A bus driver in China drove a vehicle full of passengers off a bridge and into a reservoir in a deliberate act of revenge against society, police have said. The divorced 52-year-old man, known by his surname Zhang, had downed ...

French prosecutors have said police had arrested a man suspected of operating paedophilia sites on secret “darknet” internet networks providing p3rnographic videos and pictures to thousands of people worldwide. The 40-year-old arrested near the southwestern city of Bordeaux on July ...

Olalekan Jacob Ponle, also known as Woodberry, has hired a top-rated white-collar crime attorney in Chicago, Michael Nash, to defend him. Documents showed that Mr. Nash signed the Attorney Appearance Form for Mr. Ponle on July 8. Woodberry, alongside Ramoni ...

Nigerian Air Force’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has passed away. Arotile sustained head injuries from a road accident which occurred at the NAF Base in Kaduna. She died less than a year after she was decorated as ...

The United States government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to coronavirus, a federal judge said on Tuesday. The universities of Harvard and MIT, with the support of a number of other ...

The Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture, Hon. Muktar Dan-Dutse says the House of Representative is pushing for a stiffer law that will carry death penalty or life sentence against banditry and killer herdsmen. Dan-Dutse made the call, while speaking with ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended no fewer than 11 senior officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as the probe of the shenanigans under the stewardship of disgraced Ibrahim Magu deepened. Authoritative Presidency sources told P.M.News on Tuesday night ...

Nigeria’s immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, as a special envoy to lead the sub-regional body’s mediation mission in Mali. This was made known in a statement ...

The body of a millionaire tech Gokada CEO, Fahim Saleh has been found decapitated and dismembered in a New York City apartment. Police were called to the gruesome scene in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Police say they believe the body ...

Kanye West has reportedly dropped out of the 2020 presidential race less than two weeks after announcing his bid for the White House. Steve Kramer, a member of West’s campaign team, told Intelligencer that after amassing a 180-strong campaign team ...

Nigerian comic actor, Mr Ibu has said there’s no covid-19 in Nigeria and it’s more like a stunt. He made this known in an interview with The Nation. Ibu says, he doesn;t believe the deadly buy that has killed thousands ...

New York City, once the U.S. epicenter of coronavirus infections, reached its first day in nearly four months without a single coronavirus death, according to preliminary numbers released on Sunday. New York City health department data showed there were no ...

A disgraced New York City priest, who was accused of embezzling $1 million from his congregations and allegedly using the money for s3xual encounters with his own ‘S3x Master’, has been found dead in his New Jersey home. Rev. Peter ...

Facebook failed to stop the live stream of a father’s suicide despite reports of dozens of people warning the platform what was happening. Jonathan ‘Bazza’ Bailey, 50, posted that he was going to kill himself at 1pm on Saturday before ...

The wife of a policeman based at the Machinery Police Station in Makueni County,Kenya sustained severe burns after reportedly setting herself on fire. Police Constable Joshua Makanga, in his report at the same police station, said that his wife, Dorina ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly asked the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, to go ahead with the recruitment process of the 774,000 jobs across the country under the government special public works programme. Recall that ...

A young Indiana mother was shot dead in front of her fiancé after she reportedly told a group of Black Lives Matter supporters ‘all lives matter’ over Fourth of July weekend. Jessica Doty Whitaker, 24, was taking a stroll with ...

Members of civil society groups under the aegis of Joint Forces for the Defence of Democracy (JOFDES) have protested in Benin and its environs against Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki’s move to obtain N20 billion loan. They alleged the loan was ...

The Supreme Court has held that the holding of virtual sitting by courts in the country, in accordance with the practice direction by heads of courts, is not unconstitutional at the moment. A seven-man panel of the court held the ...

A fourteen-year-old girl Anita Haledu Ibrahim of Angwan Dorowa Gbuja, in Akwanga LGA of Nasarawa state, has committed suicide over an unwanted pregnancy. Investigation revealed the deceased, a student of Government Science school Andaha, near Akwanga, took herbicide to kill ...

The Osun government has approved easing of lockdown imposed on four local government areas in the state to contain the spread of coronavirus. A statement by Mr Wole Oyebamiji, the Secretary to the State Government in Osogbo, on Monday, said ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has recommended testing of all Nigerians as a way to track the prevalence of COVID-19 infection and understand how to tackle it. This is at it says that it has increased testing capacity by ...

A 60-year-old man, Haruna Lawal, who allegedly r*ped an eight-year-old girl after luring her with N100, has been arrested by operatives of Niger State Police Command. The suspect, said to be a scavenger, was arrested in Wushishi town, headquarters of ...

The Senate today raised the punishment for anyone found guilty on the offence of kidnapping from 10 years to life imprisonment. The upper chamber also deleted the statute of limitation on defilement as well removed gender restrictions on the offences ...

Empire actor Bryshere Gray was arrested on domestic violence charges following a standoff with police at his Arizona home. Gray, who played Hakeem Lyon on the Fox TV series, was taken into custody on Monday at about 7am at his ...