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Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, says that as part of the country’s efforts to combat insecurity, members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) should be allowed to undergo military training. The governor who was a guest on Channels TV’s ...

  Over 4million people around the world have died of Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In total, three countries account for more than a third of all global deaths. The United States, which has the highest number ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old lady, Princess kate Nneoma Duruji, from Orji in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo state, for allegedly claiming to be a lawyer. The Imo state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has handed himself over to prison authorities early Thursday after a week-long standoff with the nation’s highest court that raised fears of violence by his supporters. Zuma became the first South African leader to ...

Sex workers drawn from Mombasa County have threatened to hold demonstrations along the streets of Mombasa Kenya, on Thursday to protest over lack of Condoms in public health facilities. Speaking under the umbrella of Nkoko Injuu Africa, a CBO that ...

Justice C. L. Dabup of the Plateau State High Court in Jos on Wednesday jailed three Nigerian internet fraudsters for Facebook scam. Nbubuisi Kerian Ozomba, Paul Obide and Samuel Chukwuebuka Nduchukwe will cool off in prison for one month for ...

Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court on Wednesday issued a bench warrant on Mr Sikiru Solagberu, the counsel for one of the eight accused persons facing trial in the murder of Blessing Olajide, a student of the ...

A container ship anchored at one of the world’s largest ports in Dubai caught fire late on Wednesday, local authorities said, after an explosion shook the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates. The blaze sent up giant orange flames ...

Another member of the House of Representatives from Nasarawa State, Jonathan Gbefwi Gaza on Wednesday decamped from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Gaza is the fifth member of the PDP to have defected to ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in history, worth a staggering $211billion after the e-commerce company’s share price rocketed by four percent. The businessman’s net worth soared by more than $8.4billion on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires ...

The first batch of A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft ordered by Nigeria from the U.S. has landed in the country. There has been no official statement yet. But Defence News Nigeria which covers military activities and hardware tweeted the news. ...

Four suspected assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were killed by police on Wednesday night — and two others were arrested, Haiti’s police chief, Léon Charles said. Three police officers were held hostage and freed in the takedown, he said, ...

A man simply identified as Okpako fell unconscious and later died in a hotel in Warri, where he had checked in with a sales girl in his wife’s shop. He was suspected to have consumed some sex-enhancement drug. The incident ...

The Senate on Wednesday approved a total of $6.18bn (N2.3 trillion) External Loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari to fund the 2021 budget deficit. The approved foreign loan for the issuance of $3,000,000,000, but not more than $6,183,081,643.40, Eurobond in ...

Former US president Donald Trump yesterday announced he is filing a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google, escalating his years-long free speech battle with tech giants who he argues have wrongfully censored him.   “Today, in conjunction with the ...

The Cross River Police Command has paraded a man who allegedly killed and beheaded his aunt in Calabar South Local Government Area of the state. According to the Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, the suspect, Christian Edem-Eyo, 34, murdered Uduak ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has cleared former Finance Ministers, Mrs. Kemi Adosun of the controversy over her participation or otherwise in the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. In a judgment on Wednesday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that ...

The Director General, Science and Equipment Development Institute, Prof. Samuel Ndubisi, has been assassinated in Enugu by unidentified gunmen. This is coming barely 48 hours after the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of AutoEase Service Limited, Ifeanyi Okeke was ...

The nine masked robbers came in three Hilux vans and shot intermittently into the air before looting the supermarket. Some masked gunmen have stormed a popular supermarket in Enugu, carting away about 40 bags of rice, cartons of noodles, soft ...

Shops and valuables worth millions at Karimu market, in Abuja have been razed. In a video seen online, residents of the area could be seen salvaging whatever they could from the burnt shops. It was reported that the fire, which ...

A teenager has been found guilty of murdering two sisters in park in north London. Danyal Hussein, 19, stabbed to death Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, in Fryent Coutry Park in Wembley last year. The sisters had been ...

Bandits, who invaded Maraban Rido in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday and abducted some students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, have reached out to the management of the institution to demand foodstuffs. The ...

  Following the abduction of the students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, on Monday, July 5, 2021, the abductors have called to inform the school management that the students are all doing well and fine. Rev. Yahaya Adamu Jangado, ...

  UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the abduction of some students from Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Guterres’s spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, disclosed this while briefing correspondents on Tuesday at the UN headquarters in New ...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA has said that COVID-19 vaccines do not contain electromagnetic ingredients that can cause side effects.   NPHCDA Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed the statement at a press briefing on Tuesday in ...