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Boko Haram terrorists have asked a 75-year-old visually impaired man living in an internally displaced persons camp in Borno State to pay N20m as ransom for his abducted daughter and niece. Jato Ndarfa, who fled from Gwoza in 2014 after ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, is not taking lightly the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) explanation that a reversing car killed combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile. “How would such a promising young girl be killed by a reversing car within the ...

French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were at the centre of an astonishing security scare when furious anti-government swarmed towards them in a Paris park. ‘Macron Resign’ was the chant as the 42-year-old head of state and the ...

Former Defense Minister of Gabon, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda has been promoted to Prime Minister, making her the first woman to hold the role in Gabon’s history. The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, appointed the country’s first woman Prime ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has told Nigerian doctors planning to emigrate to the United Kingdom to take note of the fact that they will not be paid hazard allowance if they do so. Ehanire said this during ...

A health warning has been issued in Colorado after a squirrel tested positive for the bubonic plague in what is being described as ‘an increase of reported plague activity.’ The sick squirrel was found in the city of Morrison, southwest ...

The US government has executed the first federal inmate in almost two decades just hours after the Supreme Court cleared the way overnight with a 5-4 vote. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died by lethal injection this week ...

A U.S. Naval officer made history last week after becoming the military branch’s first known Black female tactical jet pilot – nearly 110 years after naval aviation began. Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle broke through the glass ceiling on July 6 ...

A rare and revolutionary Breguet watch which belonged to King George III has sold for £1.6million at auction. The gold Tourbillon watch represented cutting-edge technology in the early 19th century and was made by the French watchmaking ‘genius’ Abraham-Louis Breguet. ...

Kano Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has effected a minor reshuffle of his cabinet. He has redeployed three commissioners to other ministries. He announced this after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in Kano. Lawan Musa, a former Chairman of the ...

A student murdered his chemistry professor and dumped his dismembered body parts in containers of perchloric acid and hydrochloric acid in Russia, police revealed. Postgraduate student Dmitry Bykovsky, 33, was allegedly inspired by hit TV crime series Breaking Bad to ...

A mum desperately searching for her missing toddler found her dying in a hot car after the child sneaked off and clambered into the vehicle. The mum’s frantic search for her child ended in heartbreak as she found her child ...

The acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee (IMC) the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei and his team today walked out on the House of Representatives Committee on NDDC. He said he and the team were not ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has rushed to the residence of a former acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joi Nunieh, in Port Harcourt following massive presence of armed policemen in the compound. The armed security operatives besieged the ...

ISIS bride Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the deprivation of her British citizenship, senior judges have ruled. The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that “the only way in which she can have ...

A former Vice-President of Nigeria, who is still very much active in politics, Atiku Abubakar has mourned the sudden death of  Nigeria’s first female combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile. Mourning her death on twitter — a platform the former VP has ...

A Nigerian Professor, Charles Egbu, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University. According to a statement on the UK Varsity website, he will take over from Margaret House, who will be stepping down after seven years. Mr Egbu will ...

The Kano State House of Assembly has begun a process to review the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), law of 2014, to provide for castration as punishment for r3pists in the state. The House took the decision following a motion ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday set aside the Oyo State High Court judgment restraining the governor and or government from dissolving local government councils in the state. Justice Haruna Tsammani, who delivered the judgment, said the ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight police personnel for their alleged involvement in the assault and extortion of a social media influencer, Olumide Bakare. Confirming the arrest, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said the errant ...

The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator ...

Nigeria recorded 643 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing total cases to 34,259. Announcing via its website, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said six more coronavirus-associated deaths were reported in the country on Wednesday, bringing total confirmed fatalities to ...

A prominent Egyptian journalist has died of Covid-19, his daughter has said. Mohamed Monir was arrested last month after appearing on the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, which is banned by the Egyptian government. He was charged with joining a terrorist group, ...

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson and Winnie Mandela, tested positive for coronavirus the day she died. Her son Zondwa Mandela today revealed his mother did have the disease – but it may not be what ...

The six Southwest States have agreed to reopen schools for SS3 students to participate in the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) next month. The States are Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti. Their decision is contrary to the ...