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Nine persons, including eight policemen and one civilian, were feared killed on Thursday in Isanlu, Kogi State when a gang of armed robbers launched an attack on a branch of a first-generation bank in the town. The News Agency of ...

A six-year-old boy has drowned after slipping and falling off a toilet seat into a pit latrine. The child was found drowned in the outdoor lavatory near his family home in Moldova after a massive two-day search. Beniamin Osipciuc disappeared ...

Bald men could be at greater risk of having serious Covid-19 symptoms, according to new research. And the lead author of the study is so confident in the data that he has told The Daily Telegraph: “We really think that ...

A callous gang of brothers, the Emmanuels, have been arrested by the Nigerian police, after they gruesomely killed a 55 year-old woman, buried her in a tank and then demanded ransom for the body. The brothers, born by same parents, ...

They celebrated six years of marriage over the weekend. But it hasn’t exactly been wedded bliss in lockdown for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The 39-year-old reality star and 42-year-old rapper have been on ‘different pages’ according to a report ...

A longtime friend of George Floyd who was in the passenger seat of his car when Floyd was arrested by four Minnesota police officers and brutally killed, says he did not resist arrest. Maurice Lester Hall, 42, witnessed his friend’s ...

Social media queen Kylie Jenner reportedly splashed cash on private jets and mansions before the recent Forbes scandal. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 22, was last month accused of not actually being a billionaire and “likely faked tax ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has been dragged before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over an alleged forged certificate and perjury. In the originating summons sighted by Daily Independent, the plaintiffs are Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and ...

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar on Thursday in Katsina directed his officers and men on ground to locate and neutralise all suspected bandits and to submit weekly reports on their operations. Speaking during his operational visit ...

A married woman has gotten herself into serious trouble after she visited her married partner in his house. Reports gathered that the married man collapsed after s.e.x romp with her. The lady however denied having anything to do with what ...

A male Covid-19 patient has absconded from an isolation centre in Jos, Plateau state. Mr Williams Bassi, the Coordinator, World Health Organisation (WHO), disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the palace of the Gbong Gwom Jos, Jacob Buba, on ...

Angelina Jolie today celebrates her 45th birthday as a single woman after her painful split from Brad Pitt in 2016 The pair were seemingly finally getting their friendship back on track before Brad sparked fresh romance rumours with his ex-wife ...

Two communities in Anambra State; Nibo in Awka South and Abba in Njikoka Local Government Areas on Thursday mobilized Indigenes in separate protest marches to take over the gate of the Anambra State government house. The communities’ indigenes who wielded ...

Big Brother Africa 5 winner Uti Nwachukwu has been accused of r.a.p.e by a lady identified as Kambili Korie who also alleges that he is bis.e.xual. Kambili Korie via her Twitter page, in a series of tweets, shared her experience ...

The suspected kidnappers of a resident doctor at the Ojobo General Hospital, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Wisdom Iboyitete, have reportedly contacted the victim’s family and demanded N5m ransom. Community sources made the disclosure to Punch. It was ...

There are indications that the ban on interstate movement would be lifted on June 21. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, gave the hint on Tuesday, noting that once domestic flights resume, ...

The mugshots of all four officers charged over George Floyd’s killing have been released – with Derek Chauvin facing 40 years. On Wednesday, prosecutors leveled new criminal charges against all the Minneapolis cops at the scene of the unarmed black ...

Police Command in Ogun State says it has arrested one 25-year-old Wasiu Bankole for allegedly r3ping a 70-year-old woman, whose name has been kept under wraps. A statement made available in Abeokuta on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer ...

Dream Street singer Chris Trousdale has died after contracting coronavirus. The former boyband star was 34 years old. A relative told TMZ Chris died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Burbank after contracting the disease from another family member. ...

A 57-year-old retired medic allegedly committed suicide on Thursday, June 4, by throwing herself in front of a moving lorry on the Kajiado-Namanga road, Kenya. Eunice Kinuthia, who worked as a medical doctor at Kajiado County Referral, died on the ...

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared that as from June 19 mosques will reopen, while churches can reopen as from June 21. The governor also said that churches and mosques in the state should not accommodate more than 40 ...

Kim Kardashian fans are fuming at the star after a 2018 holiday snap of her and kids North and Saint reemerged. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians reality personality, 39, has once again been hit with photoshopping accusations but this ...

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have killed a motion seeking to recommend castration for rapists. The House, at the plenary on Thursday, rejected the motion which was recommended by Mr James Faleke. Faleke, representing Ikeja in Lagos had recommended ...

Rihanna has turned up the heat with her seductive underwear shots The singer is the face of her lingerie line, Savage X Fenty. And Rihanna proved to be her own best advert as she modelled a lime green two-piece set ...

When we think of giving birth, we don’t tend to think of it as a public spectacle. It’s typically something private that happens in a delivery room, or in our own home, or potentially in the back seat of a ...