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A youthful woman from Chogoria Town in Tharaka Nithi County has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death over the weekend. Susan Gakii is said to have stabbed Martin Kahiga, 42, after Kahiga refused to spend the ...

The decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel to allow Lekki Concession Company to reopen the Lekki tollgate has elicited a flurry of reactions. Many youths have taken to social media, threatening to stage a massive protest on February 13. ...

Some young men, suspected to be internet fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo boys’ stormed Ilesha/Osogbo road, Osun State, on Tuesday morning to protest incessant arrest by Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). The suspected fraudsters went on a rampage by making bonfires ...

Court has jailed a Kenyan man, Stephen Ngila for 30 years after finding him guilty of chopping off his wife’s hands because she could not bear him children. The man also attempted to kill his wife after cutting off her ...

International Federation of Football History and Statistics has named Super Falcons captain Asisat Oshoala the best African Woman player of the decade.   The Barcelona forward was crowned as the best female footballer from the continent between the years 2011 ...

A cleric in the Iranian regime has told his followers that the Covid-19 vaccination turns people into “homosexuals,” which is punishable by death in Iran. Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian made the outrageous claims Tuesday on the social media platform Telegram, according ...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has revealed plans by the Federal Government to begin oil exploration in the northeast. Speaking during a recent interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight in Abuja, which aired on Monday, he said; ...

Mrs Zeenat El-Zakzaky, wife of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has tested negative for COVID-19 virus. The Acting Controller-General, NCoS, Mr John Mrabure, disclosed this ...

Men of Oyo State Security Network Agency known as Amotekun have intercepted a truck loaded with no fewer than 80 men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The men, who ...

A bandit leader, Auwalu Daudawa, and six members of his gang, on Monday, surrendered 20 AK-47 rifles and one RPG to security agencies in Zamfara State. They declared their repentance from banditry at a meeting with Governor Bello Matawalle and ...

A middle-aged man who allegedly confessed to be a serial r.a.p.i.s.t with mystical powers to unlock any door of his victims has been nabbed via community policing in Obrigbene Quarters in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta ...

The Chief Magistrate Court, Kaduna under the supervision of Mr Benjamin Hassan has adjourned the case brought before it against five suspects who were accused of organizing s.e.x party to February 22, 2021 for hearing. When the case came up ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 643 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 140,391. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. Nigeria also recorded six ...

The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Abba Moro, has demanded the immediate release of Elijah Ode, a young barber arrested for allegedly insulting Islam through the haircuts he gave two customers in Kano State.   ...

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode may be on his way back to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) six years after he left for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).He just met with chairman, Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has found six more cases of the B.1.1.7 Covid-19 variant in the country. This brings the total number of people who have tested positive to the variant in Nigeria to 13. ...

Two Christian men were publicly flogged in Monday in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Aceh province for drinking alcohol and gambling, in a rare instance of non-Muslims facing a punishment frequently condemned by rights groups. The caning comes less than two weeks after ...

Following the approval to reopen Lekki Tollgate by Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Lagos State government to investigate the October 2020 Lekki shooting incident, many Nigerians have taken to Twitter to protest that those who carried out ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has stopped the leadership of the National Road Transport Workers in the state from resuming collection of dues and revenues on behalf of the government at the motor parks and garages in the state. The ...

The Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps, Retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, has declared that Ibarapaland is safe and free of killers and kidnappers. The Oyo State Government had deployed 200 operatives of the Amotekun in ...

OMG! People joke too much… If only you know you don’t joke with God. Don’t give, but don’t mock, lol. A church usher took to Twitter to share a photo revealing what a church member dropped inside a offering envelope ...

The Federal Government has sealed an Abuja-based laboratory for issuing fake COVID-19 results to international travelers. The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this on Monday at the weekly press briefing of the Presidential Task Force ...

The Nigeria Police Force has said that the tenure extension of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, was not paid for. The Punch reported that the IGP’s tenure was extended by three months by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ...

A former pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries, Mike Davids, who has accused the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, of sleeping with his wife, has said he will expose the truths behind the Stephanie Otobo’s sex scandal.The cse ...

Eleven years old boy, Master Osasu Omoigui who was hit by a stray bullet on his genital during the #EndSARS protest has said he would like to be a medical doctor when he grows up. The primary three pupil of ...