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  Prophet Bisi Olujobi, the General Overseer of Wisdom Church International, Ketu, Lagos State, has warned he sees a shameful end of Primate Elijah Ayodele. He also said leading pastors in the country such as Pastor W. F Kumuyi of Deeper Life ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak with his US and French counterparts on Saturday after the United States warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine in days. The United States had dramatically raised the alarm over Ukraine on Friday, ...

A social media user, Omotayo Rotimi has shared a photo of a beggar who was arrested with N500,000 cash and $100 in Abuja. According to him, she was picked for interrogation. Sharing her photo, he wrote; “This woman named Hadiza ...

A three-storey building under construction has collapsed in Yaba area of Lagos. The building, located on Akanbi Crescent, near the main gate of University of Lagos, UNILAG, collapsed unto a building beside it this afternoon. Further details of the collapsed ...

Troops of Operation Thunder Strike, a formation of the Nigerian Air Force, have intercepted and killed at least 20 bandits who were advancing towards the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. A report by PR Nigeria revealed that the bandits, riding ...

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has issued a query to the owner of BVER, a private hostel on the campus, where a female student died. A 200-level student in the Department of Linguistics and African ...

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said Wednesday. Exploitative faith healers, whose practices are rooted in mystic Sufi ...

Video shows the moment a security guard forcibly dragged a New York father-of-two out of an upstate school board meeting Tuesday night because he was not wearing a face mask. Dave Calus said he attended the regularly scheduled school board ...

  Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, has slammed Governors criticizing the President, telling them that won’t make them heroes anyway. Adesina, in a statement issued on Friday, said these governors use the President as a shield ...

There was pandemonium in the Agbado area of the Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos State on Friday morning when two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers clashed in the area. Eyewitnesses told The Punch that road ...

  The video footage that shows the moment a Rev. Fr. James Anelu, who is the Parish Priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, who banned Igbo songs in his parish, has been shared online. Father ...

Oyo State Government and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) have agreed to resolve their differences over unpaid revenues and bills in the public interest. Both parties made the resolution in a statement jointly signed in Ibadan on Thursday. The statement, ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted 40,250 kilogrammes of codeine worth over N2bn imported in two 40-foot containers from India. The drug bust comes on the heels of a similar seizure of 14,080kg codeine syrup and ...

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has joined the Presidential race. The Governor paid Goodluck Jonathan a visit to solicit the former Nigerian president’s support for his presidential ambition. The meeting took place at the Abuja residence of Goodluck Jonathan on ...

  A middle-aged woman has been shot dead by gunmen at Yelewata community in the Guma Local Government Area in Benue State. The incident, according to residents, happened around 5pm on Wednesday while the victim was returning from the farm. ...

Brazilian police have revealed how a 20-year-old hacker repeatedly stole small sums of money totaling more than 40,000 dollars from Neymar’s bank accounts. Police said the man who is now in its custody worked at an unnamed bank where the ...

At least two cases of the potentially deadly Lassa Fever have been detected in the UK – the first in over a decade. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed that two people have been diagnosed with Lassa Fever in England, ...

A Lagos-Ibadan-bound train has crushed a deaf woman in Itoki, Ogun State. A Twitter user, @ojozacheus247, disclosed this in a tweet on Wednesday evening, posting pictures of her dismembered body. The tweep wrote, “The deaf woman was killed by the ...

A pro-democracy group, the Campaign for Democracy, has warned against allowing another military coup to take place in Nigeria as a result of the challenges currently facing the country. The group said what was happening in some West African countries, ...

Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah’s on Thursday escaped an assassination attempt when assailants struck his car with bullets. A source close to him said he escaped unharmed amid intense factional wrangling over control of the government. The source said the ...

Two persons have been reportedly killed by suspected kidnappers in Molege community, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State and in Ondo town. It was gathered that one of the deceased, a farmer, identified as Zacheus Olotu, was kidnapped and ...

Armed robbers have attacked a bullion van transporting money to a bank at Idi-Ape in Ibadan North East Local Government area of Oyo state, killing three police officers and four others. Vanguard reports that the armed robbers, who were said ...

An unidentified middle-aged man was, in the early hours of Wednesday, found hanging from a tree in an apparent suicide, on 1st Avenue, Festac, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, opposite a popular hotel. The remains of the victim, who had ...

The Police Command in Yobe, yesterday, said a 20-year-old man, Mai Goni, allegedly hacked his father, Goni Kawu, to death with a pestle in Masaba, Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State. The command’s spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, said in ...

  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Thursday in Abuja, warned diplomats newly posted into the country to steer clear from internal politics while remaining within the limits of their schedules. Buhari said this during the presentation of Letters ...