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The death toll in South Africa has risen to 72 as violence continues across the country following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. Crowds looting and setting alight shopping centres clashed with police in several cities on Tuesday. A ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has warned against trips that characterise the period as Muslim faithful prepare to mark the 2021 Eid-el-Kabir celebrations next week. NCDC Head of Risk Communications Division, Dr Yahya Disu, handed down the warning ...

At least 19 people have died and dozens are missing, according to regional officials, after heavy rains triggered flash floods in parts of Germany, damaging homes and disrupting transport. Police in the western city of Koblenz said in a Twitter ...

Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court, Nyanya, on Wednesday sentenced a 29- year-old Pastor Stephen Kalu to life imprisonment for raping a 17- year-old girl. The convict, a preacher at Adoration Ministry, Karshi, Abuja, was arraigned before the ...

The Senate on Wednesday said that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has established a centre for artificial intelligence and robotics to deploy the use of robots and artificial intelligence in combating crime and criminality in Nigeria. The revelation ...

Despite the existence of the National Identity Number, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Wednesday launched his state’s replica of the scheme. He called it Abia State Social Identity Number (ASSIN). He was the first to enroll in the scheme, ...

  Another tragedy struck in the Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State on Tuesday as three members of the same family died of suspected food poisoning. It was gathered on Wednesday that the victims were from one of ...

The Lagos State Government has said anyone found culpable in the death of Jumoke Oyeleke, the salesgirl who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on July 3, will be made to face ...

A kidnap victim has taken to social media to narrate how she was allegedly abducted and sexually abused by some gunmen during her travel to Rivers State. The woman, with the Twitter handle @Blessedcindy0, claimed that she was kidnapped along ...

  Unknown gunmen have killed Philip Udala, Chairman of Udala Football Club in Anambra State. The billionaire was murdered when his convoy was ambushed at Eke-Agu Market junction in Abatete, Idemili North Local Government Area. The attackers initially hit a police ...

A young man who identified himself as King of Madness has been arrested and paraded by the Lagos State Police Command. Speaking to The Punch during the parade, the young man stated that landing at the police command is something he finds ...

A twitter user, Ashley Appleseed [on twitter] has called out Air Peace for questioning the name difference between she and her child. She said the airline questioned why her child bears a different name from her, a thing she says ...

The enforcement team of the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission (LASWARCO) has shutdown 30 water factories across the state for various infractions. These infractions range from unhygienic production environment, failure to comply with regulatory provisions as well as operating without ...

A jealous soldier James Matol has allegedly shot and killed one Miss Jennifer Agadu, a 200-Level student of Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa State. Security personnel attached to the institution said the body of the 21-year-old student was discovered on ...

A dad dangled his his three-year-old son over a 150ft drop as revenge on his ‘cheating’ wife. For two-and-a-half hours, Roman Terentyev, 34, held little Maksim “on the brink of death” as he cried from the 14th floor window ledge ...

The head of Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Professor Samuel Kobina Annim suffered a complication; which has now been termed a stoke on live TV. This occurred while he was addressing the public on the ongoing Population and Housing Census exercise ...

  A snake and 4 cats have been killed after they were found living in a woman’s car. This was said to have happened in South-South area of Nigeria. The woman who usually moves around with her kids in her ...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu on Wednesday disclosed that the police have arrested more suspects in connection with the murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Usifo Ataga. Odumosu said this at a news conference and parade ...

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has refuted allegations the Senate had introduced extraneous clauses into the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill. Lawan spoke following the laying of the report on the Bill by the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral ...

Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he underwent an operation on his colon, ten days ago. The 84-year-old was discharged on Wednesday according to a statement by the Vatican spokesperson, Matteo Bruni. Pope Francis had the surgery ...

The Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye, Sunday Igboho and 49 others have filed a 27-page petition before the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the Buhari administration of genocide against their people. Communications Manager to Akintoye, Maxwell Adeleye ...

was chaos at the Ogun State House of Assembly in Abeokuta on Wednesday as some traditional worshippers stormed the complex over the controversial bill seeking to regulate burial and installation rites of traditional rulers in the state. According to reports, members of ...

No fewer than 30 suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission during a raid on Parktonian Hotel in the Lekki area of Lagos State. During the raid on Tuesday, the operatives were alleged to have gained ...

  The House of Representatives has said Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, must not die in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force. The House also called on the police ...

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Electoral Offences Commission and okayed 20-year jail term for candidates caught snatching ballot materials. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on ...