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Invasion of Oyo Govt Secretariat: Police parade 21 suspected Yoruba Nation agitators in Ibadan

The police in Ibadan paraded no fewer than 21 suspected Yoruba Nation agitators on Monday, including a female and two elderly men in...

Naira abuse: Bobrisky to spend six months in jail, court rules

Controversial social media personality, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has been handed a six-month prison sentence without an option of a...

From glamour to gavel: Bobrisky’s transition from best dressed to EFCC custody

In the glitz and glamour of Eniola Ajao’s recent movie premiere, all eyes were on Nigeria’s controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as...

Bobrisky convicted of naira abuse, to remain in EFCC custody until April 9 for sentencing 

A Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted controversial cross-dresser and social media celebrity Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, for naira abuse....

Qatar-bound illicit drug trafficker busted at Lagos airport, narcotics concealed in African salad, dried veggies

A 35-year-old woman named Chidinma Chinenye Agbazue has been taken into custody by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after...

Out of rage, father, son fatally batter neighbour’s wife

In Ogijo, Ogun State, a man and his son pounced on Tope Owoade, 43, the wife of a neighbour living together in a...

Chinese man to die by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend to death

A Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, who killed his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, has an appointment with the hangman. This is the verdict of...

NDLEA Nab Hairstylist, Dispatch Rider For Allegedly Selling Drug-Laced Chin-Chin To Students, At Parties

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained a 20-year-old hair stylist named Josephine Odunu and a 30-year-old dispatch rider named Edesemi...

Incestuous RCCG Pastor faces trial for allegedly raping, impregnating daughter

Emmanuel Orekoya, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos, has been hauled before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence...

NDLEA records largest heroin seizure at Lagos Airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has successfully intercepted the single largest consignment of heroin at the Murtala Muhammed International...

Oluomo, impeached speaker of Ogun Assembly, two others arraigned over alleged N2.5bln fraud

The impeached Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, and two other officials were on Monday hauled up at a...

Just in: Lustful Lagos pastor bags life imprisonment for rape

Horny Lagos pastor Feyi Daniels is to spend the rest of his life in prison following a life imprisonment handed down by an...

$500,000 bribe charge: Supreme Court affirms ex-lawmaker Lawan’s five-year jail term

The nation’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the five-year sentence slammed on a former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, by the Court...

Alleged ₦4bln fraud: Ex-Anambra governor, Obiano, arraigned, enters ‘not-guilty’ plea

“The judge said Obiano should enjoy bail on the administrative terms granted earlier by the EFCC” The immediate past governor of Anambra State,...

Emefiele: FG amends, raises charges against him to 20

The Federal Government has again amended the charges against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, raising...

$6bn power project: Reprieve as Obasanjo’s Power Minister, Olu Agunloye, gets N50m bail

Reprieve came for a former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, on Thursday as he was granted a N50 million bail...