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  Twin suicide bombers linked to the Boko Haram sect have attacked a mosque in Gwoza, Borno state, on Sunday, killing a 12-year-old child and leaving many people injured. A security source, who disclosed this to TheCable, said the suicide ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered a full-scale investigation into the cause of the fire incident the gutted the popular Amu Plank Market in Mushin area of the state. The Governor, who gave the order when he visited the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the opinion of Theophilus Danjuma, a retired general, is not more important than that of millions of Nigerians who voted for his reelection last year. Mr Buhari made this comment in an exclusive interview with ...

An operative of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Sunday shot the 2019 senatorial candidate of the Action Alliance in Imo North Senatorial District, Ndubuisi Emenike. The police spokesperson in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, confirmed that the incident had ...

  Leah Sharibu’s family have reacted to media report that the teenage schoolgirl was recently delivered of a baby boy for a Boko Haram commander. Leah and over a hundred others were abducted by Boko Haram from Government Secondary School, Dapchi, ...

  One of the children of popular trado-medical practitioner, Alhaji Fatai Yusuf, said his father was killed hours after he received a call that his workers burnt some important documents in his Igando, Lagos office, Punch reports. The son said ...

  A BRITISH pensioner is set to marry her Egyptian toyboy lover and claims despite their 45-year age gap he’s made her ‘feel like a virgin again’. Iris Jones, 80, met jobless 35-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Irbriham on Facebook before flying ...

  The Federal Government has directed the police hierarchy to commence the recruitment of special constables nationwide preparatory to  the implementation of its community policing policy. To begin  the recruitment of  constables, Adamu has directed state police commands to set ...

The Non Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State are threatening to down tools if the School Management does not reverse the backdoor recruitment, pay outstanding allowances and bonuses, and give due ...

Enugu state government has commenced demolition of illegal structures that may pose threat to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport. This according to the state government is in line with the requests made to ensure illegal buildings at the airport are ...

Twenty outstanding teachers in public schools in Lagos State will be acknowledged and rewarded with brand new vehicle each as part of efforts to motivate teachers in the state. The State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said this on Saturday during ...

  Nigerians are reacting to the news that Leah Sharibu has been forced into marriage with a top Boko Haram commander and given birth to a baby boy. A report from Sahara Reporters claimed that Leah Sharibu who refused to renounce ...

  CHINA’S president has warned of a “grave situation” as he said the killer coronavirus was “accelerating its speed”. Xi Jinping held a special government meeting yesterday to discuss the spread of virus that has killed 54 people and infected ...

  Leah Sheribu, a Christian girl kidnapped and held in Boko Haram captivity for over one year, has given birth to a baby boy.   Leah was delivered of the baby a few weeks ago following her forceful marriage to ...

  Nigerian songwriter and recording artiste, Peruzzi, has bought himself a house in Lagos.   The singer unperturbed about the recent rumour that alleged that he is the pimp of Chioma, took to his Instagram stories to show off his newly acquired ...

  Climate advocate Vanessa Nakate calls out racism after she is removed from image taken with her white peers in Davos. Social media users have come out in support of Ugandan climate advocate Vanessa Nakate after she was cropped out ...

  A man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping an epileptic minor at gunpoint.   An Edo state magistrate court sentenced Vincent Akande, a 40-year-old former vigilante, to jail for the rape of a 14-year-old girl who ...

The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 22 on Saturday as rescue crews searched for people who remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. Speaking at a televised news conference near ...

Six crew members of a nine – tanker vessel laden with poorly Automated Gasoline Oil are cooling their heels in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Arrested by the Navy along the waterways of Brass, on the ...

The Senate of the University of Ibadan has approved the provisional offer of undergraduate admission to 4,359 candidates for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, who presided over the emergency Senate meeting, said that out of this ...

A doctor has died from coronavirus nine days after getting infected with the deadly virus in China. Liang Wudong, 62, from Hubei Province, was suspected of contracting the disease on January 16 at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and ...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have evidence that the brother of Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend provided his intimate text messages to her sibling, who sold them to the National Enquirer, according to a new report. Prosecutors have obtained documents including a May ...

  A house-help has been apprehended by the residents of a community in Lagos after he made attempt to kill his master’s children by lacing their soup with the deadly SNIPER insecticide.   While being interrogated, the boy was asked ...

    A woman, Priscilla Kwange is presently in a dilemma after being impregnated by her son-in-law during the period she spent in their home for Omugwo, that is babysitting their new born child. It was a bad life experience ...

  A woman has planes to marry an aeroplane she claims she has been in a relationship with for six years. Michele Kobke from Berlin, Germany, first met the love of her life, a 737-800 Boeing plane she calls ‘Schatz’ ...