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Former governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, is in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Abuja. The former governor is being grilled over N500 million campaign funds he allegedly collected from former minister of…

No fewer than 50 children have died in a Jigawa State village of  ”a strange disease”, the village head said yesterday. The kids who died within the last two months in Gidan Dugus in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State were within…

Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths of 26 Nigerian women – most of them teenagers – whose bodies were recovered at sea. There are suspicions that they may have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the…

The 16-point demand Relocation of International Oil Companies’ (IOCs’) administrative and operational headquarters to the Niger Delta region Clean-up of Ogoni land and other communities affected by spill. Review of the amnesty…

Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria (MCN), Dr. Chukwuemeka Kalu Uche, has said the present structure of Nigeria should be re-negotiated, with each zone having some measures of autonomy. He said the current structure is inimical to the…

Real Madrid 3-0 Las Palmas Zidane lives another day – he wasn’t going to get sacked anyway was he? And he’ll be thankful to Cristiano Ronaldo, Isco, Marco Asensio and other players for securing an emphatic win over Las Palmasat Bernabeu…

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has expressed worries about the crisis in Cameroon, which led to the refugees fleeing to Nigeria. He told Federal Commissioner of the Refugee Commission Mrs. Sadiya Umar-Farouq and Country Representative…

Beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, studying in the United States, have expressed confidence in its Coordinator, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh. The beneficiaries, in a statement, said though things have not been rosy, Boroh has…

A 72-year-old man, Titus Agunbiade, has reportedly hanged himself in his late father’s house at Kajola on Barracks Road in Ondo town, Ondo State. The deceased was said to have climbed the two-storey building with a ladder and hanged himself…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has more than double its funding appeal to provide humanitarian resources for Nigeria from $55 million to $115 million. This is to assist an additional 750,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),…