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The Federal Government has appealed to all its citizens as well as members of the international community to refrain from spreading false stories and inflammatory statements concerning herder-farmer clashes. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ...

A 45-year-old man nabbed for defiling an 11-year-old girl in Ogun state has blamed the devil for his actions. Musibau Asinde allegedly accosted the girl in his neighbourhood at Ibese in Ogun state and raped her. Afterwards, the girl returned home and ...

The South-East Governors’ Forum (SEGF)  have rejected the proposal by the Federal Government to establish cattle ranches in some states to solve the frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers.   The governors at a meeting in Enugu state yesterday July 8th, said ...

See reactions of Nigerians on social media below… Parosident Buhari@TheMbuhar I like how Kemi is following my footsteps. If I can look 68 in my WAEC passport in 1961, why can’t Kemi look 45 in her NYSC picture? Wailers will ...

  The Presidency, Senate and Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun, have kept mute over allegations published by Premium Times on Saturday that she skipped the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and subsequently obtained a forged exemption certificate in 2009. The minister ...

Two popular entertainers in Imo state, Ugo Stevenson and Izunna Obiakor, have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Owerri, the state capital.   According to reports, Stevenson, a 2008 winner of Nigeria Music Awards, was kidnapped while on his way home. ...

The Nigeria police in Sokoto has arrested a fraudster who parades himself as a police officer with a fake police identity card. Mahmuda Hamza was paraded at the police headquarters in the state on Friday alongside some area boys, and he ...

A woman has accused her husband of battering her after his N500 went missing at their home in Lagos. Motunrayo Eweje, a hairdresser, claims her husband, Ayoyemi Eweje, couldn’t find the N500 note he kept in a carton on the refrigerator in ...

Six members of the Thai soccer team trapped inside a flooded cave have now been brought out after divers executed a carefully constructed rescue mission. According to the Thai Public Broadcast Service, the six other players and their coach who ...

  Aduba Daniel, a student of the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa state, died after reportedly drinking Sniper (an insecticide) upon discovering that he had about four carry overs   According to journalist Bodmas Kemepadei, Daniel was rushed to the ...

Two young siblings were reportedly kidnapped from their primary school in Anambra and their location is currently unknown.   The kids, Franklin Ezekwere, 4, and Maryann Ezekwere, 2, were said to have been abducted at the Igwedimma Nursery and Primary School located in ...

The Islamic republic of Iran practices Sharia law under which alcohol is banned and this young man reportedly got whipped for breaking the law.  

Three persons were killed in a ghastly powerbike accident along Aba Road, Port Harcourt,  yesterday night. According to an eyewitness, the couple were on a speed power bike when the third person tried to cross the road. In attempt to avoid ...

A fresh Babcock graduate named Anita Kanu took to Twitter to reveal that she broke up with her boyfriend yesterday and he was threatening to leak her nudes as revenge. She shared screenshots of a chat where he made the ...

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The Kogi West Elders Forum (KWEF) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  has rejected any attempt to impose Senator Dino Melaye as the sole senatorial candidate on the people of the Kogi West in 2019. The  elders made this known through ...

Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Olugbenga Oluboyo, was found dead at her boyfriend’s house in Akure today July 8th..   Oluboyo, who was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin ...

Another Nigerian man has been killed in South Africa. The Nigeria Consulate-General in South Africa said the deceased identified as Ozumba Tochukwu-Lawrence, was shot dead at 10 Koppe, Middleburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, on July 6th.   His attackers were said to ...

The Depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Pogo Minna, Niger state was gutted by fire today.   According to reports, the fire was as a result of leakages from the pipes from the Depot which was noticed on ...

Oprah Winfrey says she had an encounter with a rude fan at the airport in the ’90s, and that led her to use a private plane for travel. Winfrey, who is on the cover of British Vogue’s August issue, spoke ...

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person, further solidifying technology as the most robust creator of wealth. Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, eclipsed Buffett ...

A least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia’s interior ministry and security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside, police said Saturday, as the al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility. A number of people, ...

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce representing Bayelsa east constituency says Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti is more famous than any president in the history of Nigeria.   He described the late king of Afrobeat as the “greatest leader to come out of Africa”. According ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will spend about N600m on the Ekiti State governorship election which will take place on July 14, 2018.   The INEC National Commissioner in charge of the Ekiti election, Prince Solomon ...