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Malawi authorities have issued a new arrest warrant for controversial millionaire Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Prophetess Mary Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering.   This comes after Prophet’s children Raphaela and Israella, cousin Esther Bushiri and mother-in-law Magdalena ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, arraigned Gajah Omayulele Lovely before Justice G. O. Imadegbelo of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City. Lovely was arraigned on a two-count ...

  A 25-year-old man, who claims to have been masturbating for 11 years now, wants to quit the act. The young man, who made a passionate appeal on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Tuesday, said while in Senior High School he ...

The Abayi police station in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State was burnt down by yet-to-be-identified hoodlums in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The hoodlums also burnt all the operational vehicles parked within the premises of the police ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, speaks for 99 per cent of the Yoruba people of the South-West region. He stated this on Tuesday while featuring on a ...

The Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State government to investigate the October 2020 Lekki shooting and other cases of police brutality by the disbanded Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) has summoned the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed ...

Police in Ebonyi on Tuesday detained a commercial s.e.x worker on allegations she intended to sell her son for N40,000. The baby is four months old and breastfeeding. The mother said she needed to raise money to start a beer ...

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it has arrested one Sunday Amaefula, 53, for allegedly stabbing Chibuike Nwanne, 43 to death. The tragedy occurred on Monday at about 12:30am at No 8 Akpaku lane, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos State. ...

The Federal Government has explained why Nigerian children are not been considered for the coming Covid-19 vaccines. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said that the vaccines have not been proven to be ...

Heavy explosions and the sound of gunshots have engulfed some parts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The explosions which started at about 5:45 pm up to the time of filing in this report were heard around Fori general area ...

A Nairobi resident has left listeners of Radio Maisha’s morning show gobsmacked after claiming to have bedded snakes and eaten corpses. In an interview with Emmanuel Mwashumbe and Shuga Boy, Cecilia Wambui, who resides in Umoja Estate, narrated how she ...

A Ghanaian journalist and LGBTQI+ activist has come out as gay for the first time. According to Ignatius Annor, he had kept this to himself because of fear of losing his job and the stigma that it could generate. “This ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has condemned the clash between supporters of Senator Rochas Okorocha and the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, urging the duo not to turn the state into a theatre of war. The supporters of ...

Oyindamola Akinrinola, 23, a Nigerian resident of Lawrence, Kansas, has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in online fraud schemes that targeted victims in the United States. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister announced her conviction Monday night, saying she ...

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Service Chiefs as Ambassadors-Designate after their names were forwarded to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari recently. The confirmation of the nominees followed consideration of the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ...

This is the moment Tuface stole the show at the 14th Headies Awards ceremony which held on Sunday night on February 21. His wife, Annie Idibia was feeling uncomfortable in her shoes, pulled it off and her husband took it ...

A 28-year-old security guard has been charged with causing a disturbance after daring his employer to shoot him with his pistol while demanding his two-month salary arrears amounting to Sh18,000. Isaiah Mugane, who was arraigned and charged at Milimani Law ...

A former Bauchi State governor, Isa Yuguda, has stated that Nigeria has treated Fulani people unfairly, stating that for the herdsmen crisis across the country to be addressed, justice must be given to them. He stated this in an interview ...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has hinted that Nigeria might soon exit the second wave of the coronavirus disease. Speaking during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 on Monday, the Minister said the country has ...

Femi Fani Kayode has continued his numerous visits to different states and to those that matter in the society too. His latest stop is at Prophet Joshua Iginla’s place. Prophet Iginla heads the Champions Royal Assembly. In a post on ...

  A new survey has shown that COVID-19 infection is higher among males than females in Nigeria. The household seroprevalence survey conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was done in Lagos, Enugu, Nasarawa and Gombe States between September and ...

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the beauty-queen wife of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested at Dulles International Airport on trafficking charges. According to U.S federal prosecutors, the 31 year-old Aispuro was busted in Virginia on charges of ...

An Ondo State High Court, Akure, has convicted Opadule Caroline Abimbola, an officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Ondo, for fraudulent receipt of property. Abimbola was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in ...

A South African lady has been shot dead by her new boyfriend she met  in the previous week. Taking to Twitter, the sister  of the victim wrote that the lady was a mother of 2 who just graduated from school ...

Prince Adekunle Oyinlola has been sent to jail without an option of a fine on three counts of a conspiracy between the defendant and three other people. He was sentenced at an Osogbo based Federal High Court, presided over by ...