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A mysterious fire on Wednesday night burnt a mother and her four children to death in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. Miraculously, one of the children in the house survived the inferno, it was gathered. The residence of the deceased is ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state, has hailed the Appeal Court judgement which cleared him of a certificate forgery case preferred against him by the All Progressives Congress (APC), during the Edo 2020 gubernatorial election. It held that the judgment ...

A lady has taken to Twitter to narrate how a man in a taxi assaulted her friend for refusing to talk to him. The twitter user — @stellaachonye showed off her friend’s face with blood all over. Stella said the ...

The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital chapter, Ibadan, has begun a five-day warning strike over unpaid two months’ salary of its 370 members. A representative of the association, Temitope Hussein, said on Wednesday in Ibadan that the strike ...

An 80-year-old retired lecturer, Prof. Muritala Haroon, on Thursday told a Customary Court sitting in Mapo, that his wife, Afsat, still denies him s3x. At the resumed hearing in the suit, Haroon said: “my wife did not abide by the ...

Former Presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has revealed during an interview with VanguardLiveTv that he wept the day he knew his son Bolu is gay. Okupe admits regretting letting Bolu move abroad at a young age, he lived part of his ...

The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd), has recommended drugs test for politicians in Nigeria. “Running for public offices is a big responsibility. You shouldn’t be in this important assignment for the public, and ...

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho has declared the ‘Yoruba Nation’, claiming that South-Western states are no longer a part of Nigeria. He made the declaration on Wednesday evening during a conference in Ibadan, Oyo state. According to him, ...

= An eight-month pregnant mother has been killed after her baby was cut of her womb in an horrific attack at her home in Brazil. Pamella Ferreira Andrade Martins, 21, was found dead in the coastal town of Macae, Rio ...

A Russian mother has been detained by police for allegedly pouring gasoline into the mouth of her eight-year-old son then setting him on fire. The boy died in hospital in Kursk, Russia after suffering horrific 45 per cent burns. Anastasia ...

The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Isyaka Amao, has assured Nigerians of the readiness of the military to deal decisively with bandits, kidnappers and other criminals across the country. Amao, who was on operational visit to the Nigerian ...

Covenant University on Thursday expressed readiness to prosecute its erstwhile lecturer, Dr Stephen Ukenna, for allegedly defiling a 17- year- old student of the institution. The institution’s Registrar, Dr Segun Omidiora, said the school has taken further measures to prevent ...

The Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Education, Castro Ezama, has said more than 60% of the girl child in secondary schools in Cross River State are not virgins.   Ezama said this during a programme on FAD FM ...

Tanzania’s Vice-President, Hon. Samia Suluhu Hassan is about to become the first female President in East Africa. This is coming following the passing away of president John Pombe Magufuli who died yesterday, 17 March 2021.   According to the country’s ...

A court in Malta has jailed a Nigerian identified as Uchenna Anya for nine years and fined him €10,000 for importing 360g of cocaine and other illicit substances, in a case dating back 10 years. Malta Today newspaper reported that ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ranked Nigeria as one of the countries worst affected by internet crimes in 2020.   The 2020 Internet Crime Report of the FBI Complaint Centre (IC3) listed Africa’s most populous nation as the ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State said he has no political father, adding that it was God who made him a governor and not a human being. Makinde stated this on Tuesday at the pan-Yoruba Congress at Mapo Hall, Ibadan. ...

The Police Command in Lagos State has identified the man caught in a viral video masturbat!ng in a commercial vehicle on March 13 simply as as Mr Matthew. The News Agency (NAN) reports that the man was recorded by a ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested Suleiman Ganiyu, a notorious serial killer and member of Eiye cult group who has been on wanted list of the Command. The command, in a release by its spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi ...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced.   He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television. Magufuli had ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 187 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,261.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday.   “187 new ...

Players and officials of Ekiti United Football Club of Ado-Ekiti were on Tuesday involved in an auto crash. The club’s Media Officer, Quozeem Oladapo, made this known in a statement Tuesday night, describing the accident as “mild”. He noted that ...

A Japanese court has ruled that not allowing same-s.e.x marriage is unconstitutional, a landmark decision that could herald a new era for marriage equality in the country. It’s the first time that a court has ruled on the constitutionality of ...

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday, ordered that three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson. The three OPC members identified as Awodele Adedigba, 45; Dauda Kazeem ...

The chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa has said 4.5 million people in Lagos state are involved in illicit drugs. Speaking during a visit to the Lagos NDLEA command on Tuesday, Marwa said the state ...