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These nursing mothers were seen queueing up to exercise their voting rights as Ekiti state votes to elect a new governor.  

Twitter user @sisi_viyon narrated the sad incident while reacting to the story shared by an advertising executive who was held up for hours by SARS officers on Thursday July 12th. Read story here.  

A middle aged woman died and six others were seriously injured in a fatal accident around the Government Hous, Awka axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway on Thursday. The accident involving a commercial bus plying Perm Site route in Awka with registration number ...

A mass burial was held at Tabbannin Gera village Sokoto on Tuesday, for 32 people killed by suspected bandits at four villages in Sokoto and Zamfara States. The bandits were said to have invaded the villages with over 100 motorcycles at ...

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos state, Edgal Imohimi, has ordered the gender unit of the command to invstigate the allegation made by a widow, Mrs Adebukola Mowette, that an officer identified as  Egi, at the Ilaje Police station in ...

A secondary school student was electrocuted in Eyaen community in Benin city, Edo state yesterday July 12th. According to reports, the deceased was on his way home when he tripped and fell touching an electric pole.   Apparently, there was ...

A man died after setting himself on fire to protest a prison sentence in Hanoi, Vietnam. 68-year-old Bui Huu Tuan died on Thursday after he set himself ablaze because he was sentenced to five years for abusing power. The former chief of ...

An estate agent who stabbed his wife to death after she mocked him for having a “small penis” has been jailed for life. David Clark, 49, will spend at least 15 years behind bars for murdering his wife of 10 ...

A U.S. service member died on Thursday from wounds sustained in a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan, according to a brief statement from the Department of Defense. Neither the branch of military nor the name of the service member was ...

This road side pick pocket landed in police detention when he tried to rob an undercover RRS officer who was on surveillance duty.   The petty thief, simply identified as Osha Ojota, attempted to pick the pocket of an undercover ...

The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to adjust dates for presidential and National Assembly primaries ahead of the 2019 elections. The call was sequel to a motion by Balarabe Salame (Sokoto-APC) at plenary in ...

Duduzane Zuma, son of former South African president Jacob Zuma, attends the Randburg Magistrate Court on homicide charges related to a fatal car crash in 2014, in Randburg, near Johannesburg, South Africa July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko A South African ...

The body of a 3-year-old boy who went missing has been found in a soakaway pit in Lagos. The boy, identified as Waris, was found dead in the soak-away pit of an uncompleted building on Simpson street in Ebute-Meta, Lagos.   According ...

A married Tennessee pastor with kids is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in the men’s bathroom in church. 46-year-old James “Ronnie” Messer, the pastor of a Newport church, is accused of raping the teenager at Crossway Worship Center. He was arrested Saturday ...

A Sudanese teenager who killed her husband as he tried to rape her has appealed against a court decision jailing her for five years in a case which could help curb sexual violence in the north African nation, campaigners said on Thursday. ...

President Omar al Bashir of Sudan Sudan has extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three states to overthrow the government, the presidential palace said in a decree on Thursday. The government has been fighting rebels in the state ...

An Egyptian court on Thursday convicted 37 people on charges related to illicit trading in human organs and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years in jail, witnesses said. The Cairo Criminal Court also cleared three ...

A Federal High Court sitting at the Wawa Cantonment in Kainji, Niger State has sentenced 113 Boko Haram members to jail over their involvement in terrorism. According to reports, the suspects were found guilty on charges of membership of Boko ...

Twin brothers, Mohammed Hassan and Mohammed Hussanini, who were recruited into the Niger state police command, have died on the same day in a fatal accident. According to reports, the twin police officers were crushed to death by a reckless ...

Former Minister of Environment in Bayelsa state, Lionel Jonathan-Omo, has died after he slumped and fell from a balcony in his country home in Ogbolomabiri area of Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area of the state yesterday July 12th.   According to reports,  ...

A police inspector was killed by a herdsman in Bagudo local government area of Kebbi state yesterday July 11th. According to reports, a farmer had reported the herdsman to the police officers at Kaoje police station in the local government. The ...

Judge Francis Kganyago of the Limpopo High Court on Wednesday, sentenced serial rapist, Hammer man to life in prison as well as 259 years on 30 rape charges, attempted murder and housebreaking as well as robbery. David Mamvura, a Zimbabwean citizen, ...

Chelsea football club have sacked Antonio Conte, 48, as their manager after reaching a £9million agreement to terminate his contract. The Italian coach reportedly left his position at Chelsea on Thursday morning and said his goodbyes to the players and staff at ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested members of a gang over the rape and murder of women in the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galandachi, who confirmed the arrest said the gang specializes in the kidnap, rape ...

  Onwuka was involved in a ghastly auto crash this morning that left his car mangled but he survived without a scratch. He went to the hospital after the accident but was given a clean bill of health. He was even ...