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An arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio in Japan on Thursday morning July 18th, reportedly killed at least 33 people and left 36 others injured.   The 41-year-old suspect shouting “You die” as he broke into the studio spraying petrol before igniting it, was also ...

The Nigerian Army says it will be investigating the viral video of a soldier assaulting a driver on Moloney Street, Lagos Island yesterday July 17th.   The soldier simply identified as Duru, drove against traffic and in the process, hit the vehicle ...

Gunmen killed two soldiers and abducted an expatriate at a road construction site in Ukanafun council area of Akwa Ibom today Thursday July 18th.   The yet-to-be-identified expatriate engineer, who works with Al Madal Construction Company, was inspecting the construction of Ikot ...

A statement released on Thursday by the All Progressives Congress, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, confirmed the expulsion of the Party’s National Vice Chairman (North West), Inuwa Abdulkadir. Inuwa Abdulkadir was expelled from the ruling party over an alleged anti-party activity, ...

A proactive measure taken by the Ugandan government to ensure the traceability of products and benefit from the international market to local farmers, will have cows being issued birth certificates.   Uganda’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Mr Vincent Ssempijja ...

The kidnappers of Samson Siasia’s mother are reportedly demanding N70m ransom to release her.   The gunmen were said to have called the ex-Super Eagles coach with a foreign number to demand a ransom after he spoke with his mother to ...

A Nigerian lady based in the UK, took to Facebook to call out a Naval Commodore, Gbenga Fahad Oladipo for allegedly raping her 37 years ago.   According to Abi Idowu, the incident occurred when she was just 5 years old and ...

Ademola Adeleke has reacted to Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s comment of feeling ridiculed to contest in an election which he, the dancing senator was part of.   We reported that the Osun State Governor while receiving the leadership of the Social Democratic ...

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has granted 412 foreign -trained doctors the nod to practice medicine in the country.   The doctors, who had to undergo another training on returning to the country, were inducted on Thursday ...

Nigerian parents, John and Linda Burke-Monerville, are demanding justice for the murder of their three sons in London, United Kingdom. The couple lost the latest to an attack in Barnet last month. David, 38, was stabbed to death in a ...

A Nigerian man simply identified as Olamide, is currently writhing in pain after a soldier allegedly assaulted him at the Dangote fertilizer plant, Ibeju-Lekki this morning July 18th.   Olamide shared a photo of his swollen eye on his Twitter handle ...

No fewer than 60 persons escaped death in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital last night after a wing of the popular Metro View Hotel collapsed.   According to the manager of the hotel, Austine Orji, the management had noticed a crack on ...

Conservationists have been quite fascinated after discovering a two-headed turtle on Mabul Island, off the Malaysian part of Borneo.   The two-headed turtle which only survived a few days after being discovered, was found in a nest alongside more than 90 other ...

Prof Wole Soyinka says Nigeria is currenlty raising a generation of illiterates.   Making particular reference to Internet trolls, the Nobel laureate said the nation is raising a generation that is the first to comment on the internet on issues ...

Ikhide Ikheloa, popularly known as Pa Ikhide, has criticized Africans for still believing in the Bible and the ‘White man’s God.’   The literary critic said the Bible “is a great work of fiction” and “a tool of oppression created ...

The Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Support Group has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife Patience of making surreptitious moves to cause confusion in the PDP by falsely encouraging multiple governorship aspirants to enter the race. The ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will partner the National Youth Service Corps to fish out unqualified graduates currently in the scheme.   EFCC said it had received a request from the NYSC to check the activities ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized the passports of 34 top officials who served under former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed over a N22 billion London-Paris Club refund.   Ten of them have been watch-listed to prevent them from ...

The 19-year-old Netherlands international has moved to the Serie A champions after emerging as one of the top defensive prospects in Europe Juventus have completed the €75 million (£68m/$84m) signing of centre-back Matthijs de Ligt from Ajax on a five-year contract. De Ligt agreed personal ...

  There is serious tension in the Umuagu community, Umuchu town in Aguata Local government Area of Anambra State, after a Catholic Priest excommunicated hundreds of faithfuls in the area for not attending their kinsman’s burial, late Luke Ikesinachi. According ...

The Ogun state police command have arrested three men for allegedly killing an aged couple, James Olaosebikan, 72, and his wife, Esther, 68, at their Sagamu home on June 30th.   The state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who paraded the suspects, Ibrahim Uthman, ...

Kenechukwu Eze, a member of the gang that killed Emmanuel Agundu, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Udenu branch on September 2, 2018, has revealed that they shot him because he withheld the N18m they realised from Internet fraud.   Being before killed ...

The Lagos State Police have arrested and arraigned two suspects,  Daniel Abah, 27, and Edwin Edache, 31 for stealing a Taxify driver’s car along the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos.   The suspects from Benue state had boarded the vehicle to Ibeju-Lekki area of the state ...

The Director of the Code of Conduct Bureau in Oyo State, Moses Atolagbe, on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, said they are still waiting for a directive from the CCB head office on the verification of the N48bn assets Governor Seyi Makinde publicly declared. ...

Senator Elisha Abbo, the Adawama born lawmaker is allegedly in an out-of-court settlement negotiation with the lady he assaulted, as confirmed by insiders.   We reported yesterday that Bibra Warmate, the shop attendant and nursing mother assaulted by Senator Elisha Abbo in the ...