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Armed men on Sunday kidnapped the former Senator representing Akwa Ibom South Senatorial district in the 8th national Assembly, Senator Nelson Effiong. Effiong, a former Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly who hails from the Oron Local ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the government’s correctional services department said Sunday.   Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of ...

  Bolt Kenya, a taxi company, is on the spot after a female passenger’s hand was hacked in a scuffle with one of its drivers. The incident happened on Sunday, August 29 around 9:00pm near Diamond Plaza, Nairobi. According to ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have offered to fly in to see the Queen and introduce her to her namesake great-granddaughter Lilibet in the coming weeks, it has been reported. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are said to have ...

  Parents of a young girl have accused her school of discriminating against her because of her body shape. Shylah Johnson, 12, was put in isolation at Brookvale Groby school, Leicester, because she was wearing a plain black skirt instead ...

The Nigerian government has vowed to recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors. Labour Minister, Chris Ngige spoke in a chat with State House reporters in Abuja on Sunday. Ngige said the affected doctors wrongly benefitted from ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Sunday, said he is praying to God and awaiting His direction for his second term. Makinde, who disclosed this during the 2021 Hijrah luncheon held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, declared that ...

Residents of Kagumo-ini village in Kandara, Murang’a, Kenya were left in utter shock after an elderly woman beheaded her husband Sunday morning. Margaret Wanjiru,65, is said to have attacked John Ndung’u, 99, with a panga after a domestic dispute. According ...

Germany’s ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, who was a former foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died suddenly, less than two weeks after taking up his post. Hecker, 54, had presented his credentials at China’s foreign ministry on ...

Five persons have died while conveying their brother who died of cholera in Lagos state to Sokoto. The deceased were seasonal migrants to Lagos state where they worked as scavengers. Daily Trust learnt that, they were living at Ojota, an ...

A pregnant policewoman has been shot dead by Taliban militants in Afghanistan, witnesses claim. The officer was reportedly gunned down at home in the capital of central Ghor province, Firozkoh, on Saturday, September 4. Banu Negar’s face was described as ...

A young footballer who had a suspected cardiac arrest while playing in an FA Youth Cup match has sadly died as his club pays tribute. West Bridgford Colts have confirmed that Dylan Rich has tragically passed away. The young footballer ...

The police on Sunday said that they were combing forest to arrest the killers of Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of Sahara Reporters’ Publisher and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. The Edo Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kontongs Bello, gave ...

Government Day Secondary School Kaya, Maradun LGA, Zamfara state, where 73 students were abducted is dilapidated and bereft of perimeter fencing. Some of the buildings in the school premises are without windows and doors while the ceilings are starting to ...

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Uzoma Emenike, says Nigerians should start projecting the Buhari administration in positive light rather than complaining about its economic and security challenges. Ms Emenike said there’s nothing unique about what Nigerians are dealing with ...

Doctors have had to help a man after he swallowed an entire mobile phone.   The man, 33, managed to swallow a Nokia 3310 phone said to be an early 2000s model made by the former Finnish company.   Doctors ...

    Troops of Operation SAFE HAVEN (OPSH) in Plateau State apprehended two Nigerians with 320 blocks of cannabis. The weed was concealed in a Toyota Camry with registration number Abuja ABC 214 HV, Major Ishaku Takwa, Military Information Officer ...

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State says all is set for President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state on Thursday, September 9. The governor disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, on Saturday. Uzodinma, ...

Billionaire businessman, Ayiri Emami, has paid homage to the gods, days aftert the new Olu of Warri displaced him as Prime Minister of Warri kingdom.   Ayiri who was opposed to the coronation of Tsola Emiko as the 21st Olu ...

The Nigerian government has rejected Sunday’s toppling of the Alpha Condé regime in Guinea. The country’s foreign ministry on Sunday said the putsch was a violation of the ECOWAS protocol to which Guinea is signatory to. “The Nigerian government is ...

  A man in Gombe state has threatened to commit suicide by falling from a telecommunications mast if a woman is not married to him by his parent. The man was said to have climbed the telecommunications mast in the ...

The UAE announced a new visa Sunday allowing foreigners to work in the country without being sponsored by an employer, loosening residency requirements in an attempt to boost economic growth. Foreigners in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates are generally only ...

Homicide detectives in Kilifi County, Kenya have arrested a man known as Felix Otieno following the death of his 5-year old step-daughter. Felix is alleged to have defiled his late step-daughter to the point of death. According to reports, the ...

Scores of bandits attacked the home of Ibrahim Aminu Kurami, lawmaker representing Bakori constituency in Katsina House of Assembly, and abducted his wife and two children. The bandits attacked between 8.00 and 9.00pm on Saturday night as they reportedly blocked ...

A 22-year-old youth corps member, Arnold Maniru, has been arrested in Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for importing four kilogrammes of drugged candies from the United Kingdom.   NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, ...