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  Three military officers who were participating in the Democracy Day Parade, on Monday, slumped at the Eagle Square, Abuja. It gathered that the gallant officers have stood for hours on one spot under the scorching sun, they were believed to have succumbed to exhaustion. According to ThePunch, the unfortunate ...

  Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed again, leaving several cities including the federal capital Abuja in darkness. Electricity companies announced Sunday night that the collapse happened just before 7pm. It is the sixth reported collapse in 2022. The government blames the collapse on poor management and low gas supply. ...

  Popular actress-turned-singer, Angela Okorie has stunned her fans after showing off a newly acquired pistol loaded with bullets a week after dozens of Christian worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State were brutally murdered by gunmen. Naija News reports that the actress and mother of one ...

  A couple identified as Onyinmiebi and Beatrice Bribena who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has said they never received any invite for any questioning or interrogation before declaring them as wanted persons. The president of Baraza Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited (BMCSL), Pastor Oyinmiebi ...

  The Lagos State Police Commissioner’s Special Squad has detained five policemen attached to singer, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, for attempted murder after they shot two men identified as Irebami Lawrence and one Tolu at Club Cubana on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday, June 8.   Punch reports that ...

  There was chaos in new Benin Market, Edo State on Saturday morning after hundreds of angry Igbo youths who are mainly traders clashed with Hausa traders. The argument allegedly began following a minor disagreement between the two traders.         According to PUNCH, the Igbo trader was ...

  The Anambra State Joint Security Task Force has demolished an alleged criminal hideout at Oba, Idemili South Council Area of the state. This was in accordance with Gov Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s directive that criminal hideouts be destroyed to curtail the increasing criminal cases in the state. Christian Aburime, press ...

  The Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, on Friday said although some suspects were arrested in the bush by security agents on Thursday, authorities are “not sure” if they were the ones behind the terrorists’ attack on a Catholic church on Sunday. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that a Punch correspondent ...

The mark the 2022 Democracy Day celebration, the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has declared Monday, 13th June 2022, as a public holiday. Naija News reports that this was made known in a statement on Thursday by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.   While congratulating Nigerians on the 2022 Democracy Day ...

  Obi Cubana’s wife, Ebinna Iyiegbu has shared a question her son asked her after Bola Tinubu emerged as the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate. In a post via her Insta Story, the billionaire’s wife stated that her son Anyi asked her why Nigerian presidents are always old.   ...