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Hoodlums suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Ondo State, on Monday stormed the premises of the Ondo State House of Assembly in their hundreds.   The presence of the hoodlums has created ...

The Abuja zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspected internet fraudsters.   They were nabbed for alleged involvement in romance scams, identity theft and other internet-related fraud. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, announced the ...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said there is no going back on fuel and electricity tariff hike in the country.   Buhari, who spoke at First year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat, at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, said ...

India’s coronavirus infections have surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases.   With 4,204,613 infections, the country has nearly 70,000 cases more than Brazil, which will post ...

President Muhammadu Buhari led government says the price of electricity and fuel in Nigeria are the lowest in West Africa.   Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement on Monday. He noted that with the price of ...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the mass stabbings in Britain’s second city Birmingham that left one person dead and two critically wounded, police said Monday.   The man was held on suspicion of murder and seven ...

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.   High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on ...

A 37-year old man has been electrocuted to death after he tried switching from a generating set to electricity power while watching TV in Sapele, Delta State.   The incident was said to have happened on Sunday afternoon, at about ...

Suspected hoodlums and land grabbers on Sunday invaded Isiu palace in Ikorodu, Lagos State in a failed attempt to abduct the newly-installed monarch, Oba Olukayode Raji. The thugs shot sporadically at the palace.   The News Agency of Nigeria reports ...

A mother who desperately tried to keep her daughter’s killer behind bars has been ordered to pay him £40,000 to cover his legal fees.   Ian Simms, 63, was jailed in 1989 for strangling Helen McCourt, 22, to death in ...

A school teacher has been arraigned in a Kwara State family court in Ilorin, the state capital, for alleged s.e.x.ual molestation of his seven-year-old pupil.   Akorede Hammed was said to have taken the minor to a toilet where he ...

A husband forced out of the firm he ran with his wife after their 19-year marriage fell apart has been awarded £100k after a judge ruled she racially harassed the Australian.   Only last year Duncan and Fiona Bendall posed ...

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) says cocaine trade boomed during the coronavirus pandemic.   Traffic from South America to Europe has reached “record amounts”, Sascha Strupp, a Strategic Analyst told Dpa. Strupp called narcotics trade a ...

David Ibiyeomie, founder and General Overseer of Salvation Ministries has been criticised for laying curses and threatening controversial Media personality, Daddy Freeze.   Daddy Freeze, who is popularly known for criticising Nigerian pastors, in his recent post on his Instagram ...

There was no survivor in a bus that somersaulted and burst into flames on Sunday on Ihiala-Onitsha Road, Anambra state.   All the trapped passengers were burnt beyond recognition. A passenger who jumped out of the vehicle also died. Mr ...

An Ibadan-based nurse, Sukurat Adewale, was all tears on Friday before a customary court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while alleging that her husband, Adewunmi Adewale, deceived her into aborting 15 pregnancies she had for him but later ...

An outbreak linked to an indoor wedding in the American state of Maine that breached local attendance limits has now resulted in three deaths and 147 infections.   The outbreak began on August 7 when people attended the indoor wedding ...

A man has been rescued after being pinned under a tree for more than four days while cutting trees on his land in Minnesota, officials said.   Jonathan Ceplecha, 59, was cutting down oak trees with a chainsaw near Redwood ...

A facility in Ile-Ife, Osun State, where women are apparently impregnated and their babies sold off by operators has been sealed by the state government.   An undergraduate was among women rescued at the facility, which is said to be ...

Nigeria has recorded 100 new cases of coronavirus.   A tweet from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday night revealed that 39 of the cases were recorded in Lagos, 22 of them were recorded in the Federal ...

The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), maintaining peace in Plateau has arrested one James Dogo, for falsely parading himself as military personnel.   Dogo was arrested alongside one Dotun Shomoye, who specialises in printing identity cards for fake ...

A 29-year-old woman from Chala Location in Nkasi, Rukwa region in Tanzania was on August 25 fatally stabbed in the neck by her husband after receiving funds from another man through her phone.   Tabitha Mwanyanje, a primary school teacher, ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed that it spent N30,540,563,571.09, to fight COVID-19 in Nigeria. The amount represents 84% of the N36.3 billon public funds and donations received to respond to COVID-19 between 1st April, 2020 and 31st July, ...

The Police in Anambra State have arrested two members of an armed robbery syndicate, who were said to be specialists in one-chance robbery operations.   The suspects, Chukwuemeka Ikechukwu, a male, aged 22 years, lives at Chibest Street, Tarzan, Onitsha ...

The Rivers State Police Command has paraded one Chinedu Nwachukwu and a 68-year-old woman, Mrs Mary Ishmeal for allegedly buying and selling a three-month old baby for N350,000.   The main suspect, Nwachukwu, stole the three months old baby from ...