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The Nigerian Army says two teachers and five students of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yawuri, Yobe kidnapped by bandits have been rescued after fierce gun-battle with the hoodlums. Dozens of students and some of their teachers were reportedly abducted ...

Liberian President, George Weah says he is saddened by the death of founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet T.B. Joshua. Weah said Joshua greatly impacted in his life. The President said the Clergyman had impacted so many ...

  Popular activist, Aisha Yesufu has hinted of a new political party ahead of the 2023 presidential election. According to Aisha, the leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would not ...

Authorities of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo State, has confirmed the murder of one of its dedicated lecturers, Mr. Maxwell Eseosa Aimuen. Aimuen was engaged by the Institution in 2015 in the Department of Public Administration, as a Graduate ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country needs to prepare for both “dialogue and confrontation” with the US, and “especially to get fully prepared for confrontation”.   This marks the first time Mr Kim has directly commented on ...

A cleric, William Ghattas, of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Israel, has lit a candle for the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua. A statement on Wednesday said the candle was lit to pray ...

No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night following a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker explosion at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, opposite Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja. About 25 cars were destroyed as a result ...

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of raping his own mum on the holiday island of Gran Canaria. The 16-year-old has been remanded to a secure young offenders’ institution pending an ongoing criminal probe led by a judge at ...

The World Health Organization says women of childbearing age should be banned from drinking alcohol. The organization in Its latest Global Alcohol Action Plan calls on countries to raise awareness of alcohol-related harm and its effect. First draft of the ...

  A young graduate of Lead City University, has been reportedly killed when some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), otherwise known as Park Management System (PMS) clashed with shop owners in the Iwo Road area ...

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of raping his own mum on the holiday island of Gran Canaria. The 16-year-old has been remanded to a secure young offenders’ institution pending an ongoing criminal probe led by a judge at ...

A naked couple has been arrested after horrified parents spotted them having s.e.x at a Manchester public park in broad daylight. The amorous pair were first caught doing the deed near the brook in Sunny Brow Park, Gorton, at around ...

An 18-Year-old woman died while she was having s.e.x on her wedding night after suffering a heart attack. Cops said the young bride was consummating her marriage with her new husband, 29, when she started to feel unwell and collapsed ...

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act,” officially establishing Juneteenth – June 19 as a federal holiday in the US. “I regret that my grandchildren aren’t here, because this is a really, really, really ...

Residents of Ikot Abia village in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have been thrown into a state of disbelief following the murder of one Patience Christopher, aged 40, by her husband, Pastor Ukachukwu Christopher. Christopher, 49, the ...

Nigerian superstar and YBNL Nation founder, Olamide Adedeji widely known as Olamide narrated how his experience growing up in a slum in the Bariga axis of Lagos state motivated him to hustle hard. Olamide revealed this in a recent interview ...

Bandits struck in Kebbi State again on Thursday when they kidnapped scores of students and four others at the Federal Government College Birnin Yauri. A teacher in the school, who spoke to The PUNCH on condition of anonymity, said most ...

The Nigerian Police Force on Thursday paraded a land vendor identified as Prince Reuben for allegedly r3ping and killing a woman intending to buy a plot of land from him in Rivers State. Police Publicity Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, ...

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Former Zambian President and independence leader Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97. His death was confirmed by Zambia’s current President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who said in a Facebook post today: “I learnt of your passing this afternoon ...

Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director (MD) of Bank PHB and Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the bank, have been sentenced for N25.7 billion fraud. Ikeja High Court on Wednesday was tensed, as Anyanwu begged Justice ...

  A master degree graduate of the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Ella Williams, has been allegedly shot dead by suspected herdsmen along the Benin-Ekpoma expressway. Ella was travelling from Benin City to Ekpoma to pickup her call-up letter when ...

Controversial cleric, Rev. Chris Okotie is celebrating his 62nd birthday today. This is coming days after he was criticized on social media over a post he authored and many Nigerians believe was written to mock the late TB Joshua To ...

  A South African man identified as Kenny Dlamini has handed himself over to the police after shooting his 24-year-old girlfriend identified as Nozipho Mabuza, dead. The suspect allegedly shot and killed Nozipho in the Old Dobsonville section in Johannesburg, ...

  Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has named those behind the murder of former Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha and businessman, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola Abiola. Fani-Kayode claimed that Arafat’s bodyguard poisoned Abacha through a handshake, and also ...