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The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos has said. A second officer involved has been placed on administrative duty, Campos said. The announcement about the two officers comes as protesters ...

A passenger dies in an Air India flight which took off from Lagos on Saturday A 42-year old passenger on board an Air India flight from Lagos to Mumbai died under unclear circumstances. Report said the passenger displayed symptoms of ...

A suspect connected with the killing of the 29-year old pregnant student of the University of Ibadan has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command. The student, Azeezat Shomuyiwa, was murdered in Ijefun, Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo ...

The Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Saturday, confirmed the arrival of 269 Nigerians that were stranded in India in Lagos and Abuja. The commission, who announced their arrival on its Twitter handle, said that the the 269 Nigerians arrived ...

Hundreds of Kenyans defied tear gas and riot police to hijack the body of a popular singer, Abenny Jachiga, who was believed to have died of COVID-19. The crowd of fans and mourners swarmed the Kisumu cemetery and prevented a ...

A Gambian man has been indicted in Colorado on federal charges that he tortured planners of a failed 2006 presidential coup when he was a member of a special armed unit that reported directly to the dictator of the African ...

Four men face life in prison for killing Uganda’s most beloved gorilla, Rafiki. The 25-year-old endangered silverback was one of only 1,004 mountain gorillas left in the wild and headed up a human-habituated family of 17 in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable ...

Traders in Abakaliki metropolis have decried the sealing of their shops on the orders of Ebonyi Government. The traders who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abakaliki, described the action of government as economic ‘annihilation’ ...

A motorist has cried out for help accusing LASTMA officials of arresting danfo drivers for personal gains. According to one of them, who wants the Government to step in, he says he keeps giving them N11,000 bribe each time he ...

As the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19, reviews restriction measures, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Saturday issued new guidelines for places of worship across the country, warning against any form of direct contact. In the new ...

A woman splashed out on holidays and lingerie after stealing more than £80,000 from her elderly mum. Karen Wakeling, 47, took the cash after being given power of attorney over her mother, who is in her 80s and has dementia. ...

A Benue politician,Daniel Ukpera in has donated ropes to the members of his community so that they can tie their goats. He  contested for the Guma State Constituency seat in the 2019 Benue State House of Assembly Election under the ...

The acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, has reacted over the arrest of popular Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi. Hushpuppi was reportedly arrested in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alongside his colleagues by ...

Players will have the names on the back of their shirts replaced with ‘Black Lives Matter’ for the first 12 fixtures of the restarted Premier League season. The Premier League has also announced a ‘Black Lives Matter’ logo will feature ...

Three women and two girls were killed while a dozen others were injured as a trailer falls off a cliff in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger state. The trailer which was carrying iron rods and passengers was said to ...

Four people were killed and more than 50 injured after an oil tanker truck exploded on a highway near Wenling in east China on Saturday, the local government said. The impact of the blast caused some nearby rural homes and ...

Seven persons travelling for a funeral ceremony have died in an auto crash on the Ogidi-Abatete road in the Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State. Many others on the same journey sustained varying degrees of injury. The accident, which ...

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Friday asked Police Inspector-General Mohammed Adamu to release her staff who are in police detention. Buhari in a series of tweets said the IGP should “release my assigned Staff who are still in the ...

A civil war seems to be brewing within the Oniru monarchy as the new Oniru of Iruland, Oba Gbolahan Lawal, has asked all banks housing funds belonging to the family to immediately place a ‘Post No Debit’ order on all ...

Alexander Kareem, brother of a former Big Brother Naija housemate, Khafi Kareem, has been shot dead in London. According to The Sun UK, the 20-year-old student was gunned down close to his family home in Shepherd’s Bush, West London. The ...

A California man was arrested for allegedly feeding poisoned food to eight homeless people then filming them writhe in pain for his own twisted amusement, according to a report. William Robert Cable, 38, of San Andreas, allegedly told victims they ...

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja has lost a nurse, Mrs Adenike Bakare, to COVID-19, The punch has learnt. Bakare, who was an Assistant Director, Nursing Services, according to a source, died on Friday and was buried privately in ...

The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately release her aides. Mrs. Buhari stated this in a series of tweets on Friday. The aides were reportedly detained based on the ...

Tourists were left terrified as two wild elephants charged at their jeep on a safari in Sri Lanka. The incident happened at the Minneriya National Park in North Central Province on June 4. A group of safari-goers were travelling through ...

New mothers infected with Covid-19 should generally continue breastfeeding and should not be separated from their babies, the World Health Organization said on Friday, stressing that the benefits outweighed the risks. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press ...