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The father of Reynhard Sinaga, the worst rapist in British legal history, has said his son’s punishment “fits his crimes” after he was jailed for life. Sinaga, a 36-year-old PhD student from Indonesia, was found guilty of 159 sexual offences ...

A grenade that a child picked up from a bin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border has exploded, killing him and eight others. Twenty-six people were also wounded in the blast on the Nigerian side of the border, a Cameroonian official said. ...

A magistrates’ court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, has sentenced a 30-year-old woman, Sadiat Jimoh, to six months imprisonment for stealing goat. Sadiat was arraigned yesterday and she pleaded guilty to the two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing. Saidat ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. Chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with newsmen ...

Suspected bandits Monday night attacked several communities in Malumfashi council area of Katsina State. A man identified as Umar Isah was killed during the attack. Isah was, until his death, a lecturer at the School of Basic and Remedial Studies ...

Over 2,500 people have been forced to relocate from their homes for fear of attacks by bandits and gunmen in Niger State. The relocation followed attacks on some communities in Munya Local Government that has left four soldiers and some ...

Alhaji Sagir Madaki, Director, Kano State Fire Service, is dead. Madaki, aged 56, died at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano today. Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, spokesman of the fire fighting outfit, while confirming Madaki’s demise in a telephone interview, said ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rated Rivers as the state with the second highest number of laundering cases in the country. Lagos beats Rivers to the top spot as the state with the highest number of money ...

Spanish side Malaga have suspended head coach Victor Sanchez after an explicit video of the 43-year-old was posted on social media. The second-tier side said an investigation had been launched. Writing on Twitter, Sanchez said he had been blackmailed over ...

The family of the late Favour Daley-Oladele said that an order from the Lagos State Ministry of Health stopped it from burying her remains at the Atan Cemetery in the Yaba Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. Speaking ...

The number of people killed by a measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 6,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO says the epidemic is the world’s largest and fastest moving. Around 310,000 suspected ...

A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard has crashed in Iran, according to local media. Iran’s Red Crescent said there is no chance of finding survivors. The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran’s Imam ...

A seven-month old baby boy has frozen to death after his mother placed him in a buggy and left him outside in Russia. The child was exposed to temperatures of -7C for around five hours in the far-east Khabarovsk region, ...

Two airbases housing US troops in Iraq have been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles, according to the US Department of Defence. Iranian state TV says the attack is a retaliation after the country’s top commander Qasem Soleimani ...

Some parts of Christ Apostolic Church district headquarters, Dada Estate in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, have been gutted by fire. Properties worth millions were destroyed. The cause of the fire, which lasted for an hour, is unknown. It took ...

A 26-year-old man with a “third testicle” dangling between his legs has finally had the bizarre growth removed. Ravon, from Clarksville, Tennessee, went to see Dr Pimple Popper – real name Sandra Lee – at her clinic, on the latest ...

The police in Katsina State, on Monday, confirmed that its Operation Puff Adder team rescued occupants of two J5 buses abducted by suspected bandits at Ruma Village. The village is along Jibia/Batsari Road. The police, however, clarified that they were ...

A devastated mum has blamed social media after her beautiful 19-year-old daughter took her own life five days before Christmas. Chloe Davison, who wanted to be a carer, was found dead at her family home in County Durham on December ...

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the United States had declined to issue him a visa to attend a UN Security Council meeting scheduled in New York later this week, as tensions escalate between the two countries after the ...

Thirty-two people have died in a stampede at the funeral of assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. A further 190 were injured in the tragedy at Soleimani’s hometown of Kerman, where the military chief was being laid to rest, according to ...

The United Arab Emirates on Monday introduced a multiple-entry visa scheme valid for five years for all nationalities, with the aim of turning the Gulf state into a tourism hub.   “#UAE Cabinet chaired by @HHShkMohd, approves new amendment for ...

Former Super Eagles forward and coach, Samson Siasia, has started a GoFundMe appeal to raise money to fund his case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in order to overturn the life ban slammed on him by world ...

Chris Hemsworth has made a huge donation to fight the ongoing Australian bushfire crisis. The Australian actor and Thor star, 36, has given a huge $1 million in aid of bushfire recovery as the disaster in his home country continues. ...

A woman is accused of stealing her friend’s new born baby to pass off as her own, while the real mum’s body found in the boot of her car. Heidi Broussard was found strangled and stuffed into a bag in ...

A man has been left with thousands of tumours on his body after developing a rare skin condition 15 years ago. Diwakar Bisoye, from Odisha State, east India, was plagued by benign tumours including a four stone tumour on his ...