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An accident involving a bus and Toyota, yesterday, claimed the lives of four staff of BN Ceramics Company, Ajaokuta, Kogi State while many were injured. An eyewitness said both vehicles had a head-on collision when the driver of the bus ...

A number of victims kidnapped by Boko Haram, including some of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have escaped from their captors. A source privy to the information confirmed the news saying, “They are many and not only Chibok girls alone; they ...

Deputy Benue Governor, Benson Abounu, has stated 376 cows have been impounded for flouting the state anti-open grazing law. Abounu told reporters state livestock guards apprehended the cows between January, 23 and 26, 2021, at Kasima in Guma Local Government ...

Gombe State government has announced 42 deaths in the latest outbreak of Covid-19 from 1,449 confirmed cases between March 27, 2020 and January 6, 2021. The announcement came as the state government sought for homemade vaccine by Nigerian scientists to ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned television and radio stations against broadcasting divisive content. The warning is stated in a letter titled: ‘Broadcast of a crisis involving herdsmen, caution’, dated January 26, 2021. NBC, which is the regulator of ...

Police operatives have arrested a controversial Prophet in Anambra state, Onyebuchi Okocha, popularly known as ‘Onyeze Jesus’. It was gathered that the founder of Children of Light Anointing Ministries, Nkpor, Idemili North local government area is still in police custody ...

The Singapore Zoo has announced the successful birth of a lion cub through artificial insemination. Simba, the three month old cub, is named after the protagonist in Disney’s The Lion King. His father Mufasa, will never see him grow as ...

A doctor in Italy has been arrested after claims he killed two coronavirus patients to ‘free up beds’ at the height of the pandemic. Carlo Mosca, 47, has been accused of giving Natale Bassi, 61, and Angelo Paletti, 80, lethal ...

The police in Ogun State, on Wednesday, paraded 25 suspected members of the dreaded Buccaneer cult group, who they arrested during an alleged initiation ceremony in Abeokuta. Parading the suspects at the Command’s Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state Commissioner of ...

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has urged popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands. The monarch said though Igboho has done well to speak for the downtrodden, it ...

The Federal Government has again announced its plan to shut down a section of the Third Mainland Bridge for another three days for a round of delicate expansion joints replacement. This was announced on Wednesday in a statement signed by ...

A total of 384 Nigerians stranded in Saudi Arabia on Thursday arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.The returnees arrived via Air flight B773 at about 1:10 pm local time and were received by officials including those of Nigerians In ...

A woman performed a s.e.x act on a petrol station robber to distract him until cops turned up, it has been reported. The thief, 24, allegedly forced a staff member at the station to hand over cash from the till ...

Iranian football legend Mehrdad Minavand lost his brief battle to coronavirus late on Wednesday. He was 45. The former Iran international star, who also played for local and foreign football clubs, was hospitalized last week in Tehran after developing acute ...

An upcoming musician , Starboy Fizzy has committed suicide in Warri.He killed himself by drinking a poisonous substance suspected to be Snipper in the early hours of today. According to reports, he killed himself after he returned from a church ...

Members of host communities at the venue of the public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) unfortunately came for each other. It was really a fight for all. Watch the embarrassing video below… https://twitter.com/Gidi_Traffic/status/1354784379944505345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1354784379944505345%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladunliadinews.com%2F2021%2F01%2Fpib-public-hearing-members-of-host.html

A 65-year- old man, Uchechukwu Nweke, has taken his life after allegedly murdering his wife and son in Amunike community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The deceased, a hunter, was said to have set his house ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, Lagos, has seized lion bones and pangolin scales worth N952 million. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura, disclosed that the items were billed for export to Vietnam when ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has received 300 female soldiers deployed to boost security situation along the Kaduna-Abuja highway where several cases of kidnappings and killings were reported. The first batch of the troops, who are of the Nigerian Army ...

The police in Imo State said some of their officers have been arrested for allegedly assaulting five people. The assault, captured in a video posted on Twitter and Facebook, showed the officers flogging the victims, at least two of them ...

Thirty countries have been banned from entering the United Kingdom, following the rise in Covid-19 cases. Of the thirty countries banned, 13 were African, however, Nigeria was not on the list. According to a statement on the UK government’s website ...

Former Senator Shehu Sani has reacted to the deployment of hundreds of female soldiers to Kaduna-Abuja highway. Recall it was announced yesterday that female soldiers will now be deployed there. Reacting on social media, the outspoken ex-senator said; ”With Women ...

Senegal has recorded its first case of the more-contagious coronavirus strain that initially emerged in Britain, a research institute in the West African country said on Thursday. Souleymane Mboup, the director of the health-research body IRESSEF, told a press conference ...

Leader of Boko Haram terror group, Abubakar Shekau, has said the newly appointed service chiefs would fail like their predecessors. He spoke in a nine minutes, 56 seconds-long video, according to HumAngle. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed four new service chiefs ...

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has declared Ogun state will be his next destination to flush out criminal herdsmen. In the now-viral video, Igboho stated that he has heard about the criminal activities of herdsmen in ...