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It’s Lincoln the goat versus Sammy the dog in the race for honorary mayor of one Vermont town. The Nubian goat had won the post in Fair Haven, Vermont, last year after the town manager came up with the pet ...

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he was “taken aback” by the resurgence of banditry and insurgency in the country. But he promised to be harder on criminals. Federal lawmakers who returned from their recess also expressed misgivings about ...

  The General overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye is presently trending on twitter for his teachings on fidelity. In a series of tweets this morning, the cleric had admonished Christians to take their marriage seriously, challenging ...

  The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General (DG), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has confirmed that the Federal Government in line with the new National Minimum Wage has approved N33,000 allowance for Corps members. The NYSC-DG disclosed this while speaking ...

  The Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested seven suspects who allegedly use Point of Sale (POS) machines to extort unsuspecting motorists. The suspects were arrested after a complaint by one of their victims, that ...

  Workers in Bayelsa state have staged a mass protest over non-payment of December 2019 salary and minimum wage from January 2020 salary by blocking the entrance of the treasury building in Yenagoa. The workers said their anger is that ...

  Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja has lessened the conditions of the bail he granted the former chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina on November 26, 2019. The defendant has been unable to meet the ...

  Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, has faulted President Buhari following the rising insecurity in the country, asking the president to resign immediately. Abaribe who is of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made the call when the Senate ...

According to a report by Punch Metro, a yet-to-be-identified woman, on Tuesday, dumped a two-day-old baby girl on the road opposite the Central Mosque in Minna, Niger State. It was gathered that after dumping the baby, the woman mounted the ...

A British man who died in a US immigration detention centre has been named as Ben James Owen. The 39-year-old’s preliminary cause of death was asphyxiation due to hanging, it is reported. Owen was being held at the Baker County ...

British Airways has suspended all direct flights between the United Kingdom and China in light of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. “We have suspended all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect following advice from the Foreign Office against ...

A highrise building at the popular Balogun market on Lagos Island is currently on fire. Eyewitnesses say the fire started from the building opposite Oluwole Car Park on Martins Street. Details of the fire incident are still sketchy.

The police command in Abia have arrested at least twenty criminal suspects, including five boys, who allegedly robbed and shot a man and his wife to death in Umuahia on Saturday. The suspects, who were identified as Precious Okoro, Justice ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday said there was high-level inter-ministerial consultation towards setting up a multisectoral committee to scale up surveillance and vigilance to detect suspicious cases of coronavirus and ensure containing it at all points. Speaking in Abuja during ...

Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China in what they have called a “significant breakthrough”. The discovery will be shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the hope it may help ...

Justin Bieber was nervous about committing to wife Hailey Baldwin before he popped the question in 2018. The Baby singer, 25, feared that he wouldn’t be able to stay faithful to his then on-off model girlfriend, 23, and was worried ...

The Federal Government says it will not be distracted by the “baseless” rating of the Transparency International, which ranked Nigeria low in its latest international Corruption Perception index. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the government ...

A murder bid victim has revealed her horrifying neck wound after a maniac tried to behead her with a meat cleaver in the street. Lynsey O’Neill, 37, lost two pints of blood and nearly died when her throat was slashed ...

  A family in Nkoben, Narok County, Kenya is mourning their kin who allegedly committed suicide in a police cell. Vincent Kiplang’at, 21, had been arrested on Thursday last week and put in Lolung’a police station after he allegedly assaulted ...

A Mombasa church in which a pastor stabbed his wife to death before taking his own life at the pulpit has been demolished. The Ground for God’s Gospel (3G) Ministries at Chembani village in Kiembeni , Kenya was pulled down ...

A new report emerged online which ranked Nigerian women as the most promiscuous in Africa and also made the world top 15. On the world ranking, New Zealand claims the number one spot while Switzerland and Spain taking the second ...

  15 people have died in an accident that occurred on the Omen bridge along the Ijebu-Ode/Ibadan highway. The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed this on Tuesday. Also, according to ...

Blac Chyna has slammed Kylie Jenner for taking Dream Kardashian for a ride in the helicopter that was later involved in the fatal Kobe Bryant crash. The 31-year-old model shares Dream with Rob Kardashian and is extremely upset that Kylie ...

  Three officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps identified as Abochi John, Maxwell Odey and Juliet Enakireru, were arraigned on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the burgling of a shop. They were arraigned alongside one Anietie Udoh before ...

A lotto turf war between Chief Kessington Adebutu, popularly known as Baba Ijebu and Senator Buruji Kashamu has snowballed into a probe of Adebutu’s Premier Lotto company by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to a report by Premium ...