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lijah Odeh, the young barber who was arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Corps for allegedly giving his customers haircuts which allegedly offend the Islamic faith, has been released. The senator representing Benue South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, ...

A new law decriminalizing same-sex sexual relations in Angola has gone into effect on Wednesday. According to reports, the new law overturned a colonial-era ban on homosexual relations which described it as “vice against nature”. Activist Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted, “The ...

Boko Haram terrorists on Tuesday reportedly abducted three officers of the Nigeria Customs Services during an attack on Geidam, a town in Yobe State near the Nigerian border with Niger Republic. The insurgents had attacked the town late Tuesday evening. ...

  The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has reacted to the planned increase of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol following rise in the price of crude oil to $60 per barrel. The TUC wondered why the Federal Government ...

The immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has faulted the ongoing membership revalidation exercise of the party. The exercise, he said, is contrary to Constitution of the party. Oshiomhole spoke with newsmen shortly ...

Popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has accused the Federal Government of freezing his bank accounts. He said the move was because of his campaigns against killer-herdsmen in the South West. Igboho alleged his bank accounts ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has set aside the order it made on November 4, 2020 freezing accounts linked with some promoters of the #EndSARS protest that took place across the country last year. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ...

An American citizen, one Kari Ann O’Rourke, has been apprehended by men of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). She has been handed over to the Airport Police Command after it was discovered that there was a manhunt for her for ...

A 72-year-old pastor of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Oke-Aseyori, Iyana Church, Monatan, Ibadan, Mr. Jimo Odunayo, has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl, Rasaq Aisha. Odunayo was arrested along with Opeyemi Rasaq, who was also said to have ...

A 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf, has been remanded in a custodial centre in Lagos over alleged killing of his six-week-old daughter whom he threw into a lagoon because she was sick. The Chief Magistrate, P.E. Nwaka, gave the remand order ...

Convener of pro-democracy group, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju has warned Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the new Service Chiefs in a tweet this morning that no one must touch peaceful protesters who intend to occupy lekki tool gate this ...

A Lagos court has ordered the remand of embattled Nigerian singer, Sanni Goriola better known as Lil Frosh, at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly beating up Okeoghene Iyomaterie, his girlfriend who is better known as Gift Camille. On Tuesday, ...

The dreaded COVID-19 pandemic struck 21 Nigerians dead on Tuesday as new cases rise again after two days of relief. Figures churned out by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, showed that 21 deaths were reported on Tuesday, with ...

Serial killer Anthony Sowell, who brutally murdered 11 women, has died in prison. Sowell had been on death row at Ohio’s Chillicothe Correctional Institute in the US, where he had continued to appeal his sentence for the horrifying killing spree ...

Mohammed Faruk, 35, who allegedly r.a.p.e.d a 90-year-old woman (name withheld) in Gadaka town in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State has been arrested, police spokesman Dungus Abdulkarim said on Tuesday in Damaturu. Mr.  Abdulkarim disclosed that the incident ...

Temi Otedola wants women to embrace their stretch marks.In a post she made today on Twitter. she questioned how society sees stretch marks. In the tweet, she said; “Stretch marks are so beautiful. how did we let society tell us ...

An elderly man collapsed and died in New York City on Sunday morning shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, officials revealed Monday. The man, who was in his 70s, fell as he left Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center just 25 ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has placed a six months travel restriction on 100 passengers for flouting COVID-19 directives.Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 made the announcement via its Twitter handle on Tuesday. The PTF also released the passport details of ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has stated the purpose of his visit to top APC leaders – Governor Yahaya Bello and Governor Mai Mala Buni. According to him, his purpose for visiting some leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) was to discuss ...

Men of the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command have arrested an armed robbery suspect, Adeolu Bankole operating in Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Coprs, NSCDC, uniform at Ayetoro area of the State. The Command, in a press release was ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped Bala Baba, the Personal Assistant to Taraba State Deputy Governor, Haruna Manu. The incident was confirmed by a family source, The Nation reported. Police spokesman in Taraba, ASP Reform Leha, while reacting to ...

A rare bronze coin, dating back some 1,850 years, was discovered in northern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Tuesday. The coin was found by an Israeli soldier during a training exercise in the Carmel coastal mountain range. ...

Four government employees in western Kabul have been shot dead by gunmen on Tuesday, officials said.   Kabul police spokesman Ferdows Faramarz said the victims were employees of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. A spokesman for the ministry ...

Former Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is set to be appointed as the first female and first African to lead the World Trade Organization next week. The organisation made this known in a statement titled, ‘WTO General Council to ...

Three businessmen have been charged with selling expired and counterfeit HIV kits which they sold to unsuspecting customers locally and abroad. According to the public prosecutor, the three also stole HIV test kits and exported them to Guyana, a poor ...