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Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi says bandits have refused to end hostilities against the Nigerian government because they were not given land and “enough money”. Mr Gumi said past attempts “to broker peace” with the bandits failed because they were not compensated “with lands or cattle or money big enough to …

The Nigerian government through relevant parastatals promised to get this girl back to Nigeria yet abandoned her in Cote d’Ivoire since her story became viral eight months ago. Madam Abike, well done o. You’re doing good Itunu Babalola is dead, #justiceforItunu What happened? cause of death We trended the #justiceforItunu …

“This african man called Jibril is an immigrant in Valencia, Spain. Jibril picked an envelope containing €4,250 (Over N2.5m) on one of the streets in Valencia few days ago. Jibril then chose to play a hero and decided to take the envelope containing the money to the police and handed …

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, says he does not know what happened to the video camera he recovered at the Lekki tollgate after the #EndSARS protests. Fashola said this during an interview on Arise Television which was monitored by our correspondent. The former governor of Lagos …

In its crackdown against the drug peddlers, the Anti Narcotics Call (ANC) of Mumbai crime branch arrested a Nigerian national with a contraband substance worth (N331,357,767.84) The accused Inusa Godwin alias John, 36, was apprehended with over 2 kilograms of methaqualone, a recreational drug. The accused is a known peddler …

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has asked the Nigerian Police and other security agencies to unravel the mysterious circumstances leading to the killing of Vanguard Newspaper reporter, Tordue Henry Salem. Tordue, who was last seen on October 13, 2021, was reportedly found dead in Abuja in …

Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, over alleged certificate fraud. The PUNCH had reported that The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission would arraign a former Director-General of the Federal …

Itoro, the young man who killed Tordue Salem, reporter with Vanguard Newspaper who was declared missing some days ago and later found dead, has revealed what happed. Itoro, 29, a native of Akwa Ibom State, said he was driving around Mabushi bring in the night when he knocked down a …

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Osun State Command, have rescued a mother of three, Adewole Suliyat from being lynched by residents of Ayepe area of Osogbo for stealing a goat. The Command’s spokesperson, DSC Adigun Daniel, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday, …

Details of the circumstances surrounding the recovery of his remains were still sketchy as at 9.30 pm, Thursday. Late Salem who was covering the House of Representatives, was last seen on October 13, 2021. After the close of work that day, he was said to have alighted from a cab …