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Two pupils of a private school, identified as Bright Future Academy, lost their lives during a heavy downpour while returning from school on Thursday around 4:30 pm at Omikunle area of Ijaiye, Lagos State on Thursday. According to…

In what seems to be an extreme case of neurofibromatosis, a lady has been covered with painful tumours covering her entire face, with three giant growths swamping her right leg. 38-year-old Charmaine Sahadeo, has always had the…

Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has temporarily moved the seat of administration of the state from Maiduguri, the capital, to Bama, to prepare the ground for the relocation of about a million people displaced at the peak of…

A 24 years old student has reportedly died after consuming a combination of dangerous drugs and alcohol. According to a Twitter user, Imperator Duduosa/@ipinnusamuel, the young man had consumed “an unknown quantity of liquor, codeine…

Tragedy struck on Sunday 25th March, 2018, at Eyosio – Osung Village in Udung Uko local government area of Akwa Ibom state, as it was gathered that a suspect whose name was not given reportedly killed his uncle identified as Chief Joshua…

According to reports, A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband while he was fast asleep following an accusation of infidelity. The woman was said to have stabbed her husband to death in his sleep for having a baby with…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three suicide bombers were killed at Muna area of Maiduguri, Borno state, on Friday. Four powerful explosions rocked the ancient city between 9pm and 9:30 pm, sending terrifying…

Some of the special anti-corruption courts designated to handle exclusively corruption and other financial crime cases have started functioning, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The Corruption Financial Crimes Cases Trials Monitoring…

Tunde Kamal, a graduate of economics from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, will soon shut down his nine-year-old poultry farm in Mowe, Ogun State. After battling many losses in the past four years, the 43-year-old…

In a bid to build local capacity in waste management, Visionscape Sanitation says it has registered and inducted 350 scavengers into its operations. The company stated this in a statement while disclosing that it had led reputable…

THREE persons including a young man from Edo State based in Napoli, Italy have reportedly died as a result of the curse placed on human traffickers in Edo State by the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare 11.The victim in Italy, (names withheld),…

A military patrol team from the 20 Mechanised Battalion, Serti, operating in Mambilla, Taraba State, on Friday paraded six suspected cattle rustlers nabbed while sharing cow meat in Nyogor forest. According to Lt. Col. Sani Adamu,…

PIMPS and influential ladies who traffic girls from Edo State to Europe, America and other parts of the world, otherwise known as madams, are now said to be jittery about the curse placed recently by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II on…

The Taraba State Police Command, Jalingo, has recovered a total of fifty six riffles and three hundred live ammunitions. The arms were voluntarily surrendered and seven suspects, from whom some of the prohibited firearms were…

A suspected homosexual identified as Daniel, was apprehended just after he tried penetrating a boy from behind in Benin area of Edo State. According to online sources, the suspected homosexual was beaten mercilessly and stripped…

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has threatened to take the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to court for including his name in the alleged list of looters…

Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state on Friday asked security agents to shoot and kill anyone caught carrying firearms illegally in the state. Yari said this when he visited the emir of Anka to condole with the emirate over the killing of…

Leah Sharibu, the only student of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, still in Boko Haram custody, reportedly made an unsuccessful attempt to escape. The insurgents abducted 110 students on February 19 and…

The Peoples Democratic Party has dismissed the list of alleged ‘looters’ released by the Federal Government as hollow and laughable. The party said the list was an extension of the Federal Government’s media trial and challenged it…

Travellers to the United States will have to submit their social media identities, previous telephone numbers and email addresses to the US embassies. According to a State Department plan published Friday, visa seekers, whether…

First Bank of Nigeria has apologized to its Twitter followers after the bank posted series of tweets that appeared to be mocking Thursday’s visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos. The president’s two-day official visit to the…

Ibrahim Mantu, a former deputy senate president, has confessed that he helped his party — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) — rig elections in the past. Mantu said this when he was being interviewed by Maupe Ogun-Yusuf of Channels…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed appreciation to foreign and local investors that agreed to invest in Nigeria. Buhari, who unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit to the Eko Atlantic City project, expressed his…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday returned to Abuja after a two-day working visit to Lagos state where he inaugurated some projects and also attended the 10th Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Colloquium. The News Agency of Nigeria…