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  The leader of the military junta which ousted Gabon’s President Ali Bongo will be sworn in today as interim President. General Brice Oligui Nguema, according to Reuter, is expected to address the nation for the first time as interim ...

  A raging fire, on Sunday evening, engulfed the auditorium and three offices of The Word Assembly Church in Ilorin, Kwara State. The fire which reportedly started in the evening after the Sunday Service consumed the main auditorium and three of ...

  Labour Party has rejected the result of the Edo State Local Government Election held on Saturday as announced by the State Independent Electoral Commission The LP condemned the election as conducted by the Edo SIEC, describing it as another ...

  There will be never be a military coup in Nigeria from now till eternity – Primate Ayodele assures FG The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has assured the Federal Government and state Governor’s that THERE WON’T EVER ...

  The Devil will not waste time on those doing BBL, he has already captured them – MFM’s Olukoya THE General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, Daniel Olukoya has said the devil will not waste his time on ...

  President Bola Tinubu has expressed hope that members of his recently inaugurated cabinet are capable of delivering on the mandate of helping him to rebuild the Nigerian economy, vowing to remove anyone of them who fails, because he is after ...

  In a scathing attack that would certainly reopen healing wounds between the pair, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has gone on the offensive describing his erstwhile boss, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as one ...

  Yobe State Police Command says its operatives have arrested two suspected kidnappers in Tarmuwa Local Government Area. The command disclosed this through its Public Relations Officer, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a statement made available in Damaturu. According to the ...

Indications have emerged that the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba is a Nigerian from Igbo land. It is said that he was adopted during the Biafran war by his father, Omar Bongo who handed over to him as President. ...

  More than 70 people have been killed in a pre-dawn fire that ripped through a multi-storey building housing homeless people in South Africa, in what is set to become one of the deadliest fires worldwide in recent years. Witnesses ...

  Security guard, teacher arrested for raping Kwara teenagers The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Wednesday paraded two suspects, Idowu Yahaya and John Balogun, for allegedly raping and sexually abusing two teenagers. Yahaya ...

  Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen in new footage ‘dismissing reports of his elimination’ A tantalising new video appears to show slain Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin commenting on his ‘elimination’ in the days before he was reportedly killed. It comes amid ...

  Rwanda retires 12 generals, 1,013 military officers   Rwanda President, Paul Kagame has approved the retirement of 95 military generals and senior officers as well as 930 junior soldiers. This is coming barely 48 hours after the military coup that ...

  Rwandan President Paul Kagame, 65, and 90-year-old Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, are firing their military chiefs in an apparent move to forestall the recent power seizures witnessed in Niger and Gabon over the last month, according to their press ...

  The biggest and brightest Moon of the year will be visible on Wednesday and Thursday from around the world. It will be a rare chance to see what is known as a blue supermoon – the last one was ...

Gabon’s coupists have arrested Bongo’s son for treason The military officers who deposed Gabonese President Ali Bongo in a coup on Wednesday also detained his son, according to Alarabiya News. Twelve soldiers appeared on national television announcing the overthrow of ...

  The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps otherwise known as So-Safe said, it has arrested a 38 years old man, Mathew Ifeanyi, who allegedly macheted his 100-year old father, Anthony Nnadike to death around Olorunda area, Eruobodo ...

  The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has challenged the leadership of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to suspend or discipline him. Wike, while featuring as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday spoke with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, seeking help to stop the recurring issue of military coups in Africa. The appeal came after the military in Gabon deposed President Ali Bongo who had taken ...

  The National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has refuted the purported suspension of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the party. The party’s national auditor, Ladipo Johnson, stated this at a news conference ...

  A 21-year-old lady identified as Sukura Owodunni has allegedly been set ablaze by a pastor, Taiwo Odebiyi, when he was trying to perform deliverance on her at his Cherubim and Seraphim Maberu Parish located in Offin in the Sagamu ...

  Men of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a middle-aged man, Patrick Essien, for allegedly stabbing his landlord in Rumuiprikon, the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state on Monday. Punch Metro gathered that trouble started when the ...

  The leaders of the coup in Gabon has named Republican Guard chief General Brice Oligui Nguema transitional president, according to a TV statement, after the military seized control in the wake of elections. “General Oligui Nguema Brice was unanimously appointed chairman of the ...

  The newborn baby boy rescued from a pit toilet in Otuocha, Anambra East Local Government Area, is dead. The mother of the child, Nwaedoka Chidimma, 20, from Izzi, Ebonyi State, was alleged to have deliberately thrown the baby into ...

  Residents of Hallelujah Estate in Osogbo, Osun State capital, yesterday, were in agony as two dogs devour a five-year-old child. The cross breed dogs also descended on the mother after killing the child, injuring her on the buttock before ...