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Mamman Daura, a nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been flown to the United Kingdom for urgent medical treatment over an undisclosed ailment, SaharaReporters has reliably gathered. Daura, 79, was said to have been flown in a ...

Nigeria’s Covid-19 caseload surpassed 50,000 mark on Wednesday as the nation recorded 593 new cases.   The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, put the nation’s overall infection at 50,488, with 37,304 recoveries and 985 deaths. In the last four ...

The police in Katsina State have arrested three teenage boys in Danmusa Local Government Area for allegedly gang-raping and drowning a 13-year-old girl to death in a pond.   Police Spokesman in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this during ...

Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has lashed out at churches that refused to open for worship in Lagos State, describing them as fake.   Founder, The Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare; ...

Naira Marley has taking to Instagram to warn girls, especially those who follow him on twitter to try and make their OWN money as this will save them from unnecessary sex. The singer who tweets randomly, just woke up to ...

As part of the efforts to rid the streets of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital of beggars, the state government has repatriated no fewer than 78 beggars to five northern states in the country.   The beggars were repatriated to ...

A singer was hit by a train and killed while live-streaming himself listening to loud music in his car on a Romanian railway crossing.   Footage captures Tavy Pustiu, 29, dancing to pop-folk ‘manele’ music as he approaches a level ...

A senior Chief Magistrate in the Lagos State Judiciary Abimbola Aoko-Komolafe has died at the age of 51.   Details of her death are still unclear at the moment, but Mrs Aoko-Komolafe  passed away in the early hours of last ...

After five months, the Osun State Government has announced the reopening of hotels and other categories of relaxation centres across the state.   The state government closed hotels and relaxation centres to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the state. ...

Presidential campaign posters of the Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, have flooded social media with the 2023 presidential election only three years away.   The posters indicate that the Governor is seeking to contest for the country’s number one ...

A 57-year-old pastor, known as Prophet Ebenezer Ogunmefun, has been charged with one count of sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl.   Ogunmefun was arraigned by the police at the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abeokuta on Wednesday. The Prosecution Counsel, ...

Nigeria’s High Commission in Ottawa, Canada has shut its doors to the public and suspended consular services until further notice.   In a statement on its website, the High Commission said it was forced to close to the public after ...

A 27-year-old woman living in Kano, Saratu Ya’u, who slaughtered her five year-old son, like an Eid-el-Kabir ram, has been sent by a Kano High Court, to a psychiatrist.   Saratu was on Wednesday arraigned before the court for the ...

A fire has gutted a building in the palace of Ooni of Ife’s, in Osun State.   According to a source in the Palace, the fire was only a small one as people are afraid because the palace entrance was ...

Kim Jong-un has declared that pet dogs are a symbol of capitalist ‘decadence’ and ordered that dogs in Pyongyang be rounded up – and owners are fearful that their beloved pets are being used to solve the nation’s food shortages. ...

  The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been commended for pardoning 962 workers who were demoted for committing administrative infractions. Some of the workers had reportedly embarked on further studies without approval. The Chairman of the Trade Union Congress ...

A Nigerian oil mogul and the Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in the United Kingdom.   In February, Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court ruled ...

Gunmen have abducted two sons of a former commissioner in Zamfara, Alhaji Bello Dankande, and two others, including a personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC).   Police spokesman Muhammad Shehu said in a statement that the gunmen ...

Democratic candidate, Joe Biden received a major support Tuesday night as Collin Powell called on Americans to massively vote for him.   Biden has been officially nominated to run for the White House on November 3. Powell, a former Secretary ...

An earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitudes rocked Indonesia’s western Bengkulu province on Wednesday.   However, no damages or casualty was reported, a disaster agency official said. The quake struck at 5.29 a.m. Jakarta time with the epicenter at 78 kilometers southwest ...

A lawyer, Emperor Ogbonna, who has been detained by the Department of State Service for about five months, was granted bail by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.   Justice Taiwo Taiwo granted him bail in a ruling ...

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned. He announced this in a televised address on Tuesday, as the coup in Mali unravelled.   He also dissolved the parliament and the government headed by Prime Minister Boubou Cisse. The turn of events ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to pay the withheld salaries of its members to pave way for further discussions on the outstanding issues of 2019 Memorandum of Action.   The President of ...

Hundreds of students on Monday took to the streets in Asaba, Delta State, to protest against the alleged killing of Mr. Nzete Ogochukwu Patrick, a 500-level student of Electrical Engineering, University of Port Harcourt.   The deceased was said to ...

Tuesday’s military coup in Mali that supplanted the government of President Boubacar Keita was led by two colonels: Sadio Camara and Malick Diaw.   According a Malian journalist, Seydou Oumar Traoré, Camara was the ex-director of the military Prytaneum of ...