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The Department of State Services (DSS), Bauchi command yesterday paraded a suspect identified as Mr. Dokogel from Plateau state. According to reports, he was arrested with 15 AK-47 guns loaded in his car. He confessed to have had 5…

Last month, Nigerian singer, Zainab Ali-Nielsen, aka Alizee, and her four-year-old daughter, Petra, were allegedly murdered by her Danish husband, Peter Nielsen. Found dead in the kitchen of their residence on Banana Island, Ikoyi,…

The Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has set up a joint investigative panel with the senate of the institution to further probe the sex-for-mark allegation levelled against Prof. Richard Akindele…

Adekunle is the first son of the late Major Gen. Tunde Idiagbon (retd.), a former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, under the military regime of Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari between 1984 and 1985. He talks about his father with SUCCESS…

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party is currently under intense pressure from the coalition of 36 political parties and the new PDP bloc within the All Progressives Congress to change its name as a condition to form an alliance…

Air Peace Airlines yesterday said it has blacklisted a passenger who flew into a rage and destroyed its check-in system at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. Corporate Communications Manager of…

The governor of Kaduna state, Nasiru el-Rufai, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not know the meaning of integrity. Speaking in an interview with reporters after the state congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) on…

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has explained why, contrary to the expectations of many, he did not give his elder sister, Lady Bibiana Adani, an ostentatious burial. Lady Bibiana Adani, who died recently, was buried on…

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, says those behind the parallel state congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, are only trying to damage the party. A faction loyal to James Faleke, running mate to the late…

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has said that Plateau people would not change their decision of voting massively for President Muammadu Buhari during the 2019 Presidential election. Governor Lalong said this, on Saturday,…

Federal Government has put in place workable funding mechanism to ensure completion of the  Second Niger Bridge, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said. Fashola gave the assurance  on Saturday when…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would on Monday start distributing Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to newly registered eligible voters in Lagos State, its spokesman, Femi Akinbiyi, has said. He told the News Agency…

Members of All Progressives Congress, APC held two different congresses to elect new executive for the state chapter of the party on Saturday. In a move that can be interpreted as a challenge of former governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday congratulated human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), on his 60th birthday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President said he joined…

Aminu Nurudeen Amin, a journalist with Liberty Radio/TV allegedly behind the gaffe video of the Inspector General of Police, IDRIS Kpotu has denied media reports that he has gone into hiding and wanted by the police. Reports emerged…

Following is the text of the address by U.S. Episcopalian bishop, Michael Bruce Curry, at the wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, as released by Kensington Palace on Saturday.…

The Nigerian Army said two female suicide bombers were killed on Friday while trying to infiltrate troops in Kawuri, Konduga local government area of Borno State. The Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation…

The former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr. Kole Ajayi, is dead. Ajayi, a lawyer, reportedly died of heart attack on Friday while traveling to Lagos for a function of Ekiti State…

Doctors at FMC Yola achieved a great feat on May 14, as they separated four month old conjoined female twins. The team of surgeons led by the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, Professor…

Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Provence, Anglican Communion, has raised an alarm over the medical bills for the burial of former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme. According to Archbishop Chukwuma,…

Alhaji Tunde Balogun has emerged the Lagos State chairman of the All Progressives Congress. There was no election as the new state executives were chosen based on affirmation by the delegates. The Chairman of the state APC…

Anti-graft detectives are closing in on Bamikole Omishore, an aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was recently exposed for allegedly using his wife as a ghost-worker, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.Official confirmation and other…

The Nigerian Air Force said its newly acquired Mi-35M helicopter gunships have successfully unleashed their firepower on Boko Haram Terrorists at a camp, 9.7km South East of Bonne in its ongoing “Operation Thunder Strike” The NAF’s…

The supreme court has discharged and acquitted Alban Ajaegbu, one of the suspects, accused of killing Ikechukuwu Okoronkwo, an 11-year-old, in Owerri, Imo state. Okoronkwo, said to be a groundnut seller, was on lured into a hotel…