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A judicial commission of inquiry has said it discovered that the Peoples Democratic Party, retired and deceased civil servants were paid monthly salaries by the state government under the immediate past governor, Jonah Jang.

The Plane transporting a Brazilian football team crashed in Colombia on Monday night, killing 76 of the 81 people on board.

Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, the embattled Vice Chancellor of the crisis-ridden Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), in Ondo State, was this morning arrested after he hit a member of staff of the institution with his car.

A teacher at a school for orphans and troubled teenagers in Ukraine is accused of plotting to sell a 13-year-old pupil to organ harvesters.

Founder and General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, is on the verge of losing the vast land on which MFM Prayer City sits.

The Nigerian House of Representatives on Thursday described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the “most corrupt” Nigerian on the record.

The Managing Director of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Olufunke Osibodu, has urged Nigerians not to expect any improvement in the power sector in the next five years.

This extremely sad incident happened this morning at Mile 2 junction  Lagos. A lady's legs were crushed when a container fell on her as she was about boarding a bike on the road.

Oyo State Police Command has arrested two members of a Methodist Church Cathedral in Ibadan for planning to rob the church with intent to cart away N1.5million.

This Chinese toddler known as Chen Chen has successful survived a surgical operation to remove a three contact electrical plug that was stuck to his brain. According to xkb report, the little boy was playing on his bed last weekend before he fell onto a power plug which got stuck in his brain.

Trump made several promises while campaigning to become the leader of the free world that would drastically change U.S. policy. One of his promises is that as president he will make America great again. Shortly after the 70-year-old was declared winner of the US election, the president-elect gave a victory speech in New York where he promised what he is going to do on first day in office.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday called on law enforcement agencies to track down promoters of a “questionable” investment scheme popularly known as ‘MMM.’ The lower chamber also mandated its committees on banking and currency and financial crimes to investigate the scheme.

The President is pictured with students of the Samuel Ogbemudia College shortly after commissioning the school as part of his two-day visit to Edo state today November 7th.

Dr David Oyedepo, the Bishop of the Living Faith Church worldwide, has appealed to those criticising the school fees charged by Covenant University to desist to avoid incurring the wrath of God.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested the founder of El-Bethel Parish of Celestial Church of Christ, Itaaka Abeokuta, Dr. Michael Adeniran, for allegedly impregnating a 15-year-old girl.

At 30, Zakeri Isiaka is a millionaire and a frightening one. In political circles in Kogi State, Saturday PUNCH learnt that a mere mention of his name sends shivers down the spines of those who are familiar with his activities.

These men pictured above, escaped being lynched to death after they were allegedly caught stealing motorcycles at Alaojii Aba branch Ehime Mbano LGA.

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The Federal government has employed 200,000 graduates into the civil service. Special Assistant to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on media and publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this today while speaking at the second presidential economic communication workshop in Abuja.

These are not the best of times for former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed – Mohammed is currently detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – Mohammed is being investigated for alleged financial crimes in excess of N1.6trillion A report by Premium Times quoting EFCC sources allege that former FCT minister, Bala Mohammed, may have committed financial crimes in excess of N1.6trillion.

The Former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, has returned N1,040,000, 000 to the Federal Government, The PUNCH has learnt.

Shoe manufacturers in Aba, Abia have called on the state government to ensure that shoe production contracts through government intervention are not hijacked by politicians.

A violent husband bit off his wife's nose after she refused to pay his expensive dowry and moved out of their home.

Three senior officials of the Supreme Court of Nigeria are facing a nine-count criminal charge, including diverting N2.2 billion belonging to the apex court and receiving gratifications.

A Cook who served Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, a Director at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Abuja, has absconded with cash and pieces of jewelry worth $6million, a source told SaharaReporters on Wednesday.

About four months after it disengaged about 200 of its workers, Skye Bank Plc has retrenched about 50 members of staff, including those in outsourced and auxiliary functions.

57years old Yau Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria who last weekend married Fatima Buhari, President Muhammad Buhari’s second daughter, is under investigation for fraud, operatives of the Economic and financial Crimes commission (EFCC) said on Tuesday.