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  A man who was picked up by a helicopter in the middle of a huge traffic jam in Nigeria had suffered a stroke, the helicopter company has told the BBC. The video from Sunday shared by Elombah news and ...

  A middle aged woman, Mrs Yemi Samuel on Wednesday explained that she arranged her own kidnap in order to raise money from family members to assist her husband. The woman who was paraded by the Kwara state police command ...

  A Twitter user @oguefitoks has taken to the micro-blogging site to share the story of how his car window was broken by robbers who wanted to steal the money he had gone to withdraw from a bank in Abuja. ...

Some youths in the Ofumwengbe community in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, on Tuesday, blocked the Benin-Ore Expressway to protest the death of a yet-to-be-identified woman, who was allegedly raped and killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen. ...

A man in Iran accused of sleeping with 23 women by pretending to be the Lionel Messi because of their uncanny resemblance has denied conning the women into sleeping with him. Reza Parastesh, who is known as the Iranian Messi was forced to ...

  The police in Imo state have arrested 70 year old Pa John pictured above for allegedly defiling a five year old girl in Mbaise on June 14th. Activitist and leader of Behind Bars Initiative, Prince Emefiena Gwamnishu, who shared ...

  Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court Maitama has sentenced a clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya, to seven years in prison for rape.   The clergyman was arraigned in court by the police ...

  Georgia deputies released body camera footage Tuesday of the moment first responders found a newborn baby alive abandoned in a plastic bag in the woods. Authorities found the baby girl in a wooded area in Cumming, Georgia, after a ...

No fewer than five persons were killed on Tuesday and several houses burnt in a fresh crisis between the Tiv and Jukun in Rafinkada Village of Wukari local government area of Taraba State. Daniel Adidas, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of ...

A police officer had to step up to the plate when he caught his own daughter driving on the wrong side of the road – in a toy car. Officer Alex Kipp of the Orlando Police Department arrived home from ...

  President Buhari yesterday openned up on why his administration dealt with the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Justice Onnoghen was suspended in January this year over claims he failed to declare all his assets when he ...

  A devastating photo shows the body of a father and his 23-month-old daughter lying face down in shallow water after they drowned whle trying to get into the US.   The bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his ...

The founder and chairman of Innoson Nigeria Limited, Innocent Chukwuma has reacted to the arrest warrant issued by the Federal High Court yesterday. The court had granted the request of a Director in the Ministry of Justice to arrest Chukwuma and ...

An 11-year-old boy has been left feeling distressed and anxious after a Samsung tablet burnt a hole in his bed while he slept. Callum Hewkin had taken the gadget into his room so he could watch a programme in bed ...

  Justice Sybil Nwaka of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court revoked the bail of  Chrisland School Supervisor, Adegboyega Adenekan standing trial for allegedly defiling a two-year-old pupil (names withheld) of the school. Justice Nwaka revoked Adenekan’s bail for ...

  Rivers state indigene, Inedukoba Charles Tyger, was on Tuesday June 25th, exhumed from a shallow grave in Abalama Sandfield Asari-Toru Local Government Area in Rivers state, months after he was declared missing by family and friends. A friend of the deceased, Ibiye ...

  Tiffani Louise O’Brien was left alone inside a pitch-dark Air Canada plane, after her approximately 90-minute flight from Quebec City to Toronto on June 9. The lady who had gone to visit a friend in Quebec woke up from a mid-flight nap to realize she ...

  Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, has claimed his monthly salary as a Nigerian senator does not exceed N750,000. A former senator, Shehu Sani, in 2018 had disclosed that lawmakers received N13.5 million every month for running costs, apart ...

  A few hours to the end of his reign as Ogun State helsman, embattled Governor Ibikunle Amosun contacted the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, confessing that he had thousands of arms and millions of ammunition in store at ...

  A man attempting to commit suicide was captured live on video jumping into the lagoon from the Awolowo Bridge in Lagos today. The man according to the video, walked to an area of the bridge and dived into the ...

  A woman has been arrested for posing as an official from the Lagos State Governor’s Office at Italian Embassy in a bid to secure visas for some members of the public.   A statement released by the Deputy Chief ...

Luxury Entrepreneur and CEO of Julian’s Luxury, Mr. Julian Osula has denied being the rumoured billionaire that was picked up by a helicopter on Benin-Lagos Express Road over the weekend. Julian in his reaction to the trending stories claiming he was the ...

  The Lagos State Government on Tuesday debunked rumours making the rounds on the airwaves and social media that it has re-introduced the monthly environmental sanitation exercise and vehicular restriction, urging residents to ignore it in its entirety. In a ...

  The 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal did not reject his request to check the purported central server of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as ...

  A 27-year old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly selling his 3-day old baby boy in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo local government area of Anambra State. The suspect, Chukwuma Enemuo was said to have sold the baby at the ...