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An Ondo State Chief Magistrates’ Court in Igbokoda has sentenced the Baale of Ebute Ipare Community in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state, Francis Ogundeji, to three years’ imprisonment for disobedience to a court order. The judgement was delivered on Monday by Senior Magistrate E.A Manuwa, but a copy of the ruling was made

A Miss South Africa contestant whose Nigerian heritage sparked a national controversy and a government investigation withdrew from the beauty pageant Thursday. Chidimma Adetshina’s announcement that she would not take part in Saturday’s final came a day after the Home Affairs ministry accused her mother of fraud and identity theft. “After much careful consideration, I

The State High Court sitting in Gboko, Benue State on Thursday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party from conducting the forthcoming congress scheduled for Saturday, August 10, 2024, in six local governments. The restraining order was signed by Justice J. M. Ayua in a motion exparte brought before the court. The applicants in the suit are,

The Police Command in Nasarawa State has announced the release of 10 minors detained during the nationwide protest in the state. DSP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lafia. NAN reports that the police had arrested 50

A Mobil fuel station located near the Airport Hotel on Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos exploded  on Thursday, causing panic among residents. While details of the incident are still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, many have speculated that it must have occurred from a gas filling point. However, the Nigerian National

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The Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmed Sokoto, has pledged that his administration will continue to uphold the practice of State Fiscal Transparency and Accountability, focusing on strengthening fiscal monitoring and ensuring accountability in the conduct of government business in a transparent manner. The governor gave this assurance on Thursday during the 2025 budget consultation meeting

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said that the surest path to national prosperity is the utilisation of Nigeria’s gas resources by the Federal Government. Ekpo made this statement on Wednesday during his visit to the board and facilities of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in Yenagoa. Ekpo,

A pastor simply identified as Kingsley, who was kidnapped alongside others in Oyigbo in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, has regained his freedom. The three pastors were said to be attached to a guest speaker who was attending a programme. Gunmen dressed in military camouflage invaded a new generation church, Light Intercessors,

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, announced the appointment of two professors as Deputy Vice-Chancellors on Thursday. A statement by the Deputy Registrar of Public Relations, Olalekan Fadeyi, in Ibadan, the state capital, revealed that the new Deputy Vice-Chancellors are the immediate past Chairman of the Committee of Provosts and Deans, Adepoju

The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, has said that Nigeria’s federal budget is $20 billion, which lags behind the budgets of other populous countries such as Indonesia and Brazil. The minister made this statement during his address at the launch of ActionAid Nigeria’s Country Strategy Paper, themed “Citizens’ Action Against Poverty

The Federal Government has stopped the planned sale of subsidised rice to civil servants. It has, therefore, withdrawn the circular in which it directed civil servants interested in subsidised rice to apply. This was made known in a fresh circular from the Ministry of Special Duty and Inter-Governmental Affairs obtained by our correspondent on Thursday

The Department of State Services has dismissed reports stating that its operatives raided the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress in Abuja. On Wednesday, it was reported that armed men, purportedly from the DSS, stormed the NLC’s office and made off with several documents. According to the NLC, the incident occurred around 8:30 pm, when

The University of Benin is scheduled to reopen on August 11, following a temporary closure due to student protests and unrest. PUNCH Online reported that the varsity’s management on July 4 halted academic activities indefinitely and ordered the students to vacate their hostels immediately, in a statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Benedicta Ehanire.

The Anambra State Road Traffic Management Agency said it has suspended three of its female officers caught on camera engaging in a physical brawl with a police traffic personnel at Aroma Junction, Awka, the state capital. The three traffic officers were recently caught on camera publicly fighting with police traffic personnel over money purportedly given

The Nigerian Air Force says the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai has destroyed terrorists’ Improvised Explosive Devices factory at Grazah, a location deep in the Mandara Hills in Borno. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, on Thursday in Abuja. Gebkwet said that the

Many persons are believed to have died as fire burnt and sank a boat, Godbless Dickson, between Ekeni and Ukubie communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State at about 5.30am on Wednesday. Chairman of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Bayelsa State Chapter, Ipigansi Ogoniba, said on Thursday that the boat was

Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye lost 8-10 to China’s Hong Kexin on Thursday in the women’s freestyle 57-kilogramme event of the 2024 Olympic Games wrestling competition. In the quarter-final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris, both wrestlers were even by the end of the bout’s first period despite the Nigerian’s early lead. But Hong pulled away

The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, on Thursday ordered an investigation into the death of a yet-to-be-identified man dressed in women’s clothing. The police, in a statement by the command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said it received a distress call about a woman’s corpse found along the Katampe-Mabushi expressway and promptly dispatched detectives

Commercial sex workers in Kano have appealed to organisers of the nationwide hunger protests to engage the Federal Government in dialogue. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the protests had crippled social-economic activities, leaving them without customers and struggling to survive. Monica James, who operates on France Road, said that

The Oyo State Government has lifted the suspension of a traditional ruler, the Onido of Ido, Oba Gbolagade Babalola, (Gbadewolu I), six months after he was suspended. The Executive Council Chairman of Ido Local Government Area, Sheriff Adeojo, made the announcement, on Thursday, while presenting the reinstatement letter to the traditional ruler. The PUNCH reported

The Lagos State government, in a move to maintain environmental order and sanitation, has taken action against the construction of an unauthorised shrine near a main road in the Iyana Ipaja area. According to the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency, and the Lagos

A fire broke out at a Mobil fuel station located near Airport Hotel on Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Thursday. The incident occurred around 10:49am, during a peak period of fuel sales, causing chaos and destruction. A video shared by X user Dubem, who identifies as #Dub3m__ showed the fuel station engulfed in

The Jigawa State Police Command, on Thursday, said it has arrested not less than 277 suspected looters. While giving an update on the ongoing hunger protest, the command’s spokesman, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, disclosed that 13 additional suspects were arrested on Wednesday. He explained that the arrests were carried out in Gumel, Roni, and Birnin

A 19-year-old IS sympathiser arrested in Austria was planning a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the intelligence agency said on Thursday. “He said he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives,” domestic intelligence agency (DSN) head Omar Haijawi-Pirchner told a news conference. Meanwhile,