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  Suspected cult members, on Thursday morning allegedly killed a barber and macheted one of his customers at Oke-Ijetu area of Osogbo in Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the late barber, simply identified as Shogo, was attacked in his shop at about 10.00 a.m by six ...

  The Police Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed Usman Baba as Inspector General of Police. Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, confirmed the development at the end of the one and half hours meeting, said he was unanimously confirmed. President Buhari had on April 6, ...

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has pledged to collaborate with the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) to find practical solutions to insecurity confronting the country. The Commander, Nigerian Army Armoured Corps (NAAC), Major General Mohammed Magaji, yesterday commissioned landmark projects in Obienu barracks to immortalise the name ...

  The famous Nigerian crime buster and his team has been deployed to Imo state amidst rising tension over the activities of ‘unknown gunmen’. The deputy commissioner of police Mr Abba Kyari and his team of police officers were spotted in Imo state as they readied themselves for security operations. ...

  Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has insisted that he left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC because of his personal relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari. Ayade said this after he met President Buhari behind closed doors on Thursday at the Presidential Villa ...

  COVID-19 killed 18 Nigerians on Thursday and the daily cases also increased five-fold from the previous day record. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this Thursday night in its daily update. Total caseload is now 166,682, with the 122 new cases recorded, in contrast with the 25 ...

  The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, threw it’s weight behind calls for rotational presidency across all six geo-political zones of the country. CAN also said it has presented a request for the establishment of ecclesiastical or spiritual courts to adjudicate on matters that relate to Christians. These views ...

  GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom says his colleagues who were in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and defected to to the All Progressives Congress (APC) did so because of fear of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The governor, who stated this today in Makurdi shortly after returning from ...

  A witness said the incident which happened on Wednesday night has seen tension enveloped the entire border post between Nigeria and Republic of Benin. The witness, who did not want to be quoted, told Daily Trust that the incident took many by surprise. “It’s possible that the soldier was ...

  Omolayo Ojo, a school attendant who was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen after a school bus was hijacked on Thursday morning in Oba Ile Estate, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, has briefly narrated her ordeal after regaining freedom. According to reports from trusted sources, the released staff ...