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The Imo State Police Command has paraded a 60-year-old man for defiling a 9-year-old girl living with his family several times.   The suspect identified as Alexander Madu from Umuoziri Inyishi in Ikeduru Council area of the state was arrested on September ...

Below is the full text of the speech delivered by President Buhari at a banquet held in his honour by South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Your Excellency, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, Your Excellency, David Mabuza, ...

A young blogger searched ‘should I kill myself’ online before committing suicide, an inquest heard.   29-year-old Elizabeth Hayes who volunteered at a shelter for men, had arthritis in both hips and had entered the search term ‘clinical depression’ on her laptop ...

A video of South Africa’s African National Congress Councillor and a ward committee member having sex in a tavern has gone viral.   Though Daily Sun couldn’t establish the name and location of the tavern, the ANC councillor has been identified as Lawrence ...

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has assured Bayelsa and Kogi States stakeholders of adequate security during the November 16 governorship elections..   Addressing senior police officers in a Conference at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, Adamu ...

Over five years after the abduction of 219 schoolgirls and the burning of the school, the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, is still under lock and key as pupils now receive lessons at a primary school nearby.   Boko Haram ...

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) has said that over 90 per cent of cars in the country were smuggled in.   Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the Customs boss said the country needs revenue for ...

A man has narrated a shocking experience he had last night in Lagos.   Twitter user @iwilsonnonny tweeted: “Someone on bike just dragged shawarma from my hand, I hate Lagos.”     When asked how it happened, he said he ...

The University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), has denied reports that some of its students are members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram.   Recall that few weeks ago, some criminal minds apprehended by the Military in Borno state, had University of ...

Olumide Ogunremi, a Nigerian who lived in the Newark area of the United States is currently in custody for helping to run a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that ordered about $1 million in office products after stealing personal information from U.S. ...

Scotland has become the first country in the UK to make smacking children a criminal offence.   The ban on all physical punishment was backed by 84 votes to 29 by the Scottish Parliament on Thursday afternoon (Oct. 3) The ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says over-praising sitting presidents makes them feel like a little god and makes it unthinkable for them to leave office.   Jonathan said this on Thursday, October 3rd at the constitutional term limits summit in Niamey, ...

Ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Joe Abdallah has just lost his father.   According to Joe, his father, Alfred Abdallah died at the age of 69 and he went on to pen an emotional tribute to his late father that reads; This handsome ...

A Nigerian man whose phone got stolen after he got admitted at a hospital for an undisclosed ailment, took to Facebook to narrate what the Chief Medical Director of the hopsital told him after he notified him of the theft. ...

The 344-year-old tortoise popularly known as Alagba, in the palace of the Soun of Ogbomoso, has died. The tortoise which was the oldest in Africa, was sick for a few days before her demise on Thursday. The  tortoise became a ...

7 people have died after a Second World War-era B-17 bomber crashed at Bradley International Airport shortly after takeoff.   The four-engine, propeller-driven plane encountered a mechanical trouble on takeoff. It struggled to get into the air and crashed into a maintenance shed ...

The organised labour rose from a meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, October 2nd with an ultimatum to the Federal Government to accept it’s demand on the consequential salary adjustment arising from the new minimum wage or face industrial action.   In ...

The Ghanaian Police has arrested a 25-year-old lady identified as Sarah Kwabla for selling  her 3-months-old baby to sponsor her boyfriend Akwasi Botwe’s trip to France.   Akwasi Botwe’s friend who resides in France, had promised to invite him to France if ...

An elderly female bank employee has been hailed after she fought off an armed bank robber and forced him to leave the premises.   In an incredible video shared online, the bank robber, who detectives have linked to multiple bank robberies in ...

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 ...