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  A woman, Osaryekeme Odometa, has accused her husband of burning her clothes while gifting his girlfriend some of them. Osaryekeme said this at a hearing at Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday. She alleged that her husband, Jolomi, ...

  The EFCC on Thursday re-arraigned Marco Ramirez, an American, at an Ikeja special offences court for allegedly defrauding three Nigerians of $1.2 million under the pretext of securing green cards for them. Ramirez was re-arraigned before Mojisola Dada, a ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the party’s cost of nomination forms for governorship position from five million naira to twenty million naira. This comes ahead of the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. According ...

          He shared the story barely 24 hours after the UK government issued travel advisory, warning its citizens not to travel to 21 states in Nigeria.   Read his posts below    

The Lagos state police command have arrested 22 year old Joseph Ogbu, for the gruesome murder of his employer, Oreoluewa John, 38, and her 89-year-old mother, Adejoke John, at their residence at Number 4 Ogunlana drive in Sururlere, Lagos state. A statement ...

A woman has taken to Facebook to accuse her baby daddy of refusing to provide for his daughter because she refused to abort the child as he instructed.   Read her post below.  

  A Professor at the Rivers State University (RSU), Prof. Emmanuel Amadi, has been murdered in his residence at Rumuorlumeni, Port Harcourt.   According to reports, Amadi who was a lecturer of the Department of Microbiology, was murdered in the early ...

  According to reports, a 41-year-old widower named Rustam Ashary last week married a 13-year-old girl, who has been identified by her initials SW, both of whom are from the Sidrap regency of South Sulawesi. Rustam met SW on Facebook, ...

  The University of Education (UEW), Ghana, has sacked Augustine Nwagbara, a Nigerian professor, over “unethical and damning” comments he made about the country and its education system. Nwagbara, in a viral video, had accused the Ghanaian government of maltreating Nigerians. The ...

  Three secondary school students, two boys and one girl, drowned in Ibeno beach at Mkpanak community, Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Saturday.   The victims said to be from Upenekang community in Ibeno Local Government Area, were ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The appointment takes effect 8 July. He replaces Dr.Maikanti Baru as the 19th Group Managing Director of the ...

  Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora, Abike Dabiri in a new interview with Joy TV Ghana, slammed the Ghanaian authorities over the criminalization of all Nigerians in Ghana.   Abike Dabiri stated that the sins of few shouldn’t be used to ...

  Frank Mba, force public relations officer, says Nigeria is one of the most beautiful places to live in. Mba, who was reacting to a travel advisory the UK authorities issued to British citizens, said despite the security challenges in ...

  NAFDAC bans the sale of Sniper Insecticides in open market and supermarkets. The National Food, Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has ordered agro-dealers to withdraw popular agricultural pesticide, Sniper, from open markets and supermarkets, to reduce its use for suicide ...

  It appears the struggle for supremacy is not just in the music industry but has shown it ‘ugly’ head in the religious fraternity. It is sad and unacceptable when religious leaders who are assigned to take up heavenly responsibilities ...

Adedayo Adewole, the son of former Minister of Health, Professor Adewole has secured his freedom from his abductors.   Dayo was kidnapped on Tuesday at about 6:00 p.m., from his farm at Iroko community in Akinyele Local Government Area of ...

A yet-to-be-identified Nigerian man has been apprehended, after he killed a lady with his friends and reportedly used her corpse to cook peppersoup for sale. The man who killed the lady and used her corpse to cook peppersoup for sale ...

The Delta state police command have arrested a woman, Agatha Raymond, for allegedly assaulting her 10-year-old step brother, Chibuzor Onuwa Obusele, with hot knife. Activist, Prince Harrison Emefiena Gwamnishu, who shared the story and photos of the victim and his ...

    A visiting Nigerian lecturer Prof. Austin Nwagbara at the University of Education is being interrogated at the police headquarters in Accra over the contents of a video that has gone viral on social media. Starr News is reliably ...

  he Federal Government of Nigeria has debunked the rumour spread of deadly Ebola Virus Disease in the country. In a statement signed by the Director, Media and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Health, Boade Akinola, the Permanent Secretary at ...

  A prosecution witness, Dare Folarin, has told Justice M. Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, how a self-acclaimed herbalist, Jamiu Isiaka, defrauded a Korean national, Keun Sig Kim, of about N30 million in an oil ...

  An Iraq war veteran has been found guilty of stabbing a Britain’s Got Talent finalist to death in a violent rage. Desmond Sylva, 41, knifed his on-off girlfriend Simonne Kerr, 31, more than 70 times at his flat in ...

A Twitter user has narrated an encounter her mum had with a white man who treated her like a nobody, until he realized she was the manager who was leading their meeting.   @KimTRILLY tweeted: “Imagine my mum went somewhere ...

  depressed 18-year-old undergraduate who died after cutting off his penis.Nigerian doctor, Obinna Oke has taken to Facebook to share a sad news of a depressed 18-year-old undergraduate who died after cutting off his penis. According to Dr. Oke, the ...

  There is serious fighting in Ilaje Ajah, Lagos presently going on, gun shots heard and commuters stranded. Everybody running for safety. People should delay passing through that area till security operatives take control. Early mid morning today, pandemonium broke ...