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A 25-year-old man, Godsgift Uweghwerhen, has been arrested for allegedly flogging his three-year-old daughter to death in Aladja community, in the Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. Uweghwerhen was at home with his family members and neighbours when he ...

A man is mourning his sister who was kidnapped and then murdered by men who abducted her. Heartbroken Suleiman Adamu, said his sister was kidnapped 53 days ago, and even though the family paid the ransom her abductors demanded, they ...

The Oloso of Oso, Oba Clement Jimoh Olukotun, in Ajowa-Akoko in the Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State, has been abducted by gun-wielding kidnappers. According to sources in the community, the kidnappers stormed the monarch’s home on Thursday ...

A landlord on Adak Uko Street, off Mbukpa Road in the Calabar South area, popularly known as “Hello Daddy”, has committed suicide. The incident happened on Friday at about 4.30pm. He was said to have been a rich man with ...

Lawmakers exchanged blows and hurled a chair in Senegal’s parliament on Thursday over a perceived insult towards an influential pro-opposition religious leader. An opposition MP slapped legislator Amy Ndiaye over her remarks, according to images on television and social media ...

Port Harcourt-based gospel artist, Sensational Bamidele, who also leads the live band that performs at the project commissioning ceremonies of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has survived a fatal auto crash in which three people are said to have ...

Drivers in Ogun State have been warned to resist the temptation of loading their vehicle booths with containers filled with petrol due to the ongoing fuel scarcity. Commander of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, Cdr. ‘Seni ...

The Rivers Police said its officers have arrested two students at the Community Secondary School, Nkpolu Oroworukwo, in Mile Diobu, Port Harcourt, for allegedly entangling themselves in erotic acts in an isolated classroom within the school premises. It was gathered ...

The Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has taken a new job as Africa’s Ambassador for ‘Agricultural Technology’, an appointment by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation. Daily Post learnt this in a statement by the Communication Officer of AATF, Alex ...

The warden of an Ecuadoran prison where deadly riots broke out two weeks ago was killed by gunmen on Thursday, the federal prisons agency announced. Retired police colonel Santiago Loza took up his post as head of Quito’s Pichincha 1 ...

  A Virgin Mary statue cried tears of blood in Lagos, a Catholic priest has claimed. Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ehioma, aka Fada Mentor, shared a photo of a Virgin Mary statue bleeding from the eye and said he heard the occurrence was ...

  A 10-year-old boy who sh0t and k!lled his 44-year-old mother last week in Milwaukee is being charged with first-degree homicide as an adult. The fatal shooting took place near 87th and Hemlock around 7 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 21. ...

  The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students has declared a nationwide protest to demand the release of a student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Mohammed, who was arrested and sent to prison over a ...

  The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria has shown that nine out of every 10 medical and dental consultants with less than five years of experience plan to leave the country for greener pastures. The MDCAN said the ...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has ordered that the Chief of Army Staff, General Farouk Yahaya, be arrested for contempt. Justice Halima Abdulmalik, who issued the warrant and presided over the case, said ...

A woman, Blessing Eno, has been arrested for allegedly beheading her 11-month-old son at Ugep community, in the Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. Punch Metro gathered that a mob was about to lynch Eno for perpetrating the ...

  The Federal Government denied yesterday it planned to hike the pump price of petrol, despite the increase in price from N180 per litre to N235 by independent marketers. The government in a statement by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream ...

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) arrested two suspected abductors on Tuesday. The operatives also rescued a female victim inside their car around the Presbyterian Church in Yaba, Lagos. A statement on Wednesday by General Manager Bolaji Oreagba said ...

A letter bomb explosion has been reported at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid. One employee, who was handling a letter, was hurt in the blast according to Spanish Police. He suffered light injuries went to hospital under his own steam, ...

A mum-of-three who torched her own home hours after she was served with an eviction notice has been jailed for almost for four years. Jordaine Liddle, 25, was told to vacate the mid-terraced house after she failed to pay rent ...

Aminu Mohammed, who was recently arrested by security operatives for allegedly criticAminu Mohammedising the Wife of the President Aisha Buhari, has been arraigned by the police, multiple reports have said. Recall that Aminu, a student of the Federal University, Dutse, ...

  Terrorists have invaded the family house of the Divisional Police Officer for Dutsi Division, Katsina State Police Command, and killed his mother and younger brother. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, who confirmed the development, said ...

The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a phone thief, Chinedu Ike. The 25-year-old was nabbed weeks after he was rescued from jungle justice by a patrol team. In September, a mob intercepted him ...

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 27-year-old suspected ‘yahoo’ boy, Obeta John, on Tuesday November 29, for allegedly killing his girlfriend one Idowu Buhari, an HND1 Mass Communication student of Gateway Polytechnic in Saapade area ...

Governor Ademola Adeleke has constituted committees to track all looted Osun assets. “You must right the wrongs and discharge your mandates with a sense of urgency,” said the new Osun governor. “We assure the people that we will not back ...