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The police in Calabar have arrested a retired army captain, Bassey Ekanem, for allegedly defiling his 4-year old niece. The incident happened at Ekanem’s residence at 12, Edim Ibangha Street, Big Qua Town, Calabar. According to a source, Ekanem, who ...

Ebonyi Governor David Umahi has directed the shutting down of all government offices in the state with immediate effect to pave way for decontermination. He said the order became imperative followed the contraction of COVID-19 by some Executive Council members. ...

The Adamawa State police command, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of one of its officers who allegedly shot dead a motorcyclist who refused to part with a N100 bribe. The alleged crime occurred at a checkpoint in Maiha local government. ...

A mother and her child today, June 3rd, lost their lives at Oghara community in Delta state, when a petrol tanker rammed into them. The two were said to be on a motorbike when a tanker lost control and rammed ...

Boris Johnson has described the death of George Floyd “appalling and inexcusable” as protests in the United States continue to rock the country. The PM spoke up after Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer said the case had “shone a light ...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state; has suspended medical doctors and entire staff of the Ngala General Hospital for abandoning it. According to him, the entire hospital staff has also abandoned patients to an International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGO) operating in ...

Former Abia Governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja where he was serving a 12-year sentence following an order to that effect by the Federal High Court in Lagos. Justice Mohammad Liman of the ...

Drake showed solidarity with protesters across US when he donated to the National Bail Out. The 33-year-old rap superstar shared a receipt for his $100,000 donation to the charity in his Instagram Stories after the songwriter Mustafa the Poet urged ...

Lesotho’s former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, returned to custody on Wednesday after a court revoked bail that she had been controversially given over the murder of her husband’s estranged wife. The 43-year-old was charged with murder in February after police ...

A 17-year-old girl has been ambushed and gang-raped by three armed boys,suspected to be streerchins, in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The Nation learnt that the teenager was hawking sachet waters and soft drinks around 7pm on Monday when she ...

The Federal Government has announced that only five airports will be reopened when flight operations resume on Saturday, June 21. According to a circular by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), asides the five selected airports, all others are to ...

Pope Francis has called the death of George Floyd at the hands of US police officers “tragic” and said he is praying for him and “all those others who have lost their lives as a result of the sin of ...

A Mexican senator was caught getting topless on a government Zoom conference unaware that her camera was on. 66-year-old senator Martha Lucia Micher started getting changed during a May 29 meeting with members of the National Regeneration Movement political party, ...

A 21-year-old young man, known as Ishaku from Dass local government area of Bauchi state, has allegedly killed his friend, Zeloti John over a girlfriend. Daily Sun learnt that the unfortunate incident occurred on Friday, 29th May, 2020 in Kanwara,  ...

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the relaxation of restriction placed on churches and mosques starting from Tuesday Kaduna State Government said worshipping places and markets will remain closed in the state till further notice In a statement by Muyiwa ...

BBN’s Khafi has explained why she did not report a man who r.a.p.e.d her years ago. The hashtag #whyididntreport trended on twitter yesterday and ladies took to the platform to narrate their sad r.a.p.e experiences following the murder of Vera ...

An 18-year-old girl, identified as Bello Barakat, was reportedly gang raped and murdered by unknown men in Ibadan, Oyo state capital. The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday in Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo state. It was gathered ...

A biker was accidentally set on fire when he was sprayed with sanitizer at a drive-through coronavirus check point in India. Footage shows a man pulling up in front of two government workers at a complex in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to ...

The 292 Saudi Arabia returnees have been discharged after 15 days in isolation, in an hotel in Abuja. They all tested negative for covid-19. They were discharged this morning and most of them are already on their way to Lagos.

Lobatan! Women who have struggled workout during lockdown may now have all the motivation they have ever needed to get fit: the ‘coregasm’. Several fitness fanatics have revealed on social media that doing ab exercises leads them to experience an ...

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has warned its citizens against visiting its consulate office at Walter Carrington Crescent over a planned protest on the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. This is as some Nigerian protesters ...

Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has phoned the family of late UNIBEN student, Uwa Omozuwa to console them on the sudden loss of their daughter. Uwa was r.a.p.e.d and murdered at a church in Benin, where she had gone ...

A corps member serving at Abua Odual LGA in Rivers state, Atiye Florence Aduke has reportedly died in her apartment. The member of 2019 Batch C, Stream 2 of the youth program was said to have slumped in her apartment ...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have invaded Tudun Doka community under Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing dozens of persons in the process, according to SaharaReporters. Nine persons, mostly women and children, were hacked to death with machetes by the ...

A GoFundMe fundraiser set up by the brother of the slain Minneapolis African-American, George Floyd, has raised more than seven times its $1.5 million goal. The online fundraiser was meant to cover the cost of a memorial service for Floyd. ...