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A St. Louis woman and her two daughters were fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend, who fled on a Greyhound bus and was captured 100 miles away, police said. Ronald Marr, 34, was arrested in Effingham, Illinois, hours after the early ...

An escaped tiger that killed a keeper at a zoo on Borneo island has been captured alive after a day on the loose, police said. The white Bengal tiger was found wandering in a jungle surrounding Sinka Zoo in the ...

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Edo State have seized cannabis valued at N1.4bn in Ukpuje Forest, in the Owan West Local Government Area of the State Seven suspects were also arrested in connection with cannabis weighing ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) chairman of the Taraba State chapter, Peter Jediel. He was abducted at his residence in Sunkani, the headquarters of Ardo-Kola Local Government Council. Confirming the incident to Channels ...

The World Bank has approved $500 million to support Nigeria in improving operations of electricity distribution companies (DisCos). In a recent statement by the Bank, it said this is under its distribution sector recovery program (DISREP). It said the project ...

Two tigers escaped from a zoo in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, with one of the animals killing an employee who tried to stop them, according to local media reports on Saturday. The white tigers ran away from Zinka Zoo in ...

Ruggedman has questioned the reason why only actresses are the ones buying cars and houses in Nollywood and the actors not doing the same. He took to twitter to ask the question, saying he wanted to come into Nollywood, but ...

The judicial panel established by the Lagos State government to investigate the October 2020 Lekki shooting incident has approved the reopening of the Lekki tollgate.   The nine-man panel returned the control of the tollgate to the Lekki Concession Company, ...

Fast-growing rapper and Davido’s ex-artist, Sani Goriola Yusuf aka Lil Frosh who recently assaulted his ex-girlfriend, Gift has allegedly been rearrested by the police and awaiting trial. Allegations of domestic violence had surfaced online in October 2020, where Lil Frosh ...

The Kano State Executive Council has approved N245 million for the conduct of mass wedding statewide. A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammed Garbq and made available to newsmen disclosed this on Saturday. The council also ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps says it will soon commence the enforcement of a uniform colour for school buses in the Federal Capital Territory.   FRSC FCT Sector Commander, Mr Gora Wobin, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja, during a ...

A 28-year-old artisan, Chukwuemeka Obijiofor of Ofufe Nza village in the Ekwusigo LGA of Anambra State who last month killed his wife and child said he killed the woman because he found out she was cheating on him with some ...

Donald Trump dusted off his old Gab account for a social media comeback in the wake of his purge by Silicon Valley tech giants. In his first post to the site since 8 January, Trump uploaded his lawyer’s response to ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said developments and happenings in the country show that people are not preparing for the Kingdom of God. Obasanjo, who was the Guest of Honour during the dedication of the St. Moses Orimolade Holy Land, ...

Osun State Police command on Saturday said a father, (name not given), and his son said to be a student of Oduduwa Secondary School, Ile Ife, are being held following the invasion of the school by some thugs. The said ...

A small Indonesian town briefly turned red after a dye factory was flooded Saturday causing the streets to flow with blood-red water.Pictures of motorcyclists zipping through the deluge just south of Central Java’s Pekalongan city soon flooded social media, where ...

The flurry of federal executions performed in the last days of the Trump administration were likely coronavirus superspreader events, a new analysis from the Associated Press shows.   At least 33 prisoners on death row tested positive for the deadly ...

Former Super Eagles defender Yisa Sofoluwe is currently on life support at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Sofoluwe had been diagnosed for mild cerebral atrophy at the Prince and Life Medical Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos, but was moved to LUTH on ...

Two Mexican drug traffickers tried to smuggle more than two tons of methamphetamine and 100,000 fentanyl pills into the U.S., prosecutors alleged Friday. The drugs were worth more than $90 million had they hit the streets, said Special Agent in ...

A rising Chinese actress is warning the public about the dangers of plastic surgery by sharing shocking photos of her “nightmare” nose job. Gao Liu posted the photos on China’s Weibo platform on Tuesday, showing blackened dead flesh on the ...

Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has reacted to United States’ support for her candidacy for the World Trade Organisation’s job.   The US on Friday backed the Nigerian for the Director General position at WTO after it ...

The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), has arrested Mahmud Mohmmed and Nuhu Ochofo, for impersonating as a soldier and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), respectively in Jos. Maj.-Gen. Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, the Commander of ...

A butcher in the Ilasamaja area of Lagos State, Tunji Adeniran, has been arrested for alleged defilement of his two stepdaughters, Ope and Ola (pseudonyms), aged 10 and 14 respectively. Adeniran, 40, had reportedly been molesting the girls, who are ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,624 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 137,654. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. “On the 5th of ...

The Federal Government has lifted the ban it earlier placed on Emirates Airlines. This is coming after the United Arab Emirates granted the carrier permission to withdraw the Rapid Antigen Testing done prior to the departure of Emirates flights from ...