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A mother has admitted that she hid her baby son’s dead body in the walls of her home, after she took his remains along in a move from another house, according to police reports. Kylie Wilt told authorities that her ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday said his administration would prepare a law that will recommend jail terms for heads of building control agencies if a building collapses in the state under their watch. The governor disclosed this during ...

A man who confessed to killing his wife in Kipkelion, Kericho County, Kenya in November last year, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Paul Kipkemboi told the court that he killed his wife, Caroline Koech after an argument ...

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday sentenced a former chairman of now-defunct Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, to 61 years’ imprisonment but to run concurrently for eight years. The court had found him ...

The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) has abducted a prince, Mohammed Askira in Borno. He was taken alongside two brothers; all belong to the royal family of Askira/Uba Emirate. The trio was kidnapped on Saturday while travelling to Maiduguri, ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has advised the public not to engage in panic buying of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as petrol. The NNPC said it was also not aware of any plan by government to cause an ...

Police have opened an inquest after three children died after eating two-minute noodles in Gqeberha, South Africa. According to police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu, SAPS Motherwell detectives are investigating an inquest following the death of three children aged 11, 7, ...

Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun has paid a condolence visit to the late Femi Osibona’s dad over the weekend.   Femi is the owner of 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi last week Monday.  

Suspected kidnappers of Alhaji Suleiman Akinbami, an Ado-Ekiti based petrol dealer have allegedly been nabbed. They were arrested today in Ekiti according to news shared on social media. Their food supplier and one of their informants were also nabbed.  

Oh my fellow Nigerians. Under this trend, they called GEJ’s rule Corruption and then Buhari’s present rule Intergrity. In most of the tweets, food prices under corruption is way better than food prices under intergrity. Tweets….      

The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to compensate the families of those that died in the 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi last week. The House, in a motion, also called on the governor ...

Bandits abduct family members of victims that went to deliver cartons of maltina, rice to them… The abductors of worshippers recently at Maza-Kuka in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State have held two family members of the abductees who ...

Nigeria’s Ambassador To Thailand, Djebah Presents Letters Of Credence…   The Nigerian ambassador to Thailand, Oma Djebah has presented his Letters of Credence to the King of Thailand, King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajirakaochaoyuhua, at the Dusit Palace in Bangkok.   ...

A male bus driver carrying stolen crude oil died in an accident involving his vehicle and a trailer at Okeohia on Ihialla-Owerri Expressway in Anambra on Sunday. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Anambra Sector Commander, Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi said ...

The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) held its first Sunday service on November 7, four months after the founder Prophet TB Joshua was buried. The church’s new leader Evelyn Joshua offered prayers of thanksgiving and forgiveness. A clip of ...

Imo lawmakers on Monday morning impeached Speaker Paul Emeziem. They replaced him with Kennedy Ibe. The exercise was carried out amidst tight security with 19 of the 27 lawmakers said to have signed the impeachment papers. It was learnt that ...

An avid traveller and photographer fell 100 feet to her death while posing for a photo on the edge of a cliff. Zoe Snoeks, 33, died after falling from the cliff near the village of Nadrin, in the Belgian province ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended the declaration of the Anambra governorship election results. This is because there was no election conducted in Ihiara Local Government Area of the State. Returning Officer, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. ...

Two persons have lost their lives in a clash involving some hoodlums in Marina, in the Lagos Island Local Government Area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the clash, which threw residents and business owners into panic, started when ...

The Osun State Government on Sunday said it arrested a resident identified simply as Sanjo, in Osogbo, the state capital, for allegedly beating his child to death. The state Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Olubukola Olaboopo, in a ...

The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A Adeboye while preaching today at the National Headquarters in Ebute Metta, Lagos said no one is sure of 2023. He says only God can say if there would ...

Commissioner of Environment and Forest Resources, Dr Hussaina Danjuma Goje has resigned barely 24 hours after her father was attacked and blocked from entering Gombe state. In a press statement Husssaina said her resignation was on personal grounds. She appreciated ...

Media mogul, Dele Momodu, has said Femi Osibona, the owner of Fourscore Homes and developer of the 21-storey building that collapsed in Lagos, did not cut corners. Recall the collapse of the edifice has killed atleast 42 including Osibona himself. ...

The Niger State government has demolished the house of suspected notorious kidnapper and bandit popularly known as Mohammed Mohammed Ahmadu who is one of the suspects in the kidnap of the University of Abuja lecturers and families. The demolished house ...

The U.S. embassy in Addis Ababa advised all U.S. citizens to leave Ethiopia as soon as possible, a statement on their website said on Friday. The advisory was issued after an alliance of anti-government forces threatened to march on the ...