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  A Lagosian is blaming the Lagos State Governor after his goods were involved in an accident on Lagos road. The man who goes by the name @Franklyn_TA on twitter, shared photos from the accident and tweeted at Sawno Olu ...

The standoff between the police and some bandits who attempted to rob a First Bank branch in Mpape Abuja ended some hours ago. The robbers finally surrendered to policemen from the FCT Police Command, after one of them had been ...

  The offices of Porta dos Fundos, the production company behind the Netflix satire suggesting Jesus was gay, was bombed on Christmas Eve, according to a report. The company’s Rio de Janeiro headquarters was “hit by a Molotov cocktail attack” on ...

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, stays suspended from the state chapter of the party. The Obaseki-led faction of the party in the state, in November, ...

    A Bollywood actor killed himself in his Mumbai apartment last night after leaving a note to his toddler son. Shortly after Kushal Punjabi, 37, was discovered at his apartment in Pali Hill, Mumbai, friends of the Bollywood star ...

A man in his twenties has been arrested for attempting to gain entrance into an Air Peace aircraft through the wheel-well. The aircraft was already taxing to take off to Owerri when a strange man emerged from the bush to ...

There was pandemonium on Thursday evening in Ebute Metta area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria as another rival cult groups clashed at Ondo by Cemetery Street, leaving one person dead. It was gathered that a boy called Emeka was murdered in ...

A police sergeant, Lukmon Akanbi has been arrested for shooting dead one Ramon Babatunde Adeniji around Eko Atlantic area of Victoria Island, Lagos. Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered his arrest. The suspect, with the number F/No ...

Aid Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation, says it has concluded plans to mobilise one million people to plant 300,000 trees in 35 communities in Kaduna metropolis. The Executive Director of the organisation, Mr Emmanuel Bonet, disclosed this in Kaduna on Friday. ...

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi has ordered the immediate closure of St. Vincent Hospital at Igbagu in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi following a suspected outbreak of Lassa fever at the hospital. The order is contained in a statement ...

The Kirikasamma Local Government in Jigawa, has said it had spent N1.7 million on training 200 youths in the area in various vocational skills. Alhaji Salisu Garba-Kubayo, the council’s chairman in Kirikasamma, said the youth were trained for three weeks. ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is tinkering with the idea of a consensus presidential candidate in 2023. To achieve this, the main opposition party in the country is to embark on nationwide consultations among its members. It will also ...

North West isn’t just a part of pop culture, she now owns pop culture. As a Christmas present for her 6-year-old daughter, Kim Kardashian purchased a custom velvet jacket worn by Michael Jackson to Elizabeth Taylor’s 65th birthday party in ...

Boxing legend Amir Khan doesn’t hold back when it comes to trolls. The former world champion has been flooded with vile abuse after he shared to his Instagram a snap of him, his fiance and two kids standing in matching ...

A young newlywed wife is accused of trying to defraud $1million out of her husband who is 52 years her senior. Lin Helena Halfon, 26, is claimed to have tried to cash in cheques with £770,000 from the bank account ...

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Philadelphia authorities say that a man killed his wife and injured their teenage son during a wild stabbing attack witnessed by the couple’s children on Christmas morning. Police were called to the scene of the 5600 block of North Mascher ...

Five members of one family from Gaikuyu area in Mathira East in Nyeri County were burnt to death on the night of December 25 after their house went up in flames. The cause of the fire — which razed the ...

A company run by Bruce Lee’s daughter is suing a popular Chinese fast food chain over its use of an image of the late martial arts star. Shannon Lee’s Bruce Lee Enterprises alleges Real Kungfu has used the image in ...

One of the UK’s most wanted men has been arrested by Dutch police as he sat down to eat his Christmas dinner. Daniel Burdett, 28, from Liverpool, was detained on a European Arrest Warrant at a restaurant in The Hague ...

A twin has lost his beloved brother to brain cancer at the age of just 25. Ashan Corrick, from the South Gloucestershire town of Filton, near Bristol, had a headache for just two days before he was diagnosed with incurable ...

A Moroccan YouTuber has been sentenced to four years in prison for “insulting the king” in a video broadcast on social networks, his lawyer says. In a separate case, a Moroccan journalist and activist was charged and detained over a ...

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country’s block on accessing Wikipedia is unconstitutional. The court said the ban violated rights concerning freedom of expression, and ordered it be lifted. The Turkish government barred the website in 2017 because of ...

Deji Adeyanju, who was brutalised by a pro-government group has asked the police to investigate the attack. The activist in a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, dated December 23, 2019, fingered one Kabiru Dallah as the leader ...

A passenger plane has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing at least 15 people. Officials say the aircraft from Bek Air – a Kazakh airline went down shortly after taking off from Almaty airport on Friday morning, smashing into a building. At ...