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A Twitter user has alleged that a Lagos teacher beat his junior brother to death over the boy’s failure to correctly answer a question asked of him during their mathematics session. The man, whose Twitter handle identified him as Ridwan ...

A Peregrine falcon believed to be the world’s fastest bird has been killed in Nigeria, Delta State. The bird is believed to have flown into Nigeria from Finland. It was reportedly killed in Ofagbe town, Delta state.  According to a ...

Manchester United are reportedly being held to ransom for millions of pounds by cyberhackers who still have control of the club’s computer systems.   Manchester United’s network has allegedly been infected by a computer virus, and the club face having ...

Justice Adie A. Onyebueke of the Cross River State High Court, Akamkpa, on Friday, sentenced Augustine Effiong Bassey to five years in prison. Bassey was found culpable of stealing N27 million belonging to a microfinance bank where he was a ...

Counsel for some #EndSARS protesters in Lagos State, Mr Adesina Ogunlana, has said Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), will have to appear before the Judicial Panel of Inquiry “discovery” of a video camera at the Lekki toll ...

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist in Iran has been murdered, state media reported.   Fakhrizadeh was shot on Friday as he journeyed in a vehicle near Tehran, the state capital. He was badly injured, doctors could not save him ...

Unknown Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of the Chief of Staff to Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, Mr Olugbenga Ale This happened as the state is battling with the death of the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi, who was ...

The Inspector General Of Police Force in Nigeria IGP Muhammad Adamu Abubakar has charged his men in general not to feel discouraged by the protests staged by Nigerian youth calling for the end of its Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The ...

The Oyo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (OYSACA) has announced that between January and June 2020, over 6,900 individuals tested positive for HIV in the States despite measures taken to curtail the spread of the virus.   While ...

There was pandemonium on Tuesday at the Edepie suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital when one of the policemen on an escort duty fired indiscriminately hitting a 17-year-old girl, a pastor’s wife and a trader along the popular Tombia market ...

One Ibrahim Abubakar, a shop owner along Zoo Road in Kano metropolis, has committed suicide on Thursday evening.   His body was discovered hanging from a rope in his shop. His son, Abdussalam Ibrahim, told newsmen that his father was ...

India’s economy contracted 7.5 percent between July and September, performing the poorest among major advanced and emerging economies and entering a technical recession for the first time since independence, official data showed Friday. Although the figures were an improvement on ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday struck out the case filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Court said ...

An #EndSARS protester, Felicia Okpara, has testified against the police, saying she was brutalized by officers simply for recording the violence that took place during one of the protests in the Surulere area of Lagos State.   She said this ...

Today a letter from Kano State Hisbah Board warning a radio station — Cool FM to stop using the word ‘Black Friday’ trended.   But has it trended, Nigerians noticed two major errors. One was Manger, which was supposed to ...

Donald Trump has admitted for the first time he will leave the White House if the electoral college votes for rival Joe Biden.   President-elect Biden, a former vice president, won the election 23 days ago and his victory has ...

  The Federal Government says it has met the five demands of the End SARS protesters. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the claims during a stakeholders’ meeting with members of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) ...

Kano State Hisbah Board has ordered Cool FM to stop mentioning ‘Black Friday’.   The board stated that Friday is a day Muslims consider holy. The warning letter was addressed to the General Manager of the media company. It was ...

A Facebook user, Ngozi Ikebuaso has accused a Nigerian man of stabbing his partner to death for refusing to register her new car in his name.   He alleged that the man carried out the act with the help of ...

Justice Okon Abang of The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume.   Ndume has been detained in Kuje prison since Monday following his failure to produce Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has recovered 600-year-old Ife Terracotta which was smuggled out of the country in 2019.   The Terracotta was formally received by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, from his Foreign Affairs counterpart, ...

Nasarawa State Police Command on Thursday said it has arrested a 27-year-old Cephas Iliya for killing his former employer, late Martin’s Omeri. Late Omeri was a Deputy Chief auditor in the office of the Accountant General of the federation, Abuja ...

Despite video evidence to the contrary, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has denied announcing an increment in the fine for hate speech from N500, 000 to N5m. Mohammed, who on August 5, 2020, announced the decision of ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday lamented the high rate of insecurity in the North, saying it was the worst place in the country  to live.   The Sultan, who stated this at the fourth  quarterly meeting ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday admitted that Nigeria has 200 million poor people and asked the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to consider this when sharing production cuts.   The President stated that asides the 200 million poor people, ...