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A Dubai-bound passenger, Ishaq Abubakar, has been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following his arrest with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine cards and four Subscriber Identification Module cards concealed inside cartons of noodles.   It was learnt ...

A mechanic in Lafia, Nasarawa State, John Simon, has got more than he bargained for as a customer’s car he drove to a brothel in the New Nyanya area of the state was stolen.   City Round learnt that Simon ...

There was apprehension last Thursday at the Awolusi Bus stop in the Alagbado area of Lagos State after residents found two artistes dead inside a studio in the area.   The musicians identified as Ajibawo Lawal and Sunday Akhigbe, were ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is slowly becoming a failed state and a basket case that urgently needs to be pulled from the brink of collapse.   He said this in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech titled, ...

A man has sparked fury on social media after he tried to sell unwashed knickers belonging to his dead sister.   The shameless seller from Ayrshire, who has not been identified, shared more than a dozen pictures of frilly thongs ...

‘I’m a product of godfatherism’ were the words of Desmond Elliot, a lawmaker of the Lagos StateHouse of Assembly, as he heaped praise on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.   Elliot, who was elected as a lawmaker under the platform of ...

Sadiya Magatakarda Wamakka, the daughter of a former governor of Sokoto state, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has died during child birth.   The 23-year-old died on Thursday at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, following complications arising from childbirth. She ...

Atiku Tijjani Shuaibu Rabo Ringim, a Physiotherapist with Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital was last night stabbed to death by yet-to-be-identified assailants.   Zainab Rabo Ringim, a relation to the deceased in a statement made available to reporters in Kano, said ...

One of the five widows of slain notorious militia leader in Benue State, Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana, Mrs Wantor Akwaza, has said her deceased husband was snatched by military men.   Recall that the Commander of Operation Ayem A. Kpatuma, ...

A 30-year-old man from Rukwa region in Tanzania who, on August 25 this year, killed his wife over cheating allegations has died.   Frank Garimoshi, a resident of Chala Location in Nkasi, Rukwa region, died on the night of September ...

A grandma and dad have been accused of burning a newborn baby boy alive in the early hours of the morning.   The duo were arrested after locals found a half-burnt body of the baby in Tamil Nadu. The body ...

A disturbing video of the US-based Ghanaian Pastor Sylvester Ofori seriously threatening to kill his wife, Barbara Tommey have surfaced online.  The angry pastor very bold spoke in the face of his wife’s senior brother that he will kill his ...

A middle-aged police officer collapsed and died on Wednesday, September 9 while chewing miraa at a secluded place in Malava shopping center in Kakamega North Sub-County, Kenya.   Constable Remko Madowo, who had recently been transferred from Kabras Police Station ...

Pope Francis has said that the pleasures of a well-cooked meal or loving s3xual intercourse are ‘divine’ in a newly-published book of interviews.   He believes they have unjustly fallen victim to ‘overzealousness’ on the part of the Catholic Church ...

  Music executive, Audu Maikori has lost his father, Mallam Adamu Maikori at the age of 78.   Taking to his Facebook page to mourn his late dad, Audu wrote; ”I guess there’s no good way to say this – ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed October 6 to hear the no-case submissions in the case of a former Lagos socialite, Olajide Kareem, alias Seun Egbegbe, who is answering charges for a series of alleged frauds.   Egbegbe, ...

The Delta State Government has further relaxed the lockdown placed on businesses to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the state.   The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, yesterday in Asaba stated that movie houses, hotels, eateries, and others ...

At least 53 villagers have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, by Islamist militants, a local official said on Thursday.   The authorities blamed the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), ...

Nigerians and other foreigners in the United Arab Emirates whose resident visas had expired have till November 17 to leave the Gulf country.   This followed the suspension of visa extension for foreign residents and expatriates by the UAE government ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students on Thursday said it was set to hit the streets except the Federal Government reversed the increase in the pump price of fuel and electricity tariff.   The organisation threatened to embark on a ...

Determined to fish out bad eggs in Niger State Civil service, the state government on Thursday announced the sacking of 80 civil servants cut across various cadre of the state service for salary scam running into millions of naria.   ...

Bakers have vowed to react to price increase in baking ingredients by increasing the prices of bread.   The Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria and the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria gave this warning on Thursday at ...

The Imo State University, Owerri, has set up a committee to investigate the authenticity of the footage circulating on the Internet in which the Head of Department of Biochemistry of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Agumuo, was allegedly having s3x with ...

The US says it has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who have been deemed to be a security risk.   The move follows a proclamation by President Donald Trump in May aimed at Chinese ...

Police in Lagos have arrested 14 protesters who were marching in Lagos in protest against the deregistration of political parties and increase in fuel price and electricity tariff.   Four journalists, who were covering the protest, were also arrested and ...