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Repent and seek God’s face – Boko Haram leader tells Borno residents

Abubakar Shekau, the founding leader of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has asked the people of Borno state to repent and seek the...

I rape minors to ease tension – 18-year-old rape suspect

The Niger state police command has arrested and paraded a suspected rapist identified as Mizanbilu Yusuf, for defiling si minors in the state. Yusuf, 18,...

Man steals his in-law’s police uniform for robbery

Ojonugwa Ojomeje, the leader of a three man armed robbery gang, has revealed that he used his in-law’s police uniform for robbery in Ikorodu,...

Woman in trouble over disappearance of men’s private parts in BRT

A woman narrowly escaped death yesterday after being mobbed in a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus at Onipanu Bus Stop in Lagos for the...

95 graduates arrested with fake certificates

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) apprehended about 95 graduates with fake certificates from Nigeria and foreign universities and handed them over to security...

Nigeria introduces Anti-sexual Harassment Bill after BBC ‘sex for grades’ exposé

A Bill has been introduced in the Nigerian senate that seeks to prevent sexual harassment of students in universities.This follows the broadcast of a BBC...

Thunder kills ritualist in hotel room

Kelechi Nwigbo, a Germany-returnee, has allegedly been killed by lightning in his hotel room behind Eke Market, Afikpo, Ebonyi state.He had checked into...

Photo: UNILAG punishes another lecturer caught in sex-for-grade scandal

The University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he...

Sexforgrades: I will not be pressured to speak – UNILAG lecturer

Dr Boniface Igbeneghu has said that he will not be speaking anytime soon on the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him in the...

Sex for grades: I’ll never sleep with my student, I’m a gentleman – Prof. Gyampo [video]

Political Science lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has refuted claims that he sleeps with vulnerable girls in exchange for grades in the University of Ghana.Speaking...

SexForGrades: No more ‘cold room experience’ as UNILAG shuts down location

Following the revelation in the ‘Sex for Grade’ documentary released by BBC Africa Eye, the University of Lagos has shut-down the ‘Cold Room’, where...

Nigeria university suspends ‘sex for grades’ pastor

The University of Lagos in Nigeria says it has suspended a lecturer featured in a BBC documentary on sexual harassment at two top West...

Two teachers, six students kidnapped in Nigeria

Police in Nigeria say six female secondary school students and two members of staff have been kidnapped in Kaduna State in the north of...

Buhari faces Ramaphosa weeks after xenophobic attacks on Nigerians

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to face South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, weeks after Nigerians were subjected to xenophobic attacks in South Africa.South African...

Pastor robs, kills girlfriend, uses proceeds to renovate church

The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested a pastor for the alleged murder of his girlfriend and church member within the Railway axis...

Buhari warns hate speech threatens security

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says social media is threatening to undermine national security, and has called for an end to hate speech.In an address...

Pastor dies while officiating member’s funeral service

The 42-year-old founder of Divine Mount Zion Gospel Ministry, Pastor Femi Olorunsoromidayo reportedly died while conducting the funeral service of one of his members.Pastor Femi, who...

19 pregnant teens and women rescued from suspected baby traffickers in Nigeria

Nineteen pregnant teens and women were rescued as Nigerian police busted a suspected child trafficking ring planning to sell babies, a police spokesman told...

Police uncover baby factory in Lagos, rescue 19 pregnant girls

A statement from the state police command spokesperson, Bala Elkana, says the discovery was made following a tipoff from concerned members of the public.According...

Xenophobia: Obasanjo advises Nigerians evacuated from South Africa to return

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised Nigerians evacuated from South Africa following the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in the Rainbow Nation to get ready...

RCCG pastor stabbed to death during vigil

A Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has stabbed to death during a church vigil.Vanguard reports that the in incident took...

Man attacks, robs employer for sacking him

A 27-year-old man, Ebuka Everest, has been arrested for attacking his former employer, Theresa Nnamdi, in Ogun state.Everest was said to have tied his...

Army Corporal arrested with 169 blocks of cannabis

A Corporal in the Nigerian Army identified as Muzambilu Abdullahi has been arrested in possession of 169 blocks of Indian Hemp...

Video: Lady allegedly runs mad after alighting from G-Wagon

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2wyZuznP7k/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_againREAD: Special Report: Find out where poisoned water is used to grow vegetables for public consumption (video)A lady, suspected to be a student of...

How an encounter with Bill Gates changed my mentality about wealth and charity – Dangote

Africa’s richest man and chairman of the Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, has said his meeting with Bill Gates changed him into a different person...

Man, who allegedly raped 17-year-old mentally deranged girl, set on fire

A 39-year-old man accused of raping a mentally deranged teenager at Muhovhoya village in Limpopo, South Africa, was set on fire by an angry mob which...

BBNaija: I’m bigger than the owner of this show – Tacha tells housemates

BBNaija reality TV star, Tacha has told fellow housemates in the ongoing Pepper Dem edition that she is bigger than the owner of the show.Tacha has been receiving...

Man drives van into ex-wife’s house, causing fire [photos]

A 42-year-old Anthony Imafidon has been arrested for intentionally crashing a van into the Staten Island building where his ex-wife, Bisi, lives in the United S.The incident...

Nigeria to give all of its 200 million people identity numbers

Nigeria wants to issue identity numbers for as many as 50 million citizens per year in a bid to create a harmonized database of...

Photo: Police give serial killer food after arrest

The notorious Port Harcourt serial killer, Gracious David West, who was arrested on September 19, 2019, by the Rivers State police has been paraded....

Pastor shares encounter with a lady who nearly ‘raped’ him

A Nigerian evangelist, Dr Gospel Agochukwu, has shared his encounter with a former "sex worker" in Abuja.According to Agochukwu, a few years ago, the...

Obasanjo frustrated over failure to get a divorce from wife

Olujonwo Obasanjo, son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has once again encountered a stumbling block on getting a divorce from his estranged...

Pregnant 1st wife sends her 7-yr-old daughter to kill 2nd wife’s baby

A 22-year-old housewife, Harela Uba, has been arrested for allegedly killing the three-day-old baby boy of her husband’s second wife in Shakodna, Niger...

Nigeria Football Federation boss’ properties seized in fresh corruption probe

Several properties belonging to top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), including its president Amaju Pinnick, have been seized in a fresh corruption...

Police officer dismissed for serial theft

A Nigerian police officer attached to the Jigawa state police command has been dismissed for stealing a TV set and a pair of shoes.The...

SA apologises to Nigeria for xenophobic violence

South Africa has apologised to Nigeria over a spate of attacks in which Nigerians and other foreigners have been targeted.A special envoy from South...

Video: Nigerians’ reaction to South African violence will be dangerous – Nigerians in Diaspora President

The President of Nigerian Citizens in the Diaspora, Ogbonna Kaycey, has shared his thoughts on the xenophobic attacks in South Africa against African migrants, particularly Nigerian.In...

Man kills wife for refusing to breastfeed their baby

One Kingsley Madukwe has been arrested for beating his wife; Glory Madukwe, to death for refusing to breastfeed their crying one-month-old baby at...

Girl, 19, to receive 80 strokes of cane for smoking marijuana

A Shari’a Court l sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Thursday, September 12 sentenced a 19-year-old girl, Zainab Abdullahi to 80 strokes of the...

Tribunal affirms Buhari’s victory in presidential election

The presidential election tribunal sitting in Abuja has affirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 presidential election.The five-man tribunal headed by Justice...