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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has secured a seven-year jail term for a public officer in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Amdii Monday Gideon, for his involvement in employment ...

An Akwa Ibom woman, Flourish King Ita has been sentenced for selling her own baby, and another one. A Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State sentenced the 38-year-old woman for human trafficking. She was sentenced on Thursday, May ...

A 36 years old man, Kingsley Essien has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police command for trafficking his wife to Mali for prostitution and as well sold her 2 year old son at the rate of N600,000. The ...

May 19, 2022 1 India’s top court has granted the release of a man convicted of killing former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after his imprisonment. Perarivalan was arrested a few weeks after Gandhi was assassinated in a ...

Man Shares Terrifying Story Of How He Escaped From Ritualists In Ibadan A Nigerian man Oluwademi Eden has shared the terrifying story of how he escaped from ritualists in Ibadan in December 2020. Read his story below..       

There was pandemonium on Wednesday at Dei Dei, a community in Abuja Municipal Area Council, Abuja as okada riders clashed with traders, with properties worth millions of naira destroyed. It was gathered that a woman was reportedly knocked down by ...

    A hemp seller, identified simply as Toba, has allegedly slit the throat of his girlfriend, Tunrayo Odubanjo, and dumped her corpse in a bush in Kara-Kekere community, Ogunrun, Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode area of Ogun State. Punch  ...

Omoyele Sowore has announced the death of his grandmother Moyinoluwa Olawoye nee Befo. The publisher said she passed away today, Wednesday 18th at the age of 100, describing her in a touching tribute as his digital grandmother. “Early this morning ...

  A young woman plunged 50ft to her death after she slipped on a mossy surface whilst posing for a selfie at a waterfall beauty spot in Thailand. Tragic Nane-Iosana Bodea was on a trip with mates at the tourist ...

  A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to admit the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to bail. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 ...

A High Court in Ghana has sentenced Ernest Ocloo; a Mathematics teacher of Sawla Senior High School(SHS) to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for the r3pe of an 18-year- old student of the school in the staff Common room. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh over allegation of fraud involving a Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) contract. Etteh was arrested on Tuesday by the anti-graft agency in ...

The relatives of the abducted victims from the train attack have vowed to disrupt the resumption of services on the Abuja-Kaduna Route come May 23. The aggrieved relatives insisted that there will be no resumption of train services until all ...

The police in Oyo state have arrested a muslim cleric, Alfa Tiamiyu Abass, for allegedly killing and dismembering a hairdresser, identified only as Barakat, in Oyetoro community, in the Oyo West Local Government Area of the state. Barakat was his ...

  The police in Sokoto have declared the men seen in the viral video of the murder of Deborah Samuel wanted for culpable homicide. Public Relations Officer of the Sokoto Command, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement on ...

Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was assured that fewer than five percent of accounts on the platform were fake. “Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%,” ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reacted to the mob attack in which a sound engineer Dave Sunday Imoh was killed in Lekki. Governor Sanwo-Olu in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, condemned the ...

A suspected backbone of a major cartel distributing drugs in Delta and adjourning states has been smashed following the arrest of a wanted drug baroness, Bridget Oghenekevwe Emeka, a.k.a Mama, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. ...

There has been an explosion on Aba Road in the Sabon Gari area of Kano, leaving several people injured with some feared killed. Details of the blast and its cause are still sketchy but visuals from the scene show that ...

  The Department of State Services has reportedly arrested a blogger, Ahmed Olamilekan, for allegedly publishing a story on Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun. The report was said to be on Abiodun’s alleged criminal records in the United States. Olamilekan’s ...

Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Putin’s own troops have said. A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured. It comes as investigations ...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), on Monday, announced the resumption of the Abuja-Kaduna train services on May 23, 2022 Bandits had bombed Kaduna-Abuja train, killed eight passengers and abducted several others. However, a statement by its Deputy Director, Public Relations, ...

Blackpool striker Jake Daniels, 17, has become the first active British male professional footballer to come out as gay. The teenage forward is the first British male footballer to come out publicly since Justin Fashanu, and he says he hopes ...

Crack operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), Ogun State Command, in the early hours of Monday, arrested a notorious land-grabber, Elijah Adeogun aka Killer, allegedly terrorising Ota community in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state. A source ...

Nigerian troops eliminated four Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members on Monday. The fighters were operating under the IPOB armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN). The gun battle ensued at Amaifeke and Ihioma in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo ...