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Tragedy struck in Imo State on Tuesday after a man, Victor Ikegwuonu, 25, was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife’s lover, Emeka Ezuruike. Punch Metro gathered that the deceased allegedly caught Ezuruike kissing his wife. The incident happened at ...

The General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Olajide Oduyoye, has said that the agency would now deploy technology to nab traffic offenders in Lagos State. The MD said that officers would use bodily cameras precisely to catch ...

A coalition of Christians in the North under the auspices of the Arewa Christians and Indigenous Pastors Association has said that the United Nations needs to urgently intervene in Nigeria’s situation in order to prevent a “full blown” war in ...

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced a travel agent, Babawale Ponle, to two years’ imprisonment for misappropriating N10m worth of airline tickets. Ponle, who is the Managing Director of Travel Doctor Limited, ...

A 33-year-old man, Emmanuel Oshiotu, and his 25-year-old lover, Amaka Okafor, were on Thursday found dead in their one-room apartment in Uvwie community in the Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. The corpses of the lovers were sighted by ...

Kwara Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has approved that schoolchildren in public schools can use hijab. According to a statement by the Secretary to the Kwara government, Mamma Jibril, the government held a meeting with religious groups to reach an agreement. Mr. ...

🙄🤣 Ghana’s security forces have raided and shut down the office of an organisation that supports the LGBTQI+ community. “This morning, our centre was invaded by National Security. To this day, we no longer have access to this space, and ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 634 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 154,476. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. Nigeria also recorded six ...

  Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the school, who begged for anonymity,  said the bandits arrived ...

The leadership of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of non-teaching staff unions of universities has announced the suspension of its three-week old strike with effect from midnight February 26. JAC non-teaching staff comprises the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities ...

Twitter on Thursday, said  it plans to offer a subscription service in which users would pay for special content from high-profile accounts, part of an economic model to diversify its revenue. The globally popular social media platform announced the potential ...

There was pandemonium on Thursday at the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police units as relations of a deceased victim raised objections to the testimonies of ASP Kingsley ...

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) is currently topping the Twitter trend in the wake of another s.e.x tape allegedly involving one of its lecturers.   The footage which was put out on the microblogging platform shows a middle-aged ...

Justice Fred Njemanze of the Imo State High Court, Owerri, has ordered an interim forfeiture of all the properties illegally acquired by a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, who was in office from 2011 to 2019. The order ...

Wife of a Port Harcourt branch manager of a new generation bank, Blessing Oko Ikpor, has raised the alarm over the alleged bewitchment of her husband, Anthony, by a mistress (name withheld). Mrs. Ikpor, a mother of four, told newsmen ...

Facebook said it has banned all remaining accounts linked to the Myanmar military on Thursday, citing the junta’s use of deadly force against anti-coup demonstrators. The move, which takes effect immediately, applies to the military and entities controlled by the ...

The Bauchi State Government has released N32m for the vaccination of over 800,000 herds of cattle in the state. Governor Bala Mohammed disclosed this at the inauguration of 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign at the Galambi Cattle Ranch, Bauchi on ...

Abductors of the 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State,  have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time. One of the abductors stated this in ...

The driver of Adamawa United Football Club, Kabiru Mohammed, who was kidnapped last weekend, has been released The driver was released around 11.30pm on Wednesday, sources said Thursday morning. The Adamawa United FC driver was kidnapped along Benin-Ore-Lagos road when ...

The Federal Government has taken over the Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport in Kebbi, Alhaji Abubakar Ladan, the state Commissioner for Works and Transport, has said. Ladan who made the disclosure to newsmen today in Birnin Kebbi said the airport ...

An architect, Adeposi Okupe has called out Pie Express after allegedly finding bones in a pie he bought. The architect took to twitter to reveal he just found a bone in his chicken pie and tweeted; ”Dear #PieExpress, I know ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Eyo Eta on the Ijebu-Mushin/Benin Expressway while allegedly fleeing with his boss’ car. Eta, a resident of No. 78 Iju Road, Ifako, Agege, Lagos State, was said to be running ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 655 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 153,842. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. Nigeria also recorded 11 ...

An Iranian woman who died of a heart attack while waiting to be executed was allegedly still hanged. The woman, named in reports as Zahra Ismaili, was reportedly made to watch as 16 men were hanged in front of her ...

One Muhammadu Sani, a 12-year-old boy has allegedly murdered his 15-year-old girlfriend at Damutawa village in Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Muhammadu allegedly murdered his girlfriend on Saturday around 2:00 pm when Habiba Junaidu, his 15-year-old girlfriend was ...