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  The heartbreaking story of his a young girl was raped multiple times by her father at the age of 11, the act continued till she got pregnant and gave birth at the age of 13. Taking to Twitter, Gauteng Survivors, narrated ...

Russia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office has ordered investigators to drop murder charges against teenage sisters accused of killing their abusive father in a closely watched case that fueled debate on the issue of domestic violence in the country. Prosecutors on January 30 ...

Two people from the same family have tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, the chief medical officer for England has announced. It is understood the patients were staying in a hotel in Yorkshire, before being taken overnight to a ...

  The United State Embassy in Nigeria has described report that it denied Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Faith Tabernacle in Ota, Ogun State and Living Faith Church Worldwide, visa as false. Thisday had reported that the US Embassy denied ...

A drug-smuggling tunnel nearly a mile long and equipped with its own railway and lift has been found at the US border with Mexico. The 4,300ft passage, believed to have been built by El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel, is the longest ...

Widows of slain military officers and soldiers particularly those fighting the war against terrorism have protested the continuous release of murderous Boko Haram terrorists on the grounds that they have repented. National Vice President of Military Widows Association, Mrs Edith ...

A mild drama, reportedly played out on Thursday at the Lagos office of the Embassy of the United States after Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners’ Chapel International, was denied visa. THISDAY newspaper gathered that the embassy did not give any ...

Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command have foiled a kidnap attempt at Imiringi community in Ogbia Local Government Area. According to reports, the operatives were engaged in a heavy shootout with the kidnappers to rescue ...

First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari, Patience Jonathan, Turai Yaradua and other former First ladies attended the 10th anniversary of Maryam Babangida’s demise yesterday in Abuja. The former first lady Maryam Babangida died 10 years ago in Los Angeles after a ...

Up to 24 people were killed on Thursday in a fresh attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces militia, taking the number of civilians killed this week to over 60, officials and a ...

An Osun State High court sitting in Ikirun has sentenced Nuhu Jimoh, Ndubisi David and Aderibigbe Oluwasenu to death by hanging. The trio was arrested in connection with the armed robbery attack on First Bank, Union Bank, and Skye Bank, ...

A man accused of murdering his missing wife has died in hospital following an alleged suicide attempt, his lawyer has said. Fotis Dulos’ lawyer Norm Pattis said his client died just after 5.30pm at Jacobi Medical Center on Thursday in ...

The cause of death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna has been confirmed by the LA County coroner’s office. LA Lakers icon Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter tragically died when the helicopter they were travelling in ...

Chinese tycoons have put their hands in their pockets to help scientists develop a vaccine for coronavirus. The latest is China’s richest man, Jack Ma, who has donated 100 million yuan (£11 million) through his foundation. Some of the money ...

E. Jean Carroll, a New York-based writer who last summer accused President Trump of r3ping her in the 1990s, requested Thursday that he submit a DNA sample to determine whether his genetic material is on the black coat dress she ...

A viral news that claimed that an Abuja based pastor, J.S. Yusuf has been anointing the bras and pants of spinsters with his image, has been debunked as ‘fake news’. The fake report with photoshopped bras and pants, emblazoned with ...

Justice Oladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court on Thursday ordered that Semiu Oluwole Ololade and Adegboyega Adefuye be remanded in Agodi correctional custody till February 4 when the bail applications filed on their behalf in a criminal suit ...

A Trade at Ereko Plaza, Ereko Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Chinedu Onuegbu, 28, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Okechukwu Nnaji with jack Knife in his left arm and back. He was ...

A married woman who got N30,000 for acting a pornographic video which went viral in Jos, Plateau state, has committed suicide. According to NAN, the video which was uploaded on the internet weeks ago showed some young girls and married ...

The World Health Organisation has declared Coronavirus epidemic as an international Public Health Emergency. The decision Thursday came as the number of people diagnosed with the 2019-nCoV virus had skyrocketed to more than 8,200, surpassing the SARS case toll. There ...

  The University of Calabar has suspended three undergraduates for sending threat messages to one of their lecturers and for the alleged possession hard drugs suspected to be Indian hemp. While Uzoagba Chinaemerem Goodluck, a 200-level of the Department of ...

The police in Katsina State have arrested a middle-aged man, identified simply as Samaila, for allegedly chaining and torturing his two wives, Fatima Salisu and Hadiza Musa, in his home for 10 months. Fatima hails from the Markemagaji Gari village, ...

A billionaire has scrapped his public search for a girlfriend to fly to space with him after more than 27,000 women came forward. Yusaku Maezawa had appealed for a partner to join him for a trip to the moon as ...

A mum who set up an Instagram account for her adorable toddler accidentally stole the limelight after fans spotted her incredible likeness to Meghan Markle. Mother-of-two Akeisha Land, 39, from Missouri, says she always gets compared to the Duchess both ...

India reported its first case of the new coronavirus on Thursday, saying a woman in the southern state of Kerala had tested positive in an outbreak that originated in China, killing 170 people, and spread abroad. The patient was an ...