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  The Kano State Hisbah command said that it has arrested 93 alleged commercial sex workers of which 23 were tested HIV positive.   The State Hisbah Commandant, Shiekh Muhammad ibn-Sina, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday.   He said ...

  A man who murdered his wife and their two children in December 2007 before fleeing to Bangladesh immediately afterwards has finally been brought to justice.   Mohammed Abdul Shakur, 45, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Thursday, ...

  An expectant father has accused EFCC officials of breaking into his home in the middle of the night to conduct a search without a warrant.   The man said he was at his home in Olokuta, Kemta, in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta between ...

  US president, Donald Trump, has successfully changed his address of residence from New York where he was born and literally lived all his life, to Florida because he has been treated unfairly by New York State tax laws.   ...

  The Nigerian Navy operatives attached to the Forward Operating Base (FOB) on Thursday, October 31st arrested five suspected pipeline vandals with 136 jerry cans laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).   The suspects; Oseni Noah, Toyin Hunsa, Rasheed Amish, ...

  Donald Trump on Thursday, October 31, said he would end Cameroon’s preferential trade benefits from Jan. 1, citing what he called the country’s “persistent gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”   In a letter to the U.S. Congress, ...

A yet to be unidentified white man, has been caught on camera making racial verbal attacks and spitting at a bus driver after he got enraged when driver asked him to pay his fare.   The incident took place on ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its proposed strike over Federal Government’s directive to enroll its members into the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS).   President Buhari while presenting the 2020 budget proposal before lawmakers on ...

  A young man has become a sensation both online and offline after he emerged best graduating student from Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, in Zaria.   Sale Muhammed Dandashire, is the best graduating medical student 2019, ABU Medical School, Zaria. ...

The World Drug Report of 2019 has put drug use prevalence in Nigeria at 14.4 percent of the population, representing 14.4 million Nigerians aged 15 to 64 years.   This was revealed on Thursday, October 31st in Kaduna by registrar ...

A video making rounds online, captured moment some unidentified Nigerians engaged in a fight at their residence in India.   Though when the incident occurred was not immediately available at the time of filing this report, it was learnt that ...

Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers.   Amelia Bambridge’s ...

A fake beggar got more than he bargained for in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital as he got busted by residents of the community.   The man who claimed he suffered the injury from a motorcycle accident, refused going to the ...

Nnamdi Kanu who through his counsel Ifeanyi Ejiofor told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he is ready to stand trial over an alleged treason if his safety is guaranteed, was told by same court presided over by Justice ...

Internationally certified auctioneers have been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) ahead of the planned auction of $40 million (about N14.4 billion) jewellery, recovered from a former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.   Recall that in September 2019, a ...

The Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS) has served a quit notice to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from some villages in Plateau State camping at its facility in Jos.   In the letter dated 22 October, 2019 and signed by the NMGS’ General ...

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday, October 31st told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was ready to face trial if his safety would be guaranteed by the court.   Kanu told ...

A Twitter user took to the platform to narrate how his landlord’s 15-year-old cousin got pregnant for her 35-year-old cousin.   According to @GospelJosiah, the incestous affair between his landlord’s daughter and her 35-year-old cousin who was deported from the ...

A little girl has died after she was allegedly shot by suspected Fulani Herdsmen   Uchechukwu Onyibor, 6, was allegedly attacked alongside her mother. According to reports shared by a Facebook user claiming to know the family, she was shot ...

A drug-addict has been sentenced to life in prison in Australia with a 19-year minimum for the murder of his teenage girlfriend during a row over the paternity of their child.   27-year-old Junior Fayiah Carlos was under the influence ...

Renowned cancer specialist, Professor Aderemi Tajudeen Ajekigbe has died four months after he found that he had stage four prostate cancer, which is often incurable, when it hits men.   Founder of Atinuke Cancer Foundation, Tinu Lawal broke the news in ...

Ms Anifat Saheed, a female pilgrim who participated in the 2019 Hajj reportedly absconded after the Islamic spiritual exercise in Jeddah.   Chairman of the Muslim wing of the Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Prof. Sayed Malik disclosed this during the presentation of ...

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has lashed out at those criticizing President Buhari over his frequent trips abroad.   Acoording to the former Edo State Governor, no President has travelled out of Nigeria as much ...

On Thursday, October 31st, members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) shut down shops owned by Nigerians in five markets in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital.   It was the second time this year the association would shut Nigerian-owned ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos State Sector Command, has said that it will commence “Operation Show Your Driver’s Licence” from November 4th, as part of efforts to enforce collection of abandoned licences in its offices.   In a ...