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The new police unit called Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) today began its training with over 400 personnel at the Police Mobile College in Eggon, Nassarawa State.   Present at the training ground was the Minister of Police Affairs, ...

  Eddie Hassell, an actor best known for his role on NBC’s “Surface,” was shot dead in Texas on Sunday morning, his manager confirmed to NBC News. He was 30 years old. Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, said they responded ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed to continue with its ongoing seven-month-old strike until the Federal Government yielded to it demands even if the strike will last a whole year or more. The Lagos Zonal Coordinator ...

A young Nigerian medical doctor, who treated victims of Lekki shootings has died.   He was said to have died from covid-19 after falling ill. Social media users, especially those that participated well during the #EndSARS protests have been mourning ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has disclosed that they cannot go back to the classroom on an empty stomach insisting that the Federal Government should adopt its recently invented payment system for Universities, “University Transparency and Accountability Solution”, ...

Nigerian Ambassador to Jordan, Alhaji Haruna Ungogo has died.   According to reports, the diplomat died at a hospital in Garki, Abuja on Sunday. Haruna Ungogo was appointed as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan and the Republic of Iran ...

A Nigerian female biker, Omolara Annie has shocked social media users when she announced she left Lagos for Ondo State over the weekend and RETURNED same day and guess what? on two wheels. The biker with her team of riders ...

Thousands of monkeys are terrorising an Indian city with frequent attacks on tourists and farms after sterilisations and illegal poisonings failed to stop them.   Most of the macaques in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, left the city for the countryside to ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over an alleged N5bn fraud perpetrated under his watch and this is according to Sahara Reporters.   Fowler is currently being ...

Mary Trump has warned that if her uncle, President Donald Trump – who she called ‘vile’ is reelected on Tuesday, the U.S. could be at risk of becoming an ‘authoritarian state.’   According to a ‘panel of experts’ the president’s ...

The West African Examination Council has released the results of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, with 1,338,348 candidates passing with five credits and above.   Mr. Patrick Areghan, head of the Nigerian Office of WAEC announced the ...

The original Staff of Office of Oba of Lagos is still missing.   Apparently the earlier video that went viral that the Staff has been found is fake. In a video just released, a man is seen saying anyone that ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). According to the board, the results will be released today, November 2, 2020.  The result of the exam that commenced ...

A 13-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped in Pakistan and forced to marry a 44-year-old man who made her convert to Islam, campaigners say.   Arzoo Raja was abducted from her home in Karachi on October 13, and two days later ...

A knifeman shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ was shot dead by police after stabbing an officer and trying to set fire to a police station in a Muslim-majority region of Russia.   The 16-year-old was armed with a knife and a Molotov ...

#EndSARS protests have returned to Abuja. In a video making the rounds, the protesters were seen confronting Military men who had come to ”challenge” them. In the video, protesters were heard saying they have a right to record the scene ...

                                          A soldier has been accused of flogging a lady in Ibadan right on her buttocks for allegedly dressing indecently. This happened in Oyo state and social media users are saying she was flogged for simply dressing indecently.   ...

Adele has reportedly turned down £40 million worth of diet endorsement deals following her epic seven stone weight loss.   The Someone Like You hitmaker, 32, has apparently been flooded with offers from TV networks, brand and marketing firms who ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a Nigerian soldier allegedly used a scissor to cut off a man’s hair in Peere, Ibadan, Oyo state. In the video, the man was seen chopping off his ...

  China is removing domes and other decorative elements from mosques across the country, reports say. The move is part of a cultural whitewash to suppress the influence of Islam. The Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, has ...

FIRST DAUGHTER! Ivanka Trump has reportedly broken Barack Obama’s fundraising record on the way to raising $35million for her father, President Trump.   It is reported that Ivanka, 39, raised $13million during three fundraising events in California and one in ...

It has not been a rosy 2020 really.   Covid-19 came and upturned normal processes, forcing most to change lifestyles, increasing poverty rates and, unfortunately, increasing the gap between governments and citizens mostly in Africa. Similar to #EndSARS in Nigeria, ...

A massive stir was caused on social media after the people in Umuoji, Amucha, Imo state, exhumed the corpse of a dead body and found out that he was still “breathing” and his body had not decayed. A bystander could ...

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The Federal Government is to spend between N269.38bn and N497.13bn on the provision of six million free meters to various unmetered power users across the country. Also, findings from separate quarterly reports of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on ...