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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Zamfara State Command has rescued an abandoned newborn baby. This was disclosed in a statement by the CDPRO Zamfara State Command, DSC Ikor Oche. According to the statement, the baby boy was ...

The Federal Government has blamed the erratic power supply in Abuja and some parts of the country on a reduction in hydro capacity owing to the dry season. The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, said this during the weekly ministerial ...

A suspected rapist standing trial before the Samuel Ilori Magistrate’s Court in the Agege area of Lagos State has escaped. Punch Metro gathered that the defendant was arraigned on Wednesday for allegedly raping a teenager. The court was said to ...

  An Osun State High Court on Thursday remanded in a correctional facility the owner of Hilton Royal Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, and six others arrested in connection with the death of a Master’s degree student of Obafemi Awolowo ...

A Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos Island, Lagos has sentenced a former staff of Sterling Bank, Samuel Dare Arayode to 10 years imprisonment. He was sentenced for stealing the sum of N540,000 belonging to his employer and for forging a Lagos ...

Former senator for Kogi West, Dino Melaye appeared to have dumped his longtime pal, Bukola Saraki for Atiku Abubakar. In a trending video, Melaye spoke at an interaction between Atiku and some senators in Abuja, with Dino explaining why he ...

Russian troops slaughtered a Ukrainian policeman’s family, including his newborn baby and 6-year-old daughter — all while his brother heard it in a phone call, according to reports. Policeman Oleg Fedko, 30, was working in the Kherson region when his ...

  Andriy Shevchenko has issued a powerful statement calling for the end to a “real war” between Ukraine and Russia, with the AC Milan legend pointing out that “children are dying” and members of his own family remain in Kyiv. ...

The Nigeria Police and some other security agencies have arrested a suspected serial killer, Oluwatosin Ikuemehinlo, aka 4G. The suspect, who was arrested with 11 others, is said to have been responsible for the deaths of people in the Okitipupa ...

The Federal Government has approved the request by the government of the United States (US) to extradite Abba Kyari, the suspended Commander of the Intelligence Response Team and  Deputy Commissioner of Police. Recall that the US requested Abba Kyari’s extradition ...

A wife was left ‘shocked’ and ‘devastated’ after her husband suggested that he have s3x with her sister in an attempt to impregnate her amid the couple’s infertility issues. A Reddit user, 34 – whose name is unknown – revealed ...

  A contractor, Hakeem Oladimeji, has allegedly committed suicide after killing his yet-to-be-identified girlfriend in the Bariga area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Oladimeji, who lived in Ogun State, was with his girlfriend in a rented apartment around ...

China has seemingly offered to mediate ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia amid its strongest comments yet over the conflict. A statement from Beijing yesterday said: ‘Ukraine is willing to strengthen communications with China and looks forward to China playing ...

A moving video appears to show a captured Russian soldier break down in tears as he sips tea and Ukrainians call his mother to tell her he’s OK. The unverified video shows the disheartened soldier after he apparently surrendered, surrounded ...

The Nigeria Police Force has said it has summoned a police officer seen carrying food for a female VIP at an even in Kwara State. The Force warned its operatives attached to Very Important Persons all over the country to ...

A 19-year old Ukrainian biathlete was killed in combat fighting off invading Russian forces, sports organizations said Wednesday. Yevhen Maylshev was killed Tuesday after taking up arms to defend his homeland against the Russian invasion, the Athletes of Ukraine and ...

A lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Dr Bilikis Babarinde, has asked a Grade A Customary Court, Iyaganku, Ibadan, to dissolve her marriage to her husband, Prof. Sikiru Babarinde. The plaintiff, who is a lecturer at the Department ...

Police in Russia’s second-biggest city St. Petersburg have arrested at least 350 anti-war protesters on Wednesday, according to local monitor site OVD-Info. Multiple videos show that police arrested an elderly woman holding anti-war and anti-nuclear signs while protesters cheered and ...

Two Ukrainian footballers have died defending their country following Russia’s invasion, Football’s global players association FIFPRO has announced. Fighting in Ukraine has entered a seventh day following Vladimir Putin’s call for a special operation to demilitarise and ‘denazify’ the country – ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of $8.5 million to evacuate at least 5,000 Nigerians who are stranded as a result of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada, announced ...

Yohanna Saidolo, an Adamawa State resident, has allegedly sold his neighbours’ six children after taking them away from home under the guise of enrolling them in a missionary school in the state. It was learnt that Saidolo deceived and took ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court presided over by Justice Bassey Nkanang has sentenced a 39-year-old man, one Monday Effiong, to life imprisonment for beating his 68-year-old father to death. The bricklayer who hailed from Mbiakpan Atan in Ibiono Ibom Local ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday said the construction of the Badagry deep sea port would start in June once the State is granted ratification by the Federal Government grants ratification in April. Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance during a ...

Kate Henshaw, on Wednesday lamented the worsening scarcity of petrol products in the country. The actress shared a video on her Instagram page, where she called on Nigerians to take actions concerning the future leaders of the country. This was ...

  The principal of Dowen College, Lagos, Mrs Adebisi Layiwola, on Tuesday wept before an Ikeja Corona’s Court while narrating how the death of a 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., was relayed to her. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...