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Botham Jean’s brother Brandt Jean forgave ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger following her sentencing for the murder of his brother and he embraced her in the courtroom as eyes filled with tears.   After the sentence was handed down, Botham Jean’s ...

The Nigerian Army has declared 22 soldiers wanted for running from Boko Haram during an attack on September 29 at Gubio, a community in Borno State now partly controlled by insurgents.   Though eyewitnesses said 18 soldiers were killed during the attack ...

Former Minister of Agriculture and current President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina took to Twitter to share photos of the 3 professors that came through for him financially in a chain-help sequence while in school.   According to Adesina, the academics ...

A Kenyan man was caught exhuming his father’s body to retrieve his leather shoes. 27-year-old Patrick Mwangi Katonye was caught by members of the public, disinterring the body at around 8 am on Wednesday, October 2, in Maseno Village. The photo above shows the disturbed ...

A polytechnic graduate identified as Chinedu Igboke fell into a manhole as rampaging flood swept him away into Anwai River in Asaba, the Delta State capital.   He was said to have been controlling traffic at the Akpo junction along ...

Actor Yomi Fabiyi is against President Buhari’s visit to South Africa.   In an open letter to the President which he posted on his Instagram page, Yomi queried President Buhari for ”smiling and receiving flowers in a country still wet with ...

The Bauchi state police command has paraded a Fulani herdsman who was found in possession of an AK-47 and a pistol.   The suspect identified as Sadiq Mohammed, said the guns found on him are not his even though he ...

Shehu Sani tweeted this following the Federal government’s decision to re-introduce tollgates on federal highways  

The convener of The Platform, Nigeria, Pastor Poju Oyemade has said that Nigeria’s problems are rooted in societal indifference and personal callousness caused by the imperfections of men, and in solving this problem, there is a need for a change ...

A female student of the University of Ibadan International School, Miss Ikhlass Olasubomi Badiru has been suspended by the school’s authorities for reportedly wearing a Hijab to school in July.   In a suspension letter signed by the Principal of the school Phebean ...

The Bill for an Act to establish the Communication Service Tax which is sponsored by a former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume passed its first reading at the Senate on Wednesday October 2.   The Borno Senator argued that the proposed tax which will ...

The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) only surviving Chimpanzee is dead at 50 as confirmed by the Head of Department of Zoology and Environmental Studies, Prof Chris Okoye.   The male Chimpanzee whose female partner died 5 years, has already been embalmed. It ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ilorin Zonal office on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 re-arraigned a 32 year-old man, Abolarin Kayode before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin. Kayode was arraigned on seven-count charges, ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vehemently rejected plans by President Buhari to return toll gates on highways in the country.   Recall that the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, announced that the Federal government is concluding plans to re-introduce ...

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor after she claimed she mistakenly entered his apartment thinking it was hers and mistook him for a burglar.   Amber ...

University Of Pretoria graduate,  Ugochukwu Celestine Okoye was laid to rest amidst tears last Thursday, September 26 in Azia village, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.     Late Mgboo, as he was fondly called, was allegedly shot dead ...

Goodluck Jonathan has said he will not hesitate to concede to President Buhari if the circumstances that led to the latter taking over office from him in 2015, repeats itself again.   The former President said this when he spoke ...

Real Housewives of Atlanta star,  Eva Marcille and husband, Michael Sterling have introduced their newborn son to the World.   Her husband and Atlanta-based lawyer took to Instagram to share an adorable of their child and revealed they have named him, Maverick Leonard Sterling.    ...

The Ogun State Police command have arrested a one-eyed man said to be on its wanted list over the murder of 15 people in Ikenne area of the state and its environ.   The suspect identified as Sunday Paul a.k.a Blade, ...

At least 10 persons are feared dead after a commercial Sienna vehicle plunged into Ososa River on the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode-Benin  Expressway in the Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State yesterday Wednesday October 2nd.   According to reports, the bus loaded ...

Shatta Wale has lashed out at his ex-fiancee, Michy after she publicly recounted the abuses she was allegedly subjected to while in a relationship with the Ghanaian dancehall singer.   Michy in a yet-to-be aired interview with EwithBecks, claimed that her engagement ...

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, on Wednesday, October 3rd told the National Assembly members that the agency had been raking in between N4.7bn and N5.8bn since the Federal Government closed the nation’s borders.   Ali stated ...

Nicephore Soglo, former president of Benin Republic, has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding Boko Haram.   The terrorist group has grown to constitute a threat to the Western African Region as well as the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), which is an affiliation ...

Robert F Kennedy’s son has disclosed who his father’s “real killer” is just over 50 years after the assassination.   Bobby Kennedy was killed in 1968 just five years after his iconic brother JFK was shot dead in Dallas. Sirhan Sirhan opened ...

Stacey Dash has been accused of self-hate after her arrest form emerged and revealed that she identified as White.   The Hollywood actress, who most believe to be part Black part Mexican, was arrested and charged with domestic battery on Sunday night ...