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                                                                    An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, sentenced a 29-year-old cultist, Gbenga Aluko, aka Cherry, to death by hanging for masterminding the killing of some members of another cult.   Justice Abiodun Adesodun, who found ...

                                 A middle-aged man whose name was simply given as Akpan shot his wife dead on allegation of infidelity before hanging himself over the weekend in Cross River State. The incident happened in the village of Bashua in Boki Local ...

                                                                  The Office of the Inspector-General of Police has charged the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, with fraud involving $120,000.   The case marked CR/975/2020 was filed before the High Court of the ...

                                                           There was pandemonium at Umusume community, Obiaruku, in the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday as residents discovered the lifeless body of a young lady.   The lady, identified as Miss Anwuli Agu, in her 20s was ...

                                                The head of the UN has warned ‘there is no end in sight’ to coronavirus after the number of global fatalities hit the ‘mind-numbing’ level of one million.   United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it ‘an agonising milestone,’ ...

  A man identified as Nnajiofor Donatus, has been arrested by men of the Enugu police command after he “arrested” a deity which he claimed had been tormenting his community for a long time and causing his business to fail. ...

The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 on Tuesday justified the repeat Covid-19 test being conducted on international travellers after seven days of their arrival to the country.   The National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, said at the ...

                                             One of the UK’s first gay dads has announced he has welcomed a baby girl with his boyfriend – who used to date his daughter.   Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 55, announced the news on his Instagram about his child with ...

                                                        The move for an Oduduwa Republic for the southwestern part of Nigeria ...

                                                  The London Commercial Court on Tuesday ordered the release of $200 million guarantee as security ...

                                                        Nigeria government has declared Thursday, October 1, as public holiday to mark ...

                                                    Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Tuesday, pleaded ...

                  A busted staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, has been convicted for fraud and handed a total term of 98 years in prison by Justice Muniru Olagunju of ...

                                                A High Court in Jos, Plateau State has thrown out a suit filed by former Deputy ...

                                                       A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead.   A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said ...

Gunmen on Sunday evening killed a commercial motorcyclist and abducted the Interim Chairman of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Dr. Bege Katuka.   Daily Trust gathered that the chairman was abducted on his way to his farm around ...

  An American man is facing two years behind bars after penning negative online reviews about a Thailand hotel — including accusing the business of “modern-day slavery,” according to reports.   Wesley Barnes, who works in Thailand, was arrested for ...

Operatives of Ogun State Police Command, last Thursday, arrested four persons for being in possession of a human skull, with they got from a corpse they exhumed.   The suspects, identified as Muyideen Tolubi, Niyi Folorunso, Sonubi Taiwo and Remilekun ...

                               The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, LIRS has congratulated the winner of Big Brother Naija 2020, Laycon on social media and well, they didn’t just congratulate him, they reminded him of one thing — HIS TAX. They told him ...

                  Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, on Monday sentenced a fraudster, Tunde Martins, to seven years’ imprisonment for N30m fraud.   The convict had obtained the said sum as a loan from Diamond Bank Plc ...

                                          A schoolteacher, whose body is covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black, said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after a parent complained he scared their child. Sylvain ...

                            A man is going to spend five years in federal prison for using a drone to drop explosives near his ex’s home in eastern Pennsylvania.   Jason Muzzicato, 45, came to the attention of federal prosecutors last year during ...

A veteran New Orleans police officer allegedly molested an underage girl whose s3xual assault he was investigating, according to a report.   Rodney Vicknair, 53, was arrested on charges of s3xual battery, indecent behavior with a juvenile and malfeasance in ...

                                                     The Joint Action Front (JAF) and Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), Oyo State branch, on Monday, staged a peaceful protest in Ibadan against the suspension of strike by the organised labour.   The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) ...

                    A grotesque development has been reported from Mpumalanga on Monday, after the ANC revealed one of their former MPs, Sikhumbuzo Eric Kholwane, has been taken in for questioning by police over the alleged rape of two unidentified minors. The ...