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Borno Commissioner of Police Mohammed Aliyu has confirmed one dead and 16 injured following multiple explosions that rocked Maiduguri metropolis. Aliyu, who said the explosions occurred in Mairi, Custom and Gwange areas of the metropolis, added the actual cause of ...

Hundreds of convicted sex offenders have slipped off the police’s radar simply by changing their names. Figures obtained from just 16 of the UK’s 46 police forces showed that 913 people with sex offense convictions have gone missing. It is ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has insisted that it is yet to approve any herbal medicine for the treatment of COVID-19. The Director of Public Affairs of the agency, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, in an interview ...

A couple won the battle to officially name their son Lucifer after a registrar reportedly told them he “wouldn’t succeed in life” if they chose it. Dan and Mandy Sheldon went to register their four-month-old son last week when the ...

A 14-year-old girl has been raped by a coronavirus patient as his friend stood guard at the largest quarantine centre in India, police say. The alleged victim and both men had tested positive for the virus and were staying at ...

Police in Gilgil Town, Nakuru County, Kenya have arrested a 34-year-old man on allegations of killing his wife, also aged 34. Josephine Wangari Kamau, a nurse at the psychiatric wing of Gilgil Sub-County Hospital, was killed at around 5am Tuesday, ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday night, announced 481 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the West African nation to 42,689. Ten deaths were recorded from the virus in the past 24 ...

The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has raided and closed down a popular bar called 24 Hours Bar which also operates a brothel in Rumukurushi, Port Harcourt. This was after a couple discovered that their 16-year-old ...

Following the unfortunate death of Gbadebo Richard, a 21-year-old 300-level student of European Studies of the University of Ibadan (UI) on Monday, The management of the institution has commiserated with the deceased family. Late Richard was reported to have died ...

A security guard identified as Nuhu in Mahuta, Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna is allegedly on the run as his wife was found dead in their single room apartment. Relations of the woman have accused the husband of being ...

  Alexander Kareem was buried earlier today, and former Big Brother Naija star, Khafi Kareem and her family members were inconsolable during the funeral. Alexander Kareem was shot dead in London on the 8th of June 2020 Alexander suffered gunshot wounds to ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of Leader of Afenifere, Egbe Ilosiwaju Yoruba, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, as a big loss to Nigeria Senator Ayo Fasanmi death was confirmed by his Personal Assistant, Tope Adebayo on Thursday morning. Buhari, in ...

  A trooper of the Nigerian Army serving in 202 Battalion of 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama, Borno State, went beserk at about 1030 hours on the 29th of July 2020 and fired at an officer (a Subaltern) which led to his ...

The governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has announced that anyone who is caught moving about without a facemask, will be severely punished. According to him, flouting the order can earn such persons up to six months imprisonment under an ...

The people of the Ndubia community of Izzi local government area of Ebonyi state have been thrown into a mourning mood when a pregnant woman whose name is yet to be ascertained and her child were crushed to death by ...

The Nigerian Army has announced that a soldier killed a colleague officer on Wednesday. Colonel Sagir Musa, Acting Director Army Public Relations, confirmed the incident on Thursday. A statement he signed disclosed that the trooper serves in 202 Battalion of ...

Pizza Hut has apologised to an 11-year-old boy and his family after they were turned away from a restaurant because he was unable to use the hand sanitiser they provided. Blue Braidley has eczema and suffers a reaction to the ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Thursday ordered reopening of praying grounds for Muslims in the state for the 2020 Eid-el-Kabir prayers. Makinde in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, however, warned that Muslim ...

An Australian dating coach has polled the public about whether you should tell a new partner if you cheated in a previous relationship. Relationship expert Louanne Ward, from Perth, Western Australia, posed the controversial question on her Facebook page, calling ...

Bill Gates has sided with President Donald Trump in arguing for the reopening of schools in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the ‘benefits outweigh the costs for younger students.’ The Microsoft founder, 64, rallied for schools to open ...

Three armed robbers were on Wednesday were set ablaze by an angry mob in a failed bank robbery which occurred at First Bank, Okeho in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, ...

There are strong indications that the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has concluded plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party to join the Zenith Labour Party to contest the forthcoming governorship election. Ajayi, who lost the PDP primary ...

Former Minister of Science and Technology, Major General Sam Momah (Rtd.) is dead. He died yesterday afternoon after complicated diabetic issues. He died having celebrated his 77th birthday on July 6 during which he launched his 13th book titled: “Restructuring ...

The mystery surrounding North Korean ‘ghost ships’ which have been washing up in Japan full of dead bodies may now have been finally solved. For years, Japan’s north coast had been the site of the disturbing phenomenon, with rickety fishing ...

An Airbus A330-243 owned by Middle East Airlines with registration number OD-MEA, ran into a Boeing 777 airplane with registration number TC-LJC operated by Turkish Airlines. The Middle East airbus ran into the Turkish cargo flight, which was parked at ...