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  A pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Calabar, Sunday Adediran, who was kidnapped on Nov. 13 at Ikot Eneobong area in Calabar has been released.   Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Irene Ugbo, ...

  American business magazine, Forbes, says 44 newcomers joined its list of 400 America’s richest people in 2021, a post on its verified Instagram page @Forbes, on Sunday, said. According to the magazine, the 400 richest Americans are now 40 ...

A three-year-old boy identified as David Ajao has allegedly been abducted by unknown persons. The boy was reportedly abducted while he was playing with other children in front of his dad’s shop on Dabara Street, Apongbon, Lagos. It was gathered ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum to meet its demands contained in the Memorandum of Action (MoA), signed by both parties on December 23, 2020. Failure to comply, it said, ASUU ...

Boko Haram terrorists have allegedly taken over five communities in Rafi and Shiroto Local Government Areas of Niger state, an official of the state said. Alhaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to the State Government disclosed this in an interview with News ...

The Nigerian government has demanded a full autopsy on the sudden and mysterious death of Itunu Babalola, a Nigerian, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Ivory Coast for alleged human trafficking. This was contained in a statement signed by the ...

  The widow of Rev. Wilson Badejo, the ex- General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel Church Nigeria, Mrs. Yinka Badejo, is dead. According to a report in ‘ChurchTimes’, she died in the early hours of Friday November 12 after brief illness. ...

  A 71-year-old Plumtree woman reportedly laced a bucket of water with poison at a funeral., in Zimbabwe. 10 people were hospitalised and discharged after complaining of stomach pains following the consumption of the water. In a statement, the police ...

  The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, says he does not know what happened to the video camera he recovered at the Lekki tollgate after the #EndSARS protests. Fashola said this during an interview on Arise Television. ...

  Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says all those who engaged in clandestine activities to pull down his administration have experienced utter disappointment. The governor said the recent crises within the Peoples Democratic Party were stirred by people who, ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected ritualists for unlawful possession of a fresh human head. The suspects, Monday Karezu, 32, a national of Benin Republic, and Anagonou Kamelan, 44, a Togolese, were arrested at the ...

The Anglican Bishop of Asaba Diocese, Rt. Rev. Justus Mogekwu, has canvassed the acquisition of Permanent Voter Card as a precondition for church members before they could participate in Holy Communion in the state. While urging Deltans to ensure they ...

  A man simply identified as Abdulateef has been allegedly stabbed to death by his wife after the deceased caught her with a man on their matrimonial bed. The incident was said to have occurred at 3am on Sunday in ...

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has announced November 24 as date for the opening of international student visa applications. The embassy said it expected heavy surge, following the lifting of travel curbs for vaccinated travellers. US travel restrictions were ...

Senator Biodun Olujimi, representing Ekiti South Senatorial District in the Senate, on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti indicated her interest to contest the state Governorship election, slated for June 18, 2022. Olujimi who disclosed her decision to newsmen in a telephone conversation ...

Two Ugandan soldiers accused of killing seven Somali civilians in August while serving under the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) have been sentenced to death by a court martial. Three others were sentenced to 39 years each in jail after ...

Nigerian troops have eliminated a top-ranking Commander of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and no fewer than 37 other terrorists in Askira Uba, Borno state. The troops killed the terrorists in a military offensive, following the killing ...

The vice president of the Dangote Group and brother to Aliko Dangote, Sani Dangote, is dead. Sani Dangote reportedly died after a protracted illness in the United States on Sunday. The Dangote Group in a short statement Sunday night confirmed ...

Doctors in Nigeria have rejected a proposal by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, for physicians trained in Nigeria to work in the country for at least nine years before being allowed to migrate. This is just ...

A 23-year old University student has been arrested and charged for stealing a phone worth Sh143,000, cash, and passport all valued at Sh262,440 from her boyfriend. Veronica Njeri is accused of stealing the phone, a wallet containing USD800 and Sh30,000, ...

Some parts of Enugu, capital of Enugu State have become safe haven for hungry thieves as they now steal boiling soups on fire. Apart from boiling soups, leadership.ng investigations revealed that the robbers also steal pots of rice, beans, among ...

Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was the scene of a September riot that killed 119 prisoners. “According to preliminary information, some 68 ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday, leave Paris for Durban, South Africa, at the special invitation by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman confirmed this development in a statement on Saturday, in Abuja. Adesina said Buhari will ...

The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of a Brigadier General in an attack by the Islamic State West Africa Province in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday. In a statement signed by the Director, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one Precious Omonkhoa for an alleged $200,000 (about N108 million) bitcoin investment scam. Omonkhoa was arrested on November 8, 2021, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, following credible intelligence received by the ...