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  The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, called on security agencies to be on alert over threats made by former World Boxing Champion, Bashiru Ali popularly known as Bash Ali. Ali at the weekend had released a video accusing the minister of extorting ‘millions of naira’ from ...

  Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi on Sunday warned that declaring bandits as terrorists will mark the end of Nigeria as a sovereign and united entity. Mr Gumi, a retired army military officer and mufti, admitted that the devastation inflicted by rampaging bandits in Nigeria’s northwest amounts to terrorism, but ...

  A former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode has claimed that some external forces are bent on causing a war between citizens in Nigeria. A Civil War happened in Nigeria, between 1967 and 1970. The war was between the government of Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a ...

  The World Bank has blacklisted 18 Nigerian individuals and firms for engaging in corrupt practices, fraud and collusive practices in its 2021 fiscal year report titled World Bank Group Sanctions System FY21. The debarments were made by the World Bank Sanctions Board, World Bank Chief Suspension and Debarment Officer ...

  A soldier whose name cannot be confirmed from the 22 Armoured Brigade of the Nigeria Army, Sobi Cantonment, Ilorin, Kwara State has reportedly beaten a female nurse to the extent of breaking one of her legs. The incident, it was gathered, happened over the weekend when the soldier took ...

  The Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, says 837 awaiting trial inmates escaped from the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town, when suspected gunmen attacked the facility. Its Public Relations Officer, Olanrewaju Anjorin, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Ibadan. Unknown gunmen invaded the facility on ...

  Hired Fulani mercenaries have been fingered as being responsible for Friday night’s attack on Abolongo correctional facility, Oyo town in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. It was earlier reported today that prisoners have escaped from the Abolongo facility in Oyo town after some gunmen attacked the correctional centre and freed ...

  Suspected gunmen have attacked one of the facilities of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), in Oyo State. Newspot gathered that the facility, christened Abolongo correctional facility was attacked by the gunmen Friday evening. It was gathered that the gunmen set all the prisoners at the facility free during the ...

  FBN Holdings Plc has said that it is not aware of billionaire, Femi Otedola’s widely-reported share acquisitions. Reports emerged on Friday that an entity owned by Otedola is behind a massive mop-up of the shares of FBN Holding, one of Nigeria’s tier one banks. The reports claim Otedola is ...

  The Federal Government of Nigeria has accused that leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu of ordering the burning of a house belonging to Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma and instigating the looting of the Oba of Lagos Palace during the #EndSARS protests. This was contained ...