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•35 others arrested for armed robbery, cultism FOUR persons have been arrested for the January 23 killing of Ganiyu Ayinla, aide of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos Island boss Kunle Polly. They were arrested in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, and paraded at the … Read...

The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to the wise counsel of former President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida not to seek reelection in 2019, but prepare to hand over to much younger person who can move the nation forward. However, in a statement … via...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will on Tuesday inaugurate the first set of the Joint Working Group for the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) Focus policy labs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. His spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement said this is meant to push forward … Read...

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory confirmed cases, three probable cases and 31 deaths. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2EmkNdp Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, Monday, declared the founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, persona-non-grata. This came with an order that Uwazurike should immediately vacate Igbo land or risk being stripped naked and...

The Police in Lagos State have arrested a 53-year-old man for allegedly defiling his daughter and her two siblings. Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, presented the suspects (names withheld) to newsmen in Lagos on Monday. Imohimi said the suspect was in the habit of defiling his 3-year-old …...

A pregnant woman has reportedly died at the University Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) over suspected case of lassa fever. She died on Monday at the Hospital. The Cross River State government, DAILY POST gathered provided several measures, but the victim eventually gave up the ghost. The...

Taraba State Tiv Cultural and Social Association (TCSA) today said, only from January, it has lost no fewer than 32 persons in separate attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the state. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2FPplGh Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian mum, who delivered quadruplets prematurely in Britain and who has racked up a bill of £500,000 in one of the largest hospitals, said she will be unable to pay. Priscilla, Nigerian mother of quadruplets. The 43-year-old, named only as Priscilla, went into labour three months early …...

Boko Haram fighters stormed a village in northeast Nigeria and murdered two civilians, while six people were killed in an attack in northern Cameroon, a local resident and security sources told AFP on Monday. Nigerian Army The attacks came as Nigeria’s military again maintained the jihadists had...

A 36-year-old labourer, Aliyu Lawal, on Monday appeared before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court charged with raping a five-year-old girl said to be his relation. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2E3dPGB Get More Nigeria Metro News

Justin Timberlake’s halftime show performance drew attention and controversy before he even hit the field on Sunday night, mostly because of two things: Janet Jackson, and his increasingly tenuous relationship with black people. Last year, Timberlake caught heat when he decided to weigh in on...

Anthony Chukwudi Mazeli officer of the Nigerian Army studying in the United Kingdom made the country proud as he distinguished himself by finishing with a distinction in Cyber Security, coming top in his class. The Nigerian Army officer also bagged the Best Dissertation award and Best graduating...

Abba Kyari, assistant commissioner of police, states that most of the efforts put up by the force stem from commitment and sacrifices of officers – Kyari says that if the police gets up to half of what it … Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 –...

Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali,, Defence Minister (rtd) Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on Monday said that no fewer than 30,000 women and children have been rescued from Boko Haram by the troops of operation Lafiya Dole in Sambisa Forest in the last two years. ... Read...

An Upper Area Court 3 sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Monday, February 5, 2018, sentenced an 18-year-old businessman, Musty Ruwanu, to three years’ imprisonment for raping a nine -year-old girl. The judge, Mr Yahaya Mohammed, sentenced Ruwanu after he pleaded guilty to a charge of rape...

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The Chief of Staff to Ekiti State governor Fayose, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, has resigned. According to Mr Dipo Anisulowo, Governor Ayodele Fayose is on a mission to destroy the PDP with the adoption of his deputy, Prof Olusola Eleka to succeed him. Dipo Anisulowo accused Fayose of undermining the …...

Security operatives have arrested a notorious gunrunner; one Christian Chidebere and Benjamin Mallo at a hideout in a village in Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau state, according to a statement released by Operation Safe Haven. Christian Chidebere, a native of Enugu State, had...

Randall Margraves spoke out in an interview (above) after the Friday incident in Michigan A father whose daughters were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar has spoken out after lunging at the serial child molester in court. ‘I ended up delivering unknowingly all three of my daughters to a …...