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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says its officials have seized boxes of long lashes from smugglers. The agency said teh seizure was made at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The eyelashes, numbering three thousand pairs, were discovered to be fake after officials determined they were illegally imported from China to New Orleans. […]
Three members of a cult group have been arrested in Ogun State for forcing an unwilling person to join their cult group. The suspects according to a statement signed Saturday by the spokesperson, Ogun State Police Command Abimbola Oyeyemi were arrested on Thursday, July 8, following a report lodged at Igbesa divisional headquarters. Celestine Oyebuchi […]
Six states reported 1,786 suspected cases of cholera between June 20 and June 26, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said in Abuja on Saturday. NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, listed the states as Bauchi, 1,239 cases; Kano, 362 cases; Niger, 62 cases; Zamfara, 55 cases; Kaduna, 59 cases and Plateau, nine cases. He […]
No fewer than 350 lives were lost to boat mishaps in Nigeria in 2020. The disclosure was made in Borgu, Niger State, on Saturday by Joseph Ityav, Chairman of the Governing Council of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC). He was speaking at Malale in Borgu local government area of Niger State at […]
A pan-Fulani group, the Gan Allah Fulani Development Association (GAFDAN), and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore have cautioned Southern governors against banning open grazing in September and employing what they called intimidation tactics in their bid to get power to return to the South in 2023. The Southern governors had come out with some serious resolutions […]
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a man, Yohana Isheme and his wife, Noami Yohana, at Ukya Sabo community in Toto local government area of Nasarawa state. A resident of the community, identified as Samuel, said the incident happened around 1 am on Saturday, when the kidnappers with sophisticated weapons in their large numbers […]
The Lagos Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS and other related abuses has admitted in evidence post mortem results and Compact Discs of all 99 corpses deposited at the Lagos morgue between the 20th and the 27th of October 2020. A consultant pathologist to the Lagos State Government, Professor John Obafunwa, who is […]
Ayetoro, an oil producing community in Ondo State, is on the verge of going into extinction. For more than a decade, the people have watched helplessly as their homes, means of livelihood and valuables are destroyed by ocean surge. Many elderly members of the community are said to have died of shock after losing all […]
Distraught parents of the 121 abducted students of Bethel Baptist secondary school in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday held a prayer session for the rescue of their children. Dressed in black outfits, the parents converged on the school premises located along the Kaduna-Kachia Highway to hold the prayers. The parents and […]
Abia state judicial panel has recommended the payment of N511 million as compensation to victims of police brutality. Sunday Imo, chairman of the panel, made this known when he submitted the report of the panel to Okezie Ikpeazu, governor of the state, on Friday. Speaking while handing over the five-volume report to the SSG, Imo […]
