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No fewer than 700 shops and stalls were razed in a Monday morning fire incident that ravaged the Katsina Central market. Eyewitnesses said the fire started about 7.30 a.m. It was learnt that Sabo Ungwa area, where the affected part ...

Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have shot dead a Nigerian Navy personnel, Faruk Yusuf, who was deployed to Onitsha in Anambra State.   The killing is coming one week to the wedding ceremony of Faruk, who hailed from Unguwan Sarki area of ...

A nephew to President Muhammadu Buhari and member of the House of Representatives, Fatuhu Muhammed, has showed off a new house he built in Abuja.Muhammed, who represents Daura/Maiadua/Sandamu Federal Constituency on the platform of ruling All Progressives Congress, said he ...

The Anambra State command of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) has revealed the identity of the inmate freed by suspected gunmen in Anambra last week, while they were returning from court. The gunmen had attacked and killed men of the ...

Six persons, suspected to be internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo Boys, on Friday night reportedly died in a lone accident in the Ughelli area of Delta State. The accident, which involved a Lexus SUV, occurred near the Ekiugbo junction ...

Suspected unregistered cow herders in Ondo State ran away as Amotekun officers arrested over 100 cows in the state for flouting the open grazing laws. The herders ran away upon sighting operatives of the Amotekun Corps. Adetunji Adeleye, Commander of ...

Kaduna State Government on Monday said 19 road travellers died while 34 others sustained injuries during an accident along Kaduna-Abuja road. This was contained in a statement. The statement which was issued by Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and ...

Meghan Markle was ‘clearly misinformed’ when she claimed she married Prince Harry in secret three days before their official wedding, the former official who issued the licence has said. Stephen Borton, the former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, said ...

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has warned Chief Sunday Igboho and others agitating for a sovereign Yoruba State to stay away from the state. Akeredolu said Ondo people have elected to stay in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as constituted ...

Over 100 youths in Benue, Monday staged a peaceful protest over attempt by suspected herdsmen to assassinate Governor Samuel Ortom.   They matched through major roads in Makurdi, the state capital before heading for the Government House.   Ortom on ...

Ayo Adebanjo, the acting Leader of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Bola Tinubu for their political opportunism and alleged selfish-interests. Referencing Mr Tinubu’s 2023 presidential ambition, even though the national ...

Former U.S. President, Donald Trump, plans to launch his own social media platform in two to three months, one of his senior advisers has told Fox News.   Mr Trump was suspended from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites ...

The UAE has announced the introduction of a residence permit for remote workers, approving a multiple-entry pathway tourist system for people of all nationalities. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, the Emirati Vice President and Prime Minister, made the announcement via his ...

Governor Nyesom Wike has said that president Muhammadu Buhari would be held accountable and Nigeria would cease to exist if his Benue counterpart Samuel Ortom is assassinated. Mr Wike in reaction to the attacks unleashed on the Benue governor by ...

Youths from various parts of Oyo State have stormed the State Secretariat at Agodi to register their displeasure against the incessant killings by criminal herdsmen in Ibarapaland, Oke-Ogun and other parts of the state. The youths are also protesting the ...

A furious wife bit her husband’s pen!s off in an act of revenge after she found out he stayed overnight at another woman’s house. Asifa Nakagolo, 38, allegedly sank her teeth into her husband’s pen!s after he returned from a ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 86 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,737. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. “On the 21st of ...

A 55-year-old man from Mukhula Village in Navakholo, Kakamega County, Kenya died on Friday, March 19 while eulogising his late wife. Daniel Tauni had just taken to the podium to eulogise his spouse, Janet Koikoi, when he collapsed and later ...

Less than a week after the police in Lagos State rescued an abandoned day-old baby , the dead body of another abandoned day-old baby has been recovered. The dead baby was deposited very close to the General Hospital in Ikeja ...

A four-year-old girl has been mauled to death by a pack of five stray dogs in Saudi Arabia. It’s understood the girl, identified only by her first name Shahd, was away on holiday at the time of the attack. Witnesses ...

A 42-year-old man in Kano State, identified as Babagana Usman, has committed suicide by hanging himself. Usman, who lived in Tsamiya in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state, hung himself in his room, with a note confirming he killed ...

A 41 year-old man Adewuyi Olayinka has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), while trying to smuggle cocaine out of Nigeria.The drug, which was concealed inside dry local pepper and herbal concoction, was intercepted at Murtala ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered ”an open and transparent probe” of the assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue. Buhari made the call Sunday night in his reaction to the attack that has shocked Nigerians. Ortom said he was ...

Some suspected gunmen on Sunday, allegedly invaded the residence of the mother of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, disclosed this via his Twitter handle on Sunday night. Koiki stated that three Fulani ...

A carpenter on Shittu Bashiru Street, Isheri Oshun area of Lagos is on the run after he was accused of defiling an 11-year-old girl. The suspect, simply named as Wasiu, reportedly molested the girl on Thursday, February 25, while he ...