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  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 ...

The funeral arrangement for the late Nomthi Odukoya, wife of the senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church, has been announced by the church. Sharing an e-flier of the funeral arrangement on its Facebook page on Friday, the church announced ...

Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, over alleged certificate fraud. Solebo held that Igwe should be kept at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre ...

Again, scores of local government pensioners in Ogun State on Thursday shut down the state secretariat in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta while protesting the alleged non-payment of their 10-year outstanding gratuities. The pensioners, under the auspices of Local Government Pensioners’ Association of ...

Meghan Markle’s estranged father says she ‘deceived’ people by claiming she had not giving authorisation to a senior aide to brief the authors of her biography. Thomas Markle slammed his daughter following revelations from her then press secretary Jason Knauf ...

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official told AFP. The blast happened in Spin Ghar district of the eastern province, a hotbed of ...

The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing ...