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The embattled former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has rejected food offered him by the Nigerian Correctional Service after being remanded in prison custody on Monday. The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, it was learnt, opted for the food ...

A baby born with two heads, three arms and two hearts has left doctors stunned in India. Shaheen Khan and her husband Sohail were expecting two fully formed twins, but were shocked when she gave birth to what appeared to ...

Katsina State Commissioner for Health, Nuhu Danja, has been confirmed to be among those who sustained gunshot wounds in the Kaduna-Abuja train attack. An official in the State Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Almu Gafai disclosed this to Channels Television on ...

Bandits on Tuesday night, killed 23 people while several others sustained gunshot injuries during separate attacks in two villages of Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits had attacked nine villages in Giwa Local Government, killing 50 while ...

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has tested positive for Covid-19, three days before his side resume their domestic and European campaigns. The Spanish giants confirmed the news in a statement on Wednesday morning and it comes as a blow for ...

A 29-year-old lawyer identified as Farida Sule Mohammed was killed during the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday. The deceased was the daughter of the National Organising Secretary of the Peoples Redemption Party, Mallam Sule Mohammed. Confirming Farida’s death, ...

Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced Japheth Tallick Friday to two years imprisonment. He was sentenced for impersonation contrary to section 22 (2) (b) (i) of the Cybercrimes ...

Just like lawmaker, Akin Alabi, Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu thinks the NFF should be sanctioned. Mr Akin had called the Super Eagles loss disgraceful blaming the team starting from the honourable Minister, Mr Sunday Dare. Orji Kalu in ...

Donald Trump compared the United States to a ‘third world country,’ complaining that grocery, jewelry and hardware stores were all missing items during a Tuesday evening interview. The former president appeared on Just The News, a show on right-wing network ...

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Rev. Samson Ayokunle, on Tuesday urged Nigerians, especially from the South to produce a Christian candidate to take over the mantle of leadership in 2023. Ayokunle said this at the 53rd ...

Yahoo Boy’s Mother Jailed Five Years For Receiving N91m internet Fraud Largesse Mrs Debest Osarumwense has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in Benin, the Edo State capital. She is the mother of Endurance Osarumwense, an alleged internet fraudster a.k.a. ...

A 21-year-old lady, Esther Isaac, has died in a hotel in the Federal Capital Territory. The victim reportedly lodged in Room 901 on February 25, 2022, at the Agete Hotel in the Gwarinpa area of the FCT. Her brother, Emmanuel, ...

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali Hassan, has been confirmed as one of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers abducted by bandits after the terrorists successfully blew up the train and immobilised it on ...

A Director with the National Board for Tecnical Education (NBTE), Abdu Isa Kofa Mata, has been killed in Monday’s Abuja- Kaduna train attack. The attack occurred Monday night. A friend to the 55-year-old, Maiwada Dammallam said they spoke Monday morning, ...

Members of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) were among those killed in Monday’s attack on a Kaduna bound train. It was gathered that the Secretary-General of the union, Barr. Musa-Lawal Ozigi, and TUC Chairman in Kwara, Comrade Akinsola Akinwunmi, were ...

Presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu has said over 60 people were killed in the train bombing that occurred on Monday. “I have just been informed of a very sad incident in our country. Very sad indeed. That over sixty people and ...

The lawmaker who was present today at the stadium as Super Eagles played the Ghanaian team said the organisation shocked him more than the result and then called out the entire ministry including the Nigeria Minister of Youth & Sports, ...

The casualities are counting and some are still asking for the whereabout of their loved ones. According to social media reports, Muhammad Amin Mahmood, a contestant for APC North West Youth Leader, was among those killed by bandits when the ...

Wow, according to twitter user, @Stephadamu, DR Chinelo who was shot and later died during the Abuja-Kaduna train attack was supposed to leave the country this friday to start a new life. Steph explaining this tweeted; ”Dr Chinelo was making ...

Bola Tinubu has cancelled the 13th edition of its annual colloquium as mark of respect for those that died in an attack on a Kaduna-bound train. Tinubu, a presidential aspirant in the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the event could ...

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has appointed 20 commissioners to work with him. Soludo made the appointments on Tuesday, just twelve days after his inauguration. The former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor took over from his predecessor, Willie ...

Armed bandits have reportedly ambushed another passenger train along the beleaguered Abuja-Kaduna track. The incident occurred near Gidan Train Station as the train was returning to Abuja from Kaduna. It was not immediately clear how many passengers were on board. ...

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has visited the victims of the Abuja-Kaduna rail attacks. Osinbajo paid the visit while on his way to Lagos to attend the 13th Tinubu Colloquium marking the 70th birthday of former Governor of Lagos, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday rejoiced with former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 70th birthday. Mr Tinubu celebrate his 70th birthday  today. “President Buhari affirms the contributions of the party stalwart to the political, economic and social ...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has suspended train operations along the Abuja-Kaduna route indefinitely. The NRC made this known in a post via its official Twitter handle @Official_NRC on Tuesday morning. In a terse statement, the NRC stated that the suspension ...