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A resident in Salisbury was the first person in the country to return a potentially unwanted Christmas present, it has been claimed. It was still dark when the first parcel was returned to a Collect+ store in the Wiltshire town ...

Boris Johnson was given an off-road motorbike by his girlfriend Carrie Symonds for Christmas, it has been claimed. The Prime Minister received a second-hand Yamaha TTR 125 from the 31-year-old, according to the Mail on Sunday. The bike, thought to ...

Uche Nwosu, governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) during the 2019 general election in Imo state, has returned to the the All Progressive Congress (APC). Nwosu, son-in-law to Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo, had defected from the APC ...

A student of Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has been arrested by the Ekiti Police Command over the alleged gang-rape of two fellow students of the private institution. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Amba Asuquo, said on Sunday in ...

Gunmen who abducted the six-year-old son of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr Nengi Talbot, have demanded N50m ransom to release the little boy. Talbot disclosed this on Saturday. The victim, Antonio, spent Christmas Day in the custody ...

Civil rights icon and US Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, his office has announced. Lewis, 79, said he was diagnosed following a routine medical visit with subsequent tests that reconfirmed the ...

We didn’t see this coming at all. A man travelling from Taraba to Benue state has narrated how their entire bus alongside passengers were carried by a canoe to cross from Taraba state into Benue state. He made a recording ...

Kano State Taskforce on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs and Unwholesome Processing Foods, Miscellaneous Committee, under the State Ministry of Health, on Saturday impounded 147 cartons of fake and expired drugs concealed in an uncompleted within Kano metropolis. The state Commissioner ...

Finding the perfect Christmas gift for a loved one can prove impossible sometimes. But one couple thought they’d found the ideal present for their son. However, his wife wasn’t quite so sure about it. The woman, who has been married ...

George Michael ’s sister Melanie Panayiotou will reportedly be buried next to his unmarked grave in north London. Melanie, 55, died on Christmas Day exactly three years after her superstar brother. Now the Daily Star Sunday reports she will be ...

Jose Mourinho has revealed his sadness after his family dog, Leya, died on Christmas Day. The Spurs manager arrived at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium ahead of his side’s clash with Brighton , before revealing the news to broadcasters Amazon Prime. ...

A 36-year-old woman was trampled to death by an elephant at Ol Arabel Forest, which is located on the borders of Baringo and Laikipia counties. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has identified the woman as Stella Chebii. According to the ...

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has declared three-days of fasting and prayer for the unity, peace and progress of Nigeria. NYCN National President, Mr Solomon Adodo said that the prayer session would hold from Jan. 1 to Jan. ...

  Organized Labour has said it is ready to go to war with any governor that fails to implement the N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustment that follows for workers in their states. President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new ...

  Colin Weir, who won one of Europe’s biggest lottery jackpots, has died after a short illness aged 71. Mr Weir and wife Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, claimed the £161m Euromillions prize in 2011. Earlier this year the ...

Tragedy struck in Rumuekini community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday as an electronics dealer, Chris Achor, allegedly committed suicide in his apartment. Achor was said to have taken his own life after drinking a poisonous insecticide ...

Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Saturday said that the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has crossed the line of decency with his recent efforts to erase the legacies of his (Saraki’s) late father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki. ...

Oyo State government said it will soon begin breath test to ascertain if drivers are drunk while driving or not. The move, according to government, is to reduce the rate of accidents caused by drunk driving among drivers which usually ...

The Ogun State police command on Saturday placed an indefinite embargo on any form of street carnival or public procession across the state following recent series of violence and wanton destruction of valuable properties in the state which were linked ...

  At least five people have been stabbed at the house of a rabbi in New York state, police say.   The house in Monsey, north of New York City, was hosting a religious celebration when the attacker burst in, ...

  Five corpses and two human heads have been discovered inside a shipwreck on the coast of Japan. The boat washed ashore on Japan’s Sado Island, northwest from the mainland, on Friday and authorities gained access on Saturday. The heavily ...

    Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, hailed the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Army. He commended the security outdits for foilong a robbery attack at First Bank, Mpape, in the outskirts of Abuja, the nation’s capital. Atiku ...

  Justice is being sought for a 22-year old student of Lagos state university, Favour Seun Daley-Oladele, who was grusomely murdered by a friend and his mom with the help of a prophet.   A web user, identified as Omojola ...

Her name is Peace Goewam. But her living condition is a sharp contrast of her name. First, she was taken away from her parents’ home in Plateau State, at age six, without any inkling of where she was going to ...

A man has confessed to the brutal murder of his girlfriend and her three children, two of whom were his, at the weekend in Peru. Juan César Augusto Huaripata, 28, and Jéssica Tejeda, 34, got into an argument when he ...