Jalingo – A 37 year old Woman from Abia state, Ruth Okoronkwo, who was on Friday paraded at the Police headquarters in Jalingo, Taraba state, has said she was recruited to Kidnap infants for the sum of N50,000.

The never disappointing social media has joined in with memes and hilarious remarks to the news of the sacking of Dino Melaye from his position as the senator representing Kogi West.

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare has expressed shock and sadness at the sudden death of veteran national female football player, Ifeanyichukwu Chiejine.

Britain is deeply concerned about fires in the Amazon rainforest and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the G7 summit to call for a renewed focus on protecting nature, his office said on Friday.

ABUJA: Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC are currently in a closed door meeting with the National Working Committee NWC of the party at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja to discuss several issues affecting the party and review some of its strategies ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states.

ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar 111, the Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi 11 and other traditional rulers from the northern states.

Irked by the Kogi State National Assembly/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal judgment, the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Dino Melaye on Friday said he would appeal the case and get judgment at the Appeal Court.

Mexican international Hirving Lozano on Thursday completed his move to Serie A runners-up Napoli on a deal reported to be worth 42 million euros ($46 million).

An Ibadan-based military personnel, Folasade Adedeji, on Friday petitioned a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, to dissolve her marriage to Taiwo, her husband, due to his unrepentant smoking and drinking habits.

Five young people were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede at a packed rap concert in the Algerian capital, a spokesman for the rescue services said Friday.

A video has surface online showing twin babies talking to each other to the amazement of their mother.

An appeal has gone out from the family of Nwatu based in Abuja, urgently seeking help from well-meaning individuals and corporate organisations to help save their six-month-old baby who is on the verge of death.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, has commenced investigations into allegation of N50 million bursary fraud against some management staff of Kwara State Scholarship Board.

My attention has been drawn to statements credited to General Muhammadu Buhari’s newly retained Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), wherein the said minister blamed the embarrassing fiasco, that is, the $8.9 billion judgment debt on the preceding Jonathan administration.

KATSINA – The Katsina State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Alhaji Ahidjo Yahaya said corps members involved in last Sunday’s ghastly motor accident that claimed lives of three and several others injured, travelled without obtaining permission.