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The six year old son of Nengi Talbot, the Bayelsa Commissioner for Water Resources, has been kidnapped by four gunmen who stormed his home on Sunday night December 22nd. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, Ainim ...

  Convicted Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, will be celebrating the yuletide in prison as his bail application was dismissed for lack in merit by a Federal high court sitting in Lagos today Monday December 23rd.   Recall ...

  Earlier today, Adeyanju staged a protest in front of the headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission to canvass for obedience to a court order by the Buhari administration got more than he bargained for.   Pictures and videos ...

  Pastor Alfa Babatunde who is the founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre have been arraigned by the Department of State Services before a magistrate’s court on two counts of felony and kidnap on Monday, December 23rd.   Babatunde was arraigned ...

Algerian strongman military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, known for telling veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign, has died aged 79, official media say. One of the last veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France still in power, Gen Salah ...

  As the convener of #RevolutionNow, Sowore still remains in the custody of the DSS, protesters led by comrade Deji Adeyanju took to the National Human Rights Commission office in Abuja to demand justice and quick release of Sowore. It ...

Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death five persons accused of the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s Istanbul consulate last year October. Five people will be executed and another three will be imprisoned for 24 years, according ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) believes that the US government was rightly justified to have included Nigeria on a special watchlist for having “engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom”. CAN in a statement by Adebayo Oladeji, ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress Chairman in Cross River, Ben Ukpebi, has regained freedom from his abductors. Ukpebi, who was kidnapped six days ago, was released after a ransom of 5million naira was paid to his captors, Vanguard reports. He was ...

\ A mum has died after a double decker bus crashed into a railway bridge. Jessica Jing Ren, 36, was air lifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the collision in Swansea, Wales, on December 12. She died a short ...

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has announced the appointment of eight permanent secretaries to reposition the state public service for greater efficiency and effectiveness. But sixteen old permanent secretaries retained their portfolios and 12 others swapped ministries, agencies and parastatals ...

An Anambra State based vulcanizer Chinasa Ogbaga has reportedly butchered his two children Chikamso and Chizaram to death in Ebonyi State. A third child, Emmanuel is lying critical at the hospital from injuries sustained from the attack. The incident happened ...

  China will cut tariffs on hundreds of products ranging from frozen pork to high-tech parts next year, lowering trade barriers to support the economy. In a statement, Chinese authorities said import tariffs on 859 items would be reduced from ...

Nine people died and more than 100 were hospitalised after drinking local liquor made from coconut sap in two separate incidents in the Philippines, police said Monday. Eight people died after drinking a local brand of the traditional liquor, known ...

There are growing indications that the Islamic State (IS) group is re-organising in Iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country. Kurdish and Western intelligence officials have told the BBC that the IS presence in ...

Nigerians may be in for another round of scarcity of petroleum products in the New Year as members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of National Union of Petroleum and Engineering Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to withdraw their ...

  A lady who has been missing for years after she left home has been found after her brother posted her picture on Twitter.   According to her brother, she left home when he was only 5 years old, just ...

  Celebrity Police officer Dolapo Badmus has advised Nigerians to desist from offering their account number to anyone to receive money.   In a post she made on her social media page, the CSP wrote on how a man has ...

The university of Abuja have expelled 100 students for involving in examination malpractices. The university also approved the rustication of eleven students. It disclosed this in a statement by its Head, Information and University Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, on Sunday ...

Traditional rituals had to be performed on Friday to “appease” a dead Kakamega woman, 34, who “refused to be buried”. K24 Digital was told that Night Makunda, who hailed from Shamberere Village in Malava, clenched her fists and slightly raised ...

A yet-to-be-identified woman was allegedly beaten mercilessly by his husband who is a police officer in Kaduna State over N500. The husband identified as Sergeant Yusuf Bello reportedly left his with a black eye after they had an argument over ...

A campaign to try and strip Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of their titles as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has failed. Angry residents in Sussex signed a petition to have their royal names changed and it was backed ...

Ten years after the foiled bombing of a US-bound flight from Amsterdam, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, the father of the underwear bomber, Farouk, has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time, describing it as the most trying time ...

Are we more likely to cheat on our partners if our parents were unfaithful? According to the results of a new study, this appears to be the case for two-thirds of women whose mothers had affairs. Around a third of ...

The Registrar and Chief Executive of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Professor Segun Ajiboye on Sunday revealed that 53,674 candidates passed the November diet of the Professional Qualification Examination, PQE, organised by the Council to certify teachers in ...