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Bandits on Thursday killed 15 locals and wounded several others in Kaduna communities. Resident in Giwa LGA of the state, Alhaji Musa Bawa said about 11 locals were killed while several others sustained gunshot injuries. Confirming the attack in a ...

A popular Abuja health centre, Alliance Hospital, has denied harvesting the kidney of a 17-year-old boy whose elder brother accused the hospital of alleged organ harvesting. An official of the health centre who identified herself as Nafisat spoke to Punch ...

  The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 24, 2022 , arraigned one Chandra Singh before Justice I.O. Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a 19-count ...

  Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested and charged the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday, following months of investigation over his conduct. In a national address in June, Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera stripped ...

Two persons identified as Daniel Atekojo James, who claimed to be a Black American female on Snapchat and Atadoga Samuel from Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, have been convicted over offences bordering on internet fraud by the Federal ...

A seven-year-old girl was, yesterday, murdered by a suspected ritualist in Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State. The incident happened around 7am at Kilani Street, Iyana Iyesi area of Ota. It was gathered that the victim was sent ...

  The Appellate Court in Abuja has upheld the conviction of Faisal, the son of Abdulrasheed Maina, for conspiracy and money laundering. Maina, the former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, is serving an eight-year jail term at ...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, on Thursday, disqualified the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, over dual citizenship. Tonye Cole is said to be a citizen of the United Kingdom. ...

A twitter user has rejoiced after his friend stormed his brother-in-law’s house with hoodlums to beat him up, for assaulting his sister. The user, who goes by the name @Waspapping_ on twitter, said his friend’s sister was beaten mercilessly by ...

The Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP) has raised the price of sachet (‘pure’) water to N300 per bag. National President, Clementina Ativie made the announcement in a statement. The decision was unanimously reached during the ATWAP national convention in ...

  Kanye West has asked Donald Trump to be his running mate after confirming his plans to launch a 2024 presidential bid. The 45-year-old rapper divided the internet when he announced his political plans in a video posted to Twitter ...

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones ...

A 200-level Dental student of the Sultan Abdurrahman College of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, Sokoto State, has been reportedly killed by his friends over alleged phone theft. It was learnt that the deceased and his murderers who also were students of ...

  The Nigeria Power Sector Awards has announced nominees for 2022 edition of the award with former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, and former Minister of Power Barth Nnaji bagging some of the ...

A cancer care advocate Dr Femi Olaleye, who is being accused of defiling a minor, has said he is innocent. He said the allegations against him are false, malicious and looks like a set-up. In a statement, the medical practitioner ...

Founder of Mount Zion Ministries, Mike Bamiloye has reminded men who maltreat their wives that their prayers can’t be answered. The cleric said that men who hurt their wives are in return hurting themselves He said this in a post ...

Meta officials have denied rumors that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is planning to step down as CEO of the company he has built from the ground up. Insiders had told The Leak that the 38-year-old has decided to step down as ...

A man in Adamawa State, Muhammed Abubakar has owned up to dressing as a woman and making money from unsuspecting men. Muhammed, a holder of Diploma in Business Management from the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, said he dresses like a ...

  The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for defrauding a citizen of N100,000 to help her to secure a fake ...

A man identified as Idowu Abel has confessed to the police how he and his accomplice, Clement Adeniyi, killed his close friend, Adekunle Muyiwa, in cold blood. It was learnt that Abel had told the police in Ogun State that ...

One Princess Helen Abang has been remanded in Suleja Custodial Centre by Hon. Justice K.N. Ogbonnaya of High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Zuba for faking ownership of 2 storey building of 6 units of three bed room flats ...

A Nigerian teenage basketball player, Seyi Sodiq, has died at the age of 18 in Abuja after suffering from cardiac arrest. Sodiq, who played for the Alba Fehérvár men’s basketball team in Hungary, reportedly returned home to Abuja, on the ...

Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood will face trial next year on charges of attempted r.a.pe, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault, a judge said on Monday. Greenwood, 21, arrived at court in Manchester, northwest England, wearing a hoodie bearing the ...

The Kogi State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the death of five persons while four were severely injured when an articulated truck rammed into a passenger at Oro junction, Okene area of the state. The accident ...

The Naira on Monday appreciated against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging at N445.38. The figure represents an appreciation of 0.07 percent compared with the N445.67 for which the dollar exchanged at the close of business on ...