Category: Metro
CBN pays fresh bailout fund amounting to N30.8billion to Kogi
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has paid the balance of N30.8 billion bailout fund to Kogi state government account according to the governor, Yahay [...]
Ex Boko Haram members can become president – Gen Biu
The General Officer Commanding, 7 Division, Maj. Gen Biu Abdulmalik, says repentant terrorists who lay down their arms stand the chance of becoming gr [...]
GOC placed on house arrest over N400m theft by escort soldiers
The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 8 Division, Sokoto, Major General Hakeem Otiki, has been placed under house arrest over the N400m theft by escor [...]
Corper with Channels TV dies in Shiite/police clash, NUJ reacts
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, FCT Council, has described the death of Precious Owolabi of Channels TV as one too many. Owolabi, a corps member ser [...]
Nigerian teenager, Chinonso Obiaju shot dead in South Africa
Two week after the Nigerian Senate warned the government of South Africa to halt the frequent killings of Nigerians by its citizens to avoid grave con [...]
Armed members of Miyetti Allah group set up checkpoints in Ondo
The General Secretary of Forward Buhari, Dr. Kayode Ajulo has revealed that some armed members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nig [...]
IG orders investigation into seige at the Dakolos, case transfer to Lagos
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered that petitions from the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Abuja, Biodun [...]
DCP, 6 others killed, emergency response bay set ablaze as Shiites clash with security agents
Usman Umar, deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations in the federal capital territory (FCT), has been killed during a protest by members [...]
Like Obasanjo, Alaafin writes Buhari over killings in South West
Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari to say that the people in the south-west are worried about the criminal [...]
Pupils, teachers desert schools over herdsmen attack in Ogun
Teachers and pupils have deserted primary and secondary schools in Alabata villages in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State following attacks [...]