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  There was tension in Udo Idiong Junction in Obio Okpa campus of the Akwa Ibom State University, OrukAnam local government area of the state, as a roadside petrol dealer on Sunday set ablaze one Enwongo Akpan, a 200-level philosophy ...

  Residents of Mûrûri shopping center in Kirinyaga county, Kenya woke up to a shocking incident on Sunday, July 10, 2022, after discovering a newborn baby dumped in a pit latrine. According to Kirimara location chief Naftaly Gichimu, the child ...

Police in Kaimosi in Emgwen Sub-county in Nandi county, Kenya are looking for a 17-year-old suspect who allegedly killed his cousin in Kabaskei Village in Chepkumia location last evening after an argument overcharging of a mobile phone. In a statement ...

Three people have been killed by flood in three communities in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State following a heavy downpour on Saturday. The affected communities are Likdir, Buni-Gari, and Kukuwa Tasha where more than 100 households were ...

Some yet-to-be-identified people bearing arms have reportedly attacked the residence of the Labour Party candidate for the July 16 Osun governorship poll, Mr. Lasun Yusuf, located in Ilobu, Osun State. Wole Oladimeji, the media aide to Lasun Yusuff, who confirmed ...

The Niger State Police Command has announced that it has recaptured one Kazeem Murtala aged 54, who escaped from the Kuje Custodial Centre. In a statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, he said ...

The Anglican Communion in Calabar, Cross River State, has called for the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari and his government. The church has also expressed deep disappointment at and outrightly rejected the national party, the APC, Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket ...

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State, has arrested three suspects over the alleged r*pe of a seven-month pregnant woman in Woro village in the Kaiama Local Government Area of the state. The suspects: Lawal Ibrahim, ...

Gunmen on Sunday abducted the wife of the General Manager of Imo State Zoo, Mrs. Francis Abioye. She was said to have been abducted inside First Baptist Church near Imo Fire Service around 4.30 pm. Sources said the kidnappers entered ...

The report of an autopsy conducted on the remains of 21-year-old Esther Isaac Asuquo, who was murdered in Agete Hotel in Gwarinpa, Abuja on February 25, 2022, has shown that she was strangulated. A preliminary report of the autopsy conducted ...

Workers in the nation’s power sector have expressed their determination to shut electricity supply if Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), go on a nationwide protest over the protracted strike in the country’s educational sector. The nation’s power workers, under the aegis ...

A video of Peter Obi’s supporter issuing a threat ahead of the 2023 presidential election as emerged at the weekend. In the video, the youth is seen brandishing a pistol while campaigning for Peter Obi in a violent manner. After ...

The University College Hospital, Ibadan has said that it has withdrawn its memo which mandates patients using the health facility to pay a sum of N1,000 per day. Recall that an internal memo had said that each of the patient ...

Youths dressed in school uniform of a famous college in Yola, have attacked two victims with a long knife and seized their mobile phones. It was gathered on Sunday that the suspects: Madu Ibrahim and Husseini Abbas, conspired with six ...

The Chairman of Borno State, Christians Association (CAN), Bishop Mohammed Naga has commended the selection of former governor of the state, Senator Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 ...

The Edo State Government has warned that traditional rulers and village heads in the state would be held responsible for any kidnapping act in their various domains. The state-acting governor, Philip Shaibu said this in Benin after a security meeting ...

Minister of State for Labour and Employment of Nigeria, Festus Keyamo has defended the All progressive Congress (APC) decision to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election. According to Keyamo, countries develop as a result of visionary leadership ...

Elon Musk has been posting memes on Twitter mocking the social media platform for lawyering up and trying to force him to buy them, as the Tesla chief’s $44 billion deal to acquire the platform looks set to collapse. The ...

Terrorists are demanding a N100m ransom for each of the 43 abducted Kaduna train passengers, who are still in their custody, The PUNCH has learnt. The demand was communicated to the families of the hostages last week. This is coming ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday, remanded a Nigerian billionaire, Ukatu Mallinson, who was linked to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari’s alleged N3bn hard drug in the facility of the Nigerian Correctional Services. Justice ...

A mass shooting at a tavern in Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa is confirmed to have led to the death of fourteen persons, 10 others have been injured with three in critical condition. According to reports, the incident happened at ...

Seven more kidnapped passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna bound AK9 train have been released after being in captivity since the 28th of March 2022. A member of the negotiating team and media consultant to Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, ...

  Primate Ayodele, the Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has stated that the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, LP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso will not win the 2023 presidential election. ...

Activist Aisha Yesufu has stated that a Muslim-Muslim ticket is an insult to fairness, equity and justice. She shared this on Twitter after APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, announced Kashim Shettima, former Borno state governor, as his running mate. Reacting ...

Bola Tinubu has given reasons why he picked a Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate. The APC Presidential candidate announced Shettima as his running mate after paying a visit to President Buhari in Daura today, July 10. Speaking to ...