Omoyele Sowore’s younger brother shot and killed in Nigeria

This is a sad moment for the Sowore family as Sahara Reporters Publisher, politician and activist, Omoyele Sowore’s younger brother, Olajide Sowore, has been shot dead in Edo State, Nigeria. According to a post by Sowore on his Twitter handle and Facebook Page, Olajide who was close to his 50 years birthday, was killed in […]

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Pastor, his wife, his cousin found guilty of killing 25-year-old woman for life insurance benefit

A South African pastor, his wife and his cousin have been convicted of killing a 25-year-old woman, Hlompo Mohapifor, for a multi-million rand insurance benefit. The trio were found guilty in the Circuit High Court, sitting in George, the Southern Cape Town on Thursday, September 2. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila said […]

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Nigeria’s DSS prevented IPOB’s American lawyer, Bruce Fein, from seeing Nnamdi Kanu

Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS), has been accused of preventing Nnamdi Kanu from having access to his lawyers. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s lead counsel, said the DSS prevented him and IPOB’s Attorney in the United States, Bruce Fein, from having access to the detained IPOB leader on Thursday, September 2. In a statement he signed […]

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Nigerian man sentenced to 70 months in prison for $2.6m fraud in the U.S

Nigerian man named Bamidele Muraina has been sentenced to 70 months in prison over $2.6m fraud in the United States. 35-year-old Bamidele, better known as Dele Ewe, was also ordered by a U.S. court to pay $561,125.62 in restitution. His conspirator, Gabriel Kalembo, 33, of Zambian, was sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to […]

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Even when I’m on top of my wife and I remember the people in the IDP camp, it goes flat —Gov Ortom

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said the rise in the population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), due to lack of security in the North, troubles him. He said he is deprived of sleep when he remembers those in IDP camps who have been forced to flee their homes because of insurgency. He added: “Even […]

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Driver at Lagos Airport returns bag containing $40,000 and other valuables

A driver conveying passengers from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos Terminal II (MMA2), has returned a bag containing the sum of $40,000, bundles of local currency, jewelry, and other valuables worth millions of naira forgotten inside the bus. According to a statement released by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) on Wednesday, September 1, the bag belonged […]

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Former Ogun State Gov, Ibikunle Amosun visits Tinubu in London (Photos)

Former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun has visited Bola Tinubu in London. He joins the growing list of highly placed Nigerian politicians who have visited the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in London. During President Buhari’s medical trip, he also dropped by to see Tinubu in London before returning to Abuja. A couple of […]

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Suspected GBM truck battery thieves caught, tied to a pole in Nigerian community (Photos)

Two suspected thieves have been apprehended for allegedly stealing truck batteries in Tudun Wada community, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was gathered that the suspects were caught red-handed by the community vigilante group at about 10pm on Wednesday night, September 1 and tied to a pole. According to reports, the suspects […]

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Policewoman allegedly insured her family members, hires hitmen to kill them, claims insurance benefit

Constable Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, female South African police officer, allegedly insured her family members then went on a killing spree, wiping them out, some of them with the help of hitmen then claimed money from insurance companies. Among the people Constable Ndlovu allegedly ordered hits on are her elderly mother, her partner, her two sisters […]

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Gov Mai Mala Buni sacked as APC acting National Chairman

Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has been sacked from his position as the National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The court also sacked other members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). A High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, on Wednesday, September 1, restrained […]

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Gunmen kidnap couple, two others in Ekiti, enraged residents protest

Enraged residents of Goshen community in Ajebamidele area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Wednesday, protested against the alleged kidnap of four residents of the community by gunmen on Tuesday. As early as 7.00am, placard-carrying residents trooped out in large numbers and blocked the busy Ado-Ikere Ekiti highway, leaving commuters stranded just as […]

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Former Nigerian Eagles striker, Thompson Usiyan, dies

Former Green Eagles of Nigeria player, Thompson Usiyan has died . He passed away at the age of 65. Usiyan died Tuesday, August 31, in his Lamest, Redonda Beach home, California, United States. Born in Effurun, Delta State, Usiyan was thrust into the limelight with the then Mid-western State academicals before he got an invitation […]

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Two female University students allegedly fight physically over man (Video)

Two female students of the Accra Technical University (ATU) have been spotted in a viral video, allegedly fighting over a man. Ghbase reported that the two female students found out they were dating the same man and felt cheated on who crossed who, they then engaged in a nasty brawl. Reports suggest that the said […]

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Gunmen freshly abduct over 100 students from Nigerian school

Gunmen said to be in large number have stormed Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle’s home town, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, and kidnapped over 100 students. According to reports, an indigene of the area, Malam Abu Kaya, said that the gunmen arrived the school at about […]

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Ighoho stands on Yoruba Nation, says Benin Republic enjoys better electricity than Nigeria

Olayomi Koiki, spokesperson to the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has reiterated the mind of the activist on the actualisation of the Yoruba sovereign nation. In a statement issued by Koiki, he said Igboho has maintained that Nigeria as a country does not exist any longer for him as he believes the […]

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Buhari sacks his Ministers of Agric and Power

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has sacked two of his ministers, the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed  Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and  Publicity, announced this on Wednesday. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the […]

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Teenage girl electrocuted when lightning struck while charging and using her mobile phone

A teenage girl has died of electrocution when her home was struck by lightning while she was using her mobile phone as it was being charged. Radja Ferreira de Oliveira’s phone was plugged into the main socket at her house in Santarem, Brazil, when it was hit by lightning in the early hours of Sunday, August 29. […]

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Retired Commodore Olawunmi honours DIA invitation, visits Defence Hqrts

Former Nigerian Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi, on Tuesday August 31, honoured an invitation by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) over comments he made on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme last Wednesday. Olawunmi went to the DIA headquarters in Abuja in company of his counsel, Femi Falana SAN, who told reporters on Tuesday that, “It […]

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Woman who allegedly bits neighbour in his private part, remanded in prison custody

An Osun Magistrates Court sitting in Ile-Ife on Monday ordered that a woman, Nifemi Ajayi, who allegedly bit her neighbour on the scrotum, be remanded in custody. The police charged Nifemi with assault. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Sunday Osanyintuyi, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on August 24 around 8PM […]

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