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The corpse of a mother of three, Fatimo Olamide, is being held at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital’s morgue over N860,000 outstanding medical bill. According to The PUNCH, Olamide was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital ...

Airstrikes by the Nigerian Army targeting ‘bandits’ have killed seven children and wounded five others by mistake in Niger. The governor of the Maradi region, Chaibou Aboubacar, confirmed the development to AFP on Sunday. The Region of Maradi is one ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for coronavirus, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday. The 95-year-old sovereign — who is celebrating her 70th year on the throne — is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor ...

A domestic worker, Sossougueto Theodore, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing N2,729,850 from his Japanese employer, Yasushi Murata, in the Ikoyi area of the state. A neighbour, Oluwasegun Olusoji, was reportedly arrested ...

A woman, Ramota Soliu, has allegedly killed her husband, Bello, at a Fulani settlement at Iyana Ilewo, in the Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The mother of two was reported to have poured hot water on her husband, ...

Four men have been arraigned before a Yola Chief Magistrate’s Court over the death of a 28-year-old man, Adamu Ahmadu, who was wrongly accused of stealing a phone. Ahmadu, who was the son of a security guard working with the ...

Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu has said President Muhammadu Buhari is “healthier than most young Nigerians” criticising him on health issues. Shehu spoke on Thursday via Zoom in an interview on Channels Television. Buhari is currently in Brussels, Belgium, for the ...

At least five persons have been hospitalized following a fire outbreak at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School, located at Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island. According to eyewitnesses, the incident which happened on Thursday led to commotion among ...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isah Ali Ibrahim Pantami has added the rank of ‘Professor’ to his name in some changes made to his personal Facebook page. The addition of the new title is coming amidst widespread ...

Thousands of Porsches, Audis, and Lamborghinis were marooned on an unmanned burning cargo ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Thursday. Crew members of the 650-feet-long Felicity Ace were evacuated from the transport ship to a hotel in the ...

Police operatives in Akwa Ibom have begin the hunt for killers of Chief Bassey Emah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. SP Odiko Macdon, Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer said this while confirming the ...

The Senate Deputy President, Ovie Omo-Agege, has boasted that the ruling All Progressives Congress would produce the successor to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), come 2023. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, spoke in ...

The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails. Kyari made this claim when he appeared before a probe panel led ...

  A drama was witnessed at a burial ceremony in Gatanga, Kenya after the deceased kin dropped a beehive near the casket as the funeral service was ongoing forcing mourners to run for their lives. The incident forced the burial ...

An unidentified man has reportedly slumped and died at a hotel in Ada George in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State after alleged s3x romp with his female partner. Punch Metro gathered that the incident occurred a few ...

An unidentified woman, who disguised as a teacher, has abducted five children from their homes in Rukpakulusi axis of Eliozu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Three of the children, whose ages ranged from 18-months to four years, were reportedly abducted ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mohammed Bello Koko as the substantive Managing Director for the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Koko has been performing the role of the MD of the authority in acting capacity since the suspension ...

Osun State government on Tuesday denied a claim that there was a plan to assassinate Minister of Interior and former governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Sunday Akere, Special Adviser to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola on Political Matters, gave the ...

The Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has filed a $1 million (US) for general damages against the Republic of Benin over his detention in Benin, before the Community Court of Justice, the Economic Community of West African ...

The United States has offered a sovereign loan guarantee to Ukraine of up to $1 billion to support the country’s economy as the Eastern European country prepares for a possible Russian invasion any day, the Department of State announced on ...

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has tested positive for COVID-19 after her husband, Prince Charles, announced his second bout with the virus last week, the couple’s office said Monday. “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for COVID-19 ...

The principal suspect in the murder of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar in Kano, Abdulmalik Tanko, on Monday denied killing the girl and pleaded not guilty. However, Tanko, who was accused of abducting and killing Hanifa has denied the allegations against him ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has released video evidence against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. NDLEA showed footage of Kyari trying to bribe one of its operatives in a bid to carry out a drugs ...

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confirmed the arrest of suspended police officer, DCP Abba Kyari. The agency indicted him on Monday, for involvement in a 25 kilograms cocaine deal. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, wanted over alleged links with drug trafficking.   NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi made the announcement during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, February ...