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  Gunmen, Sunday morning, attacked a police outpost in Mgbakwu community, Awka North Local Government Area, a short distance from the capital city of Awka, Anambra State. Sources said the men who invaded the police outpost very early in the ...

A Florida couple, Pastors Bill and Esther Ilnisky, who spent decades as missionaries and ministers died of Covid-19, 15 minutes apart in the same hospital. The Ilniskys were married almost 67 years when they died recently at a Palm Beach ...

The Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN) has warned against the consumption of meat roasted with tyres, saying that tyres contain cancer-causing substances. Deputy Registrar of the Council, Dr Fadipe Oladotun, gave the warning in Abuja on Sunday when he spoke ...

A 29-year-old herbalist, Baoku Gbuyi, has confessed to the police that he, on behalf of a 27-year-old bricklayer, Olamide Odulaja, killed a woman, Modupeola Folorunsho, and her 4-year-old son, Peter Folorunsho, for money ritual. Police said the herbalist revealed that ...

A Yoruba group has launched the currency for the proposed Oduduwa Republic.The image of the currency, known as “FADAKA, was posted on Twitter via the group’s handle, @OduduwaRepublic, on Sunday. “Oduduwa National Currency shall be called ‘FADAKA’ Meaning Silver .. ...

Members of the Kwara Baptist Conference on Sunday staged a peaceful protest in Ilorin, the state capital against hijab-wearing in grant-aided mission schools. The protest took place in the premises of First Baptist Church Ilorin in Surulere, Ilorin with members ...

The spokesman of Sunday Adeyemo (Aka Sunday Igboho), Olayomi Koiki, has threatened that angry youths would invade the palace of the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo and other Yoruba Obas who are against the secession of Yorubas from ...

Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde on Saturday disclosed that no governor in the state has ever handed over to his successor after the expiration of their tenure in office. Makinde while speaking during the Inauguration and Duty Commencement Service ...

An 18 year-old-girl, Idowu Biletiri has allegedly stabbed her elder brother, Kehinde Biletiri, to death on Saturday. The incident happened at Igbokoda in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, NAN reports. An eyewitness said trouble started when the suspect ...

Heavy rain has caused emergency evacuation of people in parts of Sydney northwest in Australia. Authorities ordered people to flee their houses in the middle of the night as heavy rains continued to batter Australia’s east coast on Sunday. Fast-moving ...

The Nigeria Defence Headquarters has issued a strong warning to Sunday Igboho and other individuals bent on disparaging its reputation to gain political mileage. The Defence Headquarters gave the warning in a statement released on Saturday night while reacting to ...

Buba Marwa, the chairman of Nigerian drugs enforcement office NDLEA, has said young Nigerians would soon be required to certify themselves free from illicit drugs before they could get married. Mr Marwa says parents will be asked to list drug-free ...

A third of France’s population was under a new partial lockdown Saturday to stop the spread of Covid-19, as some European countries resumed AstraZeneca vaccinations following an all-clear from EU regulators and the WHO. The pandemic is still speeding up ...

Nigeria has been ranked the 116th happiest place in the world, a spot lower than its position last year, indicating the country’s declining perception on key indicators. The United Nations-sponsored 2021 World Happiness Report ranked Finland as the happiest country ...

Denmark said on Saturday that one person had died and another fell seriously ill with blood clots and cerebral haemorrhage after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. The two, both hospital staff members, had received the AstraZeneca vaccine less than 14 ...

The Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo has called on Sunday Igboho to shelve plans of declaring an Independent Yoruba nation. The first class Yoruba monarch said he opposes the declaration of Yoruba nation and South-West secession from Nigeria. Oba ...

20-year-old woman, Fatima Kabiru-Ahmed, has sued the Inspector-General (IG) of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and others, demanding N5 billion compensation over the alleged killing of her father. In a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/364/2021 filed by her lawyer, Bala Dakum, ...

Governor Samuel Ortom on Saturday said herdsmen attacked him on his farm near Tyo-mu, along Makurdi-Gboko Highway.   Mr Ortom said during a press briefing at the Benue Peoples House in Makurdi shortly after the attack that he was inspecting ...

A traditional ruler, Oba Tajudeen Omotayo, the Oba Alade Meta of  Imope land, a community in Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State was on Saturday abducted by some yet to be identified gunmen.   Available details of the circumstances in ...

Political thugs opened fire during a local by-election in Ekiti on Saturday, leading to the death of three voters and left a policewoman critically injured. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Tella Adeniran, confirmed the incident. Adeniran said the election was ...

A one storey building has been destroyed at Alapere area of Ketu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria after a gas explosion rocked the building.Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, arrived the scene of the incident at No 44 Moses ...

  Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Saturday morning narrowly escaped death after armed herders reportedly opened fire on his convoy at Tyo-Mu community in the outskirts of Makurdi town, along Makurdi-Gboko road.   At the time of this ...

Former senator who represented the Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has apologized to God for supporting President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Melaye, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, also described Buhari’s agenda as the “greatest scam that ...

No fewer than 13 persons have been killed while seven others were injured in series of bandits’ attacks on communities in Zangon Kataf, Kauru and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State. In one of the attacks on Kizachi village, ...

The annual military parade in central London for Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday has been cancelled for a second year owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. The “Trooping the Colour” event in June normally features hundreds ...