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  13-year-old student swept away by flood in Abuja A 13- year-old Junior Secondary School (JSS) student of Ihyau El -Burhan Academy, Phase 3, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhassan Jamil, has d!ed after he was ...

  Eguavoen to lead Super Falcons on interim basis for Olympic qualifiers FORMER Super Eagles head coach Augustine Eguavoen has been appointed interim head coach of the Super Falcons for their 2028 Olympic qualifying campaign. Ademola Olajire, Head of Communications, ...

  Governor Sanwo-Olu declares ‘state of emergency’ on waste management Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has declared a “small state of emergency” on waste management to tackle mounting refuse collection and disposal challenges across the metropolis. The declaration followed ...

  Big Brother Naija Show Ya Sef housemate, Nomy, has been disqualified from the show. According to Big Brother, she was disqualified following repeated disobedience of Big Brother’s instructions. While serving as this week’s bench warmer, Nomy left her assigned ...

  Hunter’s loaded Dane gun k!lls 13-year-old boy in Bauchi. The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a suspect in connection with the d£ath of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly shot after pulling the trigger of a loaded Dane ...

  APC, PDP challenge Adeleke’s victory as tribunal displays two petitions The Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has formally commenced the process of hearing petitions against the August 15 governorship election in the state, following the display of two ...

  Archbishop Ugorji condemns Imo education policies, seeks dialogue THE Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has condemned what he described as “despotic and overreaching” directives by the Imo Commissioner for Education. Ugorji made his position known ...

  Shooting stars confident of qualification after slim confederation cup win SHOOTING Stars Sports Club of Ibadan are confident of advancing to the next stage of the CAF Confederation Cup despite a slim first-leg advantage over CS Sfaxien of Tunisia. ...

  Oba of Benin Suspends Royal Praise Singers Over Igbinedion’s Birthday Performance The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has suspended the Isikhuan royal praise singers following an alleged violation of palace rules and Benin traditional customs. The decision came ...

  17-Year-Old Boy Killed By Gang To Harvest And Sell His Test!cles For £100,000 A gang murd£red a teenager and removed his testicles because they thought they were worth £100,000, police have said. The gang was said to have been ...

  Nigerian woman declared missing by family found in Qatar hospital The 37-year-old Nigerian woman whose family raised alarm that she disappeared after arriving in Doha, Qatar, has been found safe in a hospital. The woman, identified as Saratu Jibo, ...

  Explosion as Boko Haram targets convoy of Borno APC governorship candidate The convoy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Borno State, Engr. Mustapha Gubio, has been ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. DailyTrust reports that the ...

  33-year-old Nigerian man arrested for s£xually assaulting 2 women, including underage girl, in Canada. A Nigerian man, Olusegun Onidare, has been arrested and charged over alleged s£xual assault of two women in separate incidents that occurred in the municipality ...

  VDM apologises to security agencies over NBA speech Social critic, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has apologised to soldiers, policemen, customs and immigration personnel over the comments he made about security agents at the recently held Nigerian ...

  British-Nigerian influencer dies after penis enlargement procedure in Thailand British-Nigerian businessman and influencer Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo, also known as Denisi or Ego, has died after undergoing a penis enlargement procedure during a luxury trip to Thailand with his wife. ...

  Anglican Priest Dies in Car Crash, Two Months After Ordination in Anambra Anambra Anglican Community Mourns Young Clergyman After Fatal Road Crash The Anglican community in Anambra State has been thrown into mourning following the tragic death of Rev’d ...

  37 suspected oil thieves d!e after inhaling substance in Rivers No fewer than 37 suspected oil thieves have been confirmed de@d after they inhaled a petroleum product believed to be crude oil in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers ...

  Russian Club, Sparta Moscow Reportedly Declare Victor Moses Wanted For Not Resuming Pre-season Training Russian Premier League club, Sparta Moscow, have reportedly declared Victor Moses, former Super Eagles player, wanted after the winger failed to resume pre-season training as ...

  Argentina’s great Lionel Messi announces his retirement from international football at the age of 39. “After all this time since the final, and after thinking about it a lot, I want to tell everyone that I’m retiring from the ...

  Rivers police arrest hotel workers and friends over guest’s d3ath The Rivers State Police Command has arrested some staff members of a hotel in Port Harcourt and friends in connection with the d3ath of a guest identified as Okorite ...

  Dangote rejects $38bn wealth ranking, says refinery crosses $40bn Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, has dismissed recent estimates of his personal wealth, saying he pays little attention to wealth rankings and that his ...

  Two suspected female traffickers pose as tenants to abduct three children in Taraba The Taraba Police Command has arrested two women for allegedly abducting three children in Jalingo and attempting to traffic them f to Adamawa. It was gathered ...

  GOCOP mourns former Eagle online publisher, Oladipo THE Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has expressed sadness over the death of its former President, Dotun Oladipo, publisher of The Eagle Online. This is contained in a statement signed by ...

  Police invites VDM to substantiate claims that its officers connive with kidnappers The Nigeria Police Force has challenged social critic Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), to provide evidence for his claim that police officers at highway ...

  Four children held captive in truck for 7 years by woman and her fiancé A Florida woman and her fiancé were accused of keeping four children in the cab of a tractor-trailer truck for several years without adequate education, ...