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Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said some of the persons who vilify his principal publicly return to Aso Rock for dinner. The presidential spokesman said this while commenting on the return ...

Kenyan Police have arrested two brothers for assaulting their elder brother to the point of death. The duo attacked the deceased after a distress call from their mother. The deceased had returned home at 8:00 pm in a drunken stupor ...

The Federal Government has alerted the general public to heighten security activities preparatory to the events marking the country’s 61st Independence anniversary. The alert was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the Minister of Information and ...

Four people from the same family were killed by lightning on Lake Victoria’s Bumbile Island in Tanzania’s Northwestern District of Muleba in Kagera Region, an official said on Friday.   Muleba District Commissioner, Thoba Nguvilla told a news conference that ...

An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has said Nigerians stand to gain more following Femi Fani-Kayode’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement issued by MURIC’s Director and founder, Professor Ishaq Akintola, he ...

The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has said kidnapping is a capital offence in the state. Ikpeazu stated this in Umuahia on Thursday while launching the Abia State Security Fund/Deployment of the Security Support and Resident Card, warning that “anybody ...

In what appears to be a tardy disposition to the review of official documents, the management of the National Youth Service Corps has denied an express advice in the handbook issued to youth corps members. The handbook is titled, Security ...

The police in Katsina State on Thursday arrested three women for allegedly selling fuel to bandits in a forest in the state. The police spokesperson in Katsina, Gambo Isah, at a press conference in Kaduna, paraded the suspects, Dija Umar, ...

An uncle who allegedly killed his “westernised” niece with her parents’ support because she refused an arranged marriage has been tracked down thanks to Facebook. Saman Abbas, 18, had not been seen since being thrown on the streets by her ...

Justice Anwuli Chikere of a Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 30 for judgment in a suit filed by the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi challenging his banishment to Awe, a remote community in Nasarawa State. ...

Kenya has banned a film about two gay lovers branding the movie an ‘affront to culture and identity’ and ‘demeaning of Christianity’. Authorities on Thursday said the documentary was ‘unacceptable and an affront to [the] culture and identity of the ...

Yomi Aliyyu (SAN), a counsel to Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, has reacted to the Federal Government’s plan to appeal a judgement against his client. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, ...

Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the Senior Pastor and General Overseer, Omega Fire Ministry (OFM), has won the Edo Man of the Year Award at the 10th Edition of the Edo Festival and Awards Ceremony (EFAC) held in London, the United Kingdom ...

A frisky gorilla at the Bronx Zoo gave onlookers an X-rated show when he performed oral sex on his excited friend in front of a group of zoo-goers. A father at the zoo with his wife, four-year-old daughter, son and ...

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-r*ped on several occasions by up to 33 men in the latest shocking s.e.x attack case in India. The attacks took place at various locations in the Thane district of Maharashtra state over the last ...

  Pandemonium erupted in Enugu on Tuesday when a yet-to-be-identified operator of commercial tricycle popularly known as keke was beaten to death by ticket levy collectors at the university community of Nsukka along Enugu road. An eyewitness, Michael Oha, disclosed ...

A Chief Superintendent of Police, Kazeem Abonde, has been killed during a clash between policemen and motorcyclists in the Ajao Estate area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the policemen were carrying out enforcement in the area on Thursday ...

Precious Chikwendu- Snow White, estranged wife of ex-minister Femi Fani-Kayode, has filed a suit at a Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking the enforcement of her fundamental human rights. The plaintiff in the suit filed against Fani-Kayode, Inspector-General of Police, his ...

  An 84-year-old Kenyan man identified as Peter Oyuk, has expressed disappointment after returning home to find that the two wives he abandoned 47 years ago have remarried. The octogenarian had walked out of his Makale village in Malava, Kakamega ...

The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday released the autopsy of one Faith Aigbe whose corpse was found in the vehicle of Enogie of Uroho community in Edo State, Iguodala Ogieriakhi, on September 10. The Police said that, based on ...

Mr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, says the Five Generation (5G) network will be deployed in Nigeria in January 2022, and will aid surveillance against vandalism of public assets. The minister disclosed this on Thursday in Maiduguri ...

  Three suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Nigeria Police in connection with the abduction of over 100 students of Bethel Baptist school in Kaduna State.   The name of the suspects include, “Adamu Bello, Isiaku Lawal and Muazu ...

A 52-year-old man, Jimoh Mutaliu was on Tuesday arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for unlawfully impregnating and procuring abortions for his 16-year-old niece. The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Adatan Divisional headquarters by ...

One groom’s wedding outfit has gone viral online for all the wrong reasons. Posting his very unique outfit, viewers responded in shock with one commenting that the grooms choice of attire should have been a wake-up call for the bride. ...

  An Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months. 20 year-old Lalan Kumar will have to buy detergent and ...