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  The Osun State Police Command on Saturday announced the release of seven travellers who were abducted along Osogbo/Obokun road in the state. The travelers were kidnapped by suspected herdsmen on Tuesday 2nd March night around 7:30 pm along the road after Ajenbandele village in Ibokun Council Area of the State. The attack on the […]

Unidentified gunmen in the early hours of Saturday attacked the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) quarters of Kaduna Airport, abducting nine persons. Those abducted were six members of a family of six, and a housewife her two children. The attackers were said to have gained access through the airport’s runway 05 at about 12:10 […]

Dr Cyprian Ngong, the Family Physician at the National Hospital, Abuja, became the first person to receive a shot of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria, as vaccination against the pandemic kicked off in Africa’s most populous nation Friday. The exercise was flagged off by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to up its surveillance and control around the nation’s borders. Buhari directed the service to ensure that criminals do not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetuate their criminality. The directive comes against the background of reports linking the current wave of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has given specific orders to military commanders to shoot non-security personnel armed with AK-47 rifles, his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said. Shehu disclosed this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday. “The president has ordered security forces to go into the bushes and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will on Saturday receive the COVID-19 vaccine publicly, as part of steps to convince Nigerians that the vaccine is safe. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the second edition of the State House weekly briefing on Thursday. […]

  The Zamfara state government has imposed a curfew on the troubled Jangebe town, following civil unrest after the return of the 279 abducted schoolgirls. Reports said one person was shot by security operatives who allegedly opened fire after an angry mob kicked against the insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with […]

Marauding gunmen continued to unleash terror in South West Nigeria as abducted a Chinese engineer in Ekiti and killed a traveler and abducted others in Osun States. The Chinese expatriate was abducted by the gunmen, who are suspected to be herdsmen at Igbemo-Ekiti in Irelodun/ Ifelodun area of Ekiti State. The Chinese was idenfified as […]

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has declared that the State will not provide land for ranching as it believes it is a private business. The governor made the declaration to clarify a tweet by him, which had been misinterpreted to be his support for the Rural Grazing Area, or RUGA policy. He had, after a […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered a stay of proceedings in the trial of former Head of Service (HOS) of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, and eight others on an 18-count money laundering charge preferred on them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The order was given by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who […]

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has stepped up its probe into All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu. Pursuant to this, the EFCC has written a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau, requesting copies of Tinubu’s asset declaration form. A copy of the letter which was published by an online publication, The […]

Nearly three hundred Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings.   The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot, packed into Zamfara state’s Government House […]