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Two communities in Anambra State; Nibo in Awka South and Abba in Njikoka Local Government Areas on Thursday mobilized Indigenes in separate protest marches to take over the gate of the Anambra State government house. The communities’ indigenes who wielded ...

The suspected kidnappers of a resident doctor at the Ojobo General Hospital, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Wisdom Iboyitete, have reportedly contacted the victim’s family and demanded N5m ransom. Community sources made the disclosure to Punch. It was ...

There are indications that the ban on interstate movement would be lifted on June 21. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, gave the hint on Tuesday, noting that once domestic flights resume, ...

The mugshots of all four officers charged over George Floyd’s killing have been released – with Derek Chauvin facing 40 years. On Wednesday, prosecutors leveled new criminal charges against all the Minneapolis cops at the scene of the unarmed black ...

Police Command in Ogun State says it has arrested one 25-year-old Wasiu Bankole for allegedly r3ping a 70-year-old woman, whose name has been kept under wraps. A statement made available in Abeokuta on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer ...

A 57-year-old retired medic allegedly committed suicide on Thursday, June 4, by throwing herself in front of a moving lorry on the Kajiado-Namanga road, Kenya. Eunice Kinuthia, who worked as a medical doctor at Kajiado County Referral, died on the ...

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared that as from June 19 mosques will reopen, while churches can reopen as from June 21. The governor also said that churches and mosques in the state should not accommodate more than 40 ...

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have killed a motion seeking to recommend castration for rapists. The House, at the plenary on Thursday, rejected the motion which was recommended by Mr James Faleke. Faleke, representing Ikeja in Lagos had recommended ...

When we think of giving birth, we don’t tend to think of it as a public spectacle. It’s typically something private that happens in a delivery room, or in our own home, or potentially in the back seat of a ...

An incident in which a pregnant elephant in Kerala, India died after she was fed a pineapple filled with explosives has exposed a new low by human beings. The suspect behind the fatal feeding remains unknown. “Her jaw was broken ...

A knife-wielding attacker wounded 37 students and two adults at a Chinese primary school in on Thursday, officials said, with local media identifying a security guard as the perpetrator. All the victims at the primary school in southern China, including ...

Two Chinese expatriates working at a mining site in Ebonyi State have been abducted by unknown gunmen The abducted Chinese nationals are employees at Greenfield Metals Nigeria Limited, which specialises in lead and zinc mining. The incident, it was gathered, ...

Former governor of the old Ondo State, Bamidele Olumilua, is dead. Olumilua, who hailed from Ikere Ekiti, ruled the old Ondo State between 1991 and 1993. He was elected then on the platform of the Social Democracy Party (SDP). He ...

A Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan will now appear in court for the final hearing in their appeal after six years on death row. Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel, a poor Christian couple from ...

The mother of 18-year old Barakat Bello who was r.a.p.e.d and murdered in Ibadan, Oyo state has spoken to BBCNewsYoruba about how her young daughter was murdered right in the backyard of their home. She spoke holding back tears as ...

US President Donald Trump appears as the first result of suggested accounts when users type “racist” into Twitter’s people search, it emerged on Wednesday. The result, reported by the British news outlet The Independent and verified by AFP, highlights the ...

The police in Calabar have arrested a retired army captain, Bassey Ekanem, for allegedly defiling his 4-year old niece. The incident happened at Ekanem’s residence at 12, Edim Ibangha Street, Big Qua Town, Calabar. According to a source, Ekanem, who ...

Ebonyi Governor David Umahi has directed the shutting down of all government offices in the state with immediate effect to pave way for decontermination. He said the order became imperative followed the contraction of COVID-19 by some Executive Council members. ...

The Adamawa State police command, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of one of its officers who allegedly shot dead a motorcyclist who refused to part with a N100 bribe. The alleged crime occurred at a checkpoint in Maiha local government. ...

A mother and her child today, June 3rd, lost their lives at Oghara community in Delta state, when a petrol tanker rammed into them. The two were said to be on a motorbike when a tanker lost control and rammed ...

Boris Johnson has described the death of George Floyd “appalling and inexcusable” as protests in the United States continue to rock the country. The PM spoke up after Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer said the case had “shone a light ...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state; has suspended medical doctors and entire staff of the Ngala General Hospital for abandoning it. According to him, the entire hospital staff has also abandoned patients to an International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGO) operating in ...

Former Abia Governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja where he was serving a 12-year sentence following an order to that effect by the Federal High Court in Lagos. Justice Mohammad Liman of the ...

Drake showed solidarity with protesters across US when he donated to the National Bail Out. The 33-year-old rap superstar shared a receipt for his $100,000 donation to the charity in his Instagram Stories after the songwriter Mustafa the Poet urged ...

Lesotho’s former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, returned to custody on Wednesday after a court revoked bail that she had been controversially given over the murder of her husband’s estranged wife. The 43-year-old was charged with murder in February after police ...