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A man who r.a.p.e.d an 11-year-old girl while her family was letting him stay in their home during lockdown has been jailed for eight years. The 24-year-old man was in Rio Negro, south-western Argentina, when their town went into strict ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has assured that the late ex-beauty queen, Ibidun Ighodalo, is in a “better place”. Adeboye tweeted this on Thursday morning in reaction to Ibidun’s death on Sunday. ...

Anambra Police Command has arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl at Okpoko near Onitsha. Mr Haruna Mohammed, the state’s Police Spokesman, disclosed in a statement that the suspect, Chigbo Akpoluobi, a resident of Obodoukwu Road, Nkitaku, ...

Rescue search is ongoing by men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA at 38 Fashola street of Olabode street Papa Asafa Orile Agege to recover yet to be identified four-year-old child allegedly being swept away by flood of ...

North Korea’s hidden underground naval bases have been exposed in these satellite images which reveal “one giant weakness” in their defences, an analyst claims. Amid a fresh outburst of aggression from the Kim regime, US-based analyst Jacob Bogle has probed ...

The Plateau State Government says 29 of its health workers have been infected with coronavirus. Dr. Nimkong Lar, Commissioner for Health, disclosed this at a press briefing in Jos on Wednesday. According to the commissioner, the state has recorded 198 ...

President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s application to trademark their new charitable organisation has been initially rejected because they did not sign the paperwork or pay the correct fee. It comes just months after the couple announced they ‘look forward’ to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has fired his security details and other persons in Aso Villa over the role they played in the crisis between his wife, Aisha, and Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, his assistant. Those fired by Buhari on Wednesday included his ...

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 587 new cases of COVID-19, pushing the nation’s total infections towards the 18,000 mark. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet stated that the country has now confirmed at least 17,735 cases of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has asked the 15 political parties participating in the September 19 Governorship Election in Edo state to ensure that their primary elections are conducted within the next 10 days as earlier indicated in their ...

Trading the bones of captive lions to be used in Chinese medicines could risk a fresh pandemic, wildlife experts have claimed. Lord Ashcroft, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, has been a vocal opponent of lion farming and ...

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ has seized 379 packs of 225mg tramadol along Kano/Kazaure road. Comptroller FOU of Zone B, Mustapha Sarkin-Kebb told journalists that the items apprehended included 150 cartons of veterinary drugs ...

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arrested sixteen suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as “yahoo yahoo boys”. The suspects were apprehended at Ota, Ogun State, and Victoria Island, Lagos following intelligence received about their alleged ...

Two children have died after they were left in their dad’s truck for five hours in 32C heat. Teagan, 4, and her little brother Ryan Dennis, 3, were found in the footwell of their dad’s truck in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on ...

It was business as usual for operators of football viewing centres in some parts of the country, as they entertained customers during Wednesday’s English Premier League games, in defiance to the directive of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, which ...

Some landlords in Igbogbo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, whose houses were demolished in 2017 for road construction, have begged Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to pay their compensations three years after exercise. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ...

Six council chairmen in Zamfara State, who were sacked by Governor Muhammad Matawalle, have taken the governor to court challenging their removal from office. Matawalle recently removed all the 14 council chairmen, but later reappointed eight who defected from the ...

On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a ninety-pound, black, fourteen-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Three months earlier, on March 24, George and his sister were playing in their yard when two young ...

A 32-year old Boniface Oburuku has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for theft of a handbag, belonging to an international guest from the Republic of Mauritius. The bag contained her two Samsung mobile ...

China has carried out 356,000 coronavirus tests in four days, the regime said today as it battles to contain an alarming new outbreak in Beijing which it admits could ‘last for a while’. Top diseases official Pang Xinghuo admitted that ...

Victor Giadom, the deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC has resigned. Giadom, a former ally of Oshiomhole turned foe, claimed this morning that he was the acting national chairman of the APC, following court-ordered suspension of Adams ...

Tragedy struck in the ancient town of Ilese, near Ijebu -Ode, in Ijebu North-East local government area of Ogun State, as three officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were struck to death by mysterious thunder lightning which occurred ...

Two children were confirmed dead and 10 others injured after a story building collapsed in Lagos on Wednesday. The incident occurred at 46, Gafari Balogun Street Ogudu, around 12:30pm. It was gathered that the building collapsed following a mudslide which ...

Faderera Oloyede, a female undergraduate of the Federal University of Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State, has been found dead in an apartment belonging to her boyfriend, Ayo Maliki, in Osun State. The deceased was found on Tuesday inside the room ...