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So investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who last year spent some days in prison as an undercover journalist to expose the rots in Nigerian prison cells has just done the same at YABA LEFT and oh boy, it’s mind blowing. Fisayo ...

An hostage executed by an 8-year old boko haram insurgent as been identified as a Mr. Ropvil Daciya Dalep. Daciya, 22, has been identified as a student of Biology Education in University of Maiduguri and was abducted on Thursday January ...

Social media influencer, Chidera Eggerue, popularly known as The Slumflower, has vowed to start a campaign which will see women enjoying their natural hair on their ‘privates’ again. The influencer took to social media to share a photo of her ...

The Kano State government has confirmed the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state, which has so far claimed the lives of three persons. Addressing journalists today, the state commissioner of health, Aminu Tsanyawa, said a pregnant woman, and two ...

The commissioner of police in Akwa Ibom State, Imohimi Edgal, has ordered the “immediate” arrest of a police officer accused of causing the death of a 54-year-old woman. The officer, Bassey Ikpe, was said to have violently dragged the victim, ...

Today makes it 135 days that a Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo has been away. Mr Jalingo, the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was arrested on August 22 over a report alleging that the governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, diverted N500 ...

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have been snapped out together for the first time since he was spotted holding hands with his co-star Alisha Wainwright. The chart topping singer, 38, became embroiled in a scandal last November after he was ...

The musician paid a courtesy visit to the king at his palace. Two more photos below…..    

The Spokesman for the  Plateau State Police Command, Mr. Mathias Tyopev, on Tuesday confirmed the abduction of the daughter of a former Commissioner for Tourism in the state, Mr Peter Mwadkon, by gunmen who attacked their family house in Kwata ...

The management of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) has sacked one of its part-time lecturers, Tene John, who was accused by one of his students Ms Anjola Ogunyemi, of sexually assaulting her. The victim, a National Diploma student of ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new life is getting off to a bumpy start. On Tuesday, paparazzi photos taken of Markle hiking with their infant son, Archie, and two dogs on Vancouver Island appeared on the cover of the U.K.’s ...

Two men, Jimoh Imade and Matthew Chigozie, risk being committed to life imprisonment, with or without caning, if found guilty of felony, for alleged defilement and r.a.p.e. In the first incident, Imade who is currently being reminded in Oko Correctional ...

The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Nigeria, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports said on Tuesday. Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, ...

  Nine lawmakers in the Imo House of Assembly, including its minority leader, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) days after the ruling party clinched the governorship position via a Supreme Court ruling. The Deputy Speaker of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of Reverend Lawan Andimi by Boko Haram terrorists. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the President described the murder of the clergyman as inhuman and vowed to ensure the insurgents pay dearly ...

Kim Kardashian isn’t one to shy away from posting half-n.k.d.pictures of herself online. And the Keeping Up With The Kardashian’s star, 34, just reiterated that fact by sharing two more throwback bikini snaps of her luxurious Mexican getaway. After returning ...

A hunter, identified as Kehinde Edward, was reportedly shot on the head by a colleague, Kehinde Adeleke, while on hunting expedition in a forest in Osun State. It was also gathered that the hunters in the company of others went ...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, on Tuesday, rescued a 36-year-old man, Ikechuckwu Ibeh, who jumped into the lagoon on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge.   It was gathered that Ibeh jumped into the lagoon around 4.45pm and was rescued five ...

One of the 30 kidnappers arrested by operatives of Operation Puff Adder, launched by the Inspector General of Police, yesterday, in Kaduna revealed how they kidnapped the son of a woman living in their neighbourhood, who later died from a ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Samuel Ortom as the Governor of Benue state. The panel of seven Justices led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour dismissed the appeal filed by the APC and its governorship candidate, Emmanuel Jime, for ...

A former Supreme Court judge, Justice Abubakar Bashir Wali, has died in his residence at Kano State. This was disclosed by a family source who said the late rist died at his residence in Kano after a protracted illness. It ...

A mother has been accused of strangling her nine-year-old daughter to death then jumping out of an eighth-floor window after ‘having a mental breakdown’ in Russia. Maria Russkikh , 29, survived the fall and was rushed to hospital in the ...

  The US Senate has rejected repeated Democratic attempts to secure new evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment as his trial began. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile backed off on a plan to fast-track the hearings after coming under ...

Bob Ibeaji, 42, the kingpin of a four-man gang that killed Mr Ignatius Odunukwe said on Tuesday  that the lust for money led him to commit  the murder. Ibeaji, who claimed to be a medical doctor, made this statement to ...

  The Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, has resigned his position. Onyekanma announced his resignation in a letter read by the Speaker of the House, Chiji Collins, during plenary on Tuesday at the legislative ...