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A grenade that a child picked up from a bin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border has exploded, killing him and eight others. Twenty-six people were also wounded in the blast on the Nigerian side of the border, a Cameroonian official said. ...

A magistrates’ court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, has sentenced a 30-year-old woman, Sadiat Jimoh, to six months imprisonment for stealing goat. Sadiat was arraigned yesterday and she pleaded guilty to the two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing. Saidat ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. Chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with newsmen ...

Suspected bandits Monday night attacked several communities in Malumfashi council area of Katsina State. A man identified as Umar Isah was killed during the attack. Isah was, until his death, a lecturer at the School of Basic and Remedial Studies ...

Over 2,500 people have been forced to relocate from their homes for fear of attacks by bandits and gunmen in Niger State. The relocation followed attacks on some communities in Munya Local Government that has left four soldiers and some ...

Alhaji Sagir Madaki, Director, Kano State Fire Service, is dead. Madaki, aged 56, died at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano today. Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, spokesman of the fire fighting outfit, while confirming Madaki’s demise in a telephone interview, said ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rated Rivers as the state with the second highest number of laundering cases in the country. Lagos beats Rivers to the top spot as the state with the highest number of money ...

Nicki Minaj is one of the most recognisable performers in the world but, unfortunately, the same can’t be said for her new waxwork at Madame Tussauds. The Super Bass rapper had the, ahem, privilege of her new wax figure being ...

Spanish side Malaga have suspended head coach Victor Sanchez after an explicit video of the 43-year-old was posted on social media. The second-tier side said an investigation had been launched. Writing on Twitter, Sanchez said he had been blackmailed over ...

The family of the late Favour Daley-Oladele said that an order from the Lagos State Ministry of Health stopped it from burying her remains at the Atan Cemetery in the Yaba Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. Speaking ...

The number of people killed by a measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 6,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO says the epidemic is the world’s largest and fastest moving. Around 310,000 suspected ...

A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard has crashed in Iran, according to local media. Iran’s Red Crescent said there is no chance of finding survivors. The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran’s Imam ...

Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lost his father-in-law, Hilary Chikwendu. He died on Tuesday morning in Abuja. Taking to his twitter to announce his demise, FFK wrote; “Lost my father-in-law, Mr Hilary Chikwendu of Nanka, Anambra State at ...

A seven-month old baby boy has frozen to death after his mother placed him in a buggy and left him outside in Russia. The child was exposed to temperatures of -7C for around five hours in the far-east Khabarovsk region, ...

Two airbases housing US troops in Iraq have been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles, according to the US Department of Defence. Iranian state TV says the attack is a retaliation after the country’s top commander Qasem Soleimani ...

Stormzy has gained a new wave of respect after he appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning in his slippers. The 26-year-old British rapper had come on the show to promote his new album, Heavy In My Head when host Dan ...

Can people stop already? lol. A statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic erected in his hometown of Malmo has fallen victim to another act of vandalism. In the most damaging attack yet, the sculpture paying homage to the former Man Utd striker ...

Some parts of Christ Apostolic Church district headquarters, Dada Estate in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, have been gutted by fire. Properties worth millions were destroyed. The cause of the fire, which lasted for an hour, is unknown. It took ...

A 26-year-old man with a “third testicle” dangling between his legs has finally had the bizarre growth removed. Ravon, from Clarksville, Tennessee, went to see Dr Pimple Popper – real name Sandra Lee – at her clinic, on the latest ...

The police in Katsina State, on Monday, confirmed that its Operation Puff Adder team rescued occupants of two J5 buses abducted by suspected bandits at Ruma Village. The village is along Jibia/Batsari Road. The police, however, clarified that they were ...

Pop superstar Adele has proved just how generous she is after tipping staff at a luxury restaurant with hundreds of pounds after enjoying a slap-up meal. The 31-year-old singer is enjoying the sun, sand, and cocktails on offer in Anguilla ...

A devastated mum has blamed social media after her beautiful 19-year-old daughter took her own life five days before Christmas. Chloe Davison, who wanted to be a carer, was found dead at her family home in County Durham on December ...

In a post she shared this morning on Instagram, the actress admired herself and said she is grateful for how God created her, using the popular adage ‘Lion no dey born goat’. This puts a stop to rumours of her ...

Apostle Chris Omatsola has tweeted stating categorically that Naira Marley is a demon and that his songs are designed to destroy the destiny of youths of this generation.   He made the claim on twitter, claiming God told him Naira ...

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the United States had declined to issue him a visa to attend a UN Security Council meeting scheduled in New York later this week, as tensions escalate between the two countries after the ...