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Popular Ghanaian-born Nigerian actor passes on

Veteran Nollywood actor, Emmanuel France has reportedly passed away. The news was confirmed by Nigerian filmmaker Olufemi Ogedengbe, who shared the tragic announcement on Instagram. Ogedengbe,...

Nigeria: Nearly 300 prisoners escape after floods

Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on...

Students trapped as school building collapses during heavy rainfall

Many students of the University of Benin, UNIBEN have been reported trapped in a storey building after it collapsed in the state. Sahara Reporters said...

Woman arrested at airport for attempting to smuggle drugs

Operatives of Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a businesswoman, Adewunmi Adebola Dorcas, and an auto parts dealer, Arinze Ora, for...

Nollywood in mourning as another actor passes on

The Nigerian film industry has been struck by yet another tragedy as popular actor, Big Lary has passed away. The news of his death was...

Patoranking reportedly loses sister and her husband

Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Patoranking is mourning the loss of his younger sister, Chioma, and her husband, George, after a tragic gas explosion incident. The devastating...

Woman slumps and dies while sharing testimony in church

A 55-year-old woman identified only as Ifeoma, has reportedly died after collapsing while sharing a testimony at the Ministry Church in the Ejigbo area...

Zoo animals escape as flood hits Nigerian state

Officials from a zoo in north-east Nigeria have confirmed that some wild animals had escaped from captivity after flooding hit Borno state. Videos of some...

Nigerian officials warn people off church’s ‘miracle’ water

Nigeria’s drug approval agency has warned people not to buy “miracle” products produced by a church with popular Nigerian Christian televangelist Jeremiah Fufeyin at...

At least 48 killed in Nigerian fuel truck explosion

At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the...

23-year-old student arrested for kidnap, murder of friend in Nigeria

A 300-level student of Philosophy at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State in Nigeria, Ayomide Adeleye, has been arrested over the kidnap and...

Man nabbed for allegedly killing sister, lover and friend

In a tragic turn of events, a 300-level student from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Christiana Idowu, who was kidnapped between...

Nigerian brothers jailed in US for sextortion scam targeting teenagers

Two brothers from Nigeria who targeted a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam have been sentenced to 17 years and six months in jail in...

Nigeria, now 3rd largest debtor in World Bank’s scheme

A financial statement published by the World Bank has placed Nigeria as the third largest debtor to the Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as...

Police arrest doctor who fled after a woman died during butt enlargement procedure

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended Dr. Idara Bassey, who was wanted in connection with the death of a 36-year-old woman during a...

Gridlock in Nigeria amid fuel shortages and price hikes

Nigerians have been hit by a double whammy of chronic fuel shortages and a hike in prices by the state-owned oil company. The Nigerian National...

Rema donates ₦150m to church that opened shop for his mum

Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor known as Rema, has generously donated a total of 105 million naira to various departments of the Christ Embassy church...

Native doctor shoots and kills client while testing bulletproof charm

A 19-year-old self-proclaimed native doctor, Timothy Dauda, has been arrested in Edo State for shooting his client to death while testing a bulletproof charm...

Man shot dead while testing bulletproof charm

The Edo State Police Command has said it has arrested a 19-year-old self-acclaimed native doctor over the death of his client. The native doctor, who...

Nigerian man plucks out wife’s eyes for alleged ritual

Tragedy struck at Umueze Ibeku community, a Abia State in Nigeria, early Sunday morning, when a middle-aged man identified as Lawrence Uzor, plucked out...

Hounded South African beauty queen wins Nigeria contest

After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen...

Mass poison: Canada-based Nigerian woman under probe for threatening genocide

A Nigerian woman based in Canada, Amaka Sunnberger, is under probe for threatening to poison Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin extractions. A representative of the...

Nigerians paid N1bn ransom to kidnappers in one year – Report

A recent report has revealed that between July 2023 and June 2024, Nigerians paid N1.048 billion in ransom to kidnappers. The report by SBM Intelligence...

Tears flow at burial of Nollywood veteran Onyeka Onwenu

Tears and sorrow filled the air as friends, family, and fans gathered to bid farewell to Nollywood veteran and music icon, Onyeka Onwenu at...

Airport cleaner returns $10,000 found in plane

An employee of the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, Auwal Dankode, has been hailed for his integrity after returning $10,000 found in a plane. The worker...

How do you deal with stress? In Nigeria, swinging a sledgehammer in a ‘rage room’ helps

How do you deal with stress? In Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, people are finding their reset button in a “rage room” where they pay to...

Fans mourn actress Sharon Okpamen, who died after childbirth

The year 2024 has been a lot for the Nigerian movie industry. The toll of death has been incessant and worrisome. Sharon Okpamen, a young,...

Doctors strike in Nigeria over kidnapped colleague

Doctors in Nigerian public hospitals have started a seven-day nationwide strike to demand the release of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been...

Nigerian businessman excretes 68 wraps of cocaine at Lagos Airport

An Onitsha-based businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after being under observation for 12 days following his arrest by the...

Mahama in Lagos to deliver keynote address at Nigerian Bar Conference

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in Lagos, Nigeria, as a special guest for the Nigerian Bar Association’s 64th Annual General Conference. Mr Mahama is...

Singer Paul Okoye’s wife, Ifeoma, flaunts her baby bump in lovely new photos

Singer Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, and his wife Ifeoma are expecting their first child together. Ifeoma recently shared photos of her baby bump,...

Popular Nollywood actress dies during childbirth

The Nollywood community has been struck with sadness as news broke of the passing of actress Sharon Okpamen following childbirth. Popular movie producer, Stanley Ontop broke...

Nigerian whistleblower PIDOM disappears, social media accounts compromised

An anonymous whistleblower in Nigerian cyberspace, PIDOM Nigeria, has gone missing, and his social media accounts have been compromised, an exposé by Investigative Journalist,...

Nigerians outraged by president’s new plane

Many Nigerians have reacted with outrage after a new plane was bought for President Bola Tinubu at a time when the economy is experiencing...

Dangote refinery set to start gasoline output

Nigeria's 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote refinery is undergoing test runs for gasoline production, with full operation expected by mid-September, according to a note by industry monitor...

Nigeria’s President heads for France in newly acquired $100m aircraft

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu travelled to France on Monday for a “work stay” on a newly acquired private jet, sparking criticism as the West...

Nigeria Labour vows not to be silenced over mass suffering — NLC

Following the invitation of the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, by the police on allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable...

Student found dead after lodging in hotel with man who hired her to act as his girlfriend

A Nigerian police command says it has begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the demise of a 21-year-old student of the Kwara State...

20 Nigerian students abducted by gunmen in an ambush

At least 20 Nigerian university students were abducted by gunmen who ambushed their vehicles in the country’s north-central region, police said Friday. The students were...

‘I’ve been sleeping under a bridge in Lagos for 30 years’

Having lived for exactly half his life under a bridge in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, Liya’u Sa’adu sees himself as the "guardian" of the...