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A building under construction around Sulu Gambari way in Ilorin, Kwara state, allegedly belonging to Moshood Mustapha, Senior Special Assistant to Senator Saraki on Legislative Matters, has collapsed. SaharaReporters learnt that the building was an...

Commissioner of Police Abia, State Command, CP Adeleye Oyebade has declared the recently formed Biafra Security Service of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Nnamdi Kanu, illegal. He was reacting to video of showing Nnamdi Kanu, inspecti...

Being lonely is deadlier than obesity and should be considered a pubic health risk, recent studies by experts have suggested. Those with bad social connections have a 50 percent increased risk of early death, compared to those with good social conne...

The police have arrested the men who stole phones of prominent Nigerians at the wedding of Governor Ibikunle Amosun and Abike Dabiri's children in Abeokuta on the 8th of July. They are a gang of fake journalists. They crash into important events an...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has has withdrawn the threat to stop the Nov 18 elections in Anabra State. This decision was made at a meeting organised by the Ala-Igbo Internatonal Foundation an NGO, with IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Leader of ...

The number of people killed by a mysterious disease in Kogi state has risen to 62. Earlier reports had put the number at 50. Kogi state Commissioner for health, Saka Audu, said that the mysterious disease had continued to kill children and adult...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, has showed his romantic side when he kissed his wife on the altar, in the presence of their children and adoring church members ...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper, August 19, 2017. Punch Adeboye visits ailing Buhari in London Osinbajo appoints new acting chairmen for NPC, CCB, ICPC #ResumeOrResign: Nigerians in UK hold all-night protest against Buhari ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has advised the citizens of Kogi state to be calm following the emergence of a mysterious disease in the state which has killed over 50 people. Related: Mysterious Hemorrhaging Disease Kills 50 In Kogi...

The clinic at Nigeria's seat of power Aso Rock, called the State House Medical Centre,does not have most basic medication, paracetamol, according to reports from TheCable. Cotton wool, syringes, X-ray machines are also not available and the patient...

According to the Nigerian Sex Workers Association, the strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will increase prostitution among female students. The national coordinator of the association, Amaka Enemo, said ev...

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it had discovered an illegal refinery, operated in a rented apartment in Sokoto state. The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Babangida Dutsin-ma, made this known in an interview with the New...

The Federal Government has formally handed over more than 600 snakes, spiders and millipedes recently seized in Calabar to the University of Uyo, in Akwa Ibom. Personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Cross River and Akwa Ibom Commands in...

Oba Aremu Adedotun Gbadebo the Alake of Egbaland, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Oba Ogunleye the Towulade of Akinale, Oba Abdul-Fatai Akorede Akamo the Olu of Itori among others were special guests at the Oba's forum held yesterday in Egbaland, Abeokuta, ...

Before now, everybody believed Olayode Juliana, who starred as Toyo Baby in the hit TV soap, Jenifa's Dairy, was a virgin. But in her new book Rebirth which has been published, she revealed that she was raped by her married music teacher when she was...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday bared his mind on the ongoing indefinite strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He blamed the then government of late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for agreeing to certain demands ma...

Former priest, Patrick Edet who recently resigned, has been excommunicated by the Catholic church in Nigeria. The Church said it was by the notice stripping the priest of all privileges accruing to a leader of the Church. Patrick Edet, who serve...

The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed the geographical zone with the highest bribery rate in the country Nigeria’s Northwest and Northeast regions have the highest prevalence of bribery among adults, a new report published on Wednesday indi...

A 35-year-old housewife, Mariya Inusa, of Rafin-Makadi village in Rimi Local government area of Katsina has reported her husband, Inusa Aliyu, the the police on allegations her husband was having sexual intercourse with their 14-year old daughter Mr...

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday has ordered an Islamic cleric, Babatunde Suleiman of Oloje area, Ilorin, for allegedly possessing human parts Magistrate Bio Saliu ordered that the defendant be remanded at Oke-kura Prison, Ilorin and adjourn...