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The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has reported a fresh violent confrontation involving its officers in Ogun State. This comes barely a week after a similar incident in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area left two personnel critically injured. The latest attack occurred at about 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 31, 2026, when operatives of the Ogun I Area Command were on a routine anti-smuggling patrol along a bush route in Alapoti, within Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. In a statement issued by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Customs Zakari Chado, the patrol team intercepted several motorcycles conveying smuggled foreign parboiled…

Arrested Nollywood actress and singer, Angela Okorie, has remained in Suleja prison custody despite meeting her bail condition. DAILY POST reports that the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, granted Angela bail of N5 million, with one surety in like sum, and must be a level 13 civil servant. Her bail was reportedly secured after the intervention of some activists, including Omoyele Sowore, Mama Pee, actor Stanley Ontop, and Randy Peter. Despite meeting her bail condition, the actress remains in prison. The development sparked controversy on social media. However, revealing why the actress still remains in custody, actor Stanley…

Atletico Madrid remain very keen to sign Ademola Lookman from Atalanta and have matched Fenerbache’s bid for the Super Eagles winger. The LaLiga side have now upped their bid to €40million, in a bid to land Lookman this January window. This was revealed by football transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano, on Saturday night. Romano wrote on X: “Atlético Madrid have matched Fenerbahçe proposal for Ademola Lookman: €40m package agreed with Atalanta. “Fenerbahçe have still not agreed on payment terms and bank guarantees, Atléti are ready. “Salary proposal to Lookman from Atléti has also been improved.”

Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has ordered the removal of traditional rulers in the Amasiri clan, Afikpo Local Government Area and directed that their staff of office be withdrawn. The governor also sacked the Commissioner for Tertiary Education from the area, Prof Amari Omaka. Nwifuru also dissolved the entire political and traditional leadership structure of the area over a violent attack on Okporojo, Oso Edda community in the Edda Local Government Area of the state, during which four persons were reportedly beheaded and their heads taken away by assailants. The governor gave the directive on Saturday during an on-the-spot…

The Kano State Fire Service has recovered the body of a three-year-old boy, Abdura’uf Badamasi, who was reported missing in Wangara Village, Tofa Local Government Area of the state. The Director of the service, Alhaji Sani Anas, disclosed this in a statement signed and released by its Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Saturday in Kano. He said, “We received a distress call from one Dan Asabe Rabiu on Friday morning at about 7:50 am, reporting the disappearance of Badamasi. “Upon receiving the report, a rescue team from the agency’s headquarters was immediately deployed to the scene. “On arrival,…

The management of Shooting Stars Sports Club has attributed the current state of the pitch at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan, to the dry season, stressing that they have begun work to revamp it, Sunday PUNCH reports. This was in the wake of the notice served to the club by the Nigeria Premier Football League board, marking the pitch as unsuitable to host matches. “We wish to inform you that, subsequent to the broadcast and television rights entered into by the Nigeria Premier Football League recently, it has become necessary to inform you that the LEKAN SALAMI STADIUM is no…

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President Bola Tinubu welcomed the Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, into the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday and declared that governors remain the party’s leaders in their respective states. Mr Tinubu made the declaration at the official reception of the Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, into the APC held in Jalingo.The president was represented at the event by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima. He said Governor Kefas had assumed the leadership of the party in Taraba by virtue of his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The president promised to support the governor and his cabinet in bringing…

Christian leaders in Southern Kaduna have urged the state government, security agencies, and local communities to take proactive action to protect worship centres against the incessant attacks and abduction of worshippers in parts of the country. The Christian leaders also urged government to without any delay secure the release of abducted worshippers of Kurmin Wali and others, warning of the growing trauma the affected families are presently going through. Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Nuhu Kure, Chairman of Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders, made the call during the 2026 Southern Kaduna Prayer Summit held at the Kafanchan New Township Stadium under the theme “Worship…

Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti has declared that the Labour Party, LP, will never join any coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections. According to Otti, the Labour Party is already a coalition on its own comprising the Nigerian workers and people of progressive minds. Otti, who addressed journalists after the Labour Party’s national executive committee meeting in Abuja on Saturday, said that there is no plan to join any coalition. “Labour is already a coalition. This is the coalition of Nigerian workers and people who are progressive like-minded. “So, I know when people talk about joining another coalition.…