A High Court sitting in Akure on Thursday sentenced three armed robbers, including two brothers, Sunday Issac and Lucky Isaac, to death by hanging. Justice Yemi Fasanmi handed down the verdict to the three accused after six years of standing...

A 35-year-old Nigerian national was arrested on Wednesday for alleged possession of cocaine worth Rs 1.5 crore, an official from the India Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) said. A team from the Azad Maidan unit of the ANC nabbed Chikuameka Emmanuel ...

OAU A member of staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Fisayo Oyeniyi, hung himself in his residence after sending suicide text to his mother, wife and children. The Nation reports that Oyeniyi, one of the armed guards in t...

President Joe Biden President Joe Biden on Thursday says he plans to run for reelection in 2024 with Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket. "The answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection," Biden said at his first presidential ...

Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, has been shut indefinitely after final-year students of the institution went on rampage. The rampaging students destroyed the school’s 500-seater lecture theatre, burnt the Students’ Union Government buil...

File photo used to illustrate story. Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed the village head of Tunga community, Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The gunmen, who stormed the community Wednesday evening on motorcycles also kil...

File photo used to illustrate story. Several Yoruba groups under the aegis of Assembly of all Yoruba Groups Worldwide have set June 12, 2021 as a day of referendum for the South-West region. The groups disclosed this on Thursday after their m...

Azu Ishiekwene It wasn’t planned. I was seeing off my neighbour and friend on Thursday evening when one of the officers of our estate residents’ association called out to me. He was in knickers and shirtsleeves, with his right hand clutch...

File photo used to illustrate story Two Nigerians have been arrested by Customs officers in Pakistan for attempting to smuggle 2.450 kilogrammes of cocaine worth Rs49 million (N256 million) filled in 161 swallowed capsules.  According to...

The General Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari says Nigerians may likely pay more for petrol in April. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) had earlier released a tem...