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The Osun State Police Command has confirmed the death of Eesa of Inisa town in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State, Chief Enoch Ajiboso while presiding over Muslims peace meeting.   It was gathered that the former Chairman of ...

A toddler has died after swallowing a tiny button battery which began generating electricity inside her and eroded through her tissues, causing terrible burns.   One year-old Reese Smith died last Thursday, weeks after taking the button battery out of ...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, says Nigeria will be a safe place to live in when politicians stop the use of thugs and criminals during elections. “When politicians begin to stop the use of thugs, touts or some group of ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspects, including an herbalist, for dismembering a 45-year-old housewife, Memunat Akinde, and a motorcyclist, Ibikunle Ajose. The suspects allegedly committed the offence in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the ...

A notorious robber and rapist, Adeniyi Ajayi, escaped from the custody of the Lagos State Police Command during the #EndSARS protest. A source at the command headquarters said Ajayi, aka Ogologo, shortly after his arrest by operatives of the defunct ...

Sixty per cent of primary school teachers in Borno state lacked requisite teaching qualifications, a committee on Biometric Data Capture of Local Education Authority Staff in Borno has found. The Chairman of the committee, Dr Shettima Kulima, made this known ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed the death of one of its corps and member, Bomoi Suleiman Yusuf, who was allegedly murdered by armed robbers on his way home from orientation camp. According to reports, the Batch B ...

Manchester United will host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. Championship side Brentford will face a trip to fellow Londoners Tottenham Hotspur in the other semi-final as the race to lift the first major silverware of the ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that he will do everything to make sure the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not embark on another strike. Ngige stated this on Wednesday, while speaking on Channels ...

There is more trouble for Nigeria as COVID-19 hits harder with 1,133 fresh cases reported on Wednesday. This is the second time Nigeria is recording over 1,000 cases and the second highest since February when the pandemic broke out. The ...

Stunning Karen Russell, from Kentucky, US, has proven that beauty has no age limit, winning her first pageant aged 60. Now, aged 61, she has strutted her stuff against much younger women and taken home five first place crowns. The ...

Music sensation, Mr Eazi has gotten a new laptop gift after his old one was stolen in Ghana. The music star on Tuesday announced that his laptop and phone were stolen in Accra begging any one who comes across them ...

A yet-to-be-identified woman was confirmed dead on Tuesday afternoon in a lone road accident that occurred along Ilesa, Ile-Ife road, Osun State.   The fatal accident happened around 1:30 pm on Tuesday at Obadare (Wosem) Ilesa- Ife Expressway, Ilesa. It ...

American rapper, Daniel Hernandez, popularly known as Tekashi 69 or 6ix9ine has been hit with a civil lawsuit for his involvement in an NYC armed robbery.   According to TMZ, the plaintiffs, Seketha Wonzer and Kevin Dozier, say 6ix9ine was ...

A petrol tanker fire incident on Wednesday, killed six persons and set ablaze about 30 buildings in Jebba town, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State.   The petrol tanker, which was travelling through the town, reportedly lost control and ...

Following the rising cases of coronavirus, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has ordered that all bars, restaurants, leisure gardens, and event centres should be shut for five weeks.   He also directed that informal and formal festivity ...

  Edinson Cavani fired Manchester United into the semi-finals of the EFL Cup as his superb late goal inspired a 2-0 win over Everton Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side have been imperious on the road this season and headed to Goodison Park having won ...

Pasuma Wonder is over the moon as one of his daughters, Opeyemi Odetola is now a Navy Officer in the US. Pasuma shared a photo of her in her uniform saying she always make himself and her mother proud. He ...

Kano based Arewa singer, Dauda Kahutu Rarara, may face prosecution for featuring a married woman in one of his music videos. Rarara had featured one Maryam Muhammad, 20, in one of his music videos titled ‘JAHATA JAHATA TACE’. According to ...

Stella Tennant, the iconic British model famed for her statuesque beauty and inimitable personal style, has passed away at the age of 50. While Tennant was first known for her signature tousled pixie haircut, androgynous features, and commanding six-foot-tall presence ...

An L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly had s.e.x on the Universal Studios lot, and the guy had his mic open for all to hear … and the recording is now the talk of the department. Apparently one of the participants ...

A high school teacher from West Pokot County, Kenya on Monday, December 21 died by suicide. The body of Lucy Chebet Lokortodo, 30, a teacher at Kalya Mixed Secondary School in Kipkomo Sub-County, was found hanging from a rope tied ...

The Marine Patrol team of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, in Cross River has rescued a three-weeks old baby suspected to be a victim of child trafficking at the high sea. The Cross River Comptroller of NIS, Mr Okey Ezugwu, ...

  Legal luminary, Afe Babalola (SAN), has decried the continuous fall in the standard of education in the country. He spoke at a recent event in Ekiti State. Babalola, expressed worry that many of today’s graduates cannot defend their certificates. ...

Governors of the 36 states under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have expressed worries over the deteriorating security challenges bedeviling the country, particularly the North-west region.   The Chairman of the Forum and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. ...