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An Army colonel, a captain and his four escorts, as well as driver, have been killed by rampaging Boko Haram insurgents between Mainok and Jakana along Damaturu/Maiduguri highway.   According to a report by TheNation, the Colonel and his convoy ran ...

Italian police confirm that they have arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob, including the leaders of a clan, called MAPHITE, which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished anyone who rebelled.   In an operation dubbed “Burning ...

A 40-year-old Zimbabwean man identified as Jotham Chakawa has committed suicide because his two wives were allegedly cheating on him.   Reports say that Jotham Chakawa killed himself after suspecting his two wives, who happen to be sisters, were engaged ...

KLM airlines have been forced to apologise after they were seriously criticised online for warning that passengers seated in the middle of the plane are more likely to die if the jet were to crash.   In a since-deleted post, the ...

One of the Nigerian soldiers killed by Boko Haram members along Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway in Borno state on Wednesday July 18th, has been identified as Captain Abdulazeez Mohammed, pictured above.   Abdulazeez and his colleagues were repelling an attack from Boko Haram ...

A distraught Nigerian man in a bid to keep friends updated with happenings in his relationship, announced that he dumped his girlfriend of 5 years after discovering she has a secret son.   Fumlack Kingsley George also accused his girlfriend ...

42 year-old Lance Corporal James Yaw Appiah a.k.a “Antoa Cupers”, left his family heartbroken following news of his death which came two weeks to his wedding.   The policeman attached to the police unit in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, Ghana, was found ...

This is what was seen on a lady’s car in Lagos state yesterday July 18th. Twitter user @itsmoshai who spotted it, took a photo and shared online.    

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Seventeen people were killed when a minibus carrying illegal migrants crashed Thursday in the eastern province of Van in the latest tragedy to befall migrants flocking to Turkey to cross into Europe. The minibus was traveling on a road connecting ...

The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Wednesday, promised an automatic job, two limbs and other assistance to Nurudeen Tahir, a corps member who recently lost his arms  in an auto crash after completing the ...

This story has split opinion with one side saying she has the right to do whatever she wants with her body and the other side saying that while he can’t tell her what to do with her body, he has ...

A Nigerian national was arrested from DLF phase III of Gurugram in Haryana by a cyber cell team of inspector general of police (IG), Agra range, on Tuesday, July 16, on charges of duping an Agra-based official of the food ...

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a 51-year-old bursar of Government secondary School Dangara, Abaji- Abuja, for allegedly drugging, raping and impregnating a 15-year-old student.   The suspect, Luke Gabriel Ekundayo, ...

Kano State Police Command has arrested Aisha Ali, who poured boiling water on her husband’s private part in protest against his plans to take a second wife.   The incident occurred on Thursday, July 11, at Fayen-Fayen village, Danbatta local ...

A young Nigerian man who recently graduated from Nims University, India, has passed away.   According to report, Sulaiman Abullahi, from Adamawa State, was celebrating after finishing his second degree when he got news of his mother’s death. He fell ...

Imam Abubakar Abdullahi, has received the first-ever International Religious Freedom Award by the US Government, for hiding 262 Berom Christians in his mosque and in his house in June 2018 when herdsmen launched a bloody attack on 10 villages in Plateau State. ...

Reno Omokri has reacted to the post made by Literary critic, Ikhide Ikheloa, criticizing the bible.   Ikhide in a post he shared on his Facebook page yesterday July 17th, criticized Africans for still believing in the Bible and the ‘White man’s ...

Over seven months after the death of Nigerian oil mogul, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, controversies have continued to cloud his demise just as his family members are yet to reach a consensus on how to proceed with his remains. ...

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 ...