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The Federal Government on Monday arraigned two Nigerians and a firm linked to them for allegedly defrauding a foreigner to the tune of €2.380m.   The defendants – Babatunde Adesanya, Akinpelu Abass, and Musterpoint Investment Nigeria Limited – were arraigned ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has fixed new dates for the suspended Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) across the country. in all states and the FCT from Monday 9th November 2020.   The NECO SSCE examinations were earlier postponed indefinitely ...

A 14-year-old girl suffered horrific burns to her face when thugs launched a firework at her.   Holly Kane’s lip was burned to a crisp after ‘boys on bikes’ threw a pyrotechnic at her in Canada Water, London. She was ...

The Oyo State security outfit, Operation Burst, said on Monday that it had arrested some of its personnel for allegedly assaulting a lady in the Beere community, Ibadan.   The lady was alleged to have been beaten by some soldiers ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 31-year-old indigene of Ebonyi State, Rexlawson Johnson, over the gruesome murder of his 26-year-old girlfriend, Patricia John.   Johnson was said to have sneaked out of the hotel in Ibafo, ...

  Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on Monday described the killing of policemen by protesters in some parts of the country as evil. El-Rufai, who spoke to newsmen in Kaduna after the meeting of the Northern Governors Forum and ...

A Nairobi-based lawyer has been admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital after he was stabbed and injured by a suspected lover.   According to the police report, the 33-year-old lawyer, David Ochieng, was stabbed thrice on the wees of Monday ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder, The Citadel Global Community Church, on Monday said there is no going back on his plan to vie for the 2023 presidency.   Bakare had said in September 2019 that he would be crowned the next ...

The government of Egypt will be deporting seven Nigerians for protesting without a permit during the EndSARS protest last month.   Eight of the Nigerians were arrested by the Egyptian authority in Cairo, however, the Nigerian with resident permit will ...

The new police unit called Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) today began its training with over 400 personnel at the Police Mobile College in Eggon, Nassarawa State.   Present at the training ground was the Minister of Police Affairs, ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed to continue with its ongoing seven-month-old strike until the Federal Government yielded to it demands even if the strike will last a whole year or more. The Lagos Zonal Coordinator ...

A young Nigerian medical doctor, who treated victims of Lekki shootings has died.   He was said to have died from covid-19 after falling ill. Social media users, especially those that participated well during the #EndSARS protests have been mourning ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has disclosed that they cannot go back to the classroom on an empty stomach insisting that the Federal Government should adopt its recently invented payment system for Universities, “University Transparency and Accountability Solution”, ...

Nigerian Ambassador to Jordan, Alhaji Haruna Ungogo has died.   According to reports, the diplomat died at a hospital in Garki, Abuja on Sunday. Haruna Ungogo was appointed as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan and the Republic of Iran ...

Thousands of monkeys are terrorising an Indian city with frequent attacks on tourists and farms after sterilisations and illegal poisonings failed to stop them.   Most of the macaques in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, left the city for the countryside to ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over an alleged N5bn fraud perpetrated under his watch and this is according to Sahara Reporters.   Fowler is currently being ...

Mary Trump has warned that if her uncle, President Donald Trump – who she called ‘vile’ is reelected on Tuesday, the U.S. could be at risk of becoming an ‘authoritarian state.’   According to a ‘panel of experts’ the president’s ...

The West African Examination Council has released the results of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, with 1,338,348 candidates passing with five credits and above.   Mr. Patrick Areghan, head of the Nigerian Office of WAEC announced the ...

The original Staff of Office of Oba of Lagos is still missing.   Apparently the earlier video that went viral that the Staff has been found is fake. In a video just released, a man is seen saying anyone that ...

A 13-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped in Pakistan and forced to marry a 44-year-old man who made her convert to Islam, campaigners say.   Arzoo Raja was abducted from her home in Karachi on October 13, and two days later ...

A knifeman shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ was shot dead by police after stabbing an officer and trying to set fire to a police station in a Muslim-majority region of Russia.   The 16-year-old was armed with a knife and a Molotov ...

#EndSARS protests have returned to Abuja. In a video making the rounds, the protesters were seen confronting Military men who had come to ”challenge” them. In the video, protesters were heard saying they have a right to record the scene ...

                                          A soldier has been accused of flogging a lady in Ibadan right on her buttocks for allegedly dressing indecently. This happened in Oyo state and social media users are saying she was flogged for simply dressing indecently.   ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a Nigerian soldier allegedly used a scissor to cut off a man’s hair in Peere, Ibadan, Oyo state. In the video, the man was seen chopping off his ...

  China is removing domes and other decorative elements from mosques across the country, reports say. The move is part of a cultural whitewash to suppress the influence of Islam. The Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, has ...