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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 ...

The death toll from the attack that happened in Rukuba area of Plateau, Jos North Local Government on Saturday has reached 28 and many are still missing. The victims who were mostly Fulani from Ondo State had attended an annual ...

The Taliban today (Tuesday) declared a general amnesty for all government officials and urged them to return to work, two days after taking power following a lightning sweep through the country.   “A general amnesty has been declared for all… ...

The Deputy Governor, Corporate Services Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Edward Adamu, has attributed the depreciation in the value of the Naira to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. Adamu stated this at ...

Social media giant, Facebook, has banned Taliban and related contents from all its platforms. This confirmation comes after Taliban fighters took over Afghanistan Capital, Kabul on Sunday, causing many citizens to flee the country including the American backed President, Ashraf ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Command on August 16, 2021, arraigned Rashida Ibrahim Usman before Justice Maryam Ahmed Sabo of the Kano State High Court sitting in Milla Road, Bompai, Kano State. The defendant was ...

46-year-old suspect, Zakarriyah Yahaya, also known as ”His Excellency”, has revealed how he and his gang emptied the bank accounts of many Nigerians using lost or stolen SIM cards Yahaya, among 39 suspects, was paraded for various crimes at defunct ...