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Thirty-two people died and five were injured on Tuesday when a truck carrying mourners and a coffin collided with a car and three other vehicles in Uganda, the Ugandan Red Cross said. “The road is small, it’s under construction and ...

A man has shared the story of how he and other passengers who had boarded a bus from Ijebu to Sango Ota alighted on the expresswayHe said the driver of the commercial vehicle almost ram them into a trailer. On ...

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has urged herdsmen to return to the northern region if their security could not be guaranteed in their host communities in the southern part of the country. NEF also told northern Governors to commence preparation to ...

  Two siblings have been arrested and arraigned in court for the murder of Make Up artist, Ijeoma Nweke. Ifezue Chiamaka and Ifezue Emeka were arraigned in court for the murder of the woman who was allegedly having an affair ...

Facebook blocks Nnamdi Kanu: The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the blocking. The social media giants are yet to disclose the reason for blocking his page. In a statement released this afternoon, the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful, ...

Nigerian-born lawyer, Enoh Titilayo Ebong, has been appointed as the acting director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) by Joe Biden.   “The appointment meant a return to USTDA where from 2004 to 2019, Ms Ebong had served ...

A video of a man slipping something into another man’s drink as they partied together has gone viral, with many showing concerns. Many have suggested it is a case of drink spiking, as some feared that the man might have ...

  Major streets and roads in Uromi, the administrative headquarters of Esan North-East Local Govt Area of Edo State have been taken over by protesting women. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the women from the town are demanding a stop to rape, ...

  Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has urged the Federal government to allow Nigerians to carry licensed guns to defend themselves against criminals elements. This is said was due to the rising insecurity across the country. The Governor stated this ...

There was panic at the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano State after a resident officer died from COVID-19 complications. DailyTrust reports that the deceased who was the representative of the Director-General of the scheme at ...

  Popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, has said the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, disappointed the Yoruba people. According to him, the Ooni faulted when he visited the President Muhammadu Buhari and refused ...

  A photographer based in Ibadan has taken to social media to narrate how he was assaulted by some policemen in an unlicensed bus in the Oyo state capital. According to the man identified as Victor, he was driving from ...

  A Nigerian man identified as Emmanuel Onyekachi Amakor who hails from Ngor-Okpala in Imo state has died in a fatal car accident just 12 days to his wedding. According to his friend, Prince Oscar Raymond, who made the announcement ...

  Diezani Jewelry for sale: The inter-ministerial committee on the disposal of assets forfeited to the federal government, has commenced the process of selling final forfeited assets in 25 locations across the country. Chairman of the committee, Dayo Apata, made this ...

  Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has once again condemned media giant CNN over its coverage of the shooting at the Lekki Toll Gate in October 2020. Mohammed told THISDAY in an interview that CNN created division and ...

  The Kogi government has accused the Presidential Task Force on COVID19 of trying to scare investors away from the state after classifying the state as a ”High Risk” state for COVID19 in Nigeria.   The PTF gave the classification on ...

  President Joe Biden on Tuesday February 1, signed three executive orders aimed at reversing former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies including establishing a task force designed to reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border.   He signed orders ...

Despite being a girlfriend of Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, Autumn Spikes got evicted from her North Miami apartment in Florida, U.S., after piling up unpaid rent for six months in 2020, PREMIUM TIMES has found out. Ms Spikes and Mr Dangote dated secretly for ...

  Luck ran out on three suspected ritualists in Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State after they were allegedly caught trying to use a girl for money ritual.   According to a post by Igueben LG chairmanship aspirant, Eromose ...

  New photos show the late billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein seated with a young girl on his lap, with his arm wrapped around her back as she sleeps while on board his private jet after a VIP visit to Walt ...

  Footage shared by lawyer and political activist Esq. Cole shows residents of Oluwatuyi in Akure beating a naked man accused of raping a woman and trying to pluck out her eyes.   In the graphic footage, the victim is ...

  Umar, a son of late Abdulkadir Kure, a former Governor of Niger State, has taken his mother, Senator Zenab Kure, to the Sharia Court of Appeal, Niger State. Umar is challenging the distribution of his father’s estate by an Upper ...

The Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, is set to launch a book in March 2021 titled, ‘My Service to Humanity’. However, his spokesman, Jimoh Buhari, told the Punch that ...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax will arrive in Nigeria from February. Ehanire made this known on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 national briefing. The ...

If  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu signed the Unlawful Societies and Cultism (Prohibition) Bill 2020 passed on Monday by the Lagos State House of Assembly into law, parents of cultists will also share in the punishment meted out to their children when ...