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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 ...

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 ...