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  A Malawi court has sentenced a Catholic priest to 30 years and several other people to life in prison over the gruesome 2018 murder of a man with albinism. Judge Dorothy NyaKaunda Kamanga said Thomas Muhosha had planned to ...

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) newly posted to Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State ‎has been abducted, Daily Trust reports. The DPO was abducted along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari highway around 9am on Monday. Sources told Daily Trust that the DPO was on ...

A Civil Society Organization, Save Public Education Group, has vowed to mobilize students for a nationwide protest if the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities continues. The group lamented the near collapse of the education sector in ...

Lassa fever have claimed 158 lives in 24 states since the beginning of this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said. The NCDC, in its situation report yesterday, said the cases were recorded across 99 local government areas. ...

At least six person have lost their lives, while others sustained various degrees of injuries in a fatal motor accident. The incident happened on Monday at about 11:30 a.m. along Hadejia-Kano road in Hadejia local Government Area of Jigawa State, ...

A Special Adviser to Imo State Governor, on Political matters, Batos Nwadike, has tendered his letter of resignation. In a letter of resignation addressed to Governor Hope Uzodiinma, Nwadike asked the governor to refund him the sum of N77,200,000, he ...

  Abdullahi Shinkafi, special adviser on intergovernmental affairs to the governor of Zamfara, says the state’s assembly has passed a bill prescribing death penalty for all banditry-related offences. “Today, the governor is going to sign into law death penalty for ...

At least 46 people have died and 16 others have been taken to hospital after they were discovered in the back of a lorry in San Antonio, Texas, just 150 miles from the Mexico border. “Teenagers and young adults” were ...

  Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. ...

  Gunmen suspected to cultists have gone on rampage in Akwuke, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, shooting dead a pregnant woman and a vigilante member. The hoodlums were also said to have shot a secondary school girl ...

  Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, lost the move to regain freedom. Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court rejected Kanu’s application seeking to grant him bail. The IPOB leader sought the ...

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration ...

A 27-year-old mother of two, Blessing Mba, who was allegedly brutalized by CSP Ige Adekunle, Divisional Police Officer of the Adeeke Police Station, Iwo, Osun State has been reported missing. Blessing, according to sources, left her house opposite Adeeke police ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given former President Olusegun Obasanjo, 48 hours to clarify his recent comments on regretting picking Atiku Abubakar as vice-presidential candidate. Obasanjo had said picking a running mate in 1999 was one of the ...

A lady took to her Facebook page to share a photo of the huge frog she discovered inside a bowl of ice cream she bought from a store. The lady with username, Tracy Wiemelt Holtman revealed that she bought the ...

    Two yet-to-be-identified cattle herders on Monday reportedly stabbed a man to death in protest against the killing of a cow around Agemowo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the herders were crossing the ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied raising N6.5tn to bride voters and INEC officials. On Monday, the ruling party accused the Peoples Democratic Party of being the brain behind the rumour that the APC had earmarked N6.5 trillion ...

  South African authorities are now seeking answers after 21 underage teenagers reportedly celebrating the end of school exams died in a mysterious incident at a nightclub. The bodies of many of the victims, the youngest just 13, were discovered ...

A housewife, Hauwa Audu, a resident of Michika local government area has hired the services of one Kwaji Tizhe, of Nkafa village for N100, 000, to kill her husband, James Tizhe, and made initial deposit of N7,000. Mrs Audu currently ...

  The Reverend Father, Christopher Odia, the Edo Catholic priest who was kidnapped on Sunday, has been assassinated by his kidnappers. After the cleric was kidnapped by gunmen, the Ikabigbo Community in the Edo State’s Etsako West Local Government Area ...

Over 36,000 people in Taraba state alone are HIV postive. This was made known at the weekly review performance of the Implementation partners working across HIV, tuberculosis and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the State during the weekend. The ...

  The Nigeria Immigration Service is investigating the authenticity of the passport obtained by Nwamini David, who was alleged to have been trafficked to the United Kingdom for organ harvest by a former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, ...

The brother of the boy taken to the United Kingdom by the Ekweremadus have spoken out saying he left Nigeria in January and he is 25. Jonathan Ukpo Nwanmini, who shares the same father with the alleged organ donor, David ...

  Gunmen have kidnapped a priest in charge of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Ikabigbo community, Etsako West Local Government of Edo State, Rev. Fr. Christopher Odia. It was gathered that Odia, of the Catholic Diocese of Auchi, was preparing ...

  A civil rights organization. Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, has given the Inspector-General of Police a 48- hour ultimatum within which he should arrest and initiate criminal prosecution against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola ...