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The body of a Nigerian Peter Ofor, was found floating in a canal of Kalkere Lake in the Indian city of Bangalore on Wednesday. Ofor, from Imo state, was declared missing on Tuesday by his friends, after he left home ...

  Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why the president refused to attend the burial of late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. The president’s absence from the burial of the ...

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has declared 156 persons missing in the boat mishap which occurred in Kebi State on Wednesday. Mr Yusuf Birma, NIWA area manager in Yauri Kebbi State, disclosed this, adding that the accident was caused ...

Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have tendered their resignation. Agence France-Presse reported this citing military and diplomatic sources. Late on Monday, a source told Sputnik that Malian military arrested the interim president and the prime ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has approved that the employment of two security guards for every primary and secondary school in the state. Mr Abiodun stated this during the 7th Quadrennial (15th) State Delegates’ Conference of the Nigeria Union of ...

The country’s dream to launch Made-in-Nigeria helicopter before the end of this year is gradually coming to fulfillment as the project has entered an assessment stage by the aviation authorities. This is as the officers from the Ministry of Aviation ...

There’s an outcry on social media since a lady — @Julisco_ shared a story of how a man entered Owerri for the burial of his father in-law scheduled to hold this Friday, May 28th but was allegedly arrested by Imo ...

Some people were feared killed while others went missing after a ferry carrying over 170 passengers sank in the River Niger, Peoples Gazette has learnt. A police spokesman in Kebbi told The Gazette that officers have received information that a ...

A Nigerian man identified as Peter Ofor has allegedly been killed by policemen in India. A lady who claims to be his sister says and a man on twitter also says the same. Though details of the incident are still ...

A special visitation panel constituted by Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo, to visit the state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has indicted the ousted management of the institution for “indiscriminate procurement of loans/overdraft” to the tune of N1,794,069,811.02 within the ...

An officer of the Nigeria Army has been arrested by the police in connection with the alleged murder of a businessman in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the officer allegedly killed him ...

  Imo State Police Command has killed two bandits during a gun duel that lasted for hours in the Ohaji/ Egbema axis of the state. The State Police Command spokesperson, Bala Elkana, who disclosed this in Owerri, said the bandits ...

  Two suspected bandits were reportedly set ablaze on Monday in Madalla area of Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State. The incident was said to have happened about 10 am on Monday, May 24, few hours after about 15 ...

Mr Asaniyi Rufus, father of the late 29-year-old pilot, Asaniyi Taiwo, who flew the crashed military plane, has said that only God can console him and members of his family over the demise of his son. Speaking with the News ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has constituted a committee to investigate incessant crashes involving its aircraft. This comes amidst concerns raised by Nigerians following three plane crashes that happened within three months. The crashes led to the loss of not ...

The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, has disclosed that the £4.2 million Ibori loot has been paid to Delta State. He disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared before the ad hoc committee investigating the status of ...

A fire has erupted from the beach at Okun in Ajah, the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State, Eyewitnesses say the fire is caused by a burst pipeline. Watch the alarming video below.. BREAKING: Huge fire seen burning on the beach ...

A suicide bomber has been blown into pieces when a suicide vest he was wearing exploded on his body. The incident happened in Afikpo town, Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A resident in the area said the incident ...

ByteDance’s CEO has announced he’s stepping down from his role leading the company whose success with TikTok led it to become the world’s most valuable startup. Zhang Yiming, who co-founded ByteDance in 2012, will move to another position at the ...

Covid-19 has hit s3x workers in Zimbabwe hard to the extent of accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment from their also cash-strapped male clients. The s3x workers said the ‘barter trade’ had also created problems for ...

A passenger on an Airlink flight from Johannesburg to Bulawayo died mid-air on Monday. The unidentified male passenger is thought to have died in the final few minutes of the one-hour flight between South Africa’s commercial capital and Zimbabwe’ second ...

A diesel-laden tanker has exploded at Egbeda, Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos, early hours of this morning. Balls of fire envelop the atmosphere in the dead of the night as emergency responders battled to put out the fire. The ...

  An undergraduate of the University of Benin, Olive Ize-Iyamu, has been declared missing by her family.   According to her older sister Constant Ebonugwu,  she last spoke with Olive on May 17. ”I spoke to Olive on Monday, 17th of ...

  A pretty young lady identified as Nimco Essa has taken to social media to express her excitement after she became the first woman to graduate in her family.   ‘ According to Essa, with Twitter handle @nimcoessa_, no woman ...

A yet-to-be-identified motorcyclist was allegedly shot dead by a policeman in the Ile-Epo area along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos State, on Monday. Punch Metro gathered that the motorcyclist was arrested for an offence and the policemen were alleged to have ...