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Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested two Chinese men working with Lifemate Furniture for allegedly sodomizing their fellow citizen in Lagos. According to The Nation report, the r3pe happened at 49, Morrison Crescent, Alausa on January 23, 2020. ...

The Adamawa/Taraba Command of the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) has impounded a trailer load of 256 50kg bags of contraband rice, each bag hidden in bigger bags packed with beans. Customs Area Comptroller, Kamardeen Olumoh, who addressed newsmen at the ...

An Mdantsane man who was jailed for eight years for rape walked out of St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth recently after spending two years inside for a crime he did not commit. The rape conviction ended 27-year-old Osiphesona Ngcanga’s ...

A 22-year old man, Safiu Muritala, has been remanded at Kirikiri prison for allegedly stabbing his friend over a bottle of beer. The accused was said to have bought a bottle of beer, drank from it and then placed the ...

The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision on Tuesday affirmed the nomination of Mr. David Lyon as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and upheld his victory as Governor-elect of Bayelsa State, striking out an appeal by former ...

A middle-aged man simply identified as Victor was in the early hours of Tuesday burnt to death by an angry mob at Ekpo Edem in Calabar South LGA for stealing a fowl. The tragic incident Vanguard gathered occurred at Abitu ...

Amoo Musa Olalekan has been staying in his dormitory and writing thesis these days as a final year master student in Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “I have stayed in my dorm since ...

A hippopotamus said to be wreaking havoc on farmlands has reportedly been trapped and killed by fishermen fromSamanaji town in Koko Besse Local Government Area, Kebbi State.  in the area. After trailing the animal’s movements for some time, it was ...

Death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak in China hit 1,016 today, according to figures released by the country’s health authorities. More than 100 people died due to the virus on Monday, a sharp spike that exceeded the 97 deaths ...

The Police in Jigawa have arrested an 18-year-old lady for allegedly killing her one-day-old baby boy after they exhumed the corpse in Ringim Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relation Officer in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, ...

Afghanistan Interior Ministry on Tuesday said six people were killed and 12 others wounded in an explosion near a military academy in the capital Kabul. According to the ministry, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a roundabout close to ...

Residents of Onitsha, Anambra State on Monday experienced the first rain of the year with its attendant blessings and calamities. The rain, which lasted for about two hours caused heavy traffic gridlock along some major roads in the area, including ...

  An early morning fire on Tuesday razed part of Atakumosa Central Market, Adeti, Ilesha and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. The inferno which started around 1 am affected several shops located at the entrance of the market but ...

The Anambra State Police Command on Monday said it had rescued a 14-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped in Onitsha, Anambra State, about a month ago. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, said three suspects, including a female, were arrested ...

A man was spotted in a now viral video rubbing saliva on lift buttons in an obvious attempt to spread disease amidst the Coronavirus epidemic. Coronavirus has claimed over a thousand lives in China alone, with over forty thousand people ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has ordered the immediate suspension of the Vice-Chancellor of Kogi State University, Ayangba and the Rector of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, who confirmed this in Lokoja on ...

An excited bride-to-be posted a photo of her engagement ring after saying yes to the big question – but others were distracted by its fit and the state of her nails. Having shared a photo of the constellation-inspired ring on ...

  A graduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Motunrayo Rafiu, who was abducted by suspected kidnappers in the Kabba area of Kogi State, has been released. Rafiu was released on Sunday after the family reportedly paid a ...

It appears that the passion that seized Mr Chike Eze and his bride Rachael when they said ‘I do’ has since died, replaced by strife and bitterness. On Monday, 55-year-old Eze prayed a Customary Court in Igando, Lagos to dissolve ...

  Four kidnap victims have been successfully rescued from a notorious kidnappers den located at Sauni Hills, Lambata, Federal Capital Territory-Niger boundary. This followed a special operation launched by Police operatives from the FCT Command, according to a statement by ...

The Oyo State Government has ordered the immediate suspension of 13 primary school headteachers, two assistant headteachers and a classroom teacher for alleged extortion and other misconducts. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Nureni Adeniran, gave ...

A Twitter user @TheRealDayne has shared some photos claiming the photos show were suspected fraudsters are been kept at the EFCC zonal office in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The shocking photos have left Nigerians outraged. Below are more photos and some ...

The Chinese government has sent an official guide on treating coronavirus to the Nigerian authorities as death toll in the Chinese mainland reached 908 on Monday. The Chinese embassy in Nigeria confirmed that the official guide on coronavirus was shared ...

The North accounted for 87 per cent of all the poor people in Nigeria in 2016, the World Bank has disclosed in a new report. The report titled ‘Advancing social protection in a dynamic Nigeria’, released on January 28, 2020, ...

A student of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, simply identified as Fatima was among the 30 people who were killed by Boko Haram terrorists at the village of Auno, Borno on Sunday. The terrorists killed 30 people and abducted many ...