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                                                      The Federal Government has congratulated Nigerian-born Pearlena Igbokwe on her recent promotion to ...

                                        The Iranian government is weighing a plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, a report said on Sunday. ...

                                          Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, appeared in a Rwandan court ...

                                    Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in ...

                                                    One of the world’s rarest diamonds, about the size of an egg or a large lollipop, is going up for auction next month and is expected to fetch $12 million to $30 million.  Sotheby’s said ...

                                          Microsoft said on Sunday it was informed by Bytedance that it would not be selling U.S. operations of TikTok to it.   “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests,” ...

                               A French government official’s attempt to ban a feminist book called ‘I Hate Men’ appears to have backfired after it sold out.   Sales of Pauline Harmange’s ‘Moi les hommes, je les déteste’ skyrocketed after Ralph Zurmély, a special ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari’s praise singer, Dauda Kahutu popularly known as Rarara, has received not less than N57m to release a new song in favour of the President. Kahutu got the funds less than 48 hours after asking for money ...

                                                    The Lagos State Police Command has deployed 1,000 officers to complement other security personnel drafted for the Edo governorship election scheduled for September 19.   This is contained in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by the Command’s ...

                                    One of the gang members of late terror kingpin Gana, identified as Aondehemba has claimed that the late warlord got his power from burying his 12 years old daughter, 11 years ago in his village.   This is just ...

                                           A newborn baby – thought to be about two days old – was found stuffed in a black plastic bag by a passer-by who heard the tot’s plaintive cries.   But when Diego Sebastian Penayo opened the bag he ...

                                                Shock hit Ahero village in Maili Tisa, Bahati sub-county in Nakuru, Kenya after a 66-year-old man was found early Sunday beheaded and his head thrown into a water tank with body dumped in a garbage pit.   Peter Ndung’u ...

                                             Eight passengers narrowly escaped death in the early hours on Monday when a bus with Lagos registration number GGE 972 GE suddenly veered onto the train tracks while crossing the rail at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos and collided with ...

  The Osun state police command has confirmed the arrest of popular porn star, Kingtblakhoc for allegedly shooting a porn movie inside the Osun Osogbo grove.   In the porn video recorded in July, and shared on porn sites, Kingtblakhoc ...

                                     The Federal Government has indicated plans to completely phase out high concentration of alcohol in sachet and small Polyethylene Terephthalate and glass bottles in the country.   The moves are contained in a statement by the Director-General of the ...

                                               Health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) are to begin a nationwide strike from midnight on Sunday.   The strike is over Federal Government’s inability to meet their demands. JOHESU President Josiah Biobelemoye, announced ...

                                               Reno Omokri, former presidential aide, on Sunday berated Nigerian youths over the attention they pay to the eviction of housemates of the Big Brother Naija show.   Omokri said poverty would reduce in Nigeria if youths invested more in ...

  Suspected bandits at the weekend abducted a nursing mother and 16 others at Gonar Lema, along the Kaduna- Birnin-Gwari expressway in Udawa village, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.   According to Daily Trust all the victims were ...

                                              Police is working with management of Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo to investigate the cause of a fire last week at the commission’s office in Akure.   Ondo police commissioner Salami Amidu Bolaji described the fire incidence as ...

Apprehension, Saturday enveloped Asaba, the Delta State capital, following the collapse of a storey building which left a middle-aged man dead and four others with severe injuries, including the owner of the building. The building, which is located at Holy ...

                                  The residents of Old-Ewu and Ogunyinka Mafoluku communities in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area (LGA) of Lagos State have cried to the state government ...

A man, who was identified as a gatekeeper in one of the private hospitals in Atan, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government area of Ogun State, has been crushed to death by a truck that fell on him on Saturday.   The man ...

Dansu Asogba, a 23-year-old indigene of Ogun State has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his 60-year-old aunt, Iyabo Dansu over alleged witchcraft.   In a statement on Saturday, the Ogun State Police Spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said ...

Boboski, the most wanted suspected kidnapper, armed robber and murderer, whose real name is Honest Diigbara, has died from bullet wounds few hours after he was arrested and paraded at the Rivers State Police Command  headquarters, Port Harcourt.   Boboski ...

Six civilians have died in an explosion in Mali.   The incident occurred near Boura, Mali’s southern region of Sikasso. A local security source confirmed the blast to Xinhua on Saturday. The officer said an ambulance carrying a patient from ...