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——The Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced the delivery of first set of electric buses in the state’s public transport. The governor made this…
The gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has worsened dueto the lingering road reconstruction. The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, said that he had extracted a…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for 3-7 May 2023, to a date to be…
The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Human Rights Defender and Endurance Athlete, Omoyele Sowore participated in the just concluded marathon in Abuja. He said…
A building apartment within the courtyard of the Palace Of The Ooni Of Ife was at about 11:30pm yesterday engulfed in flames of fire incident…
The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested a couple (name withheld) over alleged self-kidnap for N5 million ransom. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has arrived at the Nigerian Army trooping and presentation of colours parade at the Eagle Square in Abuja…
The Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday, played host to some Americans who traced their roots to the Kingdom of Ile-Ife. The Americans…
The Lagos State Building Control Agency on Wednesday began the demolition of illegal buildings on the Banana Island area of Lagos State. The PUNCH reports…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of one Oluwayemisi Samuel and her Son, Joshua Samuel, before…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has hired luxurious buses to evacuate Nigerian students studying in Sudan. Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan…
A 200-level student of the Lagos State University (LASU) identified simply as Israel, has reportedly d!ed after he was allegedly rejected by four hospitals. Details…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has disclosed that officials of the agency saved three severely injured victims in an accident at Moshalashi Roundabout, in…
PHOTOS: An American airline Boeing 737’s engine burst into flames midair before the pilot safely executed an emergency landing at Ohio airport, as the aircraft…
A block of flats in the Sango Police Barracks in Oyo State collapsed on Saturday evening. In a video with the caption, “This block just collapsed…
Muslims across the world assembled in praying grounds to mark Eid el-Fitr. The celebration marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims…
The federal government has declared Friday and Monday as public holidays for Muslims in the country to celebrate the end of Ramadan fasting. The announcement…
A Bus Rapid Transit vehicle has been set on fire on Wednesday morning after colliding with a commercial bus, killing the driver. The accident occurred…
The Police have sanctioned officers seen in a viral video assaulting an unidentified man in Rivers State. One of the officers, Adejoh Siaka, got his…
Passengers were stranded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, as Nigeria’s aviation workers embarked on a two-day warning strike across the country on Monday.…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has visited the President of Kenya, Williams Ruto, in the country. The monarch who was accompanied by the…
The Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory has commenced structural integrity test on the building structures under construction in the Banana Island area of Lagos State.…
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has said that no lives was lost in the collapsed building in Banana Island, Ikoyi area of Lagos State.…
A late night fire has gutted some buildings at Randle Avenue, Surulere, Lagos. The cause of the fire was unknown as of the time of…
PurpleWorld learnt the building which collapsed on Wednesday was under construction. A building has collapsed on Banana Island in Lagos, trapping many people inside. The…
A new wave of COVID variant, Arcurus, found in India is now in Britain. The variant is an offshoot of Omicron and is expected to…
One hundred and fifty-two stranded Nigerians in Tripoli, Libya, arrived in the country aboard Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800, at the Cargo Wing of the…
Chimamanda Adichie expresses awe and gratitude to Soyinka describing him as a “guiding light” as she shared a photo of herself posing beside the literary…
The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has reacted to the video posted by Dotland Media of a police officer flogging a…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has lamented the alleged unfair treatment the Igbos currently receive in Nigeria, and said the panacea is for them…
A United Kingdom based-Nigerian pastor, Tomi Arayomi and his wife, Tema, have broken their silence following their arrest in Abuja on Friday, April 7,2023, by…
A former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Hague, Netherlands, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead. Ajibola, who was also a former Attorney-General of Nigeria,…
Ibadan popular vendor, Adeshina Olayinka popularly known as khadi is dead. She was found dead in a wetland hotel in akobo, Oyo state. According to…
There is panic among homeowners, property owners and other residents of Surulere neighbourhoods covering Masha Roundabout, Adelabu Road and some inner streets, as their traditional…
There was tension in Gwadabawa community of Sokoto state, following a conflict between the Fulani and Hausa people residing in the area. It led to…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written an open letter to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, about the recently concluded election in…
The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba presided over by P. E. Nwaka. on Wednesday, 5 April, 2023 ordered that the Eze Igbo of Ajao…
A magistrate court in Kano State has ordered the owner of a noisy cockerel to slaughter it or face a penalty. The court gave the…
Tech executive and founder of Cash App, Bob Lee has been stabbed to death in San Francisco, California. He was 43 years old. The tech mogul,…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 7 and Monday, April 10, 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior,…
Barring any last-minute change of heart, the Federal Government will in the next one or two weeks begin the demolition of multibillion-naira private jet hangars…
. Channels Television presenter, Seun Okinbaloye, has reacted to the N5 million fine recently slammed on the TV station by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC),…
A petrol-laden tanker on Sunday exploded after it had a collision with a sport utility vehicle on the Longbridge axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. PUNCH…
A raging fire has gutted the warehouse of a bottling company on Sapara Street, off Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. This was made known in…
The Lagos State Government says rehabilitation work will be carried out on the Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday, April 2 to repair bad sections of…
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Fredrick Nwajagu, the Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, has been arrested after a viral video showed him threatening to invite IPOB to…
A yet-to-be-identified person, on Friday, abandoned a newborn baby under the Oke-Foma bridge, Ita-Nma in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. NIGERIAN TRIBUNE gathered that the…
Fire has gutted the Olowu spare parts market in Lagos. The fire incident occurred on Thursday morning. According to Vanguard, some shops engulfed by the…
The Federal Government has approved the sum of N24.20bn for the provision of broadband internet connection in at least 20 airports, 43 schools and six…
Some commercial bus drivers plying the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Wednesday embarked on a protest over alleged extortion by touts, known as ‘Agbero’ at Toll-Gate area…
One person was on Tuesday confirmed dead and at least seven injured after fire gutted two plazas at the Balogun Market in Lagos State. The…
The Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency has shut down Chiffy Supermarket, located at No. 3, Oduduwa Crescent Government Reserved Areas, Ikeja, for selling expired toothpaste…
A promo of 50% off was given to citizens before the election.
