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A lawmaker, Sanai Agunbiade aka SOB, has reacted to the invasion of his residence by hoodlums. Agunbiade is the Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly. On Friday, an irate mob stormed his house in Ikorodu and carted away ...

  Former Tusker FC and Nairobi Stima striker Stephen Owusu has passed away. The 37-year-old died on Saturday evening after a battle with a long illness that forced him to go back to Ghana for treatment. Owusu was part of the Brewers team that ...

FCT Minister of State, Ramatu Aliyu has assured Abuja residents that palliatives stored across various warehouses in the city are safe and secured.   She made this known in a press statement issued by Mr. Austine Elemue, her Special Assistant ...

No fewer than 229 people have been arrested in Lagos in connection with the mayhem that engulfed Lagos in aftermath of #EndSARS protest.   The Lagos State Government said it would be prosecuting the suspects who allegedly took advantage of ...

  Liverpool returned to winning ways in the Premier League as Diogo Jota’s second-half goal secured a 2-1 win over Sheffield United at Anfield on Saturday. A controversial draw with Everton last time out followed a 7-2 humiliation at the hands of Aston Villa before the international ...

  Edinson Cavani made his debut off the bench as Manchester United’s home struggles continued with a dour 0-0 draw against Chelsea in an underwhelming Premier League clash at a rainy Old Trafford. Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata had the best of the first-half chances but were unable to get the ...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Saturday afternoon, imposed a 24-hour curfew across the whole state with immediate effect till further notice.   The state government had on Friday lifted a 24-hour curfew earlier declared in the state to ...

  Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, has has decried the wanton looting of public and private assets in the state of Lagos, The PUNCH reports. Tinubu made this known on Saturday when he paid a visit to ...

Ansu Fati has cemented himself in Clasico history by becoming the youngest player to score in the Barcelona vs Real Madrid fixture in the 21st century at just 17 years and 359 days old. Saturday’s showpiece lived up to its billing in the early stages, ...

A 7ft python bit a woman on the bottom while she used the toilet in Thailand and she was rushed to hospital.   Boonsong Plaikaew, 54, was about to finish using the toilet at her home in Samut Prakan, central ...

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has urged young Nigerian celebrities, who identified with the recent #EndSARS peaceful protesters, to make themselves available for negotiation with the Federal Government on the implementation of their five-point demands. The youths ...

No divisional police officer (DPO) has been killed in Rivers State, the police have said. The police spokesperson in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, who spoke with reporters  Friday morning, said the public should disregard the rumour that the DPO in ...

  Sergio Ramos returned to win and score a game-turning penalty in Real Madrid’s 3-1 Clasico win at Barcelona on Saturday. Madrid captain Ramos was substituted in last week’s home defeat to Cadiz and missed the subsequent shock reverse against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League as ...

Nigerians demanding the end to police brutality and bad governance in line with the #EndSARS tagline storm the London residence of APC National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Saturday. According to the video posted by African Independent Television, only a few ...

The headquarters of Television Continental popularly known as TVC in Ketu, Lagos which was attacked by hoodlums earlier this week, is now back on air.   Hoodlums had vandalised and set ablazed the station on Tuesday during violence that broke ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Friday extended the ultimatum issued to inmates on the run.   Recall last Monday, amid the violence that erupted after hoodlums hijacked the EndSARS protest in Edo, two correctional facilities were attacked. The next ...

Men around Oluyole, Ibadan, Oyo state this morning invaded the residence of Teslim Folarin, the senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial district and made away with some of the goods in his store.   As seen in the video making the ...

Hoodlums on Saturday discovered and looted a warehouse full of COVID-19 palliatives in Jos, Plateau state.   Same incident happened in Lagos, Oyo, Kwara, Osun, Calabar, Edo and many other states. Some of the items carted away include beans, noodles, ...

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has imposed 24-hour curfew in Ilorin following violent protest and looting of properties by hoodlums.   The governor announced the curfew late Friday night in a statewide broadcast. He said he just had an emergency ...

Four more police stations have been reportedly burnt down in Anambra State, while a Divisional Police Officer and a station officer were also reportedly killed by rampaging youths.   The burning and killing of the policemen happened on Friday, even ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his regret at not working longer with a former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase.   This was revealed by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in his weekly article. Arase was appointed by former president, Goodluck Jonathan, ...

Oh dear! Nollywood actress, Doris Ogala has called out her colleague, Uche Elendu over a certain looted store. Uche had posted on her Instagram page lamenting how hoodlums had broke into her store, saying they took all she has ever ...

  The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recovered looted items worth hundreds of millions of Naira carted away by hoodlums who hijacked the EndSars protest in Uyo, the state capital, on Thursday night.   The Command has also arrested 10  ...

The Presidency, on Saturday disclosed why President Muhammadu Buhari did not mention the Lekki toll gate shooting in his nationwide speech addressing the issue of EndSARS.   Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina disclosed that his principal ...

Nigerian multi-talented disc jockey, singer, and rapper Obianuju Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, claimed that about 15 people died after soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll Gate on Tuesday, 20 October 2020.   The songwriter ...