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A Nigerian woman identified as Alhaja Baliqees Yahyah Muhammad has been accused of using a hot pressing iron to burn the buttocks of her underage maids.   The incident occurred in Ilorin, Kwara State’s capital on October 11 and it was ...

Days after the Nigerian Air Force announced that it will be decorating its first Female Air Warrant Officer, the armed forces division has also decorated its first female combat pilot and first female helicopter pilot.   Kafayat Sanni and Tolulope Arotile were ...

Akinwunmi Ambode, the immediate past governor of Lagos state, today October 15th, failed again to appear before the House of Assembly ad-hoc Committee probing the activities of his administration, especially the purchase of 820 buses for mass transit.   Last week, ...

Reactions have continued to trailed the ongoing showdown between the First Lady, Aisha Buhari and Mamman Daura family. A staunch President Buhari supporter, Ibrahim Ali Gombe, took to Facebook to pen a lengthy open letter to Aisha Buhari. Read below: ...

The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) On Monday October 14, revealed that tramadol and codeine were often found in the remains of suicide bombers contracted by Boko Haram insurgents.   Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the agency’s Director-General who ...

The Police have uncovered another fake Islamic Centre housing 300 inmates in Nassarawa Quarters, Sabon Gari, Daura, the home town of President Buhari.   The discovery is barely two weeks after a similar discovery in Kaduna with chained inmates. Commissioner ...

A photo making rounds online captured moment a yet-to-identified man pulled his pants down to ‘ease’ himself on the lawns of Jubilee House, the presidential villa in Accra that serves as a residence and office to the President of Ghana.   ...

  Four Nigerian Security Defence Corps (NSCDC) officers and 5 civilians they were kidnapped with, have regained their freedom after paying a N5m ransom.   The NSCDC officers who were kidnapped alongside five civilians and a 12 year -old boy at ...

The PDP has reacted to the feud between the first lady, Aisha Buhari and the family members of Mamman Daura, President Buhari’s longtime friend.   The party in a statement released by its spokesperson,n Kola Ologbondiyan, says the ”public fight” ...

In spite of reports of fuel tanker explosion killing many across the country, some Nigerians were spotted in a viral video scooping fuel from a tanker that spilled its content.   The incident occurred this morning at Mile 2, Lagos ...

  Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne who was accused of planting a “sloppy”, drunken kiss on a fellow train passenger has been arraingned in court on charges of sexual assault.   The 52-year-old ex-Newcastle United, Spurs and Lazio midfielder told police he ...

  Vatican police chief Domenico Giani, who is also Pope Francis’ Chief Bodyguard on Monday October 14, announced his resignation following the leak of a Vatican police flyer which identified five Holy See employees who were suspended as part of ...

The Enugu zonal office of EFCC has secured the conviction of Samuel Orie alias SCOTT GIBB, a serving National Youth Service Corps member before Justice I.N Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu on one count of impersonation and obtaining by ...

Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Nina, has just shared photos from a recent sky-diving experience she had and according to her, it was the Most Daring and Scariest But Fun Adventure Of My Life. I Even Pulled The Golf Ball ...

Zainab Ahmed, the Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly referred to as fuel subsidy will gulp N450 billion in 2020.   She stated this at the public presentation of the ...

Muhammad Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday, October 14th said Nigeria is producing enough to feed itself, contrary to the narrative in some quarters that there is hunger in the land.   Nanono said this at ...

Police  in Birmingham, Alabama, US, have released photos of a 3 year old girl, Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney, who was last seen at a Birthday party on Saturday night and was allegedly kidnapped outside the party by a man and woman ...

A Nigerian student was shot and killed by his neighbor after they reportedly got into an argument over loud music.   18-year-old Oluwafemi Oyerinde, a freshman at the Kennesaw State University in Georgia was shot and killed outside his Stadium Village ...

Hillary Clinton believes racism has something to do with the way Meghan Markle is being targeted by the British tabloids.   In a new interview for The Sunday Times of London, the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 71, defended ...

All 29 passengers who were inside a commercial bus that plunged into a canal in front of the National Theatre complex, Iganmu, Lagos, on Monday, October 14th were all rescued unhurt.   The vehicle with registration number MISA 68 XH, suddenly developed a ...

Rivers state police officers flogged an undergraduate of the Rivers state University for faking his own kidnap. The student whose name is yet to be revealed, faked his own kidnap with the intention of extorting money from his father.   ...

  Ave Maria Catholic Church in Lekki Penninsula II was flooded following a heavy downpour.   A video of the church shows church pews and equipment floating in the water after they were lifted off the ground by floodwaters.   Also, the entire Kunsela Road, ...

Photos of a plastic chair allegedly used as a wheelchair at the emergency unit of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) has gone viral on social media.   A Twitter user @TheAppetizers who shared the photo tweeted “UNTH Enugu Upgraded their Emergency and ...

A four-member job fraud gang, including three Nigerians and a woman from Nagaland, was arrested by the Cyberabad Cyber Crime police in Hyderabad on Saturday, October 12.   Addressing the media, Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar said the four were ...

Fatima Daura, the daughter of Mamman Daura, one of the closest allies of President Buhari, has denied reports that her father is arranging a second wife for the President.   On Friday October 12th, rumors were rife on social media that President ...