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Russia’s prison service said it had sacked five officers, including the head of an infirmary and a regional chief, after harrowing videos emerged of alleged r’a’p’e in a jail hospital. Videos of alleged r’a’p’e and torture at a prison infirmary ...

A Don has told American President, Biden, to declare IPOB a terrorist organisation. This add to a string of compounding woes for the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is currently in the custody ...

The federal government has threatened to declare a state of emergency in Anambra to ensure that the November 6 governorship election in the state takes place. Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, made the disclosure ...

Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis Gospel Church International, DGCI, has said it was only a petty thief who attacked one of the branches of the Dunamis church and it’s nothing serious. A report emerged on some online news platform on ...

Plateau State resident, Joel Eni Agwu, has put up himself for sale to raise money for his wife and newly born babies detained by Fertile Ground and IVF Center, a private medical facility in Zaramanganda, Jos, Plateau State. SaharaReporters gathered ...

  Google on Wednesday said it will invest $1 billion over the next five years to allow faster and more affordable internet access and support entrepreneurship in Africa. Internet reliability is a problem in Africa where less than a third ...

  Former US President Donald Trump was not included on the annual Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans Forbes said Trump is now worth an estimated 2.5 billion dollars, leaving him 400 million dollars short of the cutoff to ...

Mrs Cynthia Nwala, the leader of Etche Local Government Legislative Assembly in Rivers State was beaten and nearly stripped during a fracas at the council secretariat on Monday. Mrs Nwala’s car was also vandalized. Nwala alleged that it was the ...

Military jets were seen zooming across the sky above London with reports of houses shaking and a huge ‘bang’. The sudden explosive sound was heard just before 9.30am this morning. Twitter was awash with worried people who were shocked by ...

Just four months after Hajiya Aisha Jummai Alhassan, alias Mama Taraba, an ex-Minister of Women Affairs, died in May, her younger brother, a former senator, Abubakar Abdulazeez Ibrahim has died too. He died in his house in Jalingo after a ...

The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assented to the Administration of Criminal Justice (Amendment) Law of Lagos State, 2021. According to a statement on Tuesday by the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), the ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has sacked Tony Olofu, as the commissioner of police in Anambra state, with immediate effect. Olofu who was posted to the state mid September as the 31st police commissioner, was immediately replaced with ...

Olagoke Dare, a staff of Abestone Microfinance Bank Abeokuta, has been arrested by officers of Ogun state police command for allegedly conspiring with one Idowu Tunde to rob him of N3 million belonging to his employer. Ogun Police Command spokesperson, ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have arrested two principal suspects, aged 12 and 14 for kidnapping a three-year-old boy in Potiskum, Yobe. ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had probed and also prosecuted pension frauds involving N157bn from 2016 to 2020. The agency said urgent reform was needed to deliver an efficient, effective and sustainable pension administration system in the ...

No fewer than four people have been confirmed dead after a downpour at the Idi Odan, Sabo, in the Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo State. It was gathered that the victims, who were mostly traders at the Sabo Market, ...

  A video of an Air India plane stuck underneath an over-bridge in the capital, Delhi, has gone viral. The scrapped plane, which had reportedly been sold off, was being transported when it got stuck. The video shows traffic passing ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the ...

Billionaire businessman, Ayiri Emami, has reacted to the news of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, disrobing him as the Ologbotsere of Warri kingdom. The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse lll, on Tuesday October 5, announced the disrobing of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday, October 7, present the 2022 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly.   Deputy President of the Senate Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided during plenary on Tuesday, made the disclosure.   The president ...

A Ugandan national is being held by Mombasa based detectives for the gruesome murder of a 25-year-old woman. According to a police report seen by K24 Digital, Suleiman Mayanja who entered the country last month through the Busia border point, ...

  Brazilian footballer William Ribeiro has been arrested after violently kicking a referee during a match. The incident occurred in a game between sixth-tier sides Guarani-VA and Sao Paulo RS, which was suspended with 30 minutes remaining as the referee, ...

The family members of a 16-year-old Kano State girl, identified simply as Hussain, have kicked against her marriage to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. The family accused Idris of luring the teenager with millions of naira. SaharaReporters gathered that ...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, has dragged the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police Federal Capital Territory and her former husband to the Senate Committee on Police Affairs. In the petition obtained by Punch correspondent on Tuesday, she ...

An operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been murdered in Owerri, the Imo state capital. The incident came less than 48 hours after the office of the agency was razed in Nnewi, Anambra State. Daily Trust gathered ...