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No fewer than 12 persons sustained various degrees of burns following an explosion which rocked a settlement known as Kara Market along Atani Road, Ogbaru near Onitsha in Anambra. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Anambra, DSP Ali Okechukwu, said on...

The Police Service Commission (PSC) said it received 843,008 applications as at 1.00p.m May 2 from applicants seeking enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force. This is contained in an update issued by Mr Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission in Abuja on Monday. He...

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Felix Hyat, on Monday declared his intention to vie for the chairmanship position of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state. Nationwide congresses of PDP began on Saturday at the ward level, with the local government and state cadres coming up on...

Gunmen on Sunday night killed Bala Madaki, the district head of Fadan Karshi in Numana Chiefdom of Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to NAN, Mr. Madaki was killed alongside his nephew, Emmanuel Tanko, 19, at his residence in Fadan Karshi. The Sanga Interim Management...

The Naira on Monday exchanged at N320 to a Dollar at the parallel market in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the value of the Naira on Monday afternoon remained the same as its rate at the weekend. However, it traded against the Pound Sterling and the Euro at N450 and...

A former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Dr Nwabu Mgbemena, is dead. Mgbemena, 71, died of cancer on Friday in New Jersey, U.S. His close associate Chief Tony Idigo confirmed the death on Sunday in a telephone with Vanguard. Mgbemena was one of the pioneer editors of...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Amaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency bye election held on Saturday. The Yobe federal constituency seat became vacant following the appointment of Khadija Bukar as a minister in the federal cabinet. Prof. Sunday Alao, the Returning...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday recovered 193 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine inside a passenger’s socks at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr...

Outgoing President of the ECOWAS Commission, Amb. Kadré Ouedraogo, has officially handed over to his successor, Mr Marcel Alain de Souza of Republic of Benin following the completion of his four-year tenure. This formed part of activities of a handover ceremony for the incoming president and...

The Kaduna state police command has declared a state of emergency to stem rising cases of kidnapping in the state. Zubairu Abubakar, the command’s spokesman, disclosed this in an interview with NAN, saying that a special team of anti kidnap squad has been formed to track and dislodge criminal...

The Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Bauchi state, Alhaji Bashir Rimi-Zaya has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against sending those accused of looting the public treasury to jail, stressing that they should be allowed to continue living with the terrible shame they...

Coordinating Director, Osun State Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Youth Engagement, Dr Oluwabukola Aluko has announced that butchers operating in the state would henceforth pay levy to the government. Aluko, who made the announcement in a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday in...

Bauchi State Police Command has arrested three women suspected to be “specialists” in child trafficking including one who sold a baby for N200,000. DSP Haruna Mohammed, Public Relation Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement made available to NAN in Bauchi. He...

The Lagos State Police Command has said one of its men attached to Mopol 23 was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Satellite Town area of the state on Good Friday. The spokesperson for the command, SP Dolapo Badmos, who confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), gave the name of...

Chief Inegite Jonathan,72, uncle and foster father to former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was abducted by gunmen on Feb. 17, has narrated his ordeal to the former President. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former president was one of the early callers who thronged the...

The academic board of the Yaba College of Technology has expelled six final year students for presenting fake or altered National Diploma (ND) and National Certificate of Education (NCE) results for admission. The expulsion notice is contained in a circular signed by Mrs Taiwo Obadimu, the...

Two persons have died in an early morning fire incident which razed over 100 shanties in Kuramo in Lagos. Rasak Fadipe, director of Lagos state fire service, told NAN that the burnt bodies of a man and a woman were recovered at the scene. “The shanties spread to about four plots of land. We...

The Anglican Arch-Diocese of Enugu has officially banned wearing of topless dresses to Church weddings, reception and services. The Archbishop of the Arch-Diocese, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, disclosed this to NAN in Enugu on Monday. Chukwuma said that the ban was to return moral chastity on...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has been honoured as Commonwealth Ambassador for leading the legislators to pass 130 bills in a day by the Royal Commonwealth Society Nigeria on Thursday. The Vice President of the association, Mr Abdullahi Faruk, told the News Agency of...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has fined MTN Nigeria and Globacom Ltd a total of N34 million for breach of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) business rules and regulations. The regulatory body made this known in its “2015 Q4 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports’’...