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  A young man identified as Chinonso from Umuchime in Obibi kingdom autonomous community Enugwu-Inyi in Oji-River Local Government Area of Enugu State, has allegedly been killed by a Police officer. Chinonso is said to have been in a dispute with a lady at an ATM spot in Nkwo Inyi Market. According to reports from a Facebook user, the young ...

  A Nollywood writer, actor and director, Kagho Harley Akpor, has reportedly drowned in a swimming pool at a popular hotel in Asaba, Delta State. Although the details of the incident were still sketchy as of press time, sources said Akpor was at a location shooting a movie with other crew members when he fell into the pool. The source ...

  No fewer than 17 Nigerians have been deported from Ghana for allegedly committing offences in the country, involving in cyber crimes, known in Nigeria as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’. According to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), it said 29 people were arrested in Ho, the Volta Regional capital but 17 were found involved in criminal activities. The Ho Municipal Police Commander, ...

  A man who was picked up by a helicopter in the middle of a huge traffic jam in Nigeria had suffered a stroke, the helicopter company has told the BBC. The video from Sunday shared by Elombah news and spread widely on social media, with many speculating it showed a billionaire who had called the helicopter to escape the ...

  A middle aged woman, Mrs Yemi Samuel on Wednesday explained that she arranged her own kidnap in order to raise money from family members to assist her husband. The woman who was paraded by the Kwara state police command said her husband is a pensioner with the Kogi state government and has not received his pensions for many years ...

  A Twitter user @oguefitoks has taken to the micro-blogging site to share the story of how his car window was broken by robbers who wanted to steal the money he had gone to withdraw from a bank in Abuja. According to the story, his car window was broken but the thieves were unable to locate the money.   Read ...

Some youths in the Ofumwengbe community in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, on Tuesday, blocked the Benin-Ore Expressway to protest the death of a yet-to-be-identified woman, who was allegedly raped and killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen. It was gathered that the victim, who had gone to her farm on Monday, failed to return, prompting the community ...

Naby Keita failed to spark Guinea’s Africa Cup of Nations campaign into life as Kenneth Omeruo’s goal sent Nigeria into the last 16. Nigeria became the first team to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations knockout phase as Kenneth Omeruo’s goal earned a 1-0 win over Guinea in Group B. In a largely uneventful contest in Alexandria, Nigeria made the breakthrough when Omeruo ...

Chicago Police Department have revealed Jussie Smollett obsessively Google searched himself more than 50 times to read reports on his alleged attack in January 2019.   This comes days after a Judge in Illinois appointed a special prosecutor to re-investigate the Jussie Smollett case. Among the massive flies of information including video, computer search records and text message transcripts collected by police, ...

A man in Iran accused of sleeping with 23 women by pretending to be the Lionel Messi because of their uncanny resemblance has denied conning the women into sleeping with him. Reza Parastesh, who is known as the Iranian Messi was forced to come forward to deny the allegations on social media after Spanish publication, Marca reported it. In a video post on Instagram, Parastesh ...

  The police in Imo state have arrested 70 year old Pa John pictured above for allegedly defiling a five year old girl in Mbaise on June 14th. Activitist and leader of Behind Bars Initiative, Prince Emefiena Gwamnishu, who shared the story online, told LIB that the accused was caught inside the bush having intercourse with the little girl. A ...

  Flamboyant Nigerian businessman, Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha and his wife are celebrating their 8th wedding anniversary today, June 26, 2019. The Dubai-based businessman who is into Bureau De Change shared this throwback photo of him and his wife posing together and then wrote: ‘Happy 8th year anniversary to me and my wife.’

  Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court Maitama has sentenced a clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya, to seven years in prison for rape.   The clergyman was arraigned in court by the police on allegation that he forcefully had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, between July 27 and Dec. 31, 2011 inside ...

Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh has shared her thoughts on men who hit women saying they are not fit to be called men. The mother of one and former wife of Olakunle Oladunni Churchill, while replying a comment on a social media post on domestic violence, said she called her own abuser a woman and gave him a tampon. Her follower ...

  Georgia deputies released body camera footage Tuesday of the moment first responders found a newborn baby alive abandoned in a plastic bag in the woods. Authorities found the baby girl in a wooded area in Cumming, Georgia, after a 911 call came in around 10 p.m. on June 6, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. Baby India, as ...

No fewer than five persons were killed on Tuesday and several houses burnt in a fresh crisis between the Tiv and Jukun in Rafinkada Village of Wukari local government area of Taraba State. Daniel Adidas, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Council confirmed the development. He alleged that gunmen in army camouflage attacked Rafinkada and set several houses ablaze. The ...

Nigerian singer Simi does not play with her man. The Joromi crooner who tied the knot with her longtime boo Adekunle Gold early this year, took to her IG page to interact with her fans asking that they mention one person they would love to lay down with. A follower mentioned her husband Adekunle and Simi replied savagely. Simi: ‘Tag ...

A police officer had to step up to the plate when he caught his own daughter driving on the wrong side of the road – in a toy car. Officer Alex Kipp of the Orlando Police Department arrived home from work recently to find his young daughter, Talynn, driving her plastic toy car along the wrong side of the road. ...

  President Buhari yesterday openned up on why his administration dealt with the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Justice Onnoghen was suspended in January this year over claims he failed to declare all his assets when he assumed office in March 2017 and also after suspicious amount of money were found in his Naira and foreign accounts. ...

  A devastating photo shows the body of a father and his 23-month-old daughter lying face down in shallow water after they drowned whle trying to get into the US.   The bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria were discovered on Monday on the bank of the Rio Grande. His daughter was tucked inside his ...

The founder and chairman of Innoson Nigeria Limited, Innocent Chukwuma has reacted to the arrest warrant issued by the Federal High Court yesterday. The court had granted the request of a Director in the Ministry of Justice to arrest Chukwuma and two others, in order to arraign him in court to face criminal charges. Chukwuma in a series of tweets on ...

An 11-year-old boy has been left feeling distressed and anxious after a Samsung tablet burnt a hole in his bed while he slept. Callum Hewkin had taken the gadget into his room so he could watch a programme in bed and had fallen asleep with the device next to him. His parents awoke the next morning to find his room ...

  Justice Sybil Nwaka of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court revoked the bail of  Chrisland School Supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan standing trial for allegedly defiling a two-year-old pupil (names withheld) of the school. Justice Nwaka revoked Adenekan’s bail for one day after expressing concerns that he might become a flight risk and not come to court at the next ...

  Rivers state indigene, Inedukoba Charles Tyger, was on Tuesday June 25th, exhumed from a shallow grave in Abalama Sandfield Asari-Toru Local Government Area in Rivers state, months after he was declared missing by family and friends. A friend of the deceased, Ibiye Dokubo, had raised alarm on February 26th, via his Facebook page, that Tyger, had gone missing. According to Dokubo’s post, Tyger ...

  Tiffani Louise O’Brien was left alone inside a pitch-dark Air Canada plane, after her approximately 90-minute flight from Quebec City to Toronto on June 9. The lady who had gone to visit a friend in Quebec woke up from a mid-flight nap to realize she was completely alone, locked inside the pitch-black aircraft. “[I was] still in my same seat, 32A, which is about middle ...