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No fewer than 23 Nigerian soldiers are yet to be accounted for after Boko Haram insurgents ambushed a military convoy at Boboshe village in Bama local government area of Borno state. Five officers, 18 soldiers and 8 trucks were missing ...

Dr. Sunkanmi Odubunmi, an Associate Professor of Economics in the Lagos State University (LASU), has allegedly been caught in the web of sexual harassment of one his female students. Coming barely two weeks after the reported sack of one Professor ...

A randy man, Mr. Coker Olakunle has been arrested in Lagos after he tricked a lady, Esther Onifade, and obtained N2.9m from her under false pretence. According to reports, the suspect was alleged to have defrauded the victim Esther Onifade, ...

Many persons are feared dead as a commercial bus plunged into Ovia River at Evbonogbon, on the Edo- Ondo Boundary, on the Lagos-Benin Expressway this afternoon. A baby was among the deceased victims pulled out of the bus.

  According to reports, the assailants hid in the bush and waited till the officers resumed duty at a checkpoint along Uzzebba road, Sabongidda Ora in Edo State.. While the driver of the police van was trying to park, the ...

Two cyber criminals were on Friday, July 13, sentenced for committing offences against the National Lottery, after a National Crime Agency investigation. Daniel Thompson, 27, and Idris Kayode Akinwunmi, 21, were jailed for eight months and four months respectively at ...

A security guard was patrolling the grounds of Ibika Clinic, Butterworth, South Africa on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 when she stumbled upon something that shocked her. The security guard saw a box with a blanket in an open area, and ...

A U.S. service member died on Thursday from wounds sustained in a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan, according to a brief statement from the Department of Defense. Neither the branch of military nor the name of the service member was ...

A Sudanese teenager who killed her husband as he tried to rape her has appealed against a court decision jailing her for five years in a case which could help curb sexual violence in the north African nation, campaigners said on Thursday. ...

President Omar al Bashir of Sudan Sudan has extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three states to overthrow the government, the presidential palace said in a decree on Thursday. The government has been fighting rebels in the state ...

An Egyptian court on Thursday convicted 37 people on charges related to illicit trading in human organs and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years in jail, witnesses said. The Cairo Criminal Court also cleared three ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested members of a gang over the rape and murder of women in the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galandachi, who confirmed the arrest said the gang specializes in the kidnap, rape ...

The Nigerian House of representatives has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to implement the Executive Order signed last week to strengthen the government’s fight against corruption. The Order was to give the government power to confiscate stolen assets of suspected ...

A wedding photographer from the eastern Turkish province of Malatya has been declared a hero on social media after he beat up a groom upon learning that he was going to get married to a 15-year-old girl.   The photographer, Onur ...

LeSean McCoy, an American football running back for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League, has been accused of battering his girlfriend Delicia and a photo of her bloodied face has been released.   Following the brutal beating, Delicia’s friend, Mia, ...

A Highlander car belonging to a Chinese man and a Cambodian man, exploded and completely burned at a Tela gas station in Kampong Speu, Cambodia on Monday, July 9. According to local media, the Chinese man drove his Highlander to ...

A 26-year-old lady identified as Bunmi Adebayo, has said the desperation to have a baby after 10 years of marriage, made her steal a three-week old baby in Modakeke, Osun State.   She allegedly stole the baby named David Oluwaseun, ...

Ngozi Braide, a former Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer was reportedly robbed her driver; one Mr. Philip Jonathan who burgled her bedroom, carted away her belongings, foreign currency worth about N10m and escaped in Lagos.   According to reports, the incident happened ...

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new, executive presidential system he had long campaigned for by putting his son-in-law in charge of the economy and promising greater overhaul of a country he has dominated for 15 years.   Hours after ...

  A Nigerian woman was arrested by the Kolkata unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Kolkata, India, after she concealed LSD blots and cocaine in her private parts.   David Blessing, 30, was intercepted the moment she landed in Kolkata ...

Twitter user @Emmyskillful, has accused the University of Nigeria Nsukka clinic of administering expired saline drip on his younger brother which almost led to his death. Posting photos of the pack of expired drip, he wrote ”University of Nigeria Nsukka(UNN) ...

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has come under severe attacks over his statement last Thursday that he won’t receive President Muhammadu Buhari, when he visits Ekiti State for the grand finale rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, today . ...

A man has publicly denounced his supposed in-laws after his younger sister (who will turn 18 in September) got married to an older man without the knowledge and consent of the family in Imo State. According to reports, the wedding ...

A 45-year-old man nabbed for defiling an 11-year-old girl in Ogun state has blamed the devil for his actions. Musibau Asinde allegedly accosted the girl in his neighbourhood at Ibese in Ogun state and raped her. Afterwards, the girl returned home and ...

Six members of the Thai soccer team trapped inside a flooded cave have now been brought out after divers executed a carefully constructed rescue mission. According to the Thai Public Broadcast Service, the six other players and their coach who ...