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  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 ...

  If Peter Obi was better, Nigerians would have voted him – Wike   The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, said if the flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, was a better candidate, Nigerians ...

  President Bola Tinubu has expressed his deep concern over the political situation in Gabon and the socio-political stability in that country. Tinubu’s reaction came hours after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were ...

Tinubu’s certificate: Chicago State University locks X account after backlash Chicago State University, United States has put its X page on private after some Nigerians allegedly stormed the page to inquire whether or not President Bola Tinubu truly graduated from ...

  FG to complete Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by mid-September The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, says the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is scheduled for mid-September, years after reconstruction commenced on the ever-busy route. The minister made the statement on Tuesday ...

  The Board of Trustees of the New Nigeria Peoples Party has suspended its candidate in the Feb. 25 presidential election, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso for alleged anti-party activities. The BoT also suspended the National Working Committee of the party. ...

  Seven people were killed and two others injured when a building collapsed in a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence in northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, militia sources and a resident told AFP Tuesday. A classroom sheltering scores of ...

  Two men from Lagos State have drowned in a river at Itori, in Ewekoro local government area of Ogun State while swimming after a church programme in the the town. The two persons identified as Femi Akinola “m” aged ...