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Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State following the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.   The armed men reportedly invaded the school premises ...

THE European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS on Monday inaugurated a 25-member Youth Sounding Board, a body of young Nigerians, who will help in shaping and implementing EU programmes and strategies in the country for more inclusiveness. The union ...

Police detectives in Ondo command have arrested the son of a landlord, Samuel Omojola in Akure, the state capital over the death of a tenant. The deceased identified as Kehinde hit with a plant on the head by the suspect ...

Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from the medium federal correctional centre in Kabba, Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State. Vanguard gathered that Gunmen in their tens attack the prison centre which is on the Kabba – LOKOJA highway, on ...

The husband of a lottery winner who won £5.5 million has pleaded guilty to trying to murder her at their family home. Stephen Gibbs, 45, initially denied attempting to kill Emma Brown, 49. Today, he was due to stand trial ...

  Investigators are scrutinizing a video that shows Pierangelo Pellizzari having coffee in a bar moments before he killed his Nigerian wife, Amenze Rita. In the full video, the man who looked visibly agitated is seen walking into the bar ...

The Lagos State Police Command is in the news again over the death of Monsurat Ojuade. On Saturday, Monsurat was hit by a bullet when detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, went to arrest a robbery suspect in ...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara State have arrested an immigrant from Benin Republic, Adamu Sime, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his biological mother. The mother, who was also arrested, had reportedly had three ...

Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, up to post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is now compulsory, the Taliban group have said. Revealing this during an interview with newsmen on Sunday, the Taliban’s ...

Lol, you people can’t kuku beat him. He will say the truth either you want to hear it or not, lol. Pastor Adeboye has said God is not the author of confusion and that transgedeners must repent. The General Overseer ...

The Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has officially named the wife of late Prophet Temitope Balogun, aka T.B Joshua’s wife, Evelyn, as the new leader of the church. SCOAN said the church activities would be under the guidance of ...

  The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, which is maintaining peace in Plateau and its environs, has constituted a board of enquiry to investigate the alleged murder of one Abdullahi Karafa, a taxi driver, in Jos, by its personnel. ...

Several gorillas at Zoo Atlanta in the southern US state of Georgia have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, the zoo said. The western lowland gorillas were tested after keepers saw them coughing and other symptoms, it said. Initial tests ...

Zamfara Governor, Bello Matawalle, says that the state government is no longer interested in holding a dialogue with bandits, noting that they had spurned the olive branch once extended to them. He said in Gusau that instead, security forces would ...

A yet-to-be-identified commercial motorcycle passenger was, early Saturday morning, killed by an articulated truck in Warri, Delta State. The incident reportedly occurred at about 7 am when the tipper ran over the middle-aged female passenger on a commercial motorcycle at ...

At least two persons have lost their lives when a worship center located in the southern part of Taraba State collapsed. The worship center, which is known as the Holy Ghost Church, was said to have been brought down by ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has described controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi as an unrepentant lover of bandits. Fani-Kayode made the remark while criticizing Gumi for defending bandits and herders despite their criminal activities. He accused the ...

  Three workers of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who were abducted around Kobape area of Ogun State have been rescued on Friday. Recall that the workers said to be on their way to one Obasanjo farm at Seseri village around ...

America marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday with solemn ceremonies given added poignancy by the recent chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and return to power of the Taliban. Heart-wrenching commemorations will unfold at each of the three ...

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and six other prominent Nigerians are to be conferred with chieftaincy titles of Iyin-Ekiti, in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Others are the former Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Maj.-Gen. Bamidele ...

Bishop David Oyedepo has revealed why he may not fight media houses misquoting him, saying his content keeps them going. During a sermon in his church, the man of God claimed that the Nigerian media industry depends on him for ...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano on Friday, ordered that two civil servants who allegedly sodomised a 20-year-old man, be remanded in a correctional centre. The police charged Nasiru Isyaku,48 and Lawal Uba,31 who both live at Kofar Dan’agundi Quarters ...

A court in Nakuru County, Kenya has annulled a five-year marriage where a man is accusing his wife of being lesbian. The two met on Facebook in 2015 and later married before their marriage went south. The 30-year-old man, who ...

The shocking discovery of the lifeless body of a 27-year-old woman, identified as Faith Aigbe, at the premises of Edo Specialist Hospital, located along Sapele Road, in Benin City, caused pandemonium and confusion on Thursday. The deceased was allegedly locked ...

Sheik Ahmad Gumi has lashed out at Femi Adesina after the presidential aide called him a bandit-lover. Femi Adeshina stated this on Thursday while reacting to the statement credited to Gumi that the military offensive would not work and that ...