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Police in Osun State have arrested 28-year-old Kehinde Adesogba Adekusibe for violating the hate speech policy on social media. The arrest follows a tweet posted by the suspect on May 18, 2023, where he made inflammatory statements against the Igbo ethnic group. The tweet read, “Let’s kill all the Igbos....

The Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority(KNUPDA), has promised that the Kofar-Mata prayer ground would be ready before the Eid-el-Kabir festival. Structures built on the ancient prayer ground were among those brought down by the state government in a mass demolition exercise. The state had premised its action on...

Combined military operations of the land, maritime and air component of the Joint Task Force Operation Delta Safe in the South South region of Nigeria has led to the discovery and destruction of 57 illegal crude oil refining sites. This was disclosed on Thursday in Abuja at the Nigerian Defence...

The Inspector General Of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the sealing of all the 17 local government secretariats of Plateau state following the ongoing crisis in the state. Daily Trust reports that Governor Caleb Mutfuwang, who was sworn in two week ago, had suspended the chairmen for alleged misappropriation...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has again denied allegations that the airstrike on January 24 in Kwateri community, Nasarawa state, struck civilians. Ayodele Famuyiwa, NAF’s director of public relations and information, on Thursday, said any organisation or individual with evidence to prove that those killed in the airstrike were not...

President Bola Tinubu has paid a touching tribute to his late mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, 10 years after her death. The president shared a picture of his late mother on his Twitter handle on Thursday. He reflected on their time together and the qualities of hard work, forthrightness, and tenacity...

The former Guinness World Record holder for marathon cooking by an individual, Lata Tondon, has deleted her message of support to the new Nigerian record holder, chef Hilda Baci. Tondon also removed the Guinness World Record title from her Instagram bio, our correspondent observed on Wednesday. Baci currently holds the...

The National Association of Nigerian Students executives led by its president on Tuesday visited President Bola Tinubu, pledging their support for the fuel Subsidy removal and Student Loan Act signed by the President. Former presidential media aide, Buhari Sallau, shared pictures of the visit on his Facebook page. He wrote,...

A man identified as Ayodeji Arojo has offered chef Damilola Adeparusi, who is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon by an individual with a 120-hour cooking marathon, a two-week cooking tour in the United States. Arojo announced this in a post shared on his...

The newly elected Senate President of the 10th Assembly, Godswill Akpabio, former President Goodluck Jonathan, governors and senators visited President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday This is coming after elections were held for the presiding offices of the 10th national assembly. Sani Tambuwal, the Clerk...