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You can find love anywhere right? Well that seems to be story of a Nigerian couple who met on Twitter 5 months ago and already taking the final step to seal their relationship.   @mudeekings took to Twitter to relish ...

A woman residing in Lagos state, has blamed the devil for using her after she poured boiling water on her 13-year-old daughter’s body in the Ilupeju area of the state on Tuesday July 30th.   Identified as Mrs David, the woman accused her ...

The police in Rivers state are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a lady, Precious Maureen Ewuru, who was found dead in a hotel room in D/Line Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Thursday August 1st.   Preliminary investigation ...

President Buhari has said that his government through its National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), has in three years, lifted no fewer than 5 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty.   The president made this known at the opening of the Global Youth Employment ...

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has announced that days in which President Buhari was threatened with impeachment are over and will never happen under his watch as Deputy Senate President and Sen. Ahmed Lawan as Senate President.   Speaking at his country home in Orogun ...

Premier League Club, Leicester City have confirmed their squad numbers ahead of the new season. The Foxes stars have been given their jersey numbers for the new season with a number of notable changes made to the squad. Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho who ...

Three weeks after Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo stepped down as Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) over allegations of rape brought against him by Busola Dakolo, a board member of the Ministry has resigned. In a letter addressed to ...

Oyo state Police Command on Thursday paraded four illegal arms dealers, concealing 10,000 live cartridges for supply to suspected criminals.   Addressing newsmen at the parade ground, Eleyele Police Headquarters, Ibadan,  the state Police Commissioner , Mr. Shina Olukolu advised ...

A Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State has convicted a 52-year-old herbalist, Jacob Alonge, for raping his daughter, Gift, at their home at Ososo village, Akoko-Edo.   The herbalist was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment without the option of fine. ...

A Facebook user is set to wed a man she met on Facebook and ignored for two years.   Clare Chidinma began receiving Facebook inbox messages from Maxwell four years ago. But she did not reply his messages for two ...

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 ...