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An Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a student of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Oni Ololade, to eight months in prison for cyber fraud. Ololade was sentenced during the virtual proceedings by Justice Mojisola Dada, following his guilty ...

A frontline medical doctor, Dr Bello Katagum who worked with the Bauchi state government on COVID-19, has died of the virus. Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, the Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA) disclosed on Wednesday during the State ...

Lesotho’s former prime minister (PM), Thomas Thabane, and his wife paid assassins a down payment of $24,000 to kill his estranged wife Lipolelo three years ago, according to a police affidavit seen on Wednesday. The details were the latest twist ...

A teacher turned up to class wearing her wedding dress for adorable photos with her students before getting married. Kindergarten teacher, Kelsey Moeller, 30, made the surprise appearance at school to give her class the chance to see her wearing ...

A “cunning” and “manipulative” paedophile who groomed 17 girls has been jailed for 13 years. Sick Daniel Berry, 31, preyed on his victims – who were aged 12 to 15 – by pretending to be a modelling agent and studio ...

Tragedy struck in Minna, the Niger state capital in early hours of Wednesday when woman and her three children, among them,  one month old baby, were burnt to death in their two bedroom apartment. The house, situated in Nkangbe, a ...

A black shop owner suffered a broken jaw after being punched by a white policeman who reportedly mistook him for an intruder. CCTV from the incident appears to show the police officer walk into Star Spirits and Beverages in Decatur, ...

A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has freed a 15-year-old girl (name withheld) charged with murdering a 51-year-old man Babatunde Ishola who allegedly tried to rape her. Magistrate Philip Adebowale Ojo struck out the murder charge filed by the police ...

On the day George Floyd was laid to rest, Texas Southern University announced it would give a full scholarship to the 6-year-old whose father’s death in custody has spurred global demands for an end to police brutality. TSU’s Board of ...

The Japanese doctor who discovered the mysterious “Kawasaki’s disease” ― recently in the headlines for some similarities to coronavirus has died of natural causes aged 95, his research NGO announced. Paediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki first noticed the disease in the 1960s ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it has embarked on measures that will ensure safe and efficient operations post Covid-19 restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the Director, Press and Public Relations of NYSC, said ...

Wah a greedy robber! A twitter user has exposed a young man who broke into a Magodo house to steal two tv sets, and other items and while escaping with them, he took along their security dog. See below…

An uber driver has been arraigned in court for allegedly advertising and selling a car lent to him for Uber business, the car was sold at KSh 248,000, approximately N800,000 in Nigerian currency. The price for which he sold the ...

A sixty-year-old man, Oghenekaro Isiakpere, has been rescued from his abductors by the Police in Delta State. Vanguard gathered that the victim was abducted by three gunmen while inside his Toyota Camry car at the site of his new building ...

Rainstorm in the early hours of Wednesday destroyed scores of private homes, worship centres, schools and other property worth millions of naira in communities in Kanke local government area of Plateau state. Families in the affected communities were rendered homeless ...

It’s celebration in Kogi state as the Tribunal today upheld Senator Smart Adeyemi’s election as Senator for Kogi West senatorial District, dismissing a petition by Dino Melaye and his party,  PDP. The three judges of the tribunal were unanimous that ...

The Senate on Wednesday denied directing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The Senate was said to have purportedly directed the EFCC through a letter to probe ...

Two Lagos housemaids, probably from hell, were docked at the Igbosere Magistrates’ court on Tuesday, charged with defiling their employer’s daughters. The s.e.xual assault was done with their fingers and wooden sticks, causing their victims severe injuries. The maids, from ...

Nigeria has recorded its highest daily coronavirus caseload yet: 663 new cases in one day! The figure gave it a new total of 13,464, with only four deaths reported. Lagos kept its frontline status by recording 170 cases. The biggest ...

The police in Imo State have arrested Victoria Joseph, 28, and Joy Ugorji, 33, for allegedly stealing a two-year-old boy from Rivers State. The victim is a nephew of one of the suspects, Joseph. Parading the suspects on Tuesday, the ...

Hamza Al-Mustapha has said only God will reward Sani Abacha, a former military ruler who died in 1998, for transforming Nigeria. Marking the 22nd anniversary of the death of Abacha on Monday, Al-Mustapha who served as chief security officer to ...

An Iranian national convicted of spying for the US and Israel by helping target top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will be executed, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran’s armed forces, which led ...

A violent protest allegedly erupted yesterday at Yantumaki, Katsina over rising insecurity and incessant killings. According to Sahara reporters, rampaging youths burnt APC billboards and flags in the area. Protesters in the video could be heard chanting ‘ba ma yi ...

A dog owner has been jailed after her American bulldog mauled a nine-year-old boy to death in a caravan. Frankie Macritchie died after he was attacked by the American bulldog Staffordshire cross owned by Sadie Totterdell, 29. She was staying ...

A family in Nakuru’s Section 58 Estate has called for an investigation, accusing Nakuru Level Five Hospital of switching their newborn baby with a dead one. Alice Ochuka said that she delivered a bouncing baby boy at the hospital through ...