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Jan 27, 2020

Middle Belt Forum considers security outfit for region

• UPU urges S’ South govs to emulate S’ West counterparts • PDP asks N’ Assembly to quiz Buhari over insecurity The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has weighed the...

Jan 27, 2020

PDP clears Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Bauchi re-run polls, APC, AA win Imo, Cross River Rep seats

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won in all the re-run elections ordered by the Court of Appeal in Essien Udom Local Council in Akwa Ibom State. The r...

Jan 27, 2020

Presidency orders air raids of bandits in Niger State

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday ordered the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) to deploy fighter aircraft for effective air attacks against bandits, kidnappers and ca...

Jan 27, 2020

Ihedioha returns to Supreme Court, seeks review of ouster verdict

• Ruling is miscarriage of justice, say lawyers • How apex court failed in votes computation The last may not have been heard about the contest for the Imo...

Jan 27, 2020

Imo Senatorial candidate allegedly shot dead security official

The people of Okigwe Senatorial Zone of Imo State have been thrown into mourning following the reported death of Ndubuisi Emenike, the Action Alliance Candidate...

Jan 27, 2020

Amotekun proposed law: Personnel will have power to arrest criminals, says AG

Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states are leading the drafting of model bills on the South-West security outfit, Operation Amotekun. The Ekiti State Attorney General...

Jan 27, 2020

Angelique Kidjo Beats Burna Boy To Best World Music Album Grammy

The hopes of thousands of Nigerian music fans for a second Grammy for the country this year have been dashed as Angelique Kidjo has beaten Burna Boy to the Gram...

Jan 27, 2020

Rapper Nipsey Hussle wins two posthumous Grammys

The late rapper Nipsey Hussle on Sunday won two posthumous Grammys, on a night when his life was celebrated in a moving musical tribute led by singer John Legen...

Jan 27, 2020

2020 Grammy Awards: List of winners in key categories

Here is a list of winners in key categories at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, which took place on Sunday in Los Angeles. Teenage goth-pop iconoclast Billie E...

Jan 27, 2020

Update: Jealous man stabs girlfriend to death in Bauchi

Bauchi State Police Command has apprehended Solomon Peters, who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, Miss Patience Zakari, to death in Bauchi following a disagreem...

Jan 27, 2020

Overhead bridges: 36 persons arrested for crossing expressway in Lagos

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) said it has arrested 36 persons for allegedly crossing the highways indiscriminately. The Corps Marsh...

Jan 27, 2020

Basketball star Kobe Bryant, daughter, die in helicopter crash

U.S. basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna are among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California. Bryant, 4...

Jan 27, 2020

Human trafficking: NIS apprehends 7 girls

The Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Command in Lagos, has apprehended seven girls allegedly bein...

Jan 24, 2020

Boko Haram: Security leadership change won't guarantee victory, presidency tells CAN

The Presidency has faulted the claim of the Christian Association of Nigeria that the federal government should reconstitute the leadership of the security forc...

Jan 24, 2020

Cross River rerun: There won’t be less than 15 officers in every polling unit - Police

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations in Cross River State, Cletus Nwadiogbu, has said the force would mobilize no fewer than fifteen of...

Jan 24, 2020

Applicant admits stealing 16 SIM cards

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded one unemployed Charles Eze in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, after he pleaded guilty to stealing 16 Subscriber Ident...

Jan 24, 2020

Sixth seed Tsitsipas crashes out of Australian Open to Raonic

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas walks off the court after losing to Canada's Milos Raonic in their men's singles match on day five of the Australian Open tennis tou...

Jan 24, 2020

Protesters demand removal of US troops in Iraq

Thousands of supporters of populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered in Baghdad on Friday for a rally to demand the ouster of US troops, putting the protest-h...

Jan 24, 2020

Send your child to school or be jailed, Kaduna govt warns parents

The Kaduna State Government, on Friday, advised parents to send their children to school or face prosecution in accordance with extant laws. The Permanent Se...

Jan 24, 2020

2020 UTME: NSCDC warns CBT operators against extortion of candidates

The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps has warned Computer Based Test centres against extortion of prospective candidates for the 20...