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  The Imo State Police Command has arrested a pastor of the Apostolic Church of Christ in Lagos after allegedly kidnapping a Catholic priest named Fidelis Ekemgba. Identified as pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, was paraded by the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, alongside other suspects namely Kingsley Obumunonye, ...

  The women led by activist, Toun, said there can be no walk of peace until justice is served. “Some women stormed the home of Lagos deputy governor, Femi Hamzat, in Ikoyi, to stage a peaceful protest. The women kicked against the plans by the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to ...

  Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has received an assurance from students of the Lagos State University (LASU) to join him on a peace walk in December. They spoke on Thursday after the Governor commissioned the newly built students arcade LASU main campus in Ojo. The LASU students Arcade is the ...

  The publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday was attacked by hoodlums as he was exiting the Federal High Court, Abuja. The human rights activist had visited the court in the early hours of Thursday to attend the hearing in a case involving the leader of the Indigenous People ...

  Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nigerian Biafra political activist, Nnamdi Kanu, and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says reports claiming his client will be freed today is “premature” and based on “assumption”. Ejimakor said this in an interview with BBC News Pidgin published on the website ...

  Some Nigerians have taken to social media to react after seeing a man confront a soldier for smashing his windscreen. Naija News reports that a cab driver had taken to his Instagram account to narrate how he confronted a soldier after he (the soldier) smashed his windscreen in Lagos. ...

A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. According to Punch Metro, the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at his house and trailed him to a hospital where he ...

  The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) – brainchild of Industrialist, philanthropist and founder of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has provided a grant of 2.5billion Naira to the Edo State Government towards the equipping of the New Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Benin City currently being reconfigured, upgraded, ...

  Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday expressed deep pains and grief over the death of 36 persons in a boat mishap in the State. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Badau village of Bagwai local government area. Seven of the victims are in an intensive care centre of Bagwai ...

  The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, has refuted some claims made by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and his Labour and Employment counterpart, Festus Keyamo, regarding the judicial panel constituted by the state to investigate the October 2020 #EndSARS protests. Mohammed had dismissed the ...