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The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King “reprehensible” Saturday as backlash grew against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Bryant. ...

An Abuja-based civil lawyer of the Federal Capital High Court, Oluwatosin Ojaomo has filed a suit against Hanan Buhari, daughter to President Muhammadu Buhari for using the presidential jet for personal purpose. The lawyer prayed the court to compel Hanan ...

A lightning bolt is believed to have struck the mountainside of Uganda’s Mgahinga National Park, killing four gorillas. Three adult females and an infant male were found covered in ‘gross lesions’, which conservationists said indicated they had been electrocuted. The ...

A twitter user,  @TheFavouredWoman has narrated how a mom of three lost her life after her estranged abusive husband strangled her to death. According to the twitter user, the woman in question had left her husband three months ago due ...

No fewer than 13 migrants died in a snowstorm in eastern Turkey night after crossing the border from Iran, a human rights organisation of Van province in Turkey said late Saturday. The people had reached the mountains in the Caldiran ...

  Gunmen have abducted the daughter of the former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahamdu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, from their residence in Zaria, Kaduna State. According to a statement by the spokesperson of the Kaduna State Police command, ...

Without doubt, one of the common themes in Nollywood is money rituals. While such stories could be entertaining, especially with the mystical manipulations embedded in them, Minister of Works and Housing and former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, during ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria and Cross River State Government to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over what it termed “the prolonged, arbitrary detention, unfair prosecution, persecution, and sham trial of ...

A husband has admitted bludgeoning his wife to death during a cruise ship’s murder-mystery night. Kenneth Manzanares, 41, flew into a rage with Kristy, 39, during a voyage to Alaska with their three children and a large party, including other ...

The Federal Government has given marketers of cooking gas two months to clear out illegal and roadside dealers or face a clampdown on activities of retail outlets in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The ultimatum was given by the Department ...

  Celebrity politician Hon Eghosa Agbonifo has taken to his social media page to advise men to desist from taking drugs to impress women on bed. In a post he specifically posted on Instagram, the politician wrote that it does ...

  The old man who reportedly died during sex with a prostitute in hotel is said to be a lawyer and a knight in the church. The report on the man’s demise went viral in a video across the internet ...

  An ATM card thief who got unfortunate after he stole an ATM card from an unsuspecting elderly woman has been caught in a hotel he lodged in with his girlfriend. The suspect got quite unlucky after he stole an ATM ...

Considering they were in their “happy place”, Mandy and Rob couldn’t have been more miserable. Having climbed to the same olive tree on Crete they visited every year, they were out of breath, in pain and feeling significantly older than ...

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have declined US Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to delete a video of her tearing up her copy of Trump’s speech at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday. The speaker’s office demanded that ...

A young woman working at a game reserve has been mauled to death by lions. Swans van Wyke, 21, was performing her daily duties in the enclosure when she was attacked by the animals. She was found collapsed by the ...

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has appealed to African Union member states to channel additional resources to support Nigerian security forces and displaced victims of Boko Haram violence. Mr Guterres’ call came at a press briefing held at the African ...

A late night fire on Friday caused damage at a funeral home around Maryland area of Ikorodu road in Lagos state. According to eyewitnesses, the inferno started at about 10pm, razing rooms on the first floor. When the TVC news ...

  A yet-to-be identified man has been confirmed dead after sleeping with a prostitute during a night out. Eyewitnesses who found sex enhancement drugs at the scene of the incident, suggested that the man must have died after taking the ...

  A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Akwa Ibom State has vowed to spread the deadly Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), according to Opera news. In a WhatsApp conversation with her friend, the Corps member identified simply as Dami ...

  Eight Local Government Council chairmen elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, have switched loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Local Government Council chairmen who joined the ruling PDP in Zamfara ...

A Thai soldier has killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 20 in a shooting rampage in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima, according to police. The suspect of Saturday’s attack, identified by police as Sergeant Major Jakrapanth ...

  Scores of gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have attacked Gurmana, old Gurmana, and Ashirika communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, in central Nigeria. The armed men stormed ...

Donald Trump exacted swift revenge on two government officials who gave evidence against him during his impeachment hearings. Just days after his acquittal by the Senate the US President wielded the axe on national security aide Lt Col Alexander Vindman ...

Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the arrest of John Mayaki, his former chief press secretary. Mayaki who is a Prince from Igarra royal family, was the first Acting Chief Press Secretary to Obaseki at the inception ...