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No fewer than 26 suspects have been arrested over the recent killings and arson in Ekoli Edda Community, in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Among those arrested were the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, ...

  Police Officer Dies A Year After Posting About What Will Happen After His De@th 😭 Davidson Rotshak Lar, a cleric and Superintendent of Police in the Nigeria Police Force has died one year after posting about what will happen ...

  As we kick off the New Year 2023, it’s essential to mark the various public holidays that will be celebrated across Nigeria. The Ministry of Interior, through the federal government, has declared certain days as public holidays, which means ...

  Abducted Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu, has been beheaded. Ohizu was kidnapped alongside two others on Friday, January 20, from his country home at Imoko community in Arondizuogu area by ...

  A Kenyan woman named Agnes Maina has opened up about how she lost her husband to her younger sister. Speaking to TUKO.co.ke’s Yvonne Kawira, the mother of three said that she grew up in abject poverty and never got a ...

Vigilantes in Zuba town in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested a suspect identified as Bello Yellow, who is allegedly linked to the March 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The suspect was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, January 22, ...

    Ten people have died and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a dance club in a largely Asian city in southern California, police said Sunday, with the suspect still at large hours later. ...

  Gunmen have killed Hon. Sale Yakubu Allawa, a councillor in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The Niger State Commissioner for Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar, confirmed the incident to Premium Times in a telephone interview ...

  Desperate efforts to bring into Nigeria 126.95 kilograms of cocaine and skunk concealed in herbal tea packs and imported vehicles by drug cartels from Brazil and Canada have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement ...

  Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have uncovered an armoury of suspected kidnappers at the Tudun Wada area of Liman Katagum in Bauchi Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Wakil, who disclosed ...

The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction. The Putin ally’s message on Sunday, January 22 comes after new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has been begging commercial banks to pick up the new Naira notes. The apex bank had redesigned N200, N500, and N1000 notes, saying the old ones will cease to be legal ...

  A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022, interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found ...

  The acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, SKB Ogbuagu, is dead. Ogbuagu collapsed during a town hall meeting of the governorship candidate of the party held at the Ezeagu ...

  The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed all abducted passengers at the Chief Tom Ikimi Railway Station Ekehen, in Igueben, Edo State have been released. In a statement by the NRC’s Deputy Director of Public Relations Mahmood Yakub, the ...

  An Enugu Chief Magistrates’ Court Grade 1, presided over by Mrs. U.I. Jideofor, Thursday remanded Mrs. Ujunwa Ugwuoke, in the Enugu Correctional Centre, for the alleged murder of nine-year-old Precious Korshima. The charge No. MEN/14C/2023 – Commissioner of Police ...

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will stand aside for a new leader within weeks, saying she doesn’t believe she has the energy to seek re-election in the October polls. Speaking at a news conference, Ardern ...

  Charity founder and investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace has revealed she doesn’t like ‘victimhood’ when asked about Meghan Markle saying she had suicidal thoughts. The 80-year-old, who founded mental health charity SANE inn 1986, said while she doesn’t like to ...

Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has slammed the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Management Committee (PCC), Dino Melaye HARD for saying Tinubu is not a Muslim. MURIC asked the politician what right he has to make such ...

  Pensioners in Taraba State have resolved to embark on seven days intensive fasting against Governor Darius Ishaku. The pensioners, who made this known to media practitioners on Thursday in Jalingo, the State capital, said the exercise is geared towards ...

Six people, including three children, have died at a festival in India after their throats were sliced open by kite strings. Nearly 200 revellers were injured while they were flying kites during mid-air duels at the Uttarayan festival in the ...

A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reports today. Mehdi Hashemi, 53, left Tehran’s Evin prison late Tuesday, his lawyer ...

Microsoft is set to axe thousands of jobs, following in the footsteps of tech giants Amazon and Meta which have also announced huge cutbacks in recent months. The software giant, founded by billionaire Bill Gates, is reportedly slashing 5 percent ...

  Nurses across England today began two days of strike over pay, threatening fresh disruption for patients in the creaking state-run health service, as new figures showed inflation still surging. The walkout comes after nurses held their union’s first stoppage ...

  A United States-based Nigerian professor, Marinus Iwuchukwu, and a woman identified as Charce Dunn have been found dead in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. They were found dead along Thorncrest Drive, Wilkins Township, Pittsburg on Tuesday after an alleged “domestic disturbance” around ...