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Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State is back in the news once again.   It is the school where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents while writing exams in April 2014. More than 100 of the ...

Three Nigerians declared wanted by Singapore Interpol have been arrested by the cybercrime unit of the police in Lagos.   One of them was found with 50,000 email addresses of people being targeted for business email compromise. The Nigerians were ...

An Instagram user with the handle @shammah_yinse has shared a video which shows cane marks on a school girl.   According to her, the girl who is obviously in high school was brutalised by her mother because she saw her ...

CNN has replied the Federal Government of Nigeria after Lai Mohammed held a press briefing today where he spoke about the international report.   Lai also claimed the report isn’t true and described the Lekki shooting as a Massacre without ...

Isaac Orisadeyi, the younger brother of the Commissioner for Special Duties in Oyo State, Mrs Funmilayo Orisadeyi, has been killed by gunmen.   The 45-year-old was reportedly shot along Nihort-Idi-isin Road in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Tuesday. A ...

A human rights lawyer, Kenechukwu Okeke, has threatened to file a criminal complaint against all members of staff of Cable News Network, CNN for releasing the report of its investigative findings on the shooting of peaceful protesters in Lekki, Lagos ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspected armed robbers while they were in operation at Iju Ota and its environs.   The Ogun State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement in Abeokuta on Wednesday gave ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says another Peoples Democratic Party governor is planning to join Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, in the All Progressives Congress.   Wike said this on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Wednesday. The governor ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday said the October 20 Lekki shootings were a “massacre without bodies”, reiterating the federal government’s position that military men did not shoot at protesters, despite damning evidence to the contrary. ...

Nine suspected serial r3pists have been arrested by police in Katsina State.   All from Kwadage village in Mai’adua Local Government Area of the state, the suspects are reported to have serially r3ped a 14-year-old girl simply identified as Auwa ...

Members of the UK Parliament have scheduled November 23 to debate sanctions against the Buhari administration over its handling of the historic #EndSARS protests last month.   The parliamentarians will consider a petition from hundreds of thousands of Nigerians that ...

A Miss Maxim model sparked controversy by posing on top of an elephant.   Jessica Rast was inspired by the nature she saw during her Australia travels and a trip she did at a safari. So to capture some of ...

A Nigerian man — Adebola Isaac in Instagram last night around 11:25pm filmed a lady lying helplessly by Lekki phase 1 gate. According to the man, the unidentified lady could have been on drugs. He filmed her and shared the ...

A report has said that India has confirmed more than 1.5 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine procurement, which is more than 1.2 billion doses of the European Union (EU) and 1 billion doses of the United States.   A Wall ...

  A newborn baby has sustained severe burn injuries after a big lantern, which was being used to illuminate the room her mom delivered her, mistakenly fell on her as soon she was delivered at Marian, Calabar, Cross River State. ...

New Zealand Police have introduced a hijab into their official uniform to encourage more Muslim women to join. New recruit Constable Zeena Ali will become the first officer to wear the official hijab. A spokesperson said they aimed to create ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the no-case submissions filed by a former Lagos socialite and Nollywood film-maker, Olajide Kareem, alias Seun Egbegbe, and his four co-defendants, in response to the charges of serial frauds filed against them ...

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has assured Nigerians that the incremental changes to Nigeria’s tax laws do not mean that there will be an increase in taxes.   She gave the assurance on Wednesday, while addressing State House correspondents ...

Edo state police command on Wednesday said it has re-arrested 18 of the runaway inmates who escaped from the two medium correctional centres in Benin, during the #EndSARS prison break.   Besides, it said 16 cultists and 14 suspected armed ...

Transport operators with headquarters in Onitsha, Anambra state have lamented increasing cases of kidnapping and robbery attacks along major highways in the country, especially routes leading to Lagos, Abuja and parts of the North.   The fleet operators, including luxurious ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Wednesday paid $3m for a partial recount of Wisconsin’s presidential election results.   The request was part of the long-shot attempt by the campaign to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. While staying out ...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has taken over 12 assets belonging to Chairman of Global Fleet Group, Jimoh Ibrahim, over N69.4bn debt.   The seizure of the assets is pursuant to an order by Justice R.M. Aikawa of a ...

An Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court has struck out a case of abuse and assault against a fashion designer, Mrs Bisi Olukayode.   The Chief Magistrate, Mr P.E. Nwaka, said the matter was discontinued over indolent prosecution. Punch Metro in March ...

A mother of eight has been rescued in Delta State after being locked u in a single room for more than 3 years. She was reportedly locked up by her husband in Orerokpe, Delta State after her husband’s girlfriend accused ...

Two pilots are under investigation for allegedly performing phallic-like turns in Russian airspace in a bizarre act of solidarity with the country’s football captain.   The unnamed crew of Pobeda airline are reported to have manoeuvred the plane to draw ...