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Daniel Mbatelen abducted by yet to be identified persons in Taraba State has escaped from the custody of his captors. According to a family source, Mbatelen ran into the family compound at Dan-Anacha on Saturday afternoon while they were holding ...

Davido, has said he won’t go to America till the tension between the country and Iran is over. Tension began between the United States of America and Iran after US drone strike ordered by President Trump assassinated a top Iranian ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Saturday announced the immediate review of electricity tariffs in the country from January 1. The order was issued to the 11 electricity distribution companies (DISCos) on December 31, 2019, but published on the ...

In a series of tweets Saturday, US President Donald Trump responded to Iranian threats of avenging Major General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination in a US airstrike, by warning that the US will hit 52 Iranian sites, dear to Iran. His tweets ...

A fire outbreak on the runway of the Port Harcourt International Airport, this evening, disrupted flight activities. It was gathered that the fire prevented a Max Air flight from taking off while an Arik flight had to return to base. ...

A Kano State magistrates’ court, sitting at Nomansland, on Friday remanded a corps member serving in Bebeji Local Government Area, Jepthan Makwin, in custody. Makwin is standing trial over the death of an eight-year-old boy. Makwin was accused of beating ...

The self-acclaimed Osun-based pastor, Segun Philips, who reportedly slaughtered a final-year student of Lagos State University, Favour Daley-Oladele, after her head was smashed by her boyfriend, tells Daud Olatunji about his role in the crime Do you really have a ...

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has welcomed students of both Public and Private Schools as they return to school for the 2nd Term 2019/2020 Academic Session on Monday, January 6. A statement issued on behalf of the ...

At least two rockets have reportedly been fired near the US Embassy in Baghdad. Another three rockets were reportedly fired at Balad Airbase housing American troops north of Baghdad.’ There have been no reports of injuries.

Six tigers have been rescued from horrible conditions after being left to starve to death by their owner. Animal rights activists in Ukraine were tipped off about the tigers on December 30 and discovered the beasts kept in a makeshift ...

British rock singer Sir Rod Stewart has been charged after allegedly punching a hotel security guard outside a children’s party in Florida. The singer of “Maggie May”, who will be 76 on 10 January, was with his family at Breakers ...

Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, said Nigerians should not continue going abroad for medical treatment. “Nigerians have suffered so much going abroad for medical treatment. This is not good for us and it must stop because ...

Transgender teen Jazz Jennings is proudly showing off her gender confirmation surgery scars for the first time since undergoing the procedure in June 2018. The 19-year-old reality TV star and LGBTQ activist took to Instagram on New Year’s Eve to ...

  Gunmen have kidnapped three indigenes of Obbo-Aiyegunle in  the Ekiti local Government Area of Kwara State on New Year’s Eve. According to the former chairman of  the council, Chief Ezekiel Gbadeyan, two men and a woman travelling home for ...

A retired judge drowned in her hot tub on Christmas Day after accidentally falling and hitting her head in her new Georgia vacation home, according to investigators. Tracy Sheehan, 60, was found face down in the water by a concerned ...

The bodies of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani and others killed in a US drone strike will be taken on a funeral procession starting in Baghdad on Saturday ahead of a public farewell for the slain military leader in Tehran the ...

Men from Itire police station and RRS officers early this morning nabbed two men who broke into a house with hammer to steal a motor bike (okada). The officers responded to a distress call and caught them in the act. ...

Three fires have combined to form a single blaze bigger than the New York borough of Manhattan, as Australian firefighters battle what has been predicted to the most catastrophic day yet in an already devastating bushfire season. The fires joined ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party to concentrate on strengthening the main opposition platform before the 2023 election cycle. “Our preoccupation at this point in the @OfficialPDPNig should not focus on elections, but ...

This is the moment a six-storey apartment block crumbled to the ground sending residents fleeing in terror. The Al-Ramzan Tower in Karachi, Pakistan, collapsed on Monday 40 minutes after residents were evacuated. Footage shows people staring up at the building ...

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex-fiancé Nick Gordon ‘had black fluid coming from his mouth’, according to a released 911 dispatch audio. TMZ has reported that before paramedics arrived, a dispatcher is heard saying in the 911 call: “Black stuff is coming ...

A father battered a 60-year-old man after allegedly finding him n.a.k.e.d from the waist down in his toddlers’ room. Mark Stanley was left with horrific facial injuries after the fight and was arrested by police in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Officers said ...

There was palpable tension in Ilorin, Kwara State Capital, over the demolition of the house of Late Abubakar Olusola Saraki. Officials of the state government had in the wee hours of yesterday demolished the house, popularly known as Ile Arugbo ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has defended his recent inauguration of Caretaker Committees in the 33 Local Governments and 35 Local Council Development Areas. Makinde defended his action in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo ...