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  A mother was arrested after her child wrote a story in her kindergarten class about her firing a gun while her parents were fighting. Kaydra Johnson, 28, was walking around her home when sheriff’s deputies arrived on Monday. They ...

  The Central Bank Of Nigeria has said that money bouquet is an abuse of the naira and it is a punishable offence. They revealed this in an Instastories. See it below….  

  A tanker has exploded along the Ogun State stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, causing traffic diversion. Dailypost reports that the crash occurred at about 07:30 on Friday between Fidiwo bridge and Foursquare. Confirming the incident, the Federal Road Safety ...

  The Nigerian government said it will comply with the Supreme Court suspension of the deadline to swap old naira notes for new ones. Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, said the government will obey the Supreme Court ruling. ...

  The Kano State Government on Thursday evening filed a suit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court in respect of the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. In suit number: SC/CS/200/2023, sighted, the Kano State ...

  A newborn baby girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of a home in northern Syria, after relatives found her still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother, who died in Monday’s massive earthquake. The infant is ...

  A yet-to-be-identified soldier has allegedly stabbed a ticket agent, Ibrahim Ikudaisi, aka Guardian, to death over N100 ticket in the Oshodi area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Ikudaisi was visiting stores to demand N100 levy from different ...

  The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano State on Friday set aside the judgment of a High Court that recognised Muhammad Abacha as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State. The Appeal Court, however, ...

  Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential campaign rally in Rivers State, the Director General of the party’s Campaign Council in the state, Dr. Abiye Sekibo on Thursday escaped assassination. It was gathered that some gunmen suspected to ...

  The National Council of State, on Friday, in Abuja backed the central bank’s new naira policy. This was as it advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the apex bank chief, Godwin Emefiele, to either intensify the printing of new notes ...

  Nollywood movie legend, Nkem Owoh, a.k.a Osuofia, on Thursday, described Nigerian movies’ stories as far better than that of their Bollywood and Hollywood counterparts. Osuofia made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According ...

  Emergency workers in southern Turkey have rescued a 10-year-old boy from a collapsed house, four days after an earthquake caused devastation across large parts of the country’s border with Syria. The boy had been trapped under the rubble in ...

  The police in Ogun State have paraded the suspected killers of the Fatinoyes. Recall that Kehinde Fatinoye, a former staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his wife, a worker of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, ...

  Former deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied offering money to a prospective kidney donor to save his sick daughter, Sonia. The lawmaker, his wife, Beatrice, and their 25-year-old daughter are on trial in London for allegedly ...

  Popular Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has stated that he was a fool when he campaigned for the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 1999. Seun stated this in a trending video shared on his Instagram page ...

  The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria says it has not endorsed the Labour Party nor its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as rumoured. The PFN National Publicity Secretary, Bishop Emmah Isong, described the rumours as “fake news” on social media at ...

  The Church of England’s governing body on Thursday endorsed plans to let priests offer blessings to same-sex couples, after hours of acrimonious debate highlighting deep Anglican divisions on the issue. The Church’s General Synod — comprising hundreds of elected ...

  This is the sweet moment, President Volodymyr Zelensky melted hearts as he ignored security protocols to give a hug to a plaintive Ukrainian news reporter. Natalia Goncharova, from Kyiv, who grilled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on fighter jets and ...

  The Church of England is considering alternatives to referring to God as “he” after priests asked to be allowed to use gender-neutral terms instead. The Church said it would launch a new project on the matter in the spring ...

  An enraged camel has been beaten to death by villagers after it reportedly decapitated its owner in India. Sohanram Nayak tried to recapture the rampaging animal after it broke free from its rope constraints, trying to chase down another ...

  With 16 days to the commencement of the 2023 general election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Lagos ...

  The World Health Organization has warned the world must prepare for a potential human bird flu pandemic — after the strain jumped from birds to mammals. Cases of the strain H5N1 have already been reported in otters, mink and ...

  The regulatory agency for universities in Nigeria, the National Universities Commission has ordered a closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the 2023 general elections. In a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities ...

  The Kano State Police Command has arrested two men, parading themselves as journalists, for allegedly defrauding a rice trader of N33,000. The 30-year-old suspects, Mujahid Kabir and Abba Imam, were alleged to have, on February 2, 2023, generated a ...

  The Cross River State governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, Usani Usani, Thursday, escaped a snake attack at his country home in the Mkpani community of Yakurr Local Government Area. Usani was earlier reported to have escaped an ...