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The Chief Provost of Nigerian Immigration Service, Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere, has been assassinated. Mrere was murdered on Saturday night on Owerri- Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, Punch correspondent learnt on Monday. A senior officer of NIS, who confirmed ...

  A TikTok video revealing that Snickers is made in China is turning Australians off the chocolate bar who say they will be boycotting the brand for good. The video was uploaded to the social media site by Jeremy Toh ...

Popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana and his son, a music star Folarin Falana aka Falz have led a protest in Ikeja, Lagos State. The protest, under the aegis of the Peoples Alternative Political Movement was against the spate of ...

  The upcoming Copa America tournament will be played in Brazil, the South American football confederation CONMEBOL said on Monday after original hosts Argentina and Colombia were dropped. CONMEBOL tweeted that the dates are confirmed and venues to be named ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has denied reports that social activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore was shot by a female Assistant Commissioner of Police’ at the Unity Fountain. It dismissed the reports as false and ...

  A Delhi Police constable was injured in an attack while trying to arrest two Nigerian nationals based on a tip-off that they were drug peddlers, officials said on Sunday. The incident took place in west Delhi, they said. While ...

Naomi Osaka said Monday she was withdrawing from the French Open following the bitter fall-out from her decision to boycott all media activity at the Grand Slam event. “The best thing for the tournament, the other players and my well-being ...

Gunmen on Monday killed the son of Reke village head in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Daily Post reports that the gunmen invaded the Magaji of Reke’s compound overnight and shot the victim dead. The attack took place ...

  Sergio Aguero will join Barcelona on a free transfer following his departure from Manchester City. The 32-year-old underwent a medical at Camp Nou on Monday before signing a two-year contract with the Blaugrana. Barca moved for Aguero after City’s ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secretly-planned wedding at Westminster Cathedral. The marriage took place in a “small ceremony” on Saturday afternoon, a Downing Street spokesman said. The spokesman added that the couple would ...

This is the terrifying moment a couple smashed through their balcony railings and plunged 25ft to the pavement below after having a row. Footage shows Olga Volkova and Yevgeny Karlagin, both 35, struggling on the floor of the second-floor balcony ...

Former Kaduna State lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has called on Northerners to desist from avenging the murder of Ahmed Gulak who was killed on Sunday in Owerri, Imo State capital. Gulak, an aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan was murdered ...

Chelsea’s victorious players have returned to Cobham with the Champions League trophy after winning their second European title on Saturday. The Blues overcame Manchester City 1-0 at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto on Saturday night thanks to Kai Havertz’ ...

Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist, has asked his supporters to carry on with “the struggle” even if he loses his life. Reacting to the incident at Unity Fountain in Abuja on Monday morning, Sowore simply identified the officer who shot ...

Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen, at the weekend, shot dead a businessman, Linus Owuamanam, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Onwuamana, who was reportedly killed around 8:00 p.m., was said to be driving a bus along the Mokola-Sango Road in Ibadan. His ...

Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, says no fewer than 1.2 million people die annually due to exposure to tobacco smoke. Ms Moeti said this in her message to mark 2021 World No Tobacco Day ...

Mercy Johnson is wearing a new look and she just flaunted it. She flaunted the look on social media announcing she just went on low hair cut and she is loving it It’s the new trend tho, lol. *You want ...

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has offered a cryptic response to French Open organisers who slammed a $15,000 fine on her for boycotting the press. In a tweet on Sunday night, the world No.2 wrote: “anger is a lack of ...

Nigerian human rights activist and Sahara Reporters’ Publisher, Omoyele Sowore has been reported shot by a police officer on Monday morning, May 31. Sowore who is the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement was at the Unity Fountain in Abuja this morning for ...

US actor Joe Lara, best known for starring in the American TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, died over the weekend along with six other passengers in a plane crash in the state of Tennessee. Their Cessna C501 plane plunged ...

There was outrage and mourning Sunday over the assassination of Barr. Ahmed Gulak, a former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, by gunmen in Imo State. Gulak was shot dead by assailants who trailed him to Obiangwu village as he ...

Governor Ben Ayade has sacked four Commissioners in his cabinet and five Special Advisers. The sack is contained in a statement by Ayade’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Christian Ita, on Monday in Calabar. The sacked are Mr ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it will no longer extend the closing date for candidates registering for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (DE) applications. The board made this known in its ...

A former Judge of the Enugu State High Court, Justice Stanley Nnaji, has been shot dead by gunmen. A video posted on Twitter by The Nigerian Barrister @TheNigerianBar showed armed men dragging Nnaji out of his car at a deserted ...

A fresh outbreak of cholera has been reported in five Local Government Council Areas of Plateau State. No fewer than six deaths and 33 confirmed cases have been recorded in the state. It was gathered the affected local governments are ...