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Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) today again clashed with members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites in Abuja. The group was protesting the prolonged detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The protesters during the clash with the security agents in Maitama area of Abuja, ...

Dino Melaye just announced via his twitter handle that he has been arrested. He wrote   ”I have just been arrested at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport on my way to Morocco for an official engagement sponsored by the Federal Govt after checking in”.   Recall he ...

Moments ago, the Lagos State Government unveiled a new statue of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, sited at the beautiful park in Ojota named after the late legal luminary and human rights advocate as part of activities to celebrate the late activist’s 80th posthumous birthday.   The State’s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Steve Ayorinde said the ...

Read the press statement from PDP below President Buhari’s attendance of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in United Kingdom, which came at huge cost to the nation, was a colossal waste.   Nigerians are not surprised that the President returned last night, empty handed and with no tangible ...

At least 10 residents were killed when suspected armed herdsmen invaded Saghev Ward in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.   The state government confirmed the attack and the casualty figure on Saturday in a statement by Mr Terver Akase, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom.   ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria from London where he attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The President took off from London on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Abuja after 7 pm. President Buhari had travelled to London on April 9, shortly after declaring his intention ...

Facebook user, Bodmas from Bayelsa on Friday, posted photos from a surgery he underwent for undisclosed ailment. He wrote: “For seven years I have been living with this ailment, today it’s finally out. As a young boy, it disrupted my day to day activities, some days I will stay indoors ...

Mavin artiste, Korede Bello has graduated from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism with a distinction in Mass Communication (HND). At the 5th convocation on Friday, April 20 with Ray Ekpu as the Chairman, the Institute presented one thousand three hundred and forty-one (1,341) “graduands of five academic sessions from 2013-2017 sets”. ...

The mother of a toddler has revealed the moment she discovered her baby girl had been suffocated in her sleep by a stuffed toy at the side of her bed. Dexy Leigh Walsh, 23, found 18-month-old Connie Rose’s body in her bed with the giant teddy on top of her. Dexy ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said there is no corruption in the presidency under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that such stance has saved the country a lot of money. Osinbajo also reiterated that government’s efforts towards curbing corruption in the country would soon begin to manifest.The Vice ...

President Buhari has been urged by Prof Wole Soyinka to end the herdsmen crisis by the end of July; otherwise, he would have failed completely – He noted that Nigeria’s food security could be jeopardized by the displacement of farmers who were the major victims of the herdsmen and Boko ...

The management of OAU also disclosed that the appointment of the lecturer cannot be terminated now, because such an action could only be taken by the governing council The identity of the student at the center of sex-for-marks controversy rocking Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, has been revealed as ...

Why are women innovators largely ignored in Nigeria’s male-dominated technology spaces? Why didn’t Vice President Osinbajo visit any women-owned spaces during the highly popular and attention-grabbing #VPTourofTech? On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 – Laolu Akande posted to twitter that Vice President Osinbajo was in Lagos to visit technology companies. This, ...

A pregnant teenager and a pastor were among four persons reportedly killed by suspected cult members in the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State on Wednesday. It was gathered that while the cleric, Pastor Joseph Iheme, was shot dead by the assailants beside a river where he had gone ...

The Presidency on Thursday explained that President Muhammadu Buhari did not refer to all Nigerian youths as lazy in a statement he made on Wednesday during the question and answer section of the Commonwealth Business Forum in London. Rather, it said Buhari only made reference to “a lot of” Nigerian ...

The Nigerian Army has said its troops of 101 Special Forces Battalion deployed in ‘Exercise Ayem Akpatuma’ on Wednesday 18 April 2018 while on patrol to Zamban village in Suntai Local Government Area of Taraba state successfully repelled an attack by armed Fulani bandits. Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces ...

  If you’ve been following us up here on Naijavibe you should have read the details of how the mace was snatched away just yesterday. The Nigerian Police has recovered the Senate’s stolen Mace at a flyover before the Abuja City Gate, where according to ASP Aremu Adeniran, Deputy Force ...

A former governor of Kaduna State in the Second Republic, Balarabe Musa, says nobody can become the President of Nigeria without first being a thief or supported by thieves. According to him, there is hardly how anyone can legitimately raise the kind of money required for presidential campaign in the ...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Wednesday sentenced two teachers, Adams Jibril, 28, and Mohammed Yusuf, 27, to combined 24 months imprisonment for defrauding a man of N3 million. The convicts, both residents of Chechenji Road, Kaduna, were arraigned on a five-count charge of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating, ...

  Thugs wednesday morning stormed the Senate, caused confusion and went away with the Mace, the symbol of authority. The thugs who were led by the suspended Senator Ovie Omo- Agege, APC, Delta Central, entered while plenary was on going and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu was presiding. Vanguard gathered ...