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A Lebanese and two Nigerians were on Monday arraigned before a Federal High Court, Ilorin by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for alleged trafficking of Nigerian women to Lebanon, for exploitation. The arraignment of ...

A Russian lady, Alla Illyina was ordered by the court on Monday to be returned to a quarantine facility as a precaution against coronavirus after she staged an elaborate escape and said she was being kept against her will. She ...

The Osun State Police Command on Monday said a woman, Amudatu Sani, had been arrested with human parts in Ikire. The Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, confirmed the arrest. Speaking through the command’s spokesperson, Folasade Odoro, the commissioner said the ...

Corpses of eight farmers from Uwheru in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State reportedly killed by hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen last Friday, have been exhumed, on Monday, by a search team made up of the police and ...

  An eight-month-old baby died after her neighbours sprayed their flat with a deadly pesticide trying to get rid of bedbugs and cockroaches. Guzal has died and two other children, aged three and five, are in critical condition following the ...

A mother of four, Mrs Janet Ayoola, lost her 39-year-old marriage to her husband, Olajide Ayoola, for denying him s.e.x for seven years. An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Monday granted the request of Janet’s enstranged husband, Olajide, for ...

A devastated woman took drastic measures to publicly shame her husband after discovering he cheated on her. The anonymous woman got her revenge by spray painting a message on their mattress – and it wasn’t pleasant. In the message she ...

An eight-year-old girl has been found dead in a bush in her village, after being r.a.p.e.d and murdered. Madiha’s body was found on Sunday, after she went missing from her home on Saturday. Concerned relatives raised the alarm and began ...

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria, on Monday, described Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau as a coward and challenged him to come out of hiding. “Shekau should be bold enough to face security forces if he is truly the ...

The Bayelsa State Police Command has extended the three-day dusk-to dawn curfew earlier imposed on the state from February 17 to February 23. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Uche Anozia, announced the curfew extension on Monday during a press ...

A 31-year old man, Adamu Gaji, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for stealing two cows valued at N700, 000. The cows were said to be the property of one Mr Ogieriaki Omoruyi. Mr. Omoruyi was said to have ...

A makeup artist celebrated her divorce by throwing a lavish £500 party for 50 guests – including her new lover – and says the bash was better than her wedding. Emma Barua, 29, had been with her former boyfriend for ...

  Agba Jalingo, the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, has regained freedom after meeting his bail conditions. Jalingo had spent 174 days (about five months) in detention before a federal high court in Calabar, Cross River, granted him bail in the sum ...

  A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Abdullahi Inde Dikko over his continued failure to attend court to answer to a charge ...

A topless protester stormed the stage during Bernie Sanders’ Carson City Presidential campaign rally. The former congressman is currently bidding to become the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the upcoming 2020 elections. He’s been hitting the campaign trail in the ...

  According to a Twitter user, @aqualady6666, men should stay far away from ladies who are jobless but have got the taste for flashy lifestyle and taste. She explained that her best friend who is dating a jobless girl was ...

The police in Kitui County, Kenya are investigating a sodomy case involving a primary school teacher and a 17-year-old Form Two student. Jefferson Mwinzi, a teacher at Tanganyika primary school in Kitui Rural, is facing sodomy charges for allegedly engaging ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from deregistering 31 political parties. Justice Anwuli Chikere, in her ruling, said having failed to counter the application by the applicants, the affected political parties had ...

Police in Butula, Busia County, Kenya, have arrested a 28-year-old man on claims of attempting to r.a.p.e a 21-year-old woman, who works as a house-help in Mulambwa Village. The suspect, identified only as Victor, is said to have grabbed his ...

The embattled members of the Olubadan-in-Council have taken the crisis rocking the Ibadan traditional institution to a new level as they launched fresh allegations against Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, on Sunday. In a four-page letter, a copy of ...

A Nigerian couple has reportedly welcomed a set of twins after waiting for 31 years. The couple who are members of the Apostolic church welcomed a set of twins on Thursday according to Facebook user, Nikeagbeja  Adesanya. According to her, ...

A Catholic middle school director who used IVF to get pregnant has reportedly been fired because she’s not married. Friends of Michelle Gabriel, who is the former director of Maryknoll Middle School in Honolulu, Hawaii, said the soon-to-be mother was ...

A woman is accused of posing as a photographer to lure a mum to a fake baby shoot before drugging her so should could steal her newborn child. Juliette Parker, from Washington, US, is claimed to have given the unsuspecting ...

Japan said on Monday it would cancel a public gathering to celebrate the birthday of new Emperor Naruhito, as fears grow over the spread of the new coronavirus in the country. “In light of various situations, we have decided to ...

  A wife who installed a hidden camera in her husband’s office in a bid to catch him cheating on her was horrified when the footage revealed he was grooming a teenage girl. Anthony Merrikin was jailed for six years ...