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No fewer than eight commissioners, three members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly and some local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress-led administration in the state have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vanguard reports. The newspaper ...

The Trump administration has reportedly ordered at least 70 children under the age of 1 to appear before immigration judges since last October, with some appearing without any legal representation. Department of Justice data revealed on Wednesday also showed that the number ...

Read the press statement below… The Assistant Inspector General in charge of zone 2 command, AIG Adamu Ibrahim has upheld the  recommendation of police disciplinary body that recommended dismissal of four policemen attached to Special Anti Robbery Squad Ikeja, Lagos ...

A vintage plane crashed during takeoff and burst into flames at a Texas municipal airport Saturday — but all 13 passengers survived. The World War II-era C-47 plane, nicknamed the “Bluebonnet Belle,” was taking off to fly to an airshow ...

The senator representing Osun west senatorial district at the Senate, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared the winner of the People Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial election held on Saturday, July 21, in the state. Report had it that Ademola who is ...

According to Punch, Abeni revealed that although she cannot accept the proposals she gets from these men but she has learnt to treat them with so much respect. The beautiful grandmother also dished out a word of advice to young ...

BBNaija’s Alex has made an attempt to school some of those people by airing her opinion about the distinction between a queen and king. In a recent post shared on Twitter, the 22-year-old revealed she has no business being referred ...

A Tennessee woman has been accused of setting fire to a home because she wasn’t invited to a party. The lady identified as Shameka Howse was arrested on Wednesday and charged with vandalism, aggravated arson and reckless endangerment/assault with a deadly weapon ...

A young Nigerian woman has narrated the sad story of how a friend died due to religious beliefs. The young lady identified as Jewel Chika Okparaeke shared the tragic story on social media. The lady who revealed that the deceased ...

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Over 270 shops in the popular Terminus main market in Jos, Plateau state capital, was razed by fire in the early hours of today Saturday July 21st. The state Commissioner of Police, Adie Undie, said the fire started around 1:30am and that ...

A 100 level female student from the University of Lagos has been declared missing   The student identified as Boluwatife Olorunsola has been missing for almost one week with no leads on her whereabouts.   According to statement credited to ...

Some South African police officers in the coming weeks will be arraigned for allegedly killing a 25-year-old Nigerian, Ibrahim Olalekan-Badmus, in 2017.   The Nigerian Mission in South Africa in an interview today said that the officers were implicated in the ...

Adegboyega Oyetola has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the Osun State governorship election slated to hold on September 22, 2018.   He was one of 17 aspirants who participated in the exercise which ...

Widespread violence in Nigeria could affect next year’s presidential election, two US pro-democracy groups said on Friday. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls in February next year, with President Muhammadu Buhari looking to secure a second, ...

Police in Kenya rescued 21 young Nepalese women during a raid on two strip clubs in an upmarket suburb of the capital Nairobi, detectives said on Friday. “Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection ...

A Zimbabwe court on Friday handed a four-year jail term to a former energy minister who served in Robert Mugabe’s last cabinet after he was found guilty of corruption, state media reported. Samuel Undenge, 62, will serve just two-and-half years ...

Croatian striker, Nikola Kalinic who was sent back home after he refused to come on as a substitute against Nigeria during their first group stage clash, is yet to receive his World Cup silver medal after his country came second at the 2018 World ...

The police in Edo state have arrested a 19-year-old man identified as Junior Baba, for stabbing his 18-year-old girlfriend, Matilda Odiri, to death at his home on Akugbe Street in Benin metropolis in the Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State ...

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean former President who was jailed for 24 years for corruption, has been slammed with an additional eight-year jail term for receiving bribe from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).   A Seoul Central District Court ...

At the center of what’s described as Britain’s most expensive divorce is a nearly $500 million yacht, named Luna. The ongoing battle between Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex-wife Tatiana Akhmedova has spanned Russia and the U.K., and more ...

Residents of an island in southern Indonesia successfully rescued a 10-metre-long python after it got run over by a car. The above picture shows concerned locals on the Axis 10 road to Palopo in the village of Basokan, north Toraja, ...

Gladys Chemtai, 27, says she felt relief after undergoing the “cut” recently. That’s because the procedure, better known as female genital mutilation (FGM), now gives her standing in her village of Kapchorwa in eastern Uganda. “I’m very happy because I’m ...

When Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war in 1998 and deported each other’s nationals en masse, Addisalem Hadgu thought he had nothing to worry about, safe in the belief his Ethiopian passport would shield his Eritrean wife from expulsion. Two ...

Kenya-based wing of Al-Shabaab, Al-Hijra, has been added to the US list of terrorist organisations. “Terrorism designations expose and isolate organisations and individuals, and deny them access to the US financial system,” the State Department said on Thursday. “Moreover, designations ...