuries in a road traffic crash involving two Volkswagen cars along the Kaduna-Kachia Road in Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr....

7+ hour, 10+ min ago   (596+ words) The Taraba State Government has commenced moves to decongest the Jalingo Medium Security Custodial Centre, with plans to recommend deserving inmates for amnesty under the state’s prerogative of mercy. The development followed concerns over overcrowding at the facility, which was…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (578+ words) Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has warned the people of Izhi Nnodo clan against the indiscriminate sale of ancestral lands, family compounds and burial grounds, saying such practices could make them strangers in their own homeland. Nwifuru issued the…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago   (263+ words) A chieftain of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, has dragged the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, to court over the alleged refusal to release details of the academic record of the presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter…...

10+ hour, 5+ min ago   (353+ words) The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, KACRAN, has called on the 19 Northern Governors and the FCT Minister to urgently rebuild the Northern Nigeria Development Company, NNDC, as a solution to the region’s economic decline and worsening insecurity. In…...