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An Algerian footballer, Sofiane Loukar, suffered a heart attack and died after colliding with his goalkeeper in a second division match in Oran on Saturday, a local news outlet reported.   The APS agency said 28-year-old Loukar, from Mouloudia Saida, ...

  Gunmen in Ogun State have shot dead a 38-year-old Reverend Father, Luke Adeleke, on Christmas Eve, while returning from Mass. The Spokesman of the State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the development to newsmen on Sunday. The gunmen, according ...

The death of anti-apartheid veteran Archbishop Desmond Tutu has deeply saddened Queen Elizabeth and the royal family. The Queen described him as a man who ‘tirelessly championed human rights in South Africa and across the world’. In a message of ...

A middle-aged woman believed to be a sex worker at the weekend reportedly vomited blood uncontrollably after being hit on the head with charms by ritualists who promised to pay her a substantial amount of money, after having marathon s3x ...

A Missouri woman is under arrest after stabbing her boyfriend to death. She stabbed him on Christmas Eve with a sword. Police in Cape Girardeau, about 115 miles south of St. Louis, were called to a residence for a report ...

An Islamic cleric and suspected ritualist, Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, who was arrested for being in possession of a fresh human head, has died in police custody. Olayiwola, who also claimed to be a herbalist, was paraded along with other suspects ...

Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize-winning South African cleric who became the voice of the fight against the institutional segregation of apartheid, has died at the age of 90. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on Sunday. “The passing ...

Some Muslims in Kaduna State on Saturday joined Christians at Christ Evangelical and Life Intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, to celebrate Christmas. This, according to the General Overseer of the ministry, was to foster love, peace and unity among residents in ...

  The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has urged Nigerians to stop blaming President Muhammadu Buhari for all the challenges witnessed in the country. Amaechi, who is a former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, said this on a Channels ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 32-year-old fridge and air conditioner technician, Toheeb Akanji, for allegedly stabbing a 42-year-old man, Damilare Oladipupo, to death. The suspect, popularly known as T Cash, was reported to have lured ...

CONTRARY to reports that Uche Nwosu, former All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate in Imo State, was kidnapped, he was actually arrested by the police in Imo State. Nwosu, son in-law of Rochas Okorocha, former governor of the Imo State, ...

A police officer attached to the Utheri Wa Lari police post in Mai Mahiu, Nakuru County, Kenya has shot dead his senior after being reprimanded for reporting to work late and intoxicated. The officer opened fire on his boss, identified ...

The Taliban have banned women from travelling distances longer than 45 miles unless accompanied by a male family member. The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice today declared that women seeking to travel anything other than ...

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has urged Nigerian men to desist from using performance-enhancing substances, known as “aphrodisiac”, in order to impress their female partners. This was contained in a statement for the ...

Looters invaded the Next Cash and Carry Supermarket in Abuja as it burns yesterday. While the fire was burning, some looters entered and started carting away goods such as mattresses, packs of soft drinks and other household items. However, security ...

One Mrs. Comfort Jiya, a former principal of Government Girls Secondary School, Sabon Wuse and Maryam Babangida Girls Science College, Minna, has been set ablaze by her biological son, Steven Jiya. The incident happened in Minna, Niger State capital. Steven, ...

Isaac Owolabi Fayose, the younger brother of former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, is now a delivery van driver in the United Kingdom. Fayose revealed the new job himself in a video he shared on Instagram. Isaac Owolabi Fayose, the ...

Usman Baba, inspector-general of police, has expressed concern over the ability of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) to fire rockets in communities in Borno state. ISWAP had launched multiple rocket attacks in Maiduguri, the state capital, hours ...

The Olu of Kobape in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Olufemi Allen Taylor, is dead. His death was announced by the former Ogun State Governor Olusegun Osoba in a message on Friday. Osoba said the Alake ...

New Miss Nigeria, 18-year old Shatu Garko has replied her critics saying they can keep talking, but the Miss Nigeria crown is already on her head. Shatu replied her critics in an interview, saying she has been getting alot of ...

Below is President Buhari’s 2021 Christmas message to Nigerians. In his message, the President stated that his regime would not abandon all its campaign promises before the end of his tenure. The statement is titled ‘PRESIDENT BUHARI’S 2021 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE’. ...

There is panic at the Ayobo Ipaja area of Lagos State over a gas explosion that occurred in the area on Friday. The gas explosion happened around 1 am today– Christmas eve. The Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development, Mrs ...

America’s youngest Congress member is divorcing his wife after a mere eight months of marriage, citing his job as a lawmaker as a factor in the split. North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn, 26, announced Wednesday that he and his ...

The Imo State Police Command on Thursday paraded a couple, Mr and Mrs Onyekachi Alozie, for allegedly kidnaping and killing a 75-year-old man, Chief Precious Okoli. The state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, who spoke to newsmen at the command ...

A man, Mohammed Zangina, has been arrested in Kefii, Nasarawa State for alleged blackmail and extortion of an 18-year-old. A journalist, Gimba Kakanda – @gimbakakanda, who made this known on Twitter, noted that Zangina, a married man and father of ...