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Three police officers, on Sunday, lost their lives in an accident along the Kubwa-Zuba Expressway, when the patrol van in which they were traveling experienced a burst tyre and crashed into a drainage. It was learned that the accident, which ...

A 44-year-old man, Terhemen Anongo, who lives in Gboko area of Benue State has removed his two testicles based on his religious belief. Anongo had earlier in March 2021 removed one of his testicles but decided to remove the second ...

Lagos nurses have suspended their planned warning strike after meeting with Governor Sanwo Olu. After hours of extensive meeting with the Governor, nurses in Lagos on Sunday night agreed to suspend the planned three-day warning strike as soon as a ...

Two commercial buses allegedly conveying 32 children from Benue state to Ede in Osun state were Saturday morning intercepted by the Benue State Police Command’s anti-crime squad code-named Operation Zenda, at Ameladu in Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of the ...

The police in Ogun say they arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his mistress’s husband to death. The police spokesperson in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued to journalists in Ota, Ogun, on Sunday, ...

Nasarawa Police Command has confirmed the arrest of Mr. Ovye Yakubu, who allegedly killed his wife, Esther Aya, in Sabonpegi-Shabu community of Lafia. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Ramhan Nansel, yesterday, disclosed this in Lafia. The PPRO ...

A prison officer, Kayode Adeniyi, attached to a correctional centre in Ondo town, Ondo State, has allegedly killed himself over his inability to pay house rent and meet other financial obligations. Adeniyi reportedly shot himself in the head in his ...

A prominent Afghan university professor and outspoken critic of the Taliban leadership has been arrested in Kabul. Faizullah Jalal, a longtime professor of law and political science at Kabul University, has made several appearances on television talk shows since the ...

A middle-aged man identified as Akeem Ogunnibi at the weekend revealed that he worked hand in hand with Department of State Security (DSS) operatives to ‘kidnap’ an Osogbo-based businessman, Mallam Bala, at Sabo area of the town. Ogunbiyi who stated ...

At least seven people died and nine were seriously injured when a wall of rock collapsed on motorboats below a waterfall in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, the fire department said. A tower of rocks suddenly broke away from the canyon ...

Here are the faces of the women arranging young girls to have sex with bandits in the forests. The Intelligence Response Team (IRT), a special police unit fighting kidnapping, has arrested several women in Kaduna state for arranging s3xual liaisons ...

The Kebbi State Government said on Saturday that 30 students and a teacher of Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri, abducted by bandits in June 2021 have regained their freedom. Gunmen had abducted over 100 students and eight teachers from ...

A Katsina farmer, Saidu Faskari, has removed his house’s roofing sheet to sell as he gathers ransom money for the release of his eldest son. Faskari local government is one of the frontline areas in the state for bandits’ attacks. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed outrage at the latest reports of several villagers being massacred by escaping bandits in Zamfara. Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the president, who was reacting to ...

Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has restated the family’s commitment to get justice, saying that he would not bury his son even if it takes 30 years to ...

Three siblings have SURVIVED a fatal car crash after a truck ram into them. The accident happened at Eha-Alumona junction in Nsukka, Enugu State. According to eyewitnesses, the siblings narrowly escaped death when a the trailer crushed their car. According ...

President Buhari has been told to declare Hijrah holiday or cancel holiday for Christians. The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) said the 1st January holiday is a Christian colonial creation designed to dignify and rubber-cushion the pomp and pageantry of Christmas. ...

Sad photos of the malnourished 3 month old baby whose hungry mother can’t feed due to war Three-month old Surafeal Mearig lies helpless at the biggest hospital in Ethiopia’s war-torn region of Tigray. His eyes are wide open, and his ...

The presidency has said many so-called prophets predicting doom against President Muhammadu Buhari are tricksters, artificers, swindlers, charlatans, scoundrels. Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina in his article late Thursday said unfortunately, some people have decided to call themselves, and they go ...

A suspected ritualist, who disguised as a mad man, was on Thursday burnt alive by an angry mob in Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Sources said people became suspicious when they saw him with an Android ...

A person living in the south-west of England has caught bird flu, UK officials have confirmed. Cases like this are extremely rare and the individual probably became infected from very close contact with a sick or dead bird. Experts say ...

A Nigerian Pastor based in Cotonou, Benin Republic, has captured the moment an ‘angel’ appeared in his church. He shared the photos on Facebook saying it’s indeed a wonder. Pastor Ekuma Uche Philips who claimed he has never seen a ...

Kazakhstan’s authoritarian leader says he has ordered security forces to “fire without warning”, amid a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev also said “20,000 bandits” had attacked the main city of Almaty, the epicentre of protests sparked by ...

Gunmen have staged an attack on the Ideato South Local Government Area Police Headquarters in Dikenafai, Imo State. They attacked parts of the station with explosives and set free the detainees. The explosives reportedly destroyed the administrative office, the Divisional ...

Police in Niger State have arrested a 25-year-old Abubakar Mohammed Baba, for allegedly conspiring with a friend to kill his 52-year-old father, Alhaji Mohammed Baba. Police said the father was attacked and stabbed to death in his residence at Koropan ...