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A worker with anti-government views fatally stabbed his Trump-supporting boss at a highway construction site and placed an American flag next to the body after they got into a political argument, deputies in Florida said Tuesday. Mason Toney, 28, was ...

A 4-year-old Indiana boy was in critical condition Monday after a gun his father had concealed in his clothing discharged while the two were wrestling, police said. The Herald-Times reported that the two were play wrestling Sunday night on a ...

  A man bought a stolen bike worth £1,400 just to return it to the owner. Big-hearted Ste Burke from Liverpool was even praised by grime artist Stormzy for his kindness – who branded him a “Top man”. The Whyte ...

  A woman has been charged after her baby hit its head and died when she unexpectedly gave birth. The 30-year-old was charged with involuntary manslaughter following the tragic incident in Rome, Italy. According to local media, the woman claims ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has weighed in on the controversy around the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network, saying it has not endangered the foundation of the country. It was his first ...

This is actually disturbing, Just 22 men are said to be richer than 325 million women? I am sad. Economic inequality is widening across the world and women in particular are feeling its effects as care work remains undervalued, according ...

  A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos State to dismiss a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ) for final forfeiture of his house in Ilorin, the Kwara ...

A 24-year-old gay man, simply nicknamed Bow Berlin, has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 4-year-old with hearing challenges. The incident happened at Dagbolu Idiroko, Abule, Ikorodu, Lagos. It was gathered that the boy, whose parents are also deaf, had ...

Online calls are growing to help save five ‘malnourished and sick’ African lions held at a park in Sudan’s capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat. The five lions are held in cages at Khartoum’s ...

    Argentine football legend Diego Maradona met Tuesday in Caracas with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who thanked the icon for his “unconditional support,” as the leader was set to begin three days of meetings at the leftist Sao Paulo ...

The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, declared that the recently launched Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun, has come to stay. Governors from the six states in the South West region; Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Babajide ...

Meghan Markle has lost her ninth member of staff in just 18 months after a top aide tasked with running the Sussex Royal foundation quit her role. Diversity campaigner and social entrepreneur Natalie Campbell has left for a new job ...

The Kano State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rabiu Sulaiman-Bichi, has decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Not formal yet, Mr Sulaiman-Bichi said he will be making it official soon. His defection comes two days after the Supreme ...

So investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who last year spent some days in prison as an undercover journalist to expose the rots in Nigerian prison cells has just done the same at YABA LEFT and oh boy, it’s mind blowing. Fisayo ...

An hostage executed by an 8-year old boko haram insurgent as been identified as a Mr. Ropvil Daciya Dalep. Daciya, 22, has been identified as a student of Biology Education in University of Maiduguri and was abducted on Thursday January ...

The Kano State government has confirmed the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state, which has so far claimed the lives of three persons. Addressing journalists today, the state commissioner of health, Aminu Tsanyawa, said a pregnant woman, and two ...

The commissioner of police in Akwa Ibom State, Imohimi Edgal, has ordered the “immediate” arrest of a police officer accused of causing the death of a 54-year-old woman. The officer, Bassey Ikpe, was said to have violently dragged the victim, ...

Today makes it 135 days that a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo has been away. Mr Jalingo, the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was arrested on August 22 over a report alleging that the governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, diverted N500 ...

The Spokesman for the  Plateau State Police Command, Mr. Mathias Tyopev, on Tuesday confirmed the abduction of the daughter of a former Commissioner for Tourism in the state, Mr Peter Mwadkon, by gunmen who attacked their family house in Kwata ...

The management of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) has sacked one of its part-time lecturers, Tene John, who was accused by one of his students Ms Anjola Ogunyemi, of sexually assaulting her. The victim, a National Diploma student of ...

Two men, Jimoh Imade and Matthew Chigozie, risk being committed to life imprisonment, with or without caning, if found guilty of felony, for alleged defilement and r.a.p.e. In the first incident, Imade who is currently being reminded in Oko Correctional ...

The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Nigeria, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports said on Tuesday. Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, ...

  Nine lawmakers in the Imo House of Assembly, including its minority leader, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) days after the ruling party clinched the governorship position via a Supreme Court ruling. The Deputy Speaker of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of Reverend Lawan Andimi by Boko Haram terrorists. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the President described the murder of the clergyman as inhuman and vowed to ensure the insurgents pay dearly ...

A hunter, identified as Kehinde Edward, was reportedly shot on the head by a colleague, Kehinde Adeleke, while on hunting expedition in a forest in Osun State. It was also gathered that the hunters in the company of others went ...