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Taliban fighters are reportedly flogging Afghan civilians in the streets for wearing ‘westernised’ clothing such as jeans as they cement their power in Afghanistan. Several young Afghans posted on social media they had been beaten and whipped by members of ...

The Nairobi County government has introduced a raft of new rules and regulations aimed at keeping the city clean and hygienic. The new regulations are contained in the Nairobi City County Public Nuisance Bill, 2021 that has been signed into ...

Former first lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead. Chief Mrs. Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, wife of late Nigerian Head of State, Major General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead. The former First Lady died peacefully this morning. She was 97. Her husband, and the Supreme ...

The leadership crisis currently rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened on Monday as High Court in Rivers State has restrained Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party. The order was given by Justice ...

In the wee hours of last night, a male police officer stationed at the Njoro Police station, Kenya, walked to Njoro Subcounty Hospital, peacefully though with his gun seemingly fully loaded with bullets. Police Constable Bernard Sivo, 28, walked into ...

The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche, has said many Nigerians would have killed themselves in recent times if not for the church. Enenche spoke about the church giving people hope through the world of God ...

NDLEA operatives arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Abibu Miminu, during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy via Addis-Ababa for ingesting illicit drugs, at the Lagos airport. While under observation at the Agency’s facility between Saturday 14th ...

Following the killing of 22 Muslim travelers, and subsequent killing of students of the University of Jos, the Abia state Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, Monday, ordered the evacuation of students of Abia origin back to the state. Disclosing this in ...

Bakers in the country have lamented the increasing rates of flour, saying they may double the price of loaves. The President of the Bakers Association of Nigeria, Daud Suleiman, said there was no basis for the continuous increase in the ...

There were drama, anger, confusion, and protest at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State when activists, a lawyer, and family members went to demand the corpse of an allegedly murdered student activist, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as ...

  A 17-year old girl, Aisha Kabiru of Shekar Maidaki Quarters, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her 28-year old neighbour, Bahijja Abubakar to death. Police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who paraded ...

The Lagos State Ministry of Health has said that over 500 deaths have been recorded in isolation centres across the state. Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Health, Lagos State, ‘Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, made this known in a press statement on Sunday, ...

Twelve persons were confirmed to have been killed by bandits who stormed Duba village, Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, late Saturday night. Sources said the bandits numbering over 300, armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the community at 10.45 ...

  The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no Nigerian university was among the top 1,000 in the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, his wife, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were among dignitaries at the luncheon organised for Yusuf and Zahra Buhari in Abuja. The event, which held at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, ...

The remains of 34-year-old football enthusiast, Emmanuel Samuel, allegedly killed by a policeman in Abuja have been buried amid tears, Punch reports. The deceased, with his fiancée and friends, went to watch a football match on Sunday, July 11, when ...

FIFA and the player’s union FIFPro are cooperating to evacuate male and female footballers who wish to leave Afghanistan, the global body’s secretary general Fatma Samoura told AFP on Sunday. Last week, hardline Islamist militants the Taliban took control in ...

A fresh batch of 15 students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, were freed on Saturday, after they had spent 48 days in captivity. Baptist Convention President, Rev. Israel Akanji, supervised the reuniting of the freed students with their ...

Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, a drug dealer wanted for attempting to export 69.65kilograms of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United Kingdom (UK), has been arrested. The suspect had tried to move the substances through the NAHCO export shed of the ...

The new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has bestowed new titles on his mother, Gladys Durorike Emiko; and wife, Ivie Uhunoma Emiko, following his coronation as the 21st ruler of the Warri Kingdom. His mother, erstwhile Olori Atuwatse II, ...

An Afghan mother has gone into labour on evacuation flight, forcing military plane to descend in altitude. The plane landed at a base in Germany. Air force officials said the woman gave birth to a baby girl at the Ramstein ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, “over his failure to probe allegations that N106bn of public funds are missing from 149 ministries, departments and agencies.” The suit followed the grim allegations by the ...

The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has said it will soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, disclosed this in Abuja in an interview with NAN ...

The Varsity don, Ishaq Oloyede who remitted N30bn to FG has been reappointed as JAMB registrar. 66-year-old Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence brought innovations to the Joint Admissions andMatriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar ...

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has begged the government and people of Ondo for forgiveness over the August 14 killing of 23 Muslim travellers from Ondo, who were passing through Jos after attending a religious event in Bauchi. The apology ...