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A family in Embakasi’s Tassia estate , Kenya is in mourning after their 3-year-old son Derick Okeyo, was abducted by his biological father and killed in cold blood. According to a police report seen by K24 Digital, Derrick’s father Victor ...

Gunmen in their numbers storm Thisday Newspaper Abuja office in Utako on Thursday and threatened to kill staff. The armed men were said to have scaled the fence of the company’s premises to gain access. According to the newspaper, the ...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration has more achievements that the United States government, in terms of infrastructure. Fashola stated this in Kano during the “APC conversation series”, on ...

The Local Government Chairman of Emohua in Rivers State Dr Chidi Lloyd has uncovered an illegal mortuary where kidnappers abandoned their dead victims. His Chief Press Secretary, Bright Elendu, said in a statement on Thursday that his boss made the ...

A police helicopter which took off from the Federal Capital Territory has crashed at the Bauchi Airport. The Accident Investigation Bureau, in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred around 07:30pm on Wednesday. According to the statement signed by ...

The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has deactivated the passports of 200 travellers who presented “fake Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests and vaccination cards.” The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this in a chat ...

The deposed Deji of Akure, Oba Adepoju Adesina, Osupa 111, is dead. Adesina died on Thursday morning after a brief illness in a private hospital in Abuja. This is contained in a statement issued by Prince Dapo Adepoju, spokesman for ...

One of the soldiers at the checkpoint at the Onitsha Bridgehead in Anambra State on Thursday shot dead a 27-year-old revenue collector. The unidentified victim was killed when the soldier tried to shoot in the air to scare motorists from ...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is a wise choice that should not elude Nigeria’s 2023 presidency. The governor said this on Thursday during the inauguration ...

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos State has remanded Lagos Island ‘B’ Branch chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Azeez Adekunle Lawal aka Kunle Poly in the custody of the Nigeria Police Zonal Monitoring Unit, Zone ...

Kenya’s renowned football fan Isaac Juma has been killed by unknown people at his Mumias West home, family confirms to K24 Digital. His second wife Faridah Anyango Juma said that unknown people got into their home at around 9:00 pm ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported that 646 people recovered from Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of recoveries to 228,137 in the country. The NCDC, via its verified website on Thursday, however, reported ...

The United Kingdom has resumed work and study visa applications processing in Nigeria. This was contained in a post by UKinNigeria on its social media handles on Wednesday. In the post, Nigerians were urged to proceed to the UK visa ...

Lawyers for Nollywood actor Olanrewaju James – Baba Ijesha have decided not to challenge the evidence of the lagos state government against him through a no-case submission as earlier indicated, in his alleged child defilement trial. Defence counsel, Dotun Ajulo ...

A suspected internet fraudster identified as Michael Jackson has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to the commission, Michael specializes in posing as a transgender woman to defraud victims. The suspect was arrested ...

The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunmimbe Mamora, has debunked the news about free deoxyribonucleic acid tests popularly known as free DNA tests for Nigerians. The minister disclosed this in an interview with The Punch in Abuja. Some Nigerians ...

President Joe Biden will honour his commitment to make an African-American woman his first nomination to the Supreme Court, the White House says. She would replace the liberal justice, Stephen Breyer, who is expected to retire at the end of ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, Jephthah Robert, has been abducted by gunmen at home. He was kidnapped at his residence in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. It was learnt that the abductors had yet to contact the family since his kidnap ...

  The FCT High court  In Abuja has awarded the sum of 12 million in favour of Dr Monday Ubani for detaining him illegally for over 20 days on the ground that the woman (Dr Mrs Ngozi Olejeme) he stood ...

You think it’s only the US and UK Embassies that love their citizens and are quick to issue statements warning them of crisis or any danger in any country? Well, Nigeria Embassy in Ukraine just proved you wrong, duh! The ...

A former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hamman Bello Ahmad Kojoli, has died. He was 73. A relative, Dr Umar Ardo, confirmed that Kojoli died yesterday afternoon in Abuja after a brief illness. “It is true that ...

The Borno State Government has said that it would commence confiscation of seven United Nations agencies’ properties in the state over tax evasion. The Executive Chairman, Borno State Board of Internal Revenue Service (BO-IRS), Mohammed Alkali, stated this while briefing ...

  The Police in Ogun State have arrested a self-acclaimed pastor, Timothy Oluwatimilehin, for allegedly sleeping with a housewife and her two daughters. The suspect, a pastor in charge of Spirit Filled International Christian Church, Olomore area of Abeokuta, the ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said the country has recorded 115 confirmed cases and 26 deaths from Lassa fever this year, DailyTrust reports. The NCDC in a statement on Wednesday signed by its Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa said ...

A young man has reportedly died during engagement with a commercial s3x worker in Jesse, Idjere Kingdom, Ethiope West local government area of Delta State. It was learnt that the deceased took the commercial s3x worker to one of his ...