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Man burns to death after fire broke out in his house while he was asleep

A 40-year-old man was burnt to death in a fire incident that gutted his semi-permanent house in Mûûru village of Kirinyaga Central constituency, Kirinyaga county, Kenya. According to Kirinyaga county fire department official John Kiama, the fire started at around ...

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Nigerian railway suspends 8:00 a.m. train ride

Due to technical glitches, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the 8:00 a.m. train ride from Ujevwu in Delta from January 17. Fidet Okhiria, NRC’s managing director, explained that measures were in place to rectify the issues at the ...

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Lagos: Mother, son, kill younger sibling for money rituals

A Mother and her son have killed the younger sibling for money ritual. The son simply identified as Afeez Olalere confessed to the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command that his mother encouraged him to kill his kid brother ...

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Tinubu visits Ogbomosho, commiserates with Soun, Akala’s families (Photos)

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress and 2023 Presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has visited the family of the late Christopher Alao-Akala in Ogbomosho. The visit was to commiserate with with his family over the demise of the ...

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Petrol station workers charged with N83m theft

  Four employees of an Oando Service Station in Alapere, Ketu Lagos have been arrested by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) for allegedly defrauding their employer, Mrs Funmi Alebiosu of N83 million.   The suspects identified as Obande Emmanuel, Dauda Akeem, ...

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Obeying IPOB’s sit-at-home order will attract severe punishment – Ebonyi government warns residents

  Ebonyi government has warned residents of the state against obeying the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ahead of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s court outing.   IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful had announced that a sit-at-home protest will ...

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Buhari, Osinbajo shun Twitter 72 hours after ending ban

More than 72 hours after the Federal Government announced the lifting of the ban on Twitter, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is yet to tweet. Several media aides of the President have resumed using the platform since the ...

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Police arrest kidnapper while he was trying to collect ransom in Bauchi

  Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnapper while trying to collect ransom money.   Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the suspect Ya’u ...

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43-year old man rapes 80-year old woman in Nasarawa village

The Nasarawa state police command has said it has arrested a 43-year old man, Dan’asabe Eddo, for allegedly r3ping an 80 year old woman in Kundami village, Garaku, Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa state. This was contained in a ...

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Banker allegedly commits suicide in Delta a day after posting “I no longer have a mind of my own because I do things I later regret” on Facebook

  A staff of one of a new generation bank identified as Nwokorie Nnamdi Godson, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging in Sapele, Delta state.   It was gathered that the deceased died after hanging himself on a water tank scaffold at Ugbeyiyi ...

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I will go on exile if Tinubu emerges President – Bode George

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George and one-time military governor of Ondo State in an interview with Vanguard speaks on Tinubu’s ambition to be Nigeria’s President in 2023 and how he will ...

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Farmers, Herders clash in Ogun, five killed, houses burnt

At least five persons were killed when farmers and herders clashed in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. Houses, maize barns, motorcycles and other valuables were reportedly set ablaze in the clash. Daily Trust reports that the clash occurred ...

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El-Rufai speaks on banditry again, says informants our biggest problem

Informants are posing a great challenge to the efforts to rid Kaduna state of banditry, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has said. He said this at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Kaduna on Saturday. How bandits gunned down 13 in ...

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IBB explains why he is yet to remarry after wife’s death

  Former Military Head of State, brahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has explained why he didn’t remarry after the death of his wife, Hajiya Maryam Babangida.   Maryam, who was Nigeria’s First Lady between 1985 and 1993, died at the University ...

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I hope God will listen to our prayers on insecurity – Buhari

  President Muhammadu Buhari has again reiterated that his administration has done its best in tackling insecurity ravaging the country.   Noting that the North-West which had given the nation some “headache” would experience a turnaround for the better, the ...

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Man stabbed to death by daughter’s lover

There was confusion in Otu -Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Wednesday night, as a man was reportedly stabbed to death by his daughter’s lover. It was gathered that trouble started when the deceased whose identity ...

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Married woman is flogged 100 times after confessing to adultery in Indonesia while the married man she slept with only gets 15 lashes

A married woman was flogged 100 times after confessing to adultery in Indonesia while her male partner, who was also married, received just 15 lashes. The woman’s flogging in the conservative Aceh province on Thursday was briefly paused because she ...

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Tinubu returns to Twitter, speaks on suspension

Bola Ahmed Tinubu like many Nigerian politicians who deserted Twitter when it was banned 7 months ago has returned. While returning, Tinubu said social media platforms are sometimes misused, then commended the FG for bringing twitter back for millions of ...

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Ibadan Baker shocks Nigerians with cake baked for a civil engineer

Ibadan Baker shocks Nigerians with cake baked for a civil engineer An Ibadan baker has shocked Nigerians on twitter when she shared her latest work — a cake — baked for a civil engineer. She shared the finished job with ...

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Suspected 57-year-old cannibal arrested for eating, selling human parts

The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 57-year-old man, Aminu Baba, for allegedly eating and selling human body parts. The state Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Elkana, who paraded the suspect before journalists on Thursday, said Baba connived with three ...

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Man allegedly rapes salesgirl for over four hours in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a man, Patrick Odey, for allegedly raping a 21-year-old salesgirl. The victim, it was gathered, recently started working at a garden in Orozo in the Angwansarki area of Abuja and lives in ...

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2023: Okon begs Nigerian youths to end bad governance

Comedian, Okon Lagos has begged Nigerian youths to end bad governance come 2023 He made the appeal today saying of the same energy put inEndSARS will be put in the 2023 elections, especially on election day, things will change. What ...

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Twitter Ban Lift: Atiku Abubakar reacts

Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the suspension of twitter ban in Nigeria. The Federal Government early hours of this morning lifted the ban. While reacting to the ban, Atiku says he is more excited for small business owners who have ...

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Dele Momodu storms PDP headquarters, declares for presidency

Dele Momodu, Publisher and Newspaper columnist, has just declared interest to participate in the presidential race in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He made the declaration at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja after formally ...

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