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President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organisations at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The President…

The consumer price index, which measures the rate of increase in the price of goods and services, increased to 15.60 percent year-on-year in January 2022. This is 0.87 percent points lower than the rate recorded in January…

The Osun State Government on Monday accused the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, of allegedly invading the state capital, Osogbo, with armed thugs and shooting…

…Says Animal repellant, additional security agencies, solution to herdsmen/farmers’ clashes Ambassador Joseph Tanimu Yakubu is the National President of Favoured Farmers…

A beggar, Hadiza Ibrahim, has been arrested in Abuja with cash sums of N500,000 and $100. PUNCH Metro learnt that the discovery threw residents into confusion. The spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory…

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has been urged to urgently begin the registration and licencing of all practising clerics among its fold across the nation. Bishop Seun Adeoye, the General…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has no right to conduct higher institutions admission. A statement signed by the national president, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke,…

Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, lambasted those he once trusted politically, accusing them of betrayal. The former governor of Osun State from 2010 to 2018 declared that enough is enough for the politics…

Rahman Saliu, the co-founder of Super TV, has told a court how an SMS from the phone of Usifo Ataga, the late media entrepreneur, raised suspicion just around when he died. Saliu testified on Monday as the fifth…

Twenty landed properties valued at over N3.07 billion belonging to late General Aminu Maude, have been forfeited to the Nigerian government. The forfeited properties included those owned by affiliated companies such as…

Policy Shapers, an open-source policy platform leading the campaign against the English Language Testing System (IELTS), has kicked against the United Kingdom’s stance on the topical issue. Many foreign universities abroad…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday presented its first witness in the money laundering trial of James Richard Nolan, Goidel Resources and ICIL Limited before Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NAFDAC) has said wanted DCP Abba Kyari and four others are now in its custody. The Nigeria Police Force arrested Abba Kyari this afternoon, saying it has handed him and four others…

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide said zoning the presidency to Igbo South East will remain a fundamental ingredient for national unity, its President General Prof. George Obiozor has declared. In a statement released in Owerri on…

POLICE ARREST DCP ABBA KYARI, 4 OTHER POLICE OFFICERS FOR ALLEGATIONS OF TAMPERING WITH NARCOTIC EXHIBITS, OFFICIAL CORRUPTION AND SUNDRY UNPROFESSIONAL…

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointment of Senator Lekan Balogun as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The approval follows a recommendation by the Olubadan-in-Council, according to a statement by the…

Tanko, the school proprietor and main accused person in the alleged murder of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar, has pleaded not guilty to the kidnap and murder of the young girl. Tanko had earlier during his parade at the Kano…

The police in Abuja have taken Abba Kyari into custody, according to two police sources familiar with the development. Mr Kyari will be handed over to the NDLEA for onward prosecution, our sources said. “He was arrested by…

The nine-man special investigation panel set up by the Federal Government through the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria to investigate reasons for the collapse of the 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos,…

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday, ordered the remand of a 43-year-old Ademola Oladimeji in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his three daughters and assaulting their mother. The Magistrate, A.O.…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has chronicled how it nabbed suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari in a drug deal. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday,…

Spirited efforts are being made by top shots of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including some officials in the Presidency, to draft Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele into the presidential race…

The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, on Sunday, said for unity, stability and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria, a Southern Christian must be elected as President of the Federal…

Muslim Rights Concern has appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to intervene in Dr. Nnaji Ebenezer Chibueze’s matter. The Islamic organization said Chibueze, a police corporal, is still in the…