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More than 200,000 people have been affected by floods that have ravaged Republic of Congo since last year, authorities said Saturday. The government has issued an urgent international appeal after the flooding along the Congo and Ubangi rivers in the ...

Gunmen killed nine soldiers and officers in an attack on a police station and military unit in northeastern Burkina Faso on Saturday, security sources said, in the latest deadly assault in a country battling an Islamist insurgency. Several dozen heavily ...

Tension heightened in Obiaruku and its neighbouring communities in Ukwuani local government area of Delta State when youths from Umusume and Obi-Edike communities clashed which led to the death of two youths in both communities. It was learnt that those ...

Ogun State Government has denied reports that a taxi driver who drove the Coronavirus victim from Lagos to Ewekoro, had escaped. Report had gone viral on social media that the driver had demanded N100 million, threatening to spread the chronic ...

Four corpses were found in a forest in Taraba state. The corpses, all males were suspected to be part of the ten passengers abducted by kidnappers along Wukari-Jalingo road last Month. Daily Trust gathered that the victims were travelling to ...

A man who drowned his disabled wife was caught as he tried to flee the country with a suitcase full of s.e.x toys. Peter Rex Dansie, 71, murdered his wife Helen by pushing her wheelchair into a pond in Adelaide, ...

The Federal Government has warned that suppliers and retailers using the excuse of coronavirus case in Nigeria to inflate protective apparel will be prosecuted. It said sellers of face masks and latex gloves, personal hygiene products like sanitizers and anti-bacterial ...

The Police in Ondo State have arrested two suspected ritualists, namely: Idris Sule and Alfa Alhassan. According to the police, the suspects were said to have been in possession of a human skull and two roasted hands. Confirming their arrest ...

Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has neutralized some Boko Haram terrorists and destroyed some of their facilities in air strikes conducted on the region. The strikes targeted a location referred to as the “S” Region in the heart ...

Lagos is getting prepared ahead of a possible surge in the number of people infected with coronavirus, after a visitor from Milan, Italy was found to have the deadly bug on Friday. Health Commissioner, Professor Akin Abayomi has not only ...

Russia and Syria on Friday came under strong criticisms from western countries in the UN Security Council over the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria on Thursday. According to reports, the soldiers died in an attack by Russia-backed Syrian ...

Lagos state government has described as untrue, stories making the rounds that the quarantined coronavirus patient, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos had attempted to escape. The state government insists that the patient is in a stable condition and has ...

Babatunde Abiola and Yetunde Olaitan are one of the Nigerian couples who chose to have their wedding on February 29 in a leap year, which comes every four years. They tell Alexander Okere why the date is special to them ...

A Tesco retail store manager who dumped the body of a chef in woodland near his flat has been jailed for six years. Hiran Chauhan, 24, went to the home of Neil Cuckson, 32, after they chatted about taking drugs ...

This is not even funny. An unidentified man has been spotted praying in the middle of a busy road in Lugbe, Abuja. The man can be seen on his knees, and raising his hands in prayer, as he shields himself ...

A notorious physically challenged wanted thief was finally yesterday caught at the Social Media Week, at Freemee Space, Lekki. The physically challenged man had already been on wanted list when a CCTV video of him stealing a lady’s phone went ...

A 44-year-old Italian who tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus in Lagos on Friday was angry and attempted to escape from the isolation center where he was being quarantined. According to Punch, a high ranking health worker, at the Mainland ...

Face masks, hand sanitizers and head masks are now scarce in most supermarkets and pharmacy shops in Lagos state as the Nigerian government on Friday confirmed the first Coronavirus case in the state. A visit to most pharmacy shops and ...

  A Ghanaian lady who introduced herself as Auntie Kiki in a video attached to this story has sparked a wild debate online after she dropped a controversial statement which has since not gone done well with the slay queens ...

The Gombe State command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has revealed that some women in the state has grown from normal drugs addiction to now boiling of used sanitary pads, filtering and drinking the water to get ...

A dismissed Private Air Force personnel and leader of one chance robbery gang using Sienna car to operate in various parts of the Lagos metropolis, have been arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State ...

The Ogun state government has shutdown a firm in Ewekoro, Ogun state, following the incident of Coronavirus recorded in the state. The state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, disclosed that 28 people who had contact with the Italian victim of the disease ...

  The professional footballer we earlier reported that was quarantined for coronavirus has been revealed as 22-year old King Udoh who plays in an Italian club. The Italian-Nigerian footballer according to reports has tested positive to the coronavirus (Covid-19). Udoh ...

  The Katsina State Police Command has said it has arrested a corps member for allegedly r3ping a female junior secondary school one student at his Primary Place of Assignment in the state. SP Gambo Isah, the Katsina state police ...

A cab driver, identified simply as Comrade Ehis, has been killed by hoodlums on the Eko Bridge, Lagos Island area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Ehis was driving on the bridge when his car suffered a flat tyre, ...