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A vehicle conveying some suspects to court was attacked in Ekwulobia area of Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Friday. At least persons, including an official of the Nigerian Correctional Service, were reportedly shot dead in the attack ...

Former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has asked Nigerians to support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to lead the country in 2023. Saraki, who made the appeal while inaugurating some projects and programmes executed by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa ...

Tanzania has sworn in their forst ever Female President and we call this POWER.The former Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan looked solemn during proceedings that saw her make history to become Tanzania’s first female president. The 61-year-old took her oath of ...

If you are having difficulty sending a message on Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger, or running into problems signing into Instagram, you aren’t alone: All three services seem to be down in what appears to be a widespread Facebook services outage. ...

Doctors were left stunned when a housewife on her period started crying tears of blood in an extremely rare medical anomaly. The 25-year-old woman from Chandigarh, India, was diagnosed with haemolacria after seeking help for the condition at the city’s ...

A 28-year-old gay Jane Otubo has been arrested by the Lagos Police Command for homos.e.x.uality. Otubo, a male food seller who hails from Enugu State, was arrested by operatives attached to the Makinde Police Station in Oshodi. The suspect was ...

A nurse was reportedly dead on Friday after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Georgia’s southwestern city of Akhaltsikhe on Thursday. The 27-year-old nurse, Megi Bakradze, who developed an alleged anaphylactic reaction after receiving the first shot of the vaccine, died ...

  Former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi, has described the recent approval by the Federal Executive Council FEC to spend $1.5 billion to carry out repairs on the Port Harcourt refinery as a huge waste.   According to the former ...

  Two men have been arranged for their alleged involvement in Internet Fraud.   The suspects, Aremu Ridwan Kunle and Adegboyega Adisa Adebayo were arraigned on Thursday, March 18 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Iyabo ...

  A final year student of Uganda Christian University (UCU) Lorita Blessy Asimwe was killed after a church collapsed in Kampala.   Asimwe was due to graduate on July 2, 2021, with a Bachelor of Human Resource Management, having sat ...

  A distraught little girl was found wandering alone on a deserted road between Onuebum and Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.   The girl, who identified herself as Jennifer Alex was spotted crying by a commercial tricycle driver on ...

A northern group, Arewa Youth Assembly, has given Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, 72 hours to move Yoruba people from the north. Mohammed Salihu Danlami, Speaker, Arewa Youth Assembly, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. “We are hereby giving him ...

An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) was on Tuesday killed and another injured during a clash with commercial motorists at Anthony Bus Stop.   The deceased identified as Godwin Obasu was said to have been hit ...

Ekiti State Government has reversed the appointment of 100 newly recruited teachers, following economic challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic.   The Chairman of the Teaching Service Commission, Mr. Babatunde Abegunde, said in a statement on Thursday that the appointment was ...

  Nineteen people, nine of them children, have died from food poisoning in Madagascar after eating a turtle, sources said Thursday. Thirty-four people were hospitalised on Monday in Vatomandry, in the east of the island, after eating the protected species, ...

Burna Boy has gotten another one, as International singer. Justin Bieber features him on his latest single — Love By You.   The single is a part of Justin Bieber’s NEW album — “Justice” and it is already making waves. ...

The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, on Thursday told members of the National Economic Council that the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine has been delivered to 35 out of the 36 states of the federation as well as ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called on US President Joe Biden to hold virtual talks after the American leader described him as a “killer”. Speaking on the sidelines of an event marking seven years since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, ...

A mysterious ailment has hit residents of Gwangwan village in the Rogo Local Government Area of Kano State as victims vomit and urinate blood. Gwangwan village is about 136 kilometres from Kano City. A source, who spoke under condition of ...

A cook, Emmanuel Oko, who once worked with a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, says the ex-minister once chased him around the house with a knife because he was not happy with his cooking. Oko, who worked for ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the Ekiti State Government have agreed that the issuance of drug-free certificates for intending couples should be a condition for the solemnisation of marriages in the state. They also agreed to collaborate with ...

The Federal Government has set in motion the machinery for the prosecution of a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, on criminal charges of threat to the life of his mistress, Chinyere Amuchienwa. Already, the office of the Attorney ...

Gunmen on Thursday reportedly killed four naval men and three policemen in different locations in Anambra State. But the state police command said it lost only one cop. Punch Metro gathered that the incident created tension in the state as ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 135 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,409. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “On the 18th of ...

First Lady Aisha Buhari is back in the country after spending six months in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Nation learnt that the first lady, who quietly relocated abroad after Hanan, one of her daughters, got married in September 2021, ...