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Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna were buried last Friday in a private family ceremony in Orange County Kobe Bean Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna have been laid to rest in a private family service two weeks after their deaths ...

  A 35-year-old headmaster at Alhazawa Primary School, Danja, in the Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State, Kabiru Husaini, has been remanded in a correctional centre for the alleged rape of a minor in his school. Husaini, who resided ...

The family of Clement and Toyin Okhide, who were killed in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State by their son Michael, has begged the media to mind their business as it mourns the dead. The Okhides were killed by their ...

Scores of medical doctors and health workers, including pharmacists and nurses on Tuesday embarked on a peaceful protest in Owerri, the Imo State to demand 100 percent restoration of their salary as was promised by Governor Hope Uzodinma. The protesters, ...

  Three security guards were Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Igbosere for allegedly stealing N8, 460,000, from their employer, one Kola Ayeye. The defendants are Justine Abatore 52, Michael Chima 21, and Mustapha Ibrahim, 38. They are facing ...

A Belfast couple on Tuesday made history by becoming the first same-s.e.x couple to get married in Northern Ireland, following a landmark change in the law last year. Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, tied the knot in an ...

Unidentified hoodlums have bombed a major trunkline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the pipeline linking the Tebidaba flow station at Olugbobiri, Southern Ijaw Local Area, was attacked on Monday night. ...

A Lagos woman on Tuesday stunned an Ikeja S.e.xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her three daughters, aged 12, nine and seven were serially defiled by a muslim cleric, the family housed free between seven and eight years The ...

The Jigawa State Shari’a Enforcement Command (Hisbah), says it has arrested 34 suspected commercial se.x workers and confiscated 147 bottles of beer in Kazaure Local Government area of the state. The Hisbah Commander in the state, Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, made ...

  A heartbreakign video currently going viral on social media has shown the moment a Nigerian man in South Africa killed another man reported to be his relative.   In the video, the two men appeared to have been involved ...

  A Nigerian man and 5 others have reportedly been taken into police custody for duping about 200 sick patients in need of kidneys   The men pretended to be World Health Organisation, W.H.O, certified buyers and sellers of kidneys based in ...

Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested two Chinese men working with Lifemate Furniture for allegedly sodomizing their fellow citizen in Lagos. According to The Nation report, the r3pe happened at 49, Morrison Crescent, Alausa on January 23, 2020. ...

Odion Ighalo will be in the Manchester United squad for the Premier League clash with Chelsea next Monday despite missing a training camp in Spain due to fears he could be denied re-entry into Britain if restrictions against the outbreak ...

The Adamawa/Taraba Command of the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) has impounded a trailer load of 256 50kg bags of contraband rice, each bag hidden in bigger bags packed with beans. Customs Area Comptroller, Kamardeen Olumoh, who addressed newsmen at the ...

An Mdantsane man who was jailed for eight years for rape walked out of St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth recently after spending two years inside for a crime he did not commit. The rape conviction ended 27-year-old Osiphesona Ngcanga’s ...

Actress and mother of two, Opeyemi Aiyeola, has indirectly reacted to the ongoing dispute between Nollywood divas, Iyabo Ojo and Faithia Balogun. The 42-year-old actress rarely keeps Nollywood friends to avoid a scenario such as the last drama of Iyabo ...

A 22-year old man, Safiu Muritala, has been remanded at Kirikiri prison for allegedly stabbing his friend over a bottle of beer. The accused was said to have bought a bottle of beer, drank from it and then placed the ...

The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision on Tuesday affirmed the nomination of Mr. David Lyon as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and upheld his victory as Governor-elect of Bayelsa State, striking out an appeal by former ...

A middle-aged man simply identified as Victor was in the early hours of Tuesday burnt to death by an angry mob at Ekpo Edem in Calabar South LGA for stealing a fowl. The tragic incident Vanguard gathered occurred at Abitu ...

Amoo Musa Olalekan has been staying in his dormitory and writing thesis these days as a final year master student in Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “I have stayed in my dorm since ...

A hippopotamus said to be wreaking havoc on farmlands has reportedly been trapped and killed by fishermen fromSamanaji town in Koko Besse Local Government Area, Kebbi State.  in the area. After trailing the animal’s movements for some time, it was ...

Death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak in China hit 1,016 today, according to figures released by the country’s health authorities. More than 100 people died due to the virus on Monday, a sharp spike that exceeded the 97 deaths ...

The Police in Jigawa have arrested an 18-year-old lady for allegedly killing her one-day-old baby boy after they exhumed the corpse in Ringim Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relation Officer in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, ...

Afghanistan Interior Ministry on Tuesday said six people were killed and 12 others wounded in an explosion near a military academy in the capital Kabul. According to the ministry, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a roundabout close to ...

Residents of Onitsha, Anambra State on Monday experienced the first rain of the year with its attendant blessings and calamities. The rain, which lasted for about two hours caused heavy traffic gridlock along some major roads in the area, including ...