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Suspected herdsmen hijack fully loaded bus, butcher passengers

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have attacked a Benue Links bus conveying passengers to Otukpo en route Naka road Gwer West LGA at Tyolaha village. The incident happened yesterday. One passenger was killed and several others were injured during ...

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Nigeria is 2nd most prayerful country on earth

Nigeria is 2nd most prayerful country on earth Nigeria has been ranked the second most prayerful country on earth. Afghanistan was ranked first with 96 percent prayer rate. According to the Pew Research Centre, Nigeria took the second position with 95 ...

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Ogun monarch’s palace raided, crown, staff of office stolen

Suspected thieves have reportedly raided the palace of the Olu of Ogunmakin town in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, late Oba James Sodiya, carting away his staff of office and crown. The attackers reportedly broke into the palace ...

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Evangelist killed over alleged stealing of manhood

Evangelist killed over alleged stealing of manhood An unidentified member of the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners Chapel, was allegedly murdered on Friday by a group of mob at Adeyi Junction in One Man Village, Nasarawa State. Eyewitnesses said ...

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Bus rams into truck in Lagos, kills 3

A bus has rammed into a truck in Lagos killing 3 on the spot! The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Sunday, said three persons died instantly in an auto crash involving a commercial bus and a truck. A ...

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Opposition party wins New Zealand election

The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics. Incumbent prime minister Chris Hipkins, of Labour, phoned National’s leader Chris Luxon to concede ...

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NDLEA arrests giant drug lords, seizes multi-billion-naira worth of drugs & assets

NDLEA arrests giant drug lords, seizes multi-billion-naira worth of drugs & assets The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested two wanted heads of transnational criminal organisations with multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs and assets seized ...

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Tinubu appoints new heads for CAC, SMEDAN, others

  President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers of some agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment. In a statement released on Friday by the President’s Special Adviser (Media & ...

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Jada Pinkett Smith ‘shocked’ Will Smith called her ‘wife’ at Oscars

  Jada Pinkett Smith ‘shocked’ Will Smith called her ‘wife’ at Oscars Will Smith famously defended his “wife” Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Oscars when presenter Chris Rock made fun of her bald head. Behind the scenes, however, the “Girls Trip” star, 52, was ...

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Filth removed from drainage on Lagos road will scare you (photos)

Filth removed from drainage on Lagos road will scare you Already some parts of Lagos are experiencing a bit of flood each time it rains. Officials decided to clear drainages in parts of the affected places and the dirt removed ...

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Famous Angolan TikToker jailed two years for insulting president

A popular social media influencer in Angola, Ana da Silva Miguel, has had her prison sentence increased to two years by the country’s court for “insulting” President João Lourenço on TikTok, BBC reports. The popular TikToker, known as Neth Nahara, ...

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Israeli-Hamas conflict: Jordan backs Palestine

Israeli-Hamas conflict: Jordan backs Palestine King Abdullah II of Jordan has declared support for Palestine, saying peace is not possible in the Middle East without the emergence of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. The Jordanian leader spoke amid the ...

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17-year-old buries younger brother alive

A 17-year-old boy, identified as Goodness Oshodi, has allegedly buried his younger brother, Friday Oshodi alive. The incident happened in Kogi State. It was gathered that Oshodi had accused his younger brother of stealing N1,000. The incident happened at Apamsede, ...

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Kano court sentences Nigerien to death for k!lling man

Kano court sentences Nigerien to death for k!lling man A Kano High Court has sentenced a Nigerien, Sulaiman Abdullahi, 27, to death by hanging for the 2017 killing of 30-year-old Yahya Badamasi. The court, presided over by Justice Nasiru Saminu, ...

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Israel-Hamas war: Adeboye backs Israel

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has PRAYED for Israel in the ongoing war between the country and Hamas, an Islamic Resistance Movement. Pastor Adeboye disclosed this in a short video posted ...

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Woman bathes husband with hot oil over disagreement

A woman from Obite Community,Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mrs. Hope Nwala, has poured hot groundnut oil on her husband, Ekelediri Nwankwo. The couple, who reside in Okehi community in Etche Local Government Area, was said to be ...

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Gunmen abduct four Nasarawa varsity students

Four students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) have been kidnapped. They were kidnapped on Monday night by some armed men. The incident occurred near Angwan Kare after BCG. An eyewitness said it occurred around 10:30 p.m. The kidnapped ...

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Sunday Igboho reunites with his family in Germany

Sunday Igboho REUNITES with his family in Germany Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has arrived Germany. He arrived at Hamburg International Airport in Germany to reunite with his family. Recall Igboho regained freedom after over two years of ...

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Court disqualifies Sylva from Bayelsa governorship poll

Court disqualifies Sylva from Bayelsa governorship poll A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has disqualified the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Bayelsa State Governorship Election, Timipre Sylva from the contest. A member of the All Progressives Congress in ...

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Atiku responds to WAEC forgery allegation

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has explained the discrepancies in his Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, certificate. Atiku offered the clarification through Dele Momodu, today in a post on his social media platform, X. According ...

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French troops begin withdrawal from coup-hit Niger

French troops begin withdrawal from coup-hit Niger The French army said Tuesday it had begun withdrawing its troops from Niger after being ordered out of the country by the leaders of a coup that ousted a pro-Paris president. The move ...

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Father in court for s3xually molesting two underage sons

Father in court for s3xually molesting two underage sons A 38-year-old man, Afeez Gbadamosi, was on Tuesday arraigned before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence court by the Lagos State Government for allegedly sexually molesting his two underage sons who are ...

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Wike orders immediate demolition of scavengers’ colony in Abuja

Wike orders immediate demolition of scavengers’ colony in Abuja The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has ordered the demolition of the scavengers’ colony along the road corridor cutting across Mabushi, Jahi and Kado Districts. Wike gave ...

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