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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted eight pupils of an Islamiyya school at Sakkai village, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Also abducted was one of their school teachers, The Punch was told on Wednesday. The identities of ...

Plans by some Shuwa Arabs, an ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno as the Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State, is generating palpable tension across Benin Kingdom. The coronation ceremony is slated to hold on Saturday, 21 ...

A 62 year old man identified as Moshood Lasisi has committed suicide in his room in Ayede ogbese, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. It was reported that Lasisi, who was walking on crushes, hung himself after his ...

Niger Republic on Wednesday declared 48 hours of national mourning after 37 people were killed in a fresh massacre by suspected jihadists. “Flags will be flown at half-mast across the country” with immediate effect, a government statement said. It reaffirmed ...

Students of the Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro, on Tuesday, celebrated the exit of the Rector as the institution was upgraded to the University of Science and Technology. Photos posted online show the jubilant students sweeping the Main Gate to express ...

A 36-year-old man, Adeyemi Tosin, who is a banker/marketer with a first generation bank, has been arrested by Oyo State Police Command for allegedly siphoning N10 million from the account of 78-year-old Oladele Adida Quadri. The bank account of the ...

A seven-month-old infant has been found separated from parents during chaos at Kabul airport. The photograph, which was posted by the Aśvaka news agency on Twitter, shows an infant who was reportedly separated from parents. The child, who according to ...

Speaking in a weekly news conference, Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese said Manchester would not turn its back on refugees from Afghanistan and that Afghan refugee flights are already on their way to the UK. Sky News correspondent ...

  Residents of Ogbeso via Oke-Suna area, Apomu town in Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State on Tuesday morning fled when a family of seven were found dead in their residence. The Nation gathered the house located in a ...

Governor Aminu Masari has urged residents of Katsina, specifically in areas prone to banditry to acquire weapons and defend themselves. Masari said it is morally wrong for people to submit cheaply to the bandits without any attempt to defend themselves, ...

A bold sign of ”No Journalists, No Camera allowed here” rocked the 80th birthday shindig of former Nigerian leader, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in Minna yesterday, as Journalists were shut out. Though now wheelchair bound, many dignitaries came to Minna to ...

Women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai says millions of Afghan women and girls were educated in the last 20 years – but the future they were promised is “dangerously close to slipping away”. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by ...

The Taliban “wants the world to trust us” and is not seeking revenge in Afghanistan after regaining control of the country, the group has said in a news conference. A spokesman for the militant group said Afghanistan has now been ...

Nollywood actor, Goriola Hassan, on Tuesday, failed to appear before the Ogun State House of Assembly despite threats to order his arrest for parading himself as the Oba of Imobi, Ijebu East Local Government Area of the State. However, Hassan ...

The Federal High Court Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of some investment and trading platforms that Nigerians have been using to transact online. Justice Ahmed Mohammed made the order on Tuesday while delivering his ruling in an ex parte ...

Flood has submerged a cemetery which resulted in the collapse of many graves in Potiskum town, Yobe State. The popular NEPA graveyard was said to have been flooded last Monday following a heavy rainfall which also killed five children as ...

The burial date for Mohammed Fawehinmi, eldest son of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), has been announced. Mohammed will be laid to rest on August 27, in Ondo State. Mr Lanre Arogundade, former Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos chapter ...

The Anglican Communion in Ghana has sacked randy Reverend Father Balthazar Obeng who was caught on video giving hot kisses to three female students of St Monica’s College of Education, Ghana. The video went viral on Monday necessitating an urgent ...

Facebook has confirmed to Sky News that the Taliban will continue to be banned from operating Afghan government accounts on its platforms. The militant group is considered a Dangerous Organisation under Facebook’s policies. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist ...

  A former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. It was learnt that Mantu died on Monday night in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness. He was aged 74. A family source in his home town of ...

A photo posted online on Sunday shows images of women at a Kabul beauty salon being painted over as the Taliban took over the city. The Taliban stormed Kabul on Sunday after taking over most of the rest of the ...

The Taliban seized control of Kabul on Sunday after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and its Western-trained security forces collapsed, in a stunningly swift overthrow of the Afghan government.   Taliban fighters have now been seen all around ...

The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without police or traffic controls. Aljazeera reports that scores ...

Two weeks after it was mandated to probe the former Head, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, the Special Investigation Panel has submitted its report to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba. The four-man panel headed ...

With less than two years to the 2023 general elections, the National Council for Women Society on Monday protested the practice of fixing meetings late at night by political parties, saying it was unhealthy for married female politicians. The organisation ...