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According to Baruch Spinoza, if you want the present to be different from the past and study the past. Only those who really lived through it can adequately recount a ...

Nigeria and Cameroon exchanged 211 prisoners captured during clashes in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, ...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was freed from prison after serving two years for exporting foreign cash At least 70 soldiers killed in ambush in Borno state According to Hajo Holborn, German-American ...

According to Ambrose Bierce, history is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knives, and soldiers, mostly fools. When we reflect on ...

The Nigerian Naira is the Nigerian official currency minted by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited. This currency which is part of the country's identity is managed and ...

PDP chose Obasanjo as presidential candidate Gunmen freed 119 inmates in Nigerian prison break Okonjo-Iweala appointed WTO DG — first ever female and African Senate confirmed Ibrahim Lamorde as EFCC ...

Nigeria is a fertile ground for religions especially Christianity and Islam. Over the years, the most populous African nation has contributed significantly to the growth of these two Abrahamic religions. ...

"iPhone 1 – legbegbeiPhone 2 – legbegbeiPhone 3 – legbegbeiPhone 4 – legbegbeiPhone 5 – legbegbeiPhone 6 – legbegbeiPhone 7, o ma lo – legbegbe (the 7th iPhone is leaving ...

The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill for the prohibition of violence against persons. Hon. Idris Garba Jahun, the Speaker of the House, announced this ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Supreme Court to reverse the December 16, 2020 judgement of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which voided the conviction and ...

Obinwanne Okeke popularly known as Invictus Obi was on Tuesday jailed for 10 years in the United States for a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in ...

A federal high court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a couple to 40 years imprisonment each. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick and his wife, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle were sentenced ...

A Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Friday sentenced a 15-year-old student to six months in prison for stealing two dogs. A panel of two magistrates, ...

Lagos court has remanded popular Nigerian singer, Sanni Wasiu popularly known as Lil frosh at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre till March 9, 2021 over the alleged assault on his girlfriend, Okeoghene ...

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, remanded two persons, Saliu Saheed and Azees Rafiu for allegedly stealing 18 bags of maize and 1032 chickens. The prosecutor, Jacob Akintunde, told the ...

Zeenat El-Zakzaky, wife of Ibrahim El-Zakzaky the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, never tested positive for COVID-19, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says. Acting controller-general of NCoS John ...

A middle-aged man identified as Aminu Ibrahim has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by a Sokoto State High Court for raping a 9-year-old girl. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that Ibrahim was ...

Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has sentenced a 26-year-old fraudster to four months imprisonment. The convict identified as Oluwatobi Damilola was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes ...

A  young lady on Twitter has taken to the platform to celebrate her dad who after being imprisoned for 24 years was recently released. The lady identified as @ebonyjackin, said ...

A UK court has sentenced a drug smuggler who swallowed over 1kg of cocaine worth an estimated £80,000 to 4 years imprisonment. Henry Michael Penijn, 36, who lived in the ...