A 24-year-old African footballer identified as Kouadio Mathieu, has died after falling off a moving train in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, India. The passport found in the victim’s pocket revealed his nationality – Ivory Coast. The incident happened on Saturday, June 4, when the victim who was on his …

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, criticised Northern governors’ decision to support a Southern presidency in 2023 on Sunday. The decision of the Northern governors, according to AYCF National President Yerima Shettima, is undemocratic and disenfranchises Northerners. Shettima bemoaned the fact that the 11 Northern governors did not consult Northern …

A notorious car thief has been arrested and a stolen Hilux vehicle recovered from him by the police in Kano State. The state police spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, June 4, said operatives also arrested a 55-year-old man who specialized in manufacturing …

Residents of Owo town in Ondo State have been thrown into a state of apprehension after an explosion rocked the St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, in Owo Local Government Area of State capital on Sunday. According to sources,  some worshippers lost their lives as a result of the incident. …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested eighty accused internet scammers. On Saturday, Ibadan Zonal Command personnel confirmed the development. The accused were apprehended during a sting operation in both Ibadan, Oyo State, and Ondo State. According to the anti-graft agency, 41 people were apprehended in Akure, the capital …

Police has disclosed that three people were killed and 11 others injured on Saturday after multiple shooters opened fire into a crowd on a popular Philadelphia street. According to Police Inspector D. F. Pace, two men and a woman had been killed, adding that officers responding to the incident “observed …

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, arrested thirty-nine (39) suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation in Ibadan, Oyo State. The suspects who claimed to be undergraduates of different tertiary institutions in Ibadan were arrested at Apete area of the Oyo State capital, …

Thirteen presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have been cleared to contest the party’s primary. The Chairman of the screening committee, John Odigie-Oyegun, disclosed this on Friday. Oyegun, the maiden chairman of the party, made the disclosure when he submitted his report to the APC National Chairman, …

The screening committee of the All Progressives Congress has disclosed that it did not screen former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chairman of the screening committee, John Odigie-Oyegun, made the disclosure on Friday when he submitted his report to the APC National Chairman, Abduallahi Adamu, at an ongoing meeting of the Nationa …

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, has rubbished claim made by presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that President Muhammadu would not have become president without him in 2015. WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that Tinubu while addressing Ogun State APC delegates …