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South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma was granted compassionate leave from prison on Thursday so he can attend his brother’s funeral, the government said. Zuma, 79, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court last month after ...

Fume emitted from generator exhaust has allegedly killed four members of a family in Kwara State. The tragic incident occurred at their Ojomu family house in Sanmora, Irepodun local government area A family source said the deceased slept leaving their ...

  More than 48 hours after the arrest and detention of Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Igboho, the Federal Ministry of Justice has said it is yet to get an official briefing on the development. The ...

  A 17-year-old boy, identified only as Junior, has allegedly killed his stepfather, Adebowale Okuwobi, with a pestle in Ekoro community in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that 42-year-old Okuwobi, a commercial driver, was ...

Zimbabwean authorities on Tuesday toughened virus curbs, ordering compulsory vaccinations for civil servants and reducing the number of workers reporting for duty in a bid to stem a rise in local transmission. “All civil servants should be vaccinated,” Information Minister ...

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have raided black spots in Oshodi on Eid-el-Kabir celebration and arrested 103 hoodlums and miscreants with dangerous weapons. The raid was carried out on July 19 and 20 at Oshodi Oke and Oshodi ...

Protest rocked Ibadan, Oyo State on Wednesday following the arrest of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho was arrested by Interpol at the Cotonou Airport on Monday night while trying to ...

  The Emir of Muri Empire, Abbas Tafida, has issued a 30-day ultimatum to herdsmen in the state to vacate the forests. The Emir’s order has caused palpable fear in some parts of Taraba State after he gave the order ...

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, on Wednesday, displayed the first pair of sandals he made as a student of the Aba Footwear Academy. Ikpeazu displayed the footwear to journalists in his office while briefing them of his administration’s efforts ...

A dad who beat his wife to death in front of their children has been found dead in his prison cell. Kenneth Manzanares, 43, was serving a 30 year sentence for the murder of wife Kirsty, 39. The brutal murder ...

Residents of Mpape Phase 2, a community near the highbrow Maitama District, Abuja have been gripped with tension over a notice sent to the area by suspected armed robbers. The notice, which was aimed at keeping the residents at alert ...

  Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has relieved Mazi Simon Ekpa of his appointment as Biafra radio broadcaster over failure to follow laid down rules of operation. In a statement by the Media and Publicity ...

In the spirit of Eid-El-Kabir celebration, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has released 136 inmates from Kano Correctional Centres. He also provided to them N5,000 each as transport fares back to their various destinations. While effecting their release ...

Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita has survived a knife attack at the Great Mosque of Bamako during the Eid-al-Adha prayer. Two men, one of whom was holding a knife, lunged at him at the mosque. It was not clear whether ...

The mum of a schoolgirl savaged by a pack of 20 dogs has described her horror at finding her 13-year-old daughter dead. Marissa Jones, 42, said Lyssa Rose Upshaw was “in the foetal position with her skin torn through to ...

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday in Abuja said 59 suspected cases and 15 confirmed cases of Monkeypox have been registered. Ihekweazu said this while reacting to the Dallas, Texas resident who recently returned ...

Lead counsel for arrested Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has described as inhuman, the treatment his client was being subjected to in the custody of the police in Benin Republic. The counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu ( SAN), ...

President Buhari is currently in his hometown in Daura, Katsina state for the Sallah holiday. He joined other Muslims to observe the Eid prayers at the central mosque in the community. While on his way home, residents of the community ...

  A teen suspect has been arrested in northeast Brazil for allegedly shooting dead twin sisters and filming the gang-related executions on an Instagram livestream. The 18-year-old victims, identified as Amália Alves and Amanda Alves, were found dead on the ...

A hunt is underway for a man accused of having sex with a horse early Thursday morning, which was gruesomely captured on surveillance camera. The horrified equestrian centre found the footage on one their security system, despite the man having ...

A 45-year-old man popularly called ‘pastor’ has hanged himself after being accused of defiling a minor in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.The incident, it was reliably gathered on Tuesday, occurred on July 5, 2021. The deceased, ...

A two-storey building under construction at 77, Tapa Road, Oke-Ojo, Isawo in Ikorodu, Lagos State, collapsed and killed the owner identified as Pastor Daniel Obasi. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 2.30p.m on Tuesday, July 20, while people ...

  Nigerian burn survivor, Kechi Okwuchi has shares her recovery journey as she bares her facial scar. The 31-year-old Nigerian-American singer, is one of two survivors in the Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crash that happened 14 years ago when she ...

The founder of Blue Origin was accompanied by brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and 18-year-old passenger Oliver Daemen. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is back on earth after a 10minutes flight to space. The founder of Blue Origin was accompanied by ...

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, lambasted the Federal Government for hunting secessionist agitators in the country. According to the group, insecurity would have ended should the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, treated bandits and terrorists the way it has ...