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An 18-year-old girl, identified as Bello Barakat, was reportedly gang raped and murdered by unknown men in Ibadan, Oyo state capital. The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday in Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo state. It was gathered ...

A biker was accidentally set on fire when he was sprayed with sanitizer at a drive-through coronavirus check point in India. Footage shows a man pulling up in front of two government workers at a complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to ...

The 292 Saudi Arabia returnees have been discharged after 15 days in isolation, in an hotel in Abuja. They all tested negative for covid-19. They were discharged this morning and most of them are already on their way to Lagos.

Lobatan! Women who have struggled workout during lockdown may now have all the motivation they have ever needed to get fit: the ‘coregasm’. Several fitness fanatics have revealed on social media that doing ab exercises leads them to experience an ...

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has warned its citizens against visiting its consulate office at Walter Carrington Crescent over a planned protest on the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. This is as some Nigerian protesters ...

Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has phoned the family of late UNIBEN student, Uwa Omozuwa to console them on the sudden loss of their daughter. Uwa was r.a.p.e.d and murdered at a church in Benin, where she had gone ...

A corps member serving at Abua Odual LGA in Rivers state, Atiye Florence Aduke has reportedly died in her apartment. The member of 2019 Batch C, Stream 2 of the youth program was said to have slumped in her apartment ...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have invaded Tudun Doka community under Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing dozens of persons in the process, according to SaharaReporters. Nine persons, mostly women and children, were hacked to death with machetes by the ...

A GoFundMe fundraiser set up by the brother of the slain Minneapolis African-American, George Floyd, has raised more than seven times its $1.5 million goal. The online fundraiser was meant to cover the cost of a memorial service for Floyd. ...

An off-duty NYPD officer killed herself with a bullet to the head in her Bronx apartment, authorities say. The 39-year-old officer, who worked in East Harlem’s 23rd Precinct, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound just before 2am, the ...

Activities of some people who are of the opinion that they can make quick money through blackmail was brought to fore recently when one unidentified individual called up the number of the Executive Chairman of Loatsad Promomedia, Mr. Seyi Tinubu ...

A 13-year-old boy has become the youngest person to graduate from a college in California with four associate degrees and a perfect 4.0 GPA. Jack Rico now plans to study at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on a full ...

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has labelled Jay-Jay Okocha’s strike against Oliver Khan for Eintracht Frankfurt back in 1993 the “most spectacular goal in the history of German football.” Okocha’s magnificent goal saw him keep hold of the ball in the ...

The House of Representatives has directed operatives of multi-choice to suspend the recent 15 percent increment in all their cable packages with effect from Monday this week. The decision followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Mr Chinedu Ogah ...

Nigeria’s coronavirus caseload crept near the 11,000 mark on Tuesday, with 241 new cases declared. Nigeria now has 10,819 confirmed cases of the virus. Lagos remains the epicentre of the virus in the country, with 142 new cases, taking state ...

Scores of women from Mmahu Autonomous Community, Egbema in Ohaji Egbema council area of Imo state have shut an oil company belonging to an Indian firm, Sterling Global Oil Company for refusing to pay the burial rites for the death ...

Mujahid Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force has taken a challenge thrown at him by Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra. In a tit-for-tat, he has also thrown the challenge back to Kanu. On ...

A four-man robbery syndicate has allegedly robbed a commercial motorcyclist of his motorcycle in Nri-Neni, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspects reportedly chopped off the right ear of the victim with a knife before snatching his motorcycle ...

A dad is reported to have slit the throats of his wife and teenager daughter before being detained by his neighbours. Police were called to a disturbance in Salisbury just before 3pm yesterday after local reported hearing terrifying screams. Officers ...

Five Barcelona players tested positive for coronavirus but the news was not made public, according to reports. Catalan radio station RAC1 made the claim this week as Barcelona prepare to return to action on June 13. The quintet were not ...

The late acting Director, Finance and Administration of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Ibanga Etang, tested positive for coronavirus, the commission has revealed. NDDC, in a statement by its Director, Coroporate Affairs, Charles Odili, said the commission was compelled ...

Former lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Muniru Muse has died after a brief illness on Tuesday. Muse died at the Ahmadiyya Hospital in Apapa, Lagos. He was 80. Muse, who represented Lagos Central Senatorial District ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over his will in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in ...

One of the suspects linked to the r.a.p.e and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level student of the University of Benin, Edo State, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command. The 22-year-old undergraduate was r.a.p.e.d and ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to immediately release a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu is in the Kuje Correctional Service centre following his conviction last December for ...