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Unknown gunmen have abducted 18 traders travelling from Pandogari to Bassa in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. The traders were said to be travelling to attend the village market, which holds fortnightly, on Saturday. A trader, who ...

  Captain Simisola Ajibola pictured above is the Female pilot who averted the near tragedy on Air Peace aircraft that happened at the Muratala Mohammed International Airport Lagos yesterday July 23rd. The Air Peace Boeing 737 plane lost its tyres after crash-landing at the Airport facility. According ...

The emotional moment a US Army National Guard Sgt surprised his mother at work, after just returning from an assignment abroad, has moved viewers.   In the viral video, the young man named Christopher Williams is seen dressed in his uniform ...

A woman has conferred on herself the title of “wife material” after claiming she prepared a thick pot of soup for 850 Naira.   Merit Eke Chiemerie shared a photo of the thick bowl of okro soup and wrote:   ...

A youth Corps member serving with the Leadership Newspaper in Abuja, was hit by a stray bullet on his chest during the Shi’ites and Police clash in Abuja on Monday July 22nd.   According to the media house, Aliyu who works with its Hausa ...

On Monday, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision in company of armed government official stormed the Rochas Okorocha Foundation College in Owerri, Imo State to seal it off. According to reports, the East High Academy and East High College ...

The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa has said that the attack on 17-year-old Dennis Chinonso Obiaju Okoroji and his friend in Johannesburg on Saturday July 20th, was not a xenophobic attack but a criminal attack.   Chairman of NCA ...

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday, announced that it had imposed visa restriction on Nigerian politicians found culpable in sabotaging the 2019 election.   No name was passed off in the announcement, however Nigerian politicians affected by the visa restriction imposition are ...

A 22-year-old student of Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo state, has died shortly after his release after spending two months in EFCC custody.   Austin Isaiah was allegedly arrested for something he “knew nothing about”. He was held for ...

A car accident in which a Catholic Priest fractured his hip, revealed that he has been stealing church offering to the tune of $95,000.   When emergency workers responded to the accident in a California town last month, they saw bags ...

South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday said its fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots after Russian and Chinese planes entered the country’s airspace. The Russian and Chinese warplanes were flying in the first joint operation of its kind, according ...

Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, has joined other state governors in the South South, South East and South West, to reject the contentious Ruga settlement projects being proposed by the Buhari-led government.   The Governor vehemently rejected it saying ...

An accident which occurred on Tuesday at Akinhale village, Ewekoro, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, left three people dead and two others injured.   The accident involving an Iveco truck, with number plate AAA 912 XK, occurred after the driver lost ...

  A facebook user Dike Chika Nnamani, has shared a painful story of how her 8-month-old baby sustained some degree burn on his hand and feet. It was gather that Chika’s nanny kept the flask of hot water on a ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 arraigned 65-year-old Igweneme Moses before Justice A. T Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a four-count charge ...

The security stakeholders’ meeting  between  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo  and  traditional rulers in Osun State on Tuesday agreed that Federal Government should immediately commence aerial surveillance of forests in South-West.   Speaking to  reporters  after the meeting at  Osun Goverment House, ...

Aggrieved members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria aka Shi’ites, have vowed to continue their protest today Wednesday July 24th despite the bloody clash they had with men of the Nigerian police in Abuja on Monday and Tuesday July 22nd and 23rd ...

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has paid his last respect to Mr. Precious Owolabi, a corps member who had his primary assignment with the Channels TV Abuja office.   Ibrahim inspected Owolabi’s body shortly before it ...

Going by several political permutations by analysts on social media, the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode was expected to make the ministerial list released by President Buhari today.   The absence of his name of the list ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Ministerial list released by President Buhari as colorless, stagnant, uninspiring and does not convey any sense of hope or purposeful governance under the All Progressives Congress (APC).   In a statement released ...

Four internet fraudsters arraigned before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) High Court, Nyanya, Abuja, have all bagged jail sentences. While Tosan Ogbe, Onajite Tosan Ejivwo, Abdulmumin Saidu were arraigned on one count charge bordering on fraudulent inducement, Karo Ijire faced a three-count ...

Steven Jones, a British ex-pat living in New York reportedly killed his American wife and 12-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself.   The 46-year-old British man had a day before the double murder-suicide incident, sent an email to a family ...

An inquest into the death of 7-months-old Jermaine Harris, revealed how the baby boy was found dead after getting trapped between his mother’s bed and his cot on February 13, 2019.   Ms Harris had woken at 6am and taken Jermaine out of ...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said his chambers is not representing musician Timi Dakolo and his wife Busola.   The human rights lawyer noted that he only intervened when the family expressed fear over their petition. Falana clarified his position on the ...

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria also known as Shi’ites have denied repsonsibility for the deaths of persons in the bloody clash with men of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja yesterday July 22nd.   A statement released by the spokesperson of the ...