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  Niger’s coup leaders have closed the country’s airspace until further notice, citing the threat of military intervention from their neighbours. Flight tracking website Flightradar24 is showing that there are currently no aircraft in Niger’s skies. The West African group ...

  Vulnerable residents at a care home for the elderly near Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, have been mistreated and neglected, a BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed. Secret filming shows staff members physically mistreating residents, dumping food directly onto tables without any ...

  At least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, a police spokesman has confirmed. Several carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) ...

  FIRSTBANK GRADUATES THE FOURTH SET OF PARTICIPANTS IN ITS SENIOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (SMDP)   The SMDP is an intensive skill development programme structured to enhance core leadership and business competencies of selected senior management staff within the Bank ...

  A female soldier has killed a senior colleague at a checkpoint in Yola, Adamawa State, in Northeast Nigeria. The soldier, according to Daily Trust, was enforcing the curfew imposed by the Adamawa State government. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, the Adamawa ...

A 28-year old mother, Abigail Agbubla has allegedly killed her two children by poisoning over her husband’s failure to give chop money. The children, a boy and a girl aged two and eight months respectively, were killed with rat poison. ...

  Four miners have reportedly died when a mining pit collapsed on them at Kogo Kadage forest in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. A source at Yadagungume town who didn’t want to be named told Daily Trust ...

  The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has raided unlicensed and illegal courier and logistics operators in Katsina State, sealing some of their offices and impounding some motorcycles. The general manager, Courier and Logistics Regulatory Department (CLRD) of the NIPOST, Mr. Dotun ...

  The leader of a cult group terrorising parts of Ogbologbolo community and its environs in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State, Ikem Thankgod, has surrendered to the Ahoada Police Division. It was gathered that Thankgod was the ...

  26-year old Nigerian lady has been declared missing in Canada. The Toronto Police Service are now requesting the public’s assistance to locate her. Oluwatobi, 26, was last seen on Monday, July 31, 2023, at 9:30 p.m., in the King Street and ...

  The timely intervention of police operatives from the Ilemba-Hausa Division under the Lagos State Command saved a man found with the dead body of his friend’s child. The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the ...

  A team of officers from the Kano State Police Command has smashed a drug cartel at Kwanar Dangora, in Kiru Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, SP ...

  Mother of two dies from drinking too much water while on a family vacation An Indiana mother of two who told her family it felt like she couldn’t drink enough water to feel satiated coll@ps£d and d#ed from water ...

  The Nigerian Government has cut off power supplies to Niger Republic. This is coming days after a military junta ousted Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Niger’s electricity company, Nigelec, noted on Wednesday that the development followed an emergency meeting by ...

  The Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State chapter, has directed all the doctors working in the three government hospitals on the Lagos Island to begin an indefinite strike over the death of its colleague, Dr Vwaere Diaso. The NMA also ...

  MONUMENTAL TRAGEDY: With just 2 weeks to completing her housemanship, lady passes on after a mi§hap while in an elevator A medical doctor identified as Dr. Vwaere Diaso has di€d after being in an elevator that reportedly cra§hed from ...

  The members of the organised Labour Unions protesting the removal of fuel subsidy on Wednesday pulled down the gates of the National Assembly in Abuja. The protesters numbering over 5,000, first converged at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, from where ...

  If You Want A Wife That Cooks Like Your Mother, Marry Your Mother – Pastor Yemi Davids Pastor Yemi Davids of the Global Impact Church Tuesday, admonished people who compare their spouses to their parents saying if they want ...

National Association Against Trafficking In Persons, Gambia has arrested two Nigerian women for alleged s.e.x trafficking of minors. The arrest came following an investigation launched by a new Gambian investigative outfit, The Guardian Intelligence Investigative Platform. The investigation, focusing on s.e.x ...

Remi Lucidi, a well-known extreme sports expert from France, perished when he fell from the 68th level of the Tregunter Tower complex. The 30-year-old, also known online as Remi Enigman, was found dead following a tragic fall from the skyscraper, according ...

  Niger’s ousted president has been seen for the first time since the military detained him in a coup last week. Mohamed Bazoum met Chad’s leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, in Niger’s capital, Niamey. Mr Déby, who also met the coup leaders, ...

  Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been formally charged with fomenting insurrection and has been placed in custody, his lawyer is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. He had also been accused of stealing the mobile phone of a ...

  The military junta currently in charge of Niger has detained a leading official in the ousted president’s party as well as two more government ministers, the party has said. Five ministers are now being held among a total of ...

  Says any intervention to restore deposed President will be considered a ‘declaration of war’ • Expects Russian support Mali and Burkina have threatened to withdraw their ECOWAS membership and rise up in support of Niger’s military government should the ...

  The Niger military junta that seized power last week and ousted democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum said on Monday the toppled government had authorised France to carry out strikes at the presidency to try to free Bazoum. The military junta, which has confined Bazoum to ...