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A fire tore through an overcrowded Indonesian prison in the early hours of Wednesday when most inmates were asleep, killing 41 people and injuring dozens of others, an official said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze – which was mostly contained within ...

A Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Dr. Ahmad Gumi, has called on Fulani ethnic group to ensure they register and obtain voter cards ahead of the 2023 general elections in the country. According to him, obtaining voter cards is very important because ...

Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party will meet in Abuja on Wednesday (today) to decide the fate of the party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus. The meeting will, among other things, consider the report and recommendations of ...

Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters, has accused the Nigeria Police Force of trying to frustrate his family after his younger brother was shot dead in Edo state. Sowore raised the alarm in a post via his Facebook account today. ...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has blasted the Miyetti Allah Kataul Hore over plans to move against the anti-open grazing law in the state and other southern states. Akeredolu who is the Chairman of the South West Governors’ Forum ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is not welcomed to the Southeast. IPOB Director of Socials, Chika Edoziem, made the remark while ordering a sit-at-home in protest of Buhari’s visit to Imo State on ...

The Director-General of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Mohammed has been sacked after four months in office. His abrupt sack was contained in a statement on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to ...

The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to an Abia State High Court, over what he described as violations of his human rights. The Federal Government, the ...

Angry protests, technological glitches and a plummet in value marked the first day of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. The price of Bitcoin on Tuesday crashed to its lowest in nearly a month, falling from $52,000 (£37,730) to ...

Anxiety is mounting in Magboro Community of Ogun over a suspected Cholera outbreak, with about 10 people already feared dead. The suspected outbreak was first reported on Friday, when a resident of the community living in an uncompleted building died. ...

At least 17 patients have been killed after heavy rainfall caused flooding at a hospital in Mexico’s central Hidalgo state, officials say. They say a river burst its banks and water then cut the power supply at the hospital in ...

Barrister I. Awo, the counsel for the Department of State Service, DSS, has told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that the case file containing the fundamental human rights enforcement application filed by aides to the embattled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, marked their 54th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. Their last child, Leke Adeboye, took to his verified Instagram page to announce the ...

An assistant director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Mr Christopher Orji, has reportedly committed suicide in Abuja. Orji’s lifeless body was reportedly found dangling with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at his residence at Federal Housing ...

  Inibehe Effiong, the lawyer representing the family of late Kubiat Isaac Akpan, the prospective National Youths Service Corps member who died in Police cell in Akwa Ibom State, said that autopsy report revealed that the deceased was tortured to ...

25-year-old housewife, identified as Mrs Lubabatu Ibrahim on Tuesday appeared before a Sharia Court seeking a divorce with her husband, Habibu Ibrahim over some challenges she could no longer cope with. Lubabatu, who resides in Rigasa area of Kaduna said, ...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has called on service chiefs to find methods to deal with the country’s security challenges. This directive was issued on Tuesday by President Buhari after meeting with the service chiefs at the presidential villa, Abuja. Usman Alkali ...

A Uber driver, Anthony Okafor, has died while conveying a passenger, said to be a reverend sister, to a destination in Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Okafor picked the woman from the Ikeja airport and started coughing and gasping ...

A 64-year-old man, Ayotunde Taiwo, is currently cooling his heels in police cell for allegedly defiling a two-year-old girl at Agbado area of Ogun State. Confirming the incident to newsmen on Tuesday, the state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the ...

The apex Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on Imo State citizens to ignore the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’a visit on Thursday, September 9. Rcall that IPOB had ...

Former presidential media aide and social media commentator, Reno Omokri has called on Imo indigenes, not to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state on Thursday. According to him, any Igbo who turns up to welcome Buhari to Imo State ...

A woman has demanded compensation from health authorities in northern Spain after discovering she was mistakenly swapped at birth with another baby 19 years ago, local reports say. The woman was mixed up with a baby who was born on ...

It was a great joy in Onitsha, Anambra State as a Deeper Life Bible Church woman, Ruth Nnanwuno Nzejiofor gave birth to a set of triplets. The Nzejiofor had been married for 15 years and have been waiting for the ...

A medical doctor has called out his collegue and friend of many years for allegedly snatching his legal wife. The doctor, Anthony Chijioke took to Facebook to claim that his collegue and friend, Dr. George Davidson Ozuzu snatched his wife ...

Head of Administration of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Mohammed Sani Soba, is dead.   He collapsed in his office and died.   A statement by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, explained that the chieftain, who suddenly died ...