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A law firm, Falana & Falana’s Chambers, has asked the Lagos State Police Command to invite social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo, to explain a “reckless allegation” she made against the late 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Sylvester Oromoni. The solicitors ...

  The United Kingdom has recorded its first Omicron-related death. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, disclosed this on Monday while on a visit to a vaccination clinic in west London, the BBC reports. Johnson is said to have advised British ...

Properties worth millions of Naira were this morning, Monday, December 13th gutted by fire at a shopping complex in computer village, Ikeja. The incident happened at No 18, Otigba Street, Computer Village, Ikeja. Fire fighters were immediately called and arrived ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has flagged a Northern Governor for personally withdrawing cash of N60 billion from his state treasury. The EFCC, which broke the story in its latest EFCC Alert, said the governor is from the ...

  A 100-level student of the Taraba State University has been reported dead following a fire outbreak at the female hostel of the institution. The victim identified as Emoseh Lawi was a student of the Tourism Department of the university. ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says there has been a significant increase in the COVID-19 case positivity rate in the state. Giving an update of the COVID-19 situation as of December 10, 2021, on Sunday via ...

Gunmen on Sunday, abducted two traditional rulers in Imo State and set their palaces ablaze. They are Eze Acho Ndukwe of Amagu Ihube and Eze Paul Ogbu of Ihitte Ihube, both in Okigwe Local Government Area of the state. The ...

Imo State Police Commissioner Rabiu Huissani on Sunday expressed utmost dismay over indiscriminate use of fireworks and other explosives in the state. He warned the general public that the ban on the use of fireworks and other explosives is still ...

Jailed founder and publisher of WikiLeaks Julian Assange had a mini-stroke during his battle to avoid extradition from Britain to the United States, his fiancee Stella Moris said late on Saturday. On Friday, the US government won an appeal at ...

A man has been arrested allegedly with one million capsules of tramadol. Onuoha Friday, 43, was arrested with the drugs on December 10 on Lagos Benin Expressway, spokesman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, said in a ...

A 2-year-old Yemeni girl has had her left hand allegedly amputated after being bitten by a lion during her family visit to the zoo in Ibb governorate in Yemen. Reports said the toddler put her hand into the lion’s cage ...

The British High Commission on Sunday said the United Kingdom would not reverse its travel ban on Nigeria because of a threat of retaliation by the Federal Government. The spokesman for the British High Commission, Dean Hurlock, said this in ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for COVID-19 and is receiving treatment for mild symptoms, his office said. Ramaphosa, who is fully vaccinated, began feeling unwell after leaving a state memorial service for former President F W de ...

Pandemonium in Onitsha as gas station explodes, consuming Christen filling station along Awka road Onitsha and another filling station along Onitsha Enugu expressway way. Two other filling stations beside the unfortunate ones, Rain Oil and J I Ejison oil were ...

A man has passed away after falling from his roof while decorating his home for Christmas, leaving behind two young daughters. Joe Cocco, 31, fell from the roof of his Wisconsin home in late November and was rushed to the ...

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a pastor, Peter Taiwo of Christ Apostolic Bible church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta for defiling a 16-year-old choir member of his church. The police also arrested his wife, Elizabeth Taiwo for allegedly ...

A 56-year-old man has been killed by his three sons at Shikangania village in Lurambi Constituency, Kakamega County, Kenya after they suspected that he broke into their house and stole a smartphone they jointly own. The three sons, two in ...

The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, is dead. The 95-year-old traditional ruler died on Sunday morning(today). This was corroborated by two other highly placed sources in the town. He said, “It is true that Baba has passed ...

Member of the House of Representatives, Mr Dennis Idahosa (APC-Edo), has said that any politician who fails to deliver on their campaign promises to the people should be stoned. The representative of Ovia federal constituency said the same fate would ...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has singled out religion as the number one problem hindering Nigerians from being liberated as “rational beings.” The venerated writer made the comment while speaking recently with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike. “All ...

Bandits have killed a pastor of the Evangelical Church of Winning All, Nariya, Kaduna, Rev Dauda Bature, after collecting ransom from his wife. Bature was kidnapped on his farm in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government Area of the state, on November ...

Femi Otedola, has given N2 million to the Abdulwaheeds who gave birth to quadruplets after their fourth child. This is happening barely two weeks after it was reported that the couple residing in Gwako, a suburb of Gwagwalada area of ...

Death toll has risen above 70 as Tornadoes sweep through six US states, with Kentucky the most hit. The governor of the US state of Kentucky Andy Beshear, said more than 70 people were killed by tornadoes on Friday night. ...

Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a pastor of a white garment church for allegedly raping a pregnant woman. According to the victim, identified as Bukola, the pastor allegedly committed the crime while she came for deliverance ...

Flanked by two women on whose shoulders she leaned, Bukola Adebayo trudged to the family’s expansive living room from the bedroom. She sank into a cushion with a Bible clutched to her chest, sitting close to her bereaved husband, Adeyemi ...