An Angolan army sergeant was jailed for 18 years on Tuesday for shooting dead a 14-year-old boy at a protest two years ago, in a sentence welcomed by rights groups.   Rufino Antonio died after the military opened fire ...

  ENUGU State Board of Internal Revenue after obtaining court orders, yesterday, carried out a distrainment exercise on four banks and two other private firms, located in Enugu metropolis and Nsukka, for non-payment of taxes due to the state government, ...

The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) has confirmed the death of a former Assistant Controller-General of Prisons, Nanvyet Gwali.   The Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Prisons Service, Francis Enobore, confirmed the death of Gwali in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. ...

Two notorious traffic bandits who have been terrorising road users along Maza Maza/Mile 2 road have been nabbed by the undercover operatives of the Lagos state police command posted to provide security for commuters along that route. The two robbers, ...

  Former Vice President and Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he is not desperate to be President of the country. Atiku stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in Benin on ...

  American gay actor, Colton Haynes decided to recreate Kim Kardashian‘s new pose which went viral last week and people are finding it hilarious.   The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star had posted a picture of herself lounging in a gray matching bra and ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced an extension to the deadline for the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise by two weeks. .   With the new development, the ongoing voters registration exercise which was due to elapse ...

According to Comedienne/actress Chioma ‘Chigul’ Omeruah, ‘A lot of women have wife written all over them, but they keep entertaining men who can’t read.’  

  Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the registration of 23 new political parties, raising the number of registered parties in Nigeria to 91. The Commission in a statement issued by Mohammed Haruna, its National ...

A woman identified as Nkiru Okoye is currently receiving treatment in a hospital after she was allegedly attacked with acid by her ex-lover in Anambra state.   It was gathered that the woman had been formerly married, but broke up with ...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has issued a statement ahead of the Osun State governorship election in September saying, ‘we will vehemently dismantle all APC rigging machinery in future elections beginning with the Osun governorship election next month’.   According to the party, ‘now ...

Reality star Lyric McHenry was found dead Tuesday morning in New York City, according to multiple reports. She was 26. According to the New York Daily News, McHenry, who appeared alongside Magic Johnson’s son, EJ Johnson, on the 2016 E! show ...

A Premium Times reporter Samuel Ogundipe was arrested earlier today by the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS over the refusal to disclose the source of one of the stories he reported. The Police has since frozen his bank account just ...

An Accra High Court has sentenced a Ghanaian woman, who conspired with a Nigerian to defraud a US citizen of an unspecified amount of money, to 18 months’ imprisonment.   Vida Patty Agboletey, under the fraudulent name of Elizabeth Caldwell and ...

Harry Uzoka, a 25 year old Louis Vuitton model, suffered an untimely death at the hands of his fellow model, George Koh. His killer has been convicted of the murder and is now facing a life sentence for stabbing Harry Uzoka ...

A suspected cultist was nabbed by vigilante members in as he and his gang members were making pepper soup with a stolen goat in Edo.   It was gathered that the hoodlum along with five others stormed the area (3 House Upper ...

A Nigerian man Olayinka Olaniyi, has been been pronounced guilty of defrauding universities in the United States, and is due to be sentenced to jail. The 34-year-old was living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the time he committed the fraud, alongside his ...

Although policemen and other security agents were seen at the police stations, they looked the other way, while thugs terrorized people.                          A female corps member was allegedly kidnapped ...

The Nigerian police, through the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on Tuesday froze the bank account of a Premium Times journalist Samuel Ogundipe who was recently arrested over ‘negative’ stories he writes about the force.   Accordding to a report by Premium Times, Mr Ogundipe was arrested at ...

A family of 5 in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, were killed in their sleep by generator fumes. Eyewitnesses alleged that Mr. Chaly Chibuogwu, his wife and three children died shortly after switching on their generator inside their house.   Facebook user, Udoka Emmanuel who shared ...

Nollywood actress, Damilola Adegbite, whose marriage of 2 years to Ghanaianactor, Chris Attoh ended in 2017, has a message for men who toy with women’s emotions.   Damilola Adegbite who disclosed that karma always comes around, said some men are the ones creating monsters and ...

“I think Vermonters should take me seriously because I have practical progressive ideas, and I happen to be 14, not the other way around. I think that my message and my platform transcend age.” 14-year-old Ethan Sonneborn, who took advantage of a ...

‘If I had had seven daughters like her [Yulia], I would have killed them all.’ 49-year-old Tatiana Degirmendzhy, has been arrested by the Russian police shortly after she confessed to murdering her 18-year-old daughter with an axe because the teenager was ‘too argumentative’.   ...

Concerns about security ahead of nationwide votes in the United States has been heightened, after an 11-year-old boy managed to hack into a replica of US vote website (Florida’s election results)  in 10 minutes, changed names and tallies during a hackers convention.   ...

                          28-year-old Prince Ifeanyi Kingsley Ezeamama was one of the nine Corps members,  who drowned in River Salihu Dogo at Mayo Selbe in Gashaka Local Government Area of ...