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The Emir of Kajuru Alhassan Adamu was the only one set free on Monday by gunmen who abducted him and 13 members of his family. The other captives are still with the gunmen, his son said Tuesday. The attackers, known ...

  The Senate has provide explanation surrounding its decision not to confirm the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Explaining on Tuesday, the senate ...

  Families of the three Israeli filmmakers arrested by the DSS in Nigeria last week have spoken about their mission in Nigeria The DSS picked them up, on suspicion that they had come into contact with the Indigenous People of ...

  Italy star Giorgio Chiellini has admitted he put a “curse” on Bukayo Saka before the England teenager’s decisive penalty miss in Sunday’s Euro 2020 final. Saka saw his spot kick saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma, handing Italy the European title after the two teams ...

  Jamaica is planning to ask the United Kingdom for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said. The Caribbean island nation will file a petition that could seek billions of pounds ...

  The Police Command in Kaduna State said it has found one of the 121 abducted students of Bethel Baptist School. Two other captives were also found, all roaming about the bush. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige ...

  The national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned a letter announcing the suspension of Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo. A letter dated July 12, 2021, and signed in the name of Mai Mala ...

  A 38-year-old man, Semiu Oyewo, who was allegedly arrested along Ile-Ife/Ibadan road with dry human skull claimed he has no knowledge it is an offence. He said that the skull was meant to treat someone who is suffering chronic ...

  Jihadists in Niger Republic have killed all the male Christians in Fantio and Dolbel, two towns in the Tillabéri region in the south west. Survivors of the attack, a group of women, with small children and babies fled to ...

  France has fined Google £425million for failing to negotiate ‘in good faith’ with media companies over the use of their content under EU copyright rules. It is the biggest fine ever imposed by France’s competition regulator for a company’s ...

  The Imo State Government on Tuesday sealed Rochas Foundation College, Orji, in Owerri, the state capital. Government officials arrived at the location which is the old quarters of the staff of Imo Broadcasting Corporation and sealed it. The Senior Special Assistant ...

General Overseer of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said he loves all Ministers of God but cannot be friends with every one of them. “I love Jesus and I am telling you by the ...

Locals of Nang’anda village in Navakholo, Kakamega county, Kenya are in shock after a cow gave birth to a calf that has two legs. The cow’s owner Zainab Makokha explains that she had taken care of the cow before the ...

  At least 64 people have been killed in a fire at the coronavirus isolation ward of a hospital in Iraq, the second such deadly blaze in a COVID-19 unit in three months, state news agency INA said on Tuesday. ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday night at 8pm host the 109 Senators of the 9th Senate to dinner in Villa. The scheduled meeting between members of the upper chamber and Buhari was conveyed in a letter received from ...

  The trial of a Danish, Peter Neilsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife and their daughter, was on Monday stalled due to the defendant’s delay in filing an application. Nielsen, 54, is standing trial before a Lagos High Court, ...

  Bill Gates opened up about his messy divorce at the exclusive Allen & Co. “summer camp for billionaires” last week in an “emotional” session that one attendee said had the Microsoft founder on the verge of tears. During an ...

  A Facebook user, Julius Eze revealed that he returned 2.5 million Naira that was mistakenly paid into his account. He shared screenshots of his bank transactions and explained that he couldn’t keep the money because a good name is ...

  The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has described the new claims made by Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected killer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, as an “afterthought”. In a video that went viral ...

  More than 900,000 people in France rushed to set up appointments to get vaccinated on Monday night after President Emmanuel Macron warned of new restrictions. He said curbs would be imposed on the people if they did not have ...

  Two residents of Oyo State that contracted the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus are dead. State Incident Manager and Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre, Dr Olabode Ladipo, disclosed this while speaking with Tribune Online, in Ibadan, on ...

The Nigerian Senate has declined Lauretta Onochie’s nomination as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Onochie’s non-confirmation followed the report by the Senate Committee on (INEC), Senator Kabir Gaya who said her nomination breaches Federal Character ...

  An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 26-year-old man, Sixtus Chinedu , who allegedly abducted and defiled a 17-year-old girl should be remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre The police charged Chinedu, who resides at No. 6, ...

Flood caused by a heavy downpour has submerged a graveyard in Gashu’a town, the headquarters of Bade local government area of Yobe State. The heavy rainfall, which lasted for several hours, was said to have started in the late hours ...

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). In his resignation letter dated July 9, 2021 addressed to PRP chairman in ward 6, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, ...