Pastor dragged to court for calling gospel artiste prostitute
A clergyman from Osun State in Nigeria, Niyi Peter was arraigned on Thursday, September 26, 2024, and dragged before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in...
Zookeeper mauled to death by lion in Nigeria
A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in southwestern Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when...
Bishop David Oyedepo receives two Rolls Royce as his birthday gifts (video)
Clergyman and founder of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo celebrated his 70th birthday on Friday, September 27, receiving two luxurious Rolls Royce Cullinan...
Nigeria: Education Minister’s phone line hacked
The phone line of the Nigerian Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has been compromised.This was made known in a notice issued on his...
Musician Reekado Banks welcomes first child
Nigerian musician, Reekado Banks has welcomed his first child, a baby boy, on a day filled with bittersweet emotions.The singer shared that the birth...
Man forced to excrete 76 wraps of cocaine at airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a 38-year-old man, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport...
Anointing should not stop you from being romantic – Adeboye tells couples
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has stressed the importance of maintaining romance in marriage, even amid spiritual...
2 mortuary workers arrested for selling human parts, corpse water
The Osun State Police Command has arrested two mortuary attendants for selling human body parts to suspected ritualists.The Acting Police Public Relations Officer of...
Court remands 2 people for allegedly unleashing 4 dogs on Police
A court in Ibadan in Nigeria on Thursday remanded a woman, Olayinka Akinware, 35, and Tunji Adesina, 29, for allegedly unleashing four dogs on...
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,...