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Three British victims killed in the Ukrainian Airlines crash in Iran have been pictured for the first time. Father-of-one Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda-Zadeh, 40, is believed to have been travelling back to the UK via Ukraine when his flight crashed minutes ...

A hairdresser, Patience Oamen, on Tuesday, narrated to a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja how her brother, Nelson, stabbed their father, Sunday Oamen, to death with a broken bottle. Nelson is facing one count of murder contrary to Section ...

President Donald Trump has been mocked on Twitter by an Iranian official in the wake of the missile attacks on US bases in Iraq. Iran has launched dozens of ballistic missiles at US targets throughout Iraq, including Erbil in northern ...

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) yesterday banned night grazing nationwide as part of measures to curb the perennial clashes between herders and Farmers. The National Secretary of the MACBAN Mr. Baba Uthman told journalists after its Annual ...

The Ondo State Police Command said it had arrested a man identified as Nsem Godwin for allegedly kidnapping two kids in Okitipupa town, Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state. The suspect was arrested after he was caught with a ...

Nare Mphela, who won a landmark transgender discrimination case against her Limpopo high school in 2017, has been murdered in her home. It was learned that Mphela’s body was discovered with numerous stab wounds this week in her rented house ...

A woman claims her ex-boyfriend bit off her nose and either ate it or flushed it down the toilet. Allyson Danylko, 24, alleges her former partner Nick Grewal set upon her in a bathroom at his property in Toronto, Canada. ...

A pregnant mother and three of her children have been killed in a fire incident that occurred in their apartment in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital. The cause of the inferno which started at midnight is yet to be known, ...

Four officers of the Nigeria Customs Service have been abducted by suspected bandits at the Dan-Bedi Checkpoint located along Mallamawa Danbedi axis in Jibia, Katsina, a border town with the Republic of Niger. Some residents in the area told Channels ...

Barely few hours to the screening of newly appointed Caretaker Chairmen for the twenty local government area of Ogun State, one of the nominees, Shuaib Adeosun, from Ipokia Local Government, has died. A family source, on Wednesday, said the deceased ...

The latest report regarding the world’s most powerful International Passport places the Nigerian passport at 95. According to the list put together by Henley Passport Index which occasionally curates a list of the world’s most travel-friendly passports, Nigeria is just ...

A middle-aged man from Nairobi was on Tuesday, January 7, arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts on allegations that he verbally abused a female trader at Maasai Market, Kenya. The suspect, David Kigoma Onguyi, who was charged with creating disturbance ...

Google Trends has revealed the Nigerian states with the highest search for gay p.o.r.n.o.graphy on the platform. According to the 2019 Google Trends statistics 2019, South-Eastern states ranked the highest amongst the states searching for gay p.o.r.n.o.graphy in Nigeria and ...

The two black boxes from the Ukrainian airliner that crashed outside the capital Tehran have been found, Iranian state television reports. An Iranian official was quoted as saying both boxes were damaged but that it was believed their data could ...

The Kogi West Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Kola Ojo, on Tuesday evening, slumped and died while playing lawn tennis at his Lokoja residence. He was said to have been immediately rushed to the nearby hospital, ...

Prince Harry and Meghan could ditch their HRH royal titles at the end of a ‘tough year’. Rumours have been swirling for some time that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could make a move away from the core royal ...

Former Sheffield Wednesday forward Darko Kovacevic has cheated death after being shot at outside his home in Athens. The retired Serbian international was attacked by two men who ambushed him as he went to park his car. One assailant fired ...

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 27-year-old man from Shikhambi Village in Kakamega County, Kenya, whose body was found in his house on the morning of December 29, 2019. Meshack Keith Bwisa, an employee of the ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have reportedly invaded the Abuja residence of Senator Shehu Sani over alleged extortion. It was gathered that the EFCC stormed the apartment in Wuse, Abuja at about 3:30pm on Wednesday to ...

About 300 members of Pastor Paul Adefarasin’s House on the Rock Church have reportedly left for greener pastures, Opera News reported in a post today. The news was said to have been delivered by the pastor himself in his sermon ...

Bandits have attacked a 70-year-old Anglican priest, Canon Foluso Ogunsuyi of the Danian Marian Memorial Anglican Church, Ikun in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area of Ondo State. The hoodlums also attacked his son, an Army sergeant. The incident occurred on ...

France’s airline Air France said on Wednesday the company has suspended flights over Iraq and Iran airspace after Iranian missile strikes targeting U.S.-led forces. “Flight plans are adjusted in real time according to the decisions of the French and regional ...

An Ibadan-based fashion designer, Opeyemi Bakare, today told a Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan that her husband of 13 years, Olawale, pushed her to commit adultery with his nagging. Testifying, Opeyemi, who resides in Olunde area in Ibadan, also told ...

No fewer than 20 people are feared death in an auto crash in Kano on Wednesday. According to eyewitness account, the ghastly motor accident occurred at Tsaida village near Gaya town, in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano state. “The ...

A mob has set ablaze a suspected robber at Kornya town in Benue State. A youth activist, Jiji Jack, who spoke to The Nation, said the police arrested the suspect, who had been a thorn in the flesh of the ...