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A tiler, Okey Eze, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 350 wraps of cocaine with a street value of N2.3bn. Eze was arrested with the ...

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has imposed a six-month jail term on one Adedoyin Oyekan, who claimed to be a prince from the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, for offences bordering ...

Nakuru Kenyan medic James Gakara, who is suspected of killing his two children by allegedly injecting them with insulin, has died. Gakara, who was found unconscious in his home after the incident on Sunday, died at Nakuru Level 5 hospital. ...

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded an additional 377 new infections, raising the country’s COVID-19 cases to 203,081. NCDC disclosed on Thursday morning via its official website. This indicated a decrease from the 513 cases reported on ...

Prominent Nigerians including a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, and a political economist, Professor Pat Utomi, will on November 1 unveil a mega political movement labeled Rescue Nigeria Project. This was confirmed in a communique, ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened a one-month sit-at-home protest in ‘Biafraland’ if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is not brought to court on October 21. The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, made this known ...

There was a shocking moment during a court hearing in Nairobi on Monday, September 20, 2021, when a 13-year-old boy testified that he had willingly had s.e.x with their househelp for eight months starting July 2020. The boy, whose name ...

President Joe Biden has pledge to donate additional 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to poor countries. He made the promise today at a virtual summit to boost global vaccination rates. He said he will push other world leaders to ...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), on Wednesday took possession of the mansion of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, the former governor of Kwara State over an indebtedness of nearly N5bn. The property taken over by AMCON is located at Abdulfatah ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old chef, Joshua Usulor, to 28 years’ imprisonment for killing a 34-year-old lawyer, Mrs Feyisayo Obot. The chef killed the lawyer on Jan. 26, 2019, at the Citiheights Hotel, Opebi, Lagos, ...

A man has reportedly bitten off a friend’s ear over a soup that had weed in it.   The incident occurred at Adadeintem in Assin South of Central Region of Ghana.   The victim, Emmanuel Agbeko saw his friend and ...

Nigeria has raised another $4bn through Eurobonds. The Debt Management Office disclosed this in a statement on its website on Tuesday titled ‘Nigeria raises $4bn through Eurobonds’. This would raise Nigeria’s Eurobond debt from $10.37bn as of the end of ...

At least 353 Nigerian doctors have been registered to work in the United Kingdom in the last 100 days. Checks on the website of the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement. “The other members of the delegation have been ...

A 25-year-old Bala Hassan in Adamawa State has been sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly referring to policemen as thieves. The Yola Criminal Area Court 2 on Tuesday handed the sentence to him after convicting him for the ...

Governor Samuel Ortom has alleged that some of the armed Fulani herders unleashing terror on unsuspecting residents of the State and other parts of Nigeria are from Mali and Niger Republic. In an interview with Daily Post, the Governor revealed ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man, Olaoluwa Jimoh, for allegedly impregnating his biological daughter. The suspect was arrested last Thursday following a complaint by the victim that her father was fond of sleeping with ...

A 39-year-old man, Oladapo Akinola was, on Monday, arrested by men of Ogun State Police command for defiling his five years old stepdaughter. The suspect, according to a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following ...

Residents of Sokponba Road, Benin City, Edo State capital were thrown into mourning as an early morning motor accident claimed the lives of about nine persons. It was gathered from a source, who witnessed the accident, that it occurred at ...

President Buhari has met with the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in New York today.        

A woman has thrown a divorce party for herself as she celebrates being “finally” free after her 17-year marriage ended. The divorcée, Sonia Gupta, 45, threw a colourful themed party with her family and friends, and celebrated the end of ...

Nollywood practitioners on the platform of Audio Visual Rights Society (AVRS) today protested the alleged illegal use of their intellectual property by a hotel in Ikeja, Lagos. Leading Nollywood stars including Jide Kosoko, Fred Amata, Yemi Solade and Mahmood Alli-Balogun ...

A travel agent cheated Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo out of nearly £250,000. The 53-year-old, named in Portugal as Maria Silva, also scammed the football star’s super-agent Jorge Mendes out of more than £14,000 and former Man Utd winger Nani ...

Officials of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man simply identified as Adegboyega for allegedly brutalising his eight-year-old daughter following early signs of puberty. According to Ebenezer Omejalile, Chief Operating Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s ...

Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have arrested a kidnapper-turned crippled, Buhari Haruna, while attempting to pick up a ransom for a kidnap operation. The suspect, 22-year-old Haruna, is a resident of Kankia Local Government Area in the state; ...