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Two Nigerian students were allegedly beaten up in Roorkee, Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India, after a disagreement with payment for food at their college canteen. According to reports, the police have arrested eight people, including the security guards of Roorkee ...

Lagos Events center owner, Diekolola Osa Avielele has died from childbirth complications a week after welcoming a baby boy. Diekolola was said to have put to bed and died a week after from childbirth complications. As her family mourns the ...

Three corpses of kidnap victims have again been exhumed in Rivers state, this time, from a forest in Bera, Gokana Local Government Area (LGA) where suspected killers led the police. The kidnap victims, Baridomale Sunday Tor, Baridon Gbarabera and Barisiton ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday, 17 July 2020, graduated another set of Instructor Pilots (IPs) at the 401 Flying Training School (401 FTS) Kaduna. The IP Course 12/2020 Course had 6 participants, comprising one Wing Commander, 2 Flight ...

A 28-year-old woman, Mrs Clara Vincent, has allegedly committed suicide by drinking sniper after  quarrelling with her husband, City Round learnt that the deceased, who lived on Ebewi Street at Agodo area of Lagos State with her husband, was rushed ...

Twitter said hackers “manipulated” some of its employees to access 130 accounts in a high-profile attack on the social media company, including those of Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Posts trying to dupe people into ...

Ekiti State Government has shifted the reopening of places of worship in the state to August 14 following alleged inability of the worship centres to meet the prescribed conditions for reopening. Health Commissioner, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who reiterated commitment of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday appreciated the effort of his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan in the revival of infrastructural projectsin the country as he approved the naming of the Agbor Railway Complex after him. The Special Assistant to the President ...

A mob on Saturday set ablaze a Dangote truck for killing one motorcyclist and injuring three others. The incident happened around 8 am on the Old Ibadan Roundabout Road, Ago-Iwoye, in the Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The ...

Ekiti Government on Saturday directed traditional rulers in towns and villages to either postpone or cancel for the rest of the year, all pending local festivals in their domains to curb the spread of Coronavirus. The State Coordinator of COVID-19 ...

An improvised bomb has exploded in the Nigerian northern state of Katsina, with six people feared killed. The Daily Nation said the explosion went off in Yardagi village in Zango Local Government Area of the State. It said the six ...

Following the manhunt launched by the Oyo State Police Command to apprehend the culprits in connection with killings at the Akinyele axis of the state, the suspected serial killer of the innocent victims has confessed on how he was able ...

Following the complaint by the family of late NAF Helicopter Combat Pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotille, through her elder sister, Mrs Damilola Adegboye that the death of the combat pilot was suspicious and should be investigated, authorities of the Nigerian ...

The Oyo State Police Command has lost three constables who drowned in a bridge washed away by flood on Balogun Street in Oyo town. The policemen, attached from Oyo Atiba Police Division, trailed some hoodlums to the area when the ...

Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, who died on July 14 will be buried on July 23. The Nigerian Air Force said on Friday Arotile will be laid to rest with “full military honours at the National Military ...

The minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has been summoned to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta over the alleged N40 billion missing from the coffers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Also summoned ...

The Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and others have paid for a charter flight to bring back stranded Nigerians in the United States of America and Canada. The flight, scheduled for July 25, will depart Newmark USA for ...

The Personal Assistant to murdered Gokada CEO, Fahim Saleh, has been arrested in connection with the crime, the New York Times reported on Friday. Saleh, 33, was found unresponsive in his Manhattan home on Tuesday afternoon with his body dismembered, ...

The Federal Government has given school owners till July, 29 to meet specific guidelines for safe reopening of schools. It said schools are expected to undertake self-assessment and send feedback to State Ministries of Education, not later than 29th July, ...

Earth’s population will peak in 44 years at around 9.7billion before it starts to shrink again, according to scientists who predict Nigeria will eventually be home to more people than China. After 2064 the total number of people will start ...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has denied the sexual harassment allegation levelled against him by the former Acting Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee(IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Mrs. Joy Nunieh. He ...

A 29-year-old man has paid the supreme price for telling his friend about a heavy sum his South Africa based elder brother sent to him for the completion of his (elder brother’s) housing project back home in Nigeria. Abuchi Wisdom ...

A heartbroken woman has shared her anguish after her best friend of 20 years dumped her through a postcard. The Australian friends first met at the age of 17 when they both moved from their homes to a new town ...

Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, has called on her uncle to resign from office as she breaks her silence after publishing a memoir describing him as a ‘sociopath’. ‘Resign,’ Mary Trump responded when ABC News chief anchor ...

A 47-year-old man, Eromosele Mahmud, has been arrested by the police in Rivers State for allegedly impregnating his 16-year-old daughter after r3ping her for five years. The suspect, a single parent and father of three from the Esako West Local ...