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Alenin Joseph, an Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma graduate was stabbed to death by phone snatchers on his way home after arriving Warri from Calabar, where he underwent the mandatory one year national youth service.   Joseph passed out of NYSC ...

The Anambra state police command have arrested two ”one chance” robbery suspects and their female accomplices.   A statement from the command says the suspects were arrested after their failed attempt to rob a 30-year-old woman, Nwanye Philomina of her ...

A Twitter user has shared photos of the package her boyfriend had delivered to her office and Twitter users are impressed.   @mztholu tweeted: “My boyfriend had money and food delivered to me… I’m not crying”.   She added: “Just ...

Francis Okiye, Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly has filed a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja to stop the National Assembly from taking over the state assembly’s functions.   In an originating summon and a motion on notice ...

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, issued a seven-day strike notice to the Federal Government to compel Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, to honour the agreement it reached with the union on June 20, failing which members ...

Kogi State Deputy Governor, Simon Achuba, has accused the state governor, Yahaya Bello, of paying hired assassins to eliminate him.   Achuba made the allegation today Thursday August 1st  when he spoke to newsmen at his official residence in Lokoja, ...

Prophet Melody Adjij, the Warri-based Cleric arrested by the police for allegedly staging fake miracles was given a heroic welcome by his members upon release.   Though it is still not clear if there is a hitch in his prosecution over ...

The case against a father, who raped his teenage daughter multiple times in Edo state and made her have abortions, has finally come to an end months after two activists and the abused daughter died in an accident while going ...

The Anambra State Police command has arrested the man that assaulted some Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) staff after being served an electricity bill he claimed was outrageous at Umuoji road in Ogidi area of Anambra state. TGB reported earlier that the man locked ...

Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner, has been barred from speaking at an event inside the University of Lagos.   The development is reportedly connected to the planned mass demonstrations to be led by Sowore on August 5th.   ...

Emmanuel Msughter Vihior, a 100 Level Microbiology student and Mark Tsav, a lecturer of the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State,  were killed last night by suspected Jukun militias. A second student killed by the militias is yet to be identified. ...

The immediate past Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha has described the takeover and conversion of the Eastern Palm University to a campus of the Imo State University (IMSU) by the State Government as another ploy to destroy all his landmark achievements. ...

Wall Street Journal in a new expose alleged that over a thousand Nigerian soldiers have been secretly buried at night by the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration, in order to hide the true state of the war on terror.   ...

Eugenio Perez, a former lieutenant at the federal jail in New York has bagged a 25 year jail sentence for sexually abusing multiple female inmates.   The arrest and prosecution of 49-year-old Perez nicknamed ‘horse’ because of his distinctive and uncircumcized penis came after ...

A disgruntled employee shot dead two co-workers and wounded a police officer at a Walmart store in the southern US state of Mississippi on Tuesday, officials said.   The gunman, who has not been identified, was shot and wounded by ...

Reality star and singer, Antonella Barba of “American Idol” and “Fear Factor” fame will likely spend at least a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to possession of at least 400 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute.   The guilty plea ...

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted angrily after a group of Nigerians butchered a whale that washed ashore in Bayelsa State.   In his words, ‘I thought that I had seen it all but this one really shocked me and brought tears to my ...

Reno Omokri shared this photo from his meeting with Apostle Suleman and wrote, ‘an energetic soldier is made an officer. But a strategic one is made a general. Thank you  Apostle Suleman for standing by #FreeLeahSharibu. Your loyalty is why God made ...

A Turkish bee that got into the United Kingdom through the luggage of a British family that visited Turkey has been declared wanted.   The rare osmia avosetta species is to be destroyed on sight as it is considered a threat ...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of threatening former Vice President Atiku Abubakar because the defence of the ruling party and President Buhari at the Presidential Election Petition ...

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria aka Shi’ites have announced the suspension of their daily protests demanding the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.   A statement signed and released by the head of the media department of the group, Ibrahim Musa, says ...

Frank Donga served a sarcastic tweet over the Nigerian senate’s popular line of ‘take a bow’ during the recently concluded Ministerial screening.   Recall that the Nigerian Senate suffered a backlash over the ‘take a bow’ culture they adopted during the screening. ...

The Deputy Registrar of the West African Examination Council, WAEC, Osidehinde Adewunmi, on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, disowned the Cambridge University’s Moderated International Examination credentials produced by President Muhammadu Buhari and tendered as exhibits before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal ...

The Borno State Governor,  Prof Umara Zulum on July 29th paid an unscheduled visit to Umaru Shehu Ultra Modern Hospital and the State Specialist hospital where he met patients in pathetic condition and could not find a single doctor on ...

President Buhari blamed the State Governments for Almajiri system of education while playing host to members of the Progressives in Academics at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday.   According to Buhari, the Islamic education associated with begging on economic and ...