Fire gutted a section of a five-storey In Balogun Market, Lagos building in the popular Balogun Market, Lagos Island, in the early hours of Tuesday,…
The police have shared footage which showed a heavily-armed 28-year-old woman, Audrey Hale, making her way into the Christian Covenant School in Nashville on Monday.…
Humanist Group has wrote to the newly elected governor of Kano State concerning the case of Mubarak Bala, the Nigerian activist and atheist who has…
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, on Monday, attended Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation 16th Annual Lecture Series with the theme, ‘Rehumanising Human Experience…
No fewer than 1,000 aged women from across the 13 Local Government Areas of Nasarawa State on Monday held a protest in Lafia, calling for…
Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist on trial for treason, has been remanded in Kuje prison from Monday till Thursday A judge in the Federal High…
The Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Elon Musk, has put the current value of Twitter at $20 billion, less than half the $44 billion he…
A major strike brought much of Germany’s air traffic, rail service and commuter lines to a halt on Monday as workers demand wage hikes in…
The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the death of 25 persons involved in a fatal crash in Bauchi State. This was contained in a…
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, his daughter, and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the…
A High Court in Lagos has mandated electricity companies to give consumers three working days’ notice before interrupting their supply. The suit was filed by…
The Nigeria Police Force has mounted roadblocks at the Berger axis on Lago-Ibadan Expressway to enforce movement restrictions ahead of the governorship elections on Saturday.…
The police command in Lagos State arrested a 53-year-old woman, who was allegedly found with laminated electoral materials. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed…
The traditional ruler of the Ikate-Elegushi Kingdom, Saheed Ademola (Kusenla III), has declared a three-day Oro rite on non-indigenes and women from midnight to 5:30…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, ordered the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police to pay the sum…
A report shared by the Nation today March 13 had claimed that the apex bank has released N500 million in new banknotes to shore up…
A 40-foot container on Friday morning fell near the General Hospital, Ikeja Underbridge, Lagos State. A tweet by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority noted…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has declared three days of mourning for those who died in the BRT train accident on Thursday morning. A…
A Lagos State Government staff bus with registration no 04A- 48LA was on Wednesday morning crushed by a moving train at PWD, Ikeja area of…
——The paramount ruler of Ife Kingdom, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, (Ọjájá II) has stepped out in company of his beautiful wives to celebrate the international…
Commercial banks in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have started issuing old naira notes to customers. Checks at some banks in Abuja on Wednesday revealed…
The Court of Appeal has granted INEC permission to reconfigure BVAS. The Court of Appeal granted INEC’s request because the electoral body said all data…
A Nigerian mafia leader, Jeff Joy, who was one of the few women on Italy’s 100 most wanted criminal list, has been extradited to Italy.…
Two Nigerian nationals were arrested for concealing 167 capsules of cocaine in their stomach at the Mumbai airport in India. According to India TV on…
The federal government says over $1.88 billion (N869 billion) is needed to conduct the 2023 population and housing census. Last year, the federal government announced that it…
A section of the newly-inaugurated Blue Rail Mass Transit project at Marina, Lagos State, has been gutted by fire. The incident which occurred on Tuesday,…
Popular auto dealer, Olanrewaju Rasak Shittu is dead.Shittu, who was one of Nigeria’s prominent automobile dealers and socialites, passed away Monday morning at age 65,…
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission assigned to polling unit 003 in Awada Primary School, Anambra State, have abandoned their election materials. In a…
The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Saturday at the second leg of the situation report on the 2023 presidential and National Assembly…
Suspected members of Boko Haram have fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a polling unit in the Gwoza local government area of Borno state, Northeast Nigeria.…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says thugs snatched eight of its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in Delta and Katsina States in the ongoing presidential…
Thugs Attack Polling Unit In Dipo Olubi Street, Ikeja Lagos as they cart away ballot boxes and also injuring a voter. They shot in the…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of today, February 25, 2023 intercepted a woman with 18 voter cards…
A thug was killed, while others sustained injuries when the encountered few men of the Nigerian Army. A ballot box snatcher gunnèd down in Anyigba,…
The court of appeal in Abuja has dismissed an appeal filed by Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), seeking to upturn the ruling…
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered a restriction of all forms of vehicular movement on roads, waterways, and other forms of transportation, from…
Hoodlums suspected to be members of the Simon Ekpa’s autopilot Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) enforcing sit-at-home against conduct of election in South East Nigeria…
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, on Friday hosted a Joint International Election Observers Mission, International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute, at the…
Some protesters carrying cutlass and other dangerous weapons, who allegedly attacked a police post in the Owode area of Oyo State have been repelled by…
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