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At least 37 people have been killed amid fresh inter-communal clashes in northeast Chad between farmers and camel herders.   President Idriss Deby Itno while speaking to reporters in the capital N’Djamena said inter-communal conflict had become a “national concern”. ...

10 Turkish sailors who were kidnapped three weeks ago onboard a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria in the troubled Niger Delta have been released.   The victims, many of whom were clad in pyjamas, were handed over to a representative ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s  twitter handle has been unverified.   All tweets by the account which was created in December 2014, have been deleted and his profile picture and header image have been taken down.   The suspension and deletion of tweets ...

Yomi Fabiyi joined the social media conversation and campaign for the release of Omoyele Sowore with his opinion on the arrest of the #RevolutionNow convener by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).   The Nollywood actor stated that ...

Edafe Okporo gushed about getting a chance to address leaders at the ‘highest diplomatic center’ at the United Nations Headquarters.   The former Pentecostal church Pastor turned Gay Rights Activist, said it was a dream come true and same for many ...

Diezani Alison-Madueke has denied claims made by the Buhari-led government and the EFCC that she embezzled Nigeria’s money while she was in office.   The former Minister of Petroleum Resources had a no-holds barred interview with media personality, Dele Momodu, where ...

Pastor Sam Adeyemi dropped a nugget on Twitter and it about the place of prayer, having skills and offering products and services to meet people’s needs.   The Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre noted that prayer is important but cannot take ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai warned against zoning of the Presidency between the North and South region of Nigeria in a prologue titled ‘Defeating a Determined Incumbent – The Nigerian Experience’, written in contributiion to a book by the Director-General of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said the reason he hates and continues to campaign against the incumbent administration of President Buhari is its refusal to declare the Fulani herdsmen as terrorists.   Fani-Kayode said this while on a television programme ...

A University of Ibadan student took to Instagram to narrate how he was arrested by some police officers around Ikolaba/Bodija area of Oyo State, for not registering his business with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).   The graphics designer who was on ...

24 final year students of Bayero University Kano (BUK) have been expelled from the institution as confirmed in a statement released by its management on Friday August 9.   The statement released by the spokesperson for the university Lamara Garba, revealed that 6 ...

A Nigerian woman Chinyere Oranwa has given birth to a set of twins.   The birth was special because Chinyere and her husband have been married for 11 years.   Her sister Jennifer Ugwu shared photos of mother and the ...

Four children and their mother were on Thursday evening found dead inside a rented house at Nantwala Village, Kiringente Sub County, Mpigi District in Uganda.   Police preliminary investigations indicate that the deceased could have died of food poisoning.   ...

An attempt to steal the casket of late business mogul Olorogun Michael Ibru, led to pandemonium in Agbarha-Otor community of Ughelli North Local Government Area in Delta State.   The grave break-in was discovered in the early hours of Friday August 9, and this ...

In Tunisia, gay sex can face a penalty of up to three years imprisonment Lawyer and activist Mounir Baatour could become Tunisia’s first ever gay president. This is despite Article 230 of Tunisia’s 1913 Penal Code that says people convicted of sodomy face ...

A man and a woman who released photos of Emiliano Sala’s body lying in a morgue have been told they are likely to be sent to prison. Sherry Bray, 48, and Christopher Ashford, 62, accessed CCTV footage of the post-mortem ...

A Twitter user has narrated an encounter he had with a female Keke driver who was being bullied by her male colleagues in Ikeja, Lagos.   @lemerstachu tweeted: “I entered a keke today to ikeja. It was driven by a ...

A 37-year-old South Carolina man was handed a life imprisonment sentence after being found guilty of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl.   Tony Orlanda Singleton was tied to the crime after DNA evidence from the fetus of the girl’s abortion proved he ...

Governor Nyesom Wike has announced the arrest of Bobrisky in less 24 hours after he placed a N30m bounty on the notorious cultist from Gokana area of the state.   The Rivers State Governor confirmed the arrest of Bobrisky by ...

Aisha Buhari and First Ladies from some other African countries were pictured in Mecca as they prepared for the commencement of Hajj.   The First Lady of Nigeria was pictured with the First Ladies of Guinea Conackry, Niger Republic, Gambia ...

Borno Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday August 9, announced the approval of N152.6 million to pay for the May/June 2019 West African Examination Council (WAEC) registration fees of 23, 323 students from the state.   Payment of the WAEC registration ...

Uduak Nseobot, a councillor in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has been arraigned before a state High Court in Uyo with his wife Aniedi, for allegedly assaulting a woman and stripping her naked in the public.   The ...

A cellphone video has captured the terrifying moment a man driving a jeep ran over a bus driver following a traffic accident in Colombia.   Fellow motorists driving by the scene recorded the sickening moment José Mauricio Gil Velásquez slowly ...

After 25 years of marriage without a child, General Secretary of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Rev. Yunusa Sabo Nmadu and his wife have a cause to smile.   The couple got married in 1994 but never experienced the ...

An Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced two men, Adewa Sunday, 34, and Adedayo Amos, 33, to death by hanging for robbery and illegal possession of firearms.   Delivering judgment, the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, held that the ...