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Police officers are investigating the killing of an elderly man inside a police station on Sunday in Kakamega County, Kenya. Benson Waluvengo Benjamin, 62, died at the Kabras Police Station on the same day he was arrested for allegedly assaulting ...

  Gunmen have kidnapped a young man, who is reputed to be a billionaire, Mr Elvis Ojeogwu, his father and one other person from their hometown of Obior in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. A family ...

A fifth person has died from coronavirus in the UK just hours after another patient in his 70s passed away. The latest victim, also in their 70s, was being treated at St Helier Hospital, in Carshalton, Sutton, London. The fatality ...

  Nigerian evangelist and founder of Mount Zion Drama Ministry, Mike Bamiloye, has stated that career is putting couples asunder. The Mount Zion TV founder, who has been active on social media recently blamed career and trips abroad for destroying marriages ...

  Deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has broken his silence after his dethronement by the Kano state government. In a 4.39 minute video posted on social media, the Emir who spoke in Hausa, said it is God that made him the ...

A woman and her three children who were doused in petrol and set on fire by their father have been buried together today. Hannah Clarke and her children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were laid to rest in one large white ...

Two new developments have taken place since the last briefing in Abuja on the coronavirus situation in Nigeria. The first is that a team of researchers from various institutions in Nigeria, including scientists from the Centre for Human and Zoology ...

On September 25, 2014, Corporal Edward Wanyonyi Makokha walked into a kiosk in Benane town, Garissa County, Kenya and grabbed a mobile phone from a Form Four student. The student, Ibrahim Hassan Shid, followed the officer and demanded to be ...

His Highness, Aminu Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi and son of late Emir Abdullahi Ado Bayero has been appointed the new Emir of Kano by Kano state government. Announcing his appointment today, after Emir Sanusi was dethroned, Secretary to ...

The former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate and President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN), Shehu Sani, has reacted to the dethronement of Muhammad Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano today. Reacting to the removal ...

Three suspected ritualists have been arrested with a human skull removed from a public cemetery in Lagos. The suspects were apprehended on Sunday by a team of policemen from Area E Command, Festac. While on routine stop and search patrol ...

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old man, Shafi’u Haruna, for allegedly killing his girlfriend over dispute on the ownership of her pregnancy. Haruna was arrested last Tuesday following a tip off. The spokesman for the command, SP ...

The Kano state Government on Monday finally dethroned Muhammad Sanusi ll as the Emir of Kano. Secretary to the state government (SSG), Alhaji Usman Alhaji in Press Statement on Monday, said Ganduje approved the immediate removal/dethronement of the Emir of ...

A German tourist died on Sunday of the novel coronavirus in a Sinai resort of eastern Egypt, the health ministry announced, the first death from the epidemic recorded in Africa. “The 60-year-old German citizen showed symptoms of a fever (and) ...

The Kano State government has dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II. The dethronement of the Emir followed the State Council executive meeting presided over by the Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje today

A team of security operatives on Monday stormed the palace of the Emir of Kano in Kano State. This followed the removal of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from office by the state government. The team of security ...

A former newscaster with the African Independent Television (AIT), Peter Kumba, has dragged DAAR Communications Plc before the National Industrial Court, Abuja, challenging his compulsory retirement. At the resumed sitting on Monday, the claimant’s counsel, Adesola Ajayi, told the court ...

Drama as a 47-year-old mother in Malawai has married her biological 30-year-old son in a simple white wedding. The news about their marriage has caused disgust amongst netizens in Malawi and beyond. In a publication in one of the Malawian ...

An Ogun State-based geologist, Ayo Adeniran, has decried the refusal of the University of Ilorin to issue him his original BSc certificate 24 years after he graduated from the school. Adeniran said the refusal of the institution to release his ...

A senior Al-Shabaab commander was killed in a recent US airstrike in Somalia, the director of US African Command (Africom) said on Sunday. “Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud was a senior operational leader responsible for exporting terror in Somalia as well as ...

Reckless thieves have been helping themselves to hand sanitiser from hospitals as national panic over coronavirus heightens. Medics yesterday pleaded with the public not to steal because it puts patients at risk. In a Facebook plea, Northampton General Hospital said ...

The Duchess of Sussex was left speechless by a cheeky teenager after he stole a kiss on the cheek and declared to a packed assembly hall: ‘She really is beautiful.’ Meghan spoke with delighted pupils at the Robert Clack Upper ...

A student at Oxford University has tested positive for the coronavirus after returning from travelling abroad, it has been reported. Public Health England confirmed the case to the university yesterday and the Vice-Chancellor informed staff, the Mail Online reports. In ...

  4-year-old Abdulahi Umar, is unique and talented. Despite being armless, the young Nigerian schoolboy writes with his toes, as he remains determined to get educated. Abdulahi Umar was born without hands, and according to reports, he resisted attempts by ...

Shoppers have found themselves facing aisles of empty shelves as families panic buy across the UK – with toilet rolls even running out in some shops. But some mums have hailed reusable toilet roll ‘the solution’ after one shared the ...