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Angry workers in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State locked up the council chairman, Rabo Sani, for over three hours to press for the payment of their outstanding September salary.   The workers accused the council boss of exposing them ...

A Nigerian man took to Facebook to share his story after spending 33 days in jail for being the last person to call a robbery victim.   According to Kalu Celestine, his sad ordeal began after he approached a fellow ...

Angela Okorie is seeking for justice for a boy, 17, who was scalded by his mother when she woke him from sleep by pouring boiling water on his body.   According to the actress, the boy suffers terrible abuse from ...

The Police at the Ilasan Division, lekki, Lagos have arrested a daily contribution collector and charged her before a Lagos magistrate’s court for allegedly defrauding 17 customers who saved money with her to the tune of about N3m and escaped. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, October 25th accused the defence counsel in the ongoing trial of former Governor of Ekiti Ayodele Fayose of ”tampering” with its key witnesses.   EFCC Counsel, Rotimi Jacobs made the statement at ...

A Russian conscripts has been arrested after shooting 8 fellow servicemen dead following a nervous breakdown he suffered.   While the soldier who is serving in far east part of the country has been detained, two other soldiers who suffered ...

Google changed its logo into a Doodle in honor of Late Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a teacher, women’s rights activist, political campaigner, and aristocrat, who would have turned 119 today.   She was also the first female Nigerian to drive a car. ...

The Anambra State Police command has arrested a Pastor identified simply as Chukwuma, for raping a teenage student he reportedly lured on the pretence of conducting deliverance on her.   Narrating her ordeal in the hands of the Pastor, the ...

Nyesom Wike’s election as the Governor of Rivers State has been upheld by the Supreme court.   A petition filed by the African Action Congress (AAC) and its candidate in the 2019 governorship election, Awara Biokpomabo Festus which was upheld by the ...

A man said to be in his 70s has reportedly committed suicide by hanging in Okigwe, Imo state on Thursday.   It was gathered that the man had breakfast and waited for his wife to leave for the market before ...

A technical secondary school in Xinzheng, China has enacted strict disciplinary procedures to discourage students from coming late.   Late comers will pay a fine of £1 per minute and those who can’t afford to pay will have to do 500 ...

On Thursday, october 24th, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received another batch of 141 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya.   The Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Alhaji Abubakar Muhammed, received the returnees on behalf of the Federal Government at ...

EFCC has cracked down on a gang of fraudsters who specialise in exploiting personal data of foreign-based Nigerians to defraud their friends and relations back home.   Four of the gang-members ‘Hon.’ Oladipupo Adebayo, Bimbo Bilewu, Ibrahim Odunayo and Oyeleye Oluwatosin are ...

A woman accused of being a fake Forex trader has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for $2m scam.   Titilayo Eboh, an alleged fake foreign currency dealer, was on Wednesday, October 23, arraigned before Justice M. L. Abubakar of ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ilorin Zonal Office have arrested ten persons over their alleged offences bordering on internet fraud and other fraud-related offences.   The suspects were arrested on Monday, October 21, 2019, in Basin Area of ...

A raid carried out by the police at a rehabilitation centre in Gaa Odota in Ilorin, Kwara State capital has led to the rescue of 108 inmates of the facility.   The State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun who countered claims of ...

Comedian Funny Bone lost his mother yesterday October 24, as confirmed in an Instagram post he shared.   Funny Bone who expressed how hurt he is with his mother’s death, stated that he can’t question God but will be leaving ...

The lady with a bulgy stunted arm which goes back to its normal size after being prayed for, seems to have had a long relationship with Pastors as she has also been spotted with two other Pastors.   The two ...

50-year-old Sani Hayi, a former security guard at GSS college Kawo, Kaduna state, has been arrested for allegedly raping many female students of the school, repeatedly.   According to a statement by the Kaduna state Human Services and Social Development office, ...

A stray bullet has reportedly killed an unidentified boy as hoodlums clashed with officials of the Lagos State Task Force in Apapa area of Lagos.   The police claimed that the stray bullet which killed the boy was fired by ...

According to Kenya’s meteorological department, 29 people have died in the country due to flooding.   The East African country is experiencing the second of its two annual rainy seasons. James Muhindi of the meteorological department told dpa that the ...

Zone 2 police public relations officer, Dolapo Badmus has just fired what appears to be a direct shot at flamboyant Nigerian ‘big boy’, Mompha who was recently arrested by the EFCC.   According to Badmus, If you really want to show opulence ...

The photos posted by Hausa Facebook users show an elderly woman with a bowl praying for a Mannequin while begging it for money  

Duncan Mighty has written an open letter to former Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, claiming his life is being threatened because of money paid to him by the politician to record a song with one of his boys.   ...

Lydia Yegraowo Okache and Godwin Onah of Hope for the Young Initiative posted photos of some primary schools they visited to pay schools fees of pupils and distribute exercise books.   One of them include Community Primary School at Akpanda ...