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The Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Eket, has sentenced one Okon Ebenge to death by hanging for killing his neighbour, Eteyen Ekong, over N80,000. The presiding judge, Justice Nsemeke Daniel, on Wednesday passed the death sentence on Ebenge from Akpautong in the Esit … Read more via...

Some residents of Rumuosi community have fled their homes after two policemen and one suspected armed robber were killed during a shootout on Ozuoba-Rumuosi Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Some robbery gang members were said to have opened … Read more via Punch...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have shot dead two suspected armed robbers in the Ijebu Ode area of the state. The police said the incident followed an intelligence report received by the command that a robbery gang from Onitsha was in Ijebu Ode … Read more via Punch Newspapers...

Saidu-Shakiru Adeyemi, the boyfriend of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, the slain daughter of Lasisi Oluboyo, former deputy governor of Ondo State, has denied involvement in her death. DAILY POST had reported that, Oluboyo, the 25 year-old final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba...

Some bank customers in Omu-Aran, Kwara, have heaved a sigh of relief as a commercial bank in the town re-opened three months after shutting down. The News Agency of Nigeria reports on Wednesday that the bank had remained closed since April, following an armed robbery attack on … Read more...

A Group known as the Bayelsa Progress Front (BPF) has described the recent lavish 54th birthday celebration of former Governor Timipre Sylva in Yenagoa over the weekend as “an absurd display of wealth”. According to the BPF, it is regrettable that Sylva, … Read more via Sahara Reporters –...

Peter Azi, the impeached Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, says he has no regrets over his removal. Azi, representing Jos North-East Constituency in the House, was unanimously removed by his colleagues on Wednesday, and was promptly replaced with Joshua Madaki from Jos East...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the death of Nigerian ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Queen Imaria Worlu, as unfortunate. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Olukunle Bamgbose, stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on …...

Failure of Governor Ayodele Fayose to settle the drivers he called to park their vehicles in the Government House to cause traffic difficulty for APC members during their mega rally yesterday has sparked violence between the drivers and the governor’s aides. One of the drivers … Read more...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered that the sum of N200 million allegedly fraudulently warehoused in some commercial banks by two military officers, Adamu Bello Argungu and John Onimisi Ozigi, and their three companies, be temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government of...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday condemned an attack by bandits on a village in Sokoto State and vowed to spare no effort in stopping killings in the country. The President also promised to ensure the bandits who killed several people, including a … Read more via Channels Television...

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has condemned the alleged attack on his counterpart in Ekiti State, Governor Ayodele Fayose and some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who took part in a rally at the state government house on Wednesday. While condemning the alleged...