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The Abia police command has confirmed the arrest of a kidnap gang comprising five men, who are in connection with the alleged abduction of a boy from Umuoba, the headquarters of Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the state. ...

Yenagoa, Bayelsa State boiled on Monday as a policeman reportedly shot dead three people. Those shot dead are a commercial driver and two of his passengers. The dastard act led to riot in the state’s capital. According to reports, the ...

A Nigerian, Anthony Okolie, has been detained by the Department of State Services for 10 weeks for purchasing and using an MTN SIM card previously used and abandoned by President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Hanan. The telephone number was said to ...

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) popularly known as Shi’ites on Monday led a procession and protest in Banex, Wuse Area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The Shi’ite members were protesting over the killing of top ...

A suicidal mother of an eight-month-old baby girl tried to get medical help one week before she took her own life. Chloe McDaid, from Wallasey, Merseyside, hanged herself at home and was found unresponsive by her father days after she ...

Kylie Minogue has announced she and her family have donated $500,000 in the wake of the bushfires currently ravaging Australia. Taking to Instagram on Monday, the 51-year-old Aussie singer said the money was for ‘the immediate firefighting efforts’ and ‘ongoing ...

  A woman in Uganda has been banned from having more kids after her forty fourth(44th) child. Mariam Nabatanzi got married at age 12 to a 40 year old man. She gave birth to twins the following year. But due ...

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq, after a letter from a US general there suggested a withdrawal. The letter said the US would be “repositioning forces in the coming days and weeks” ...

The past few days have seen fans hit out at the Kardashian/Jenner brood for their seemingly lack of care regarding the horrific Australian bushfires. But Kim Kardashian put a stop to it on Sunday evening when she hit back at ...

Manipulative serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga convinced many of his victims he was a Good Samaritan before going on to drug and rape them at his Manchester flat. The 36-year-old made his victims feel as though he had done them a ...

A top general in Iran has said that killing President Donald Trump would not be enough retaliation for the death of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, suggesting that Iran’s response to the deadly US air strike would not stop with ...

The first woman to read the news on BBC television died after suffering a fall at home, an inquest heard. Nancy Wiggingon, who was better known as Nan Winton, was described as a trailblazer who paved the way for female ...

The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has accused security personnel of the Nigeria military and police of collecting bribes of N1000 from travellers who do not have national identity cards. The governor made the accusation Monday afternoon when he ...

A stampede at the Lagos State University, LASU, today led to some students sustaining injuries. The stampede occurred due to desperation of some students to force their ways into a 500-seat Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre at the school’s premises ...

Japanese sensation Naomi Osaka has revealed her excitement at meeting her idol Beyonce, saying the US singer “smelled expensive” and gave her a morale-boosting pep talk at a low point last year. The two-time Grand Slam champion, who will be ...

These are the safest places to be if World War 3 breaks out and nuclear weapons start flying amid tensions between the US and Iran. Tensions are raging around the world with barbs being thrown by US President Donald Trump, ...

An Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court, on Friday, remanded a 26-year-old man, Christian Nweke, in a correctional facility for beheading a two-year-old boy, Onyedikachi Nwali. The suspect, Southern City News gathered, allegedly beheaded the two-year-old boy and drank his blood, while ...

  Facebook has announced that they will soon introduce a new reaction button that they are referring to as ‘shut the fuck up’. The ‘shut the fuck up’ emoticon will join the existing ‘like’, ‘love’, ‘haha’, ‘wow’, ‘sad’ and ‘angry’ ...

Two lawmakers in Venezuela have both declared themselves parliamentary Speaker after a tumultuous day in the country’s politics. US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó and rival Luis Parra both claimed to be Speaker of the National Assembly on Sunday. Mr Guaidó, ...

Tears! A man who allegedly shot his fiancee dead in a parking lot just three days after proposing to her on New Year’s Eve has been arrested. Kendrick Akins, 39, is suspected of killing Dominic Jefferson, 33, outside her apartment ...

A father and his ten-year-old daughter have died after their small aircraft crashed off the runway during take off. Tyler Wesley Walker, 40, and Brooklyn Walker, ten, from Vinemont, Alabama, were killed when the plane veered off of the runway ...

A mysterious viral pneumonia that has infected dozens in central China is not Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), health chiefs have said. They also discounted bird flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and said investigations were continuing. A total of ...

Women with bigger boobs may have more of an excuse to call in sick when the colder winter weather rolls round. That’s because new research has revealed that women with larger breasts suffer much worse colds and take longer to ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, said he has never met with former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, either directly or remotely. Sani is currently being held by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly extorting a businessman,  Sani ...

President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We’re not leaving unless ...