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A businessman, identified simply as Uchechukwu, aka Alloy Omo Jesu, is on the run after allegedly torturing his 11-year-old apprentice to death in the Ogba area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the apprentice, Sunday, was accused of stealing ...

A fire engulfed an upmarket nightclub in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde in the early hours of Sunday, killing at least 16 people. “The incident was caused by the explosion of fireworks usually used in the nightclub,” said the government. It said ...

Governor El-Rufai’s son, Bashir and his wife, Halima have welcomed a set of twins. The new dad shared the news on Twitter saying, “Alhamdulillah. My wife just gave birth to beautiful identical twin boys. Mother is doing great. Father is ...

A professor of political economy and management expert, Pat Utomi, has said if Igbos ask him to contest presidency in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, he would welcome the idea. He, however, stressed that he was not position-drunk, stressing that ...

  Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, the Seriki Fulani of Ibarapaland, has opposed the release of Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho. The traditional head, who was evicted from his Igangan residence, said he opposes Igboho’s release due to his ...

  An eight-year-old girl named Asma’u was killed in Zaria, Kaduna state, by her abductors after her father paid N3m ransom for her release. The young girl was abducted by one of her neighbors on the 9th of December 2021 ...

A Ghanaian man has taken to social media to reveal how his wife confessed that one out of their 3 children is not his biological kid. According to him, he found out that his last child belongs to his bestfriend ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday that he has no plan to rejoin the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and partisan politics. Obasanjo who was twice elected President on PDP platform in 1999 and 2003, shredded his membership card in ...

  The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said consistent decrease in COVID-19 case positivity indicated the end of the fourth wave in the state. Abayomi disclosed this through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi today, while giving ...

The Borno government has ordered a probe into the shocking incident in which the throat of an 11 year-old pupil, Jubril Sadi Mato a.k.a Ramadan was slit by his senior. The commissioner for education ordered the probe on Friday. The ...

The General Manager of the Shooting Stars Sports Club, Rasheed Balogun is dead. According to Inside Oyo, the football boss died last night. The website also reported that the Ibadan Football Association also confirmed his death and suspended football matches ...

The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has assumed control of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company(IBEDC) Ltd over insolvency. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) Engineer John Ayodele confirmed the development in a memo to members of staff. Ayodele, in the ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has accused Nigeria’s presidency of deliberately shutting him out of Aso Rock, and preventing him from seeing President Muhammadu Buhari, because of his criticisms of the president. Ortom, who spoke after signing the reviewed controversial ...

  Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and schools in England and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events as infections level off in large parts of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ...

Idumota on Lagos Island is boiling as heavy gunshots have been witnessed in the area following bloody clash between rival hoodlums. The incident began last night and spread to Friday morning, with hoodlums seen with dangerous weapons, such as cutlasses, ...

A man in Ukwala Location of Ugenya in Siaya County, Kenya is alleged to have killed his wife and later hanged himself, living a note indicating the frustration of siring children with his wife. Enoch Omollo, 48, was found dead ...

A collapsed mast has reported killed two workers of the Nigeria Telecommunication Limited (NITEL) in Kastina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. The incident happened on Wednesday evening while seven workers who had climbed the mast were working to dismantle ...

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has endorsed the presidential aspiration of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu. Bello, who received Tinubu in Minna on Thursday, applauded the will of the All Progressives Congress’ chieftain’s in changing Lagos to what it ...

The Network of Civil Society Organisations – Borno (NESCOB), has said contrary to information in the public domain a teenage domestic help r3ped by a staff of non government organisation in Maiduguri did not commit suicide by stabbed to death ...

A big explosion in Ghana’s rural Western Region on Thursday razed hundreds of buildings and killed a yet-to-be ascertained number of residents. It happened when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine collided with a motorcycle. Unverified videos posted ...

A biopic of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State titled, “Yahaya the White Lion”, is set to premiere to a select audience of 200 persons on Saturday at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja. Seun Oloketuyi, Producer of the biopic, disclosed this ...

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, arraigned Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa, at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a ...

National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu has donated the sum of N50m to the state government to combat insecurity. This is according to a Facebook post by Tinubu Support Group (TSG). The former Lagos governor ...

US President Joe Biden has nominated the first Muslim-American woman to be a judge on a federal court in the United States, the White House said on Wednesday, as it announced a list of diverse judicial nominees. If confirmed by ...

The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, at Kwanar Dakata, in the Nassarawa Local Government Area, where the body of an abducted five-year-old girl, Hanifa Abubakar, was buried. The state Commissioner ...