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David Lyon on Wednesday September 4, emerged winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Bayelsa state.   The Bayelsa politician polled 42,138 votes to defeat his closet rival, Diseye Nsirim who scored 1,533 votes in the direct ...

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili is currently in South Africa to attend the 2019 World Economic Forum and Nigerians are dragging her for it.   Her attendance at the WEF comes in the wake of the recent xenophobic attacks ...

A man from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa accused of hanging his three biological children and his stepdaughter, has been arrested by police.   Three of the children, Siphesihle, Khwezi and Kuhlekonke Mpungose, aged 4, 6 and 10, were found hanging, by ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State has vowed to deal with troublemakers exploiting the ongoing xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa to foment trouble in the state.   Issuing a stern warning to people engaging in reprisals against ...

Nigerian journalist, Chika Oduah has narrated the first and second experiences she had with xenophobia when she visited South Africa.   Her first experience involved an airport official who treated her shabbily when she just arrived Cape Town from Nigeria ...

Musa Wada has emerged as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer for the governorship election in Kogi state after defeating his older brother Capt. Idris Wada and 10 other candidates in the primary election.   Musa polled 748 votes to defeat his closest opponent Abubakar ...

Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has called on Commonwealth members to investigate the United Kingdom.   In an interview with the BBC, Soyinka said that Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament sets a bad example and could lead to ...

The ripple effects of the xenophobic attack on African nationals in South Africa has seen South African truck drivers getting turned back from the Botswana/Zambia border as retaliation.   In a video shared online, a crowd is seen gathered at ...

The Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, has ordered water-tight security across embassies, foreign missions and businesses across Nigeria following the recent xenophobic retaliation attacks witnessed in some parts of the country. The directive is contained in a press statement ...

Some Zambian students moved on from pillaging businesses owned by South Africans in the country to attacking the South African embassy in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.   Though addressed by the Zambian general Police inspector Kakoma Kanganja and his police team, the angry students ...

At least 125 looters have been arrested by the Lagos State police command in connection with destruction of properties owned by South Africans in the wake of Xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa.   The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to order the interim forfeiture of a petrol station and a warehouse belonging to a Director in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), ...

Sunday Udeh-Okoye, the kidnapped National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has regained his freedom.   Mr Okoye was abducted at gunpoint at his farm in Enugu, on Monday night.   The Enugu State Government, confirmed his release ...

A Twitter user has cried out that she risks losing her job after the store she works for was vanadalized as touts carried out reprisal xenophobic attacks in Nigeria.   Lily Loveth said her workplace in Sangotedo, Lekki, was one ...

Nigeria’s consul general in Johannesburg, Godwin Adama, has said that no Nigerian was killed in the recent Xenophobic attacks that occured in Pretoria and Johannesburg in South Africa between August 28th and September 1st.   Speaking to News Agency of ...

  The Sokoto State Police Command has expressed concern over incessant cases of child molestation, abduction, rape and sodomy in the state.   A statement issued on Wednesday, by spokesperson of the command, ASP Muhammad Sadiq, advised parents to be ...

A missing toddler who was allegedly kidnapped over the weekend by an Uber driver has been found dead.   The body of Nalani Johnson, who would have turned 2 this month, was recovered in western Pennsylvania after she was reported ...

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu called for an end of South African businesses in Nigeria as he queried the South African government over its cold feet in protecting Nigerians and their businesses during the recent xenophobic attacks in the country.   ...

Senator Douye Diri on Wednesday September 4, emerged winner of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Bayelsa State.   The Senator representing Bayelsa Central at the national assembly, defeated 19 other aspirants to emerge the PDP candidate for the forthcoming ...

A transgender teenager has triumphed in a bodybuilding contest after he turned his life around by beating a dangerous eating disorder.   Alex Tilinca, 18, hit rock bottom in 2016, after developing an eating disorder that saw him consume only ...

Apart from the xenophobic attacks going on in South Africa, the country is also battling with gender based violence thathas seen countless women and children raped in the past couple of months.   South African president, Cyril FRamphosa while addressing ...

The shocking moment a BBC cameraman had his male member smacked by the Cameroon sheep was caught on video.   The BBC crew were filming at Longleat Estate and Safari Park for the summer special of Animal Park, focusing on ...

While South Africa has been in the news for its hostile attitude towards fellow Africans from other countries, a Nigerian man has narrated his experiences with xenophobia in Ghana. Twitter user @Headking_ says people referred him to him as a fraudster ...

Reacting to the xenophobic attacks, @ojochideobi says Nigerians living in South Africa should have invested at home rather than risk losing their money abroad when trouble begins.   He also referred to the time when Nigerians sent Ghanaians packing under ...

German authorities have raided the home of former Real Madrid defender Christoph Metzelder over suspicions of spreading child pornography’   Prosecutors in Hamburg confirmed to newspaper Bild that there is an ongoing investigation into the 38-year-old German, who played for his country and Real Madrid including Borussia Dortmund.  ...