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A 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanmi, have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for faking her kidnap. The teenager who lives at 32 Agura Road Abeokuta, was reportedly lured by Olasunkanmi, ...

Thousands of people took the knee for George Floyd in London today as protests spread across Britain. Demonstrators descended on Parliament Square in Westminster earlier following the tragic death of the 46-year-old in the US. During a minute’s silence hundreds ...

The death of George Floyd has sparked outrage and protest but some white teens have created a challenge in which they mock his death. Floyd died on Memorial Day after now-former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin placed a knee on his ...

Google uncovered hacking attempts from China and Iran on personal email accounts of presidential campaigns staffers for Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The announcement was made Thursday and the strike appears to be spear-phishing attacks – similar to the Russian ...

An Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Kaduna State Government to pay N10.5m as damages to the President of Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori. The court on Friday upheld the ruling of the Federal High Court that the ...

The Imo State Government has arraigned the Imo State Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party’s New Media Centre, Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, for terrorism for accusing Governor Hope Uzodinma of “secretly approving Rural Grazing Reserves for Fulani herdsmen”. Nwaogwugwu was also said ...

Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise said being in a relationship with a black man has given her a ‘crash course in white supremacy’ after witnessing how he is treated. The princess, 48, said that before she began dating self-described shaman Durek ...

This is the shocking moment a man leaps through a glass swimming pool panel in a stunt gone wrong at his boozy 30th birthday bash. Dimitry Prigorodov hurled himself through a window last week, hoping to dive straight into a ...

A lady identified as Aminat Popoola has accused a House of Representatives aspirant, Ettu Mohammed, of rape. On June 2, 2020, Aminat took to her Twitter handle to accuse Mohammed, who contested to represent Mushin II constituency in the House ...

An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Adeola Omotunde, has advocated amendment of the law on rape and defilement of minors in the face of rampant cases of r*pe in the society. Omotunde made the appeal on Saturday in Ilorin while ...

A Nigerian sailor, Annabel Kemmy, has emerged as the best graduating student at the University of Rwanda. She also presented the best research paper and emerged as third-best at the Senior Command and Staff Course 08. Kemmy made this known ...

A group of armed men dressed as healthcare workers have stolen a large amount of cash from a supermarket in the South African city of Pietermaritzburg. The men pretended to be Covid-19 health inspectors when they entered Checkers supermarket, IOL ...

The Trump administration on Friday, said it will let Chinese airlines operate a limited number of flights to the U.S., backing down from a threat to ban the flights. The decision came one day after China appeared to open the ...

Lagos State Government has advised residents of the state above 65 years to avoid visiting worship centres in order to curb COVID-19 in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi gave the advice during a press conference in ...

The 17-year-old who was defiled for one week by a 25-year-old bar attendant from Kerita area in Kesses Constituency, Uasin Gishu County Kenya says her aggressor forced her to take emergency contraceptive pills, and even took her to a witchdoctor ...

  A man has been butchered for allegedly defiling a little school girl.   In a video currently going viral on social media, the unidentified man was caught red-handed with the little girl in an uncompleted building, with the girl ...

Fifty-seven police officers in Buffalo, New York, have resigned from the force’s emergency response team following the suspension of two officers who allegedly pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground, a source close to the situation said on Friday. An ...

Mother of the Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, Mrs. Justina Ogundoyin, has been installed as the Iya-Oloja-General of Ibarapaland. Justina Ogundoyin is the wife to the late philanthropist, Chief Adeseun Ogundoyin. The Speaker has congratulated ...

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has lambasted Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan for leading his colleagues on a solidarity visit to Orji Uzor Kalu who was recently released from the Kuje Correctional Centre. Lawan-led leadership of the ...

A nursery school teacher tied a pillow to the face of a one year old girl – ‘causing her to die from suffocation and vomiting’. Irina Sukhanova, 51, has been detained by police in Zaporizhia, south-eastern Ukraine, on suspicion of ...

  Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has slammed Drew Brees’s claim that athlete protests during the national anthem are disrespectful to the military, saying the New Orleans Saints quarterback is misinterpreting the peaceful demonstrations that began in the NFL ...

Madagascar’s education minister was sacked over a plan to order $2.2m worth of sweets was revealed. Rijasoa Andriamanana said last week she was ordering the sweets for children to take to mask the “bitter” aftertaste of the COVID-Organics concoction, according ...

A West Virginia woman faked her death to avoid a potential 10-year prison term — but was found hiding in a closet at home after a massive three-day search, according to authorities. Julie Wheeler was reported missing Sunday by her ...

Kenya’s health ministry has said it will soon roll out home-based care for Covid-19 patients because the country’s isolation facilities are almost full. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said they will first publish guidelines for home-based care before patients can be ...

Groups of women today accompanied by men marched to the police headquarters in Abuja to demand and end in r.a.p.e and for the Government to declare an EMERGENCY on S-xual and Gender based violence in Nigeria. According to one of ...