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A Bus Rapid Transit was in flames along the ever busy Ikorodu road this evening. The cause of the fire is yet unknown.   Eyewitnesses say a sewage truck helped put out the fire before the Fire service team arrived.   No ...

Most Revd Geoffrey Okoroafor, the Anglican Bishop of Egbu Diocese in Owerri North on Wednesday warned against the RUGA settlement which he said is part of the Fulanisation and Islamisation agenda.   Bishop Okoroafor during the interactive session with journalists, warned South-East Governors against accepting ...

The Edo state police command says suspected kidnappers have killed a naval warrant officer identified as Felix Akanbi.   A statement from the command says the kidnappers attacked a commercial bus the deceased and seven other passengers were traveling in from Akwa-Ibom ...

A 14-year-old school boy, who had reportedly suffered bullying, lay down on tracks and was crushed to death by a train as classmates watched.   Sam Connor, a “bright and popular” pupil at Salesian School – a Roman Catholic comprehensive ...

The House of Representatives has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the Director-General of the State Security Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi to immediately shut down the Edo State House of Assembly following the lingering crisis in the state House ...

  Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the crime kingpin known as “El Chapo” who controlled much of the illegal drug trade across the Western Hemisphere for almost three decades, was sentenced in a federal courtroom in New York on Wednesday to life ...

The Lagos state police command have arrested two suspected kidnappers who ‘mysteriously’ abducted a 19 year old man, Mathew Isichei Chukwuebuka, and kept him in their hideout in Ibadan, Oyo state for 9 days.   Spokesperson of the state police command, Bala ...

The 20-year-old left-back will complete an exit from Camp Nou, with Real Betis defender Junior Firpo being lined up to act as back-up to Jordi Alba Barcelona have agreed to sell left-back Marc Cucurella to Getafe just a day after they brought him back from ...

Sri Lankan, President Maithripala Sirisena in his speech at a function in Malabe, the outskirts of Colombo, announced that all the suspects linked to the Easter terror attacks have been arrested.   The suspects according to him, might be handed a death sentence as there are clear ...

A Malaysia-based Nigerian man in a message addressed to those asking questions about the ‘scare and change in his face’, narrated how he was almost killed by a blood brother over an undisclosed issue.   Advising his followers never to check up ...

At the Senate screening for his confirmation as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko narrated how his ‘height challenge’ delayed his school enrolment in 1960.   One year later (1961) after he came back, his height wasn’t better but he was asked to ...

Twenty-six prison inmates have been granted amnesty on Wednesday by the Ogun State Chief Judge, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu. The amnesty came while they were awaiting trials by the prerogative power of the state’s Chief Judge during a three day tour ...

A woman has been killed after falling from the ninth floor of a block of flats in Russia while having sex, but her partner survived after landing on top of her. The woman, aged 30, was found dead at the ...

A 19 year old lady simply identified as Oyindamola, was allegedly drugged and gang raped by her boyfriend and his friends at a party in the Alagbado area in Lagos state on June 30th.   The older sister of the victim, Mrs Afolabi, ...

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Zamfara state, have been ordered to produce a document requested by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. ...

The appointment of Justice Muhammad Tanko as Chief Justice of Nigeria(CJN) has been confirmed by the Senate. He was confirmed today after a gruelling screening at the National Assembly. Muhammad who arrived at the Senate around 10:10am was ushered into ...

  The Senate Ad hoc committee which is investigating the alleged misconduct of Senator Elisha Abbo has said that the victim slapped by the lawmaker in a viral video did not honour its invitation. The Chairman of the panel,  Senator ...

A Nigerian alleged email scammer wanted for fraud and taking part in international crime, was arrested on Monday by Immigration police at Chaeng Wattana, Bangkok.   According to local media, Pol Maj-Gen Phaiboon Noihun and his team were waiting for ...

In a Facebook post that garnered over two thousand Likes and comments, a Nigerian man, Emeka Ezeh urged fellow men to start monitoring what their wives wear as some of them are really getting out of hand with indecent dressing.

A woman and her customer escaped death on Tuesday when a huge branch broke off an ancient tree and crushed her stall at a market square in Ahiaukwu Olokoro, Umuahia, Abia State.   An eyewitness shared photos on Facebook. “When ...

  A Nigerian lady has taken to twitter to advice men who asked her put she rejected not to go for another lady, According to the lady who go by the twitter name, It’s All Love, that she rejected them ...

According to Facebook user, Emeka Rodstick  “If you’re dating a lady who doesn’t wake up before you to do the whole morning chores and make breakfast before you wake up, you are yet to get a wife material”   His ...

Alhaji Rufai Nalele, a popular Jos businessman and owner of the three-storey building which collapsed in Jos, Plateau State, lost members of his family including his pregnant wife, Rukayya Salisu Nalele (pictured) son, daughter Amina, granddaughter Maryam, and father Alhaji ...

Two persons have been killed in renewed clashes among cult groups in Calabar, Cross River state.   This is coming less than 24 hours after the brutal murder of James Chia, a final year student of electrical electronic engineering in ...

An elderly couple from Georgia who were together for 71 years have died just 12 hours apart on the same day.   Herbert DeLaigle, 94, and Marilyn Frances DeLaigle, 88, got married in 1948 and died on Friday at a hospital ...