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According to a statement released by the Guinean army on Wednesday, the Guinean navy detained more than 1.5 tons of cocaine on Sunday from a ship flying the Sierra Leonean flag.During one of the army's ongoing surveillance missions of Guinea's maritime territory, 62 bags, each conta ....
Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, a Cameroonian, has been appointed vice president of the African Development Bank's complex for regional development, integration, and business delivery.The appointment will be in place starting on April 1, 2023.The new hire, according to the bank, is a sen ....
An illegal structure was torn down by the Lagos State Building Control Agency very close to Hamed Adebowale Street in Aguda in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state.In a statement made available by the agency on Thursday, General Manager, Gbolahan Oki, allayed fears about the bui ....
Abershi Musa, the chairman of the caretaker committee for the Taraba State's Ussa Local Government Council, resigned from his position on Wednesday.In his letter of resignation to Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku, he said: “I write to notify you of my voluntary resignation as the Caret ....
On Wednesday afternoon, a police officer was slain at Cele Bus Stop on the Oshodi-Apapa Highway in Lagos following a fight with riders of commercial motorcycles, or "Okada riders."The Nation learned that three guns confiscated from police officers were also hauled off by the enraged Okada ....
In the city's Rincon Hill neighbourhood, in the 300 block of Main Street, a stabbing was reported at about 2:35 a.m., according to police. When officers arrived, they found the victim, who had been taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries.Bob Le ....
Igbonagwam Osinachi, 23, of Umuchoke Obazu Mbeiri Mbaitoli LGA, a known armed robbery suspect, has been detained by tactical team members of the Imo State Command.This was said in a statement made on Tuesday in Owerri by ASP Henry Okoye, the police public relations officer.The state ....
A few weeks ago, bandits abducted about 60 people from the Adunu and Kwagana communities in the Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State. They now insist on demanding a N100 million ransom to free the 56 remaining villagers.Ten kids from the Government Day Secondary School in Awon, Kac ....
Adebayo Agboola, a 27-year-old street person, has been charged in Lagos at Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court for allegedly defiling neighbour's nine-month-old child.Agboola, a resident of the Ijora-Bada (shanti) neighbourhood of Lagos, is accused of defiling.According to the Prosecutio ....
According to the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, despite the implementation of preventative measures, cervical cancer claims the lives of at least 28 women per day in the nation.To reduce the gender gap, the institute repeatedly emphasized the need to immunize young girls an ....