COVID-19 vaccination begins in Nigeria

COVID-19 vaccination commenced in Nigeria on Friday. A medical doctor, Dr. Cyprian Ngong, of the National Hospital, Abuja, received a jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, flagged off the exercise on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari. […]

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Pretty young Nigerian lady who was injured in gas explosion, dies (Graphic photos)

Friends and colleagues have taken to Facebook to mourn a young lady identified as Onyinye Odo, who was reportedly died after a fire incident. Details surrounding her death are still sketchy, however, it was gathered that Onyinye succumbed to severe burns she sustained following a gas explosion. One Edah Mmesoma, who confirmed the story on Wednesday, March […]

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Nigerian First-class Mathematics graduate who shares his subsistence farming photos, bags PhD scholarship in US

A First-class Mathematics graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, Emmanuel Nworie, has bagged a fully-funded scholarship at a University in the United States. Nworie bagged the scholarship after a photo of him tilling the soil in Ebonyi state, Nigeria owing to poverty and a lack of a platform to utilize his knowledge went […]

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Nigerian man convicted, sentenced to death in Vietnam

A court in the southern Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam on Tuesday, March 2, sentenced a 45-year-old Nigerian man to death for trafficking nearly four kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia. Ekwegbalu James Nzube said he got acquainted with another Nigerian, Jone, in China in 2014, and the latter had hired him to transport drugs from Cambodia […]

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Deputy Speaker of Ogun State Assembly impeached

Embattled Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Dare Kadiri, has been impeached for alleged gross misconduct. Kadiri, who represents Ijebu North State Constituency 2, was impeached on Thursday, March 4, following a report presented by the committee set up to investigate him. The Speaker of the State Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, had […]

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How I got sixty million Naira and what I did with it ―Prophetess Rose Kelvin (Video)

Prophetess Rose Kelvin aka the Voice Of Solution has revealed how her inability to execute her passion of giving to the needy for financial constraints could not stop her from executing the feeding of the poor. A very close associate of the Prophetess who spoke in anonymity said that Prophetess Rose spent about sixty million […]

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Reunion of abducted Zamfara female students with their parents turns bloody, one killed, two injured

The reunion ceremony of the 279 abducted students of Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara state and their parents on Wednesday March 3, turned bloody after military officers allegedly fired shots at the agitated parents, killing one person while two other persons sustained serious gunshot injuries and have been rushed to the hospital. Arise News reports […]

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Three kidnappers sentenced to 71 years imprisonment each in Nigeria

Three men who kidnapped a house wife and her one-year-old son at Yolde Pate in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa State have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 71 years imprisonment each. The convicts; Layi Musa, Buba Siddiki and Shanu Kori, will however serve 50 years each behind bars without option of […]

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$2m, N17m stolen from my palace during #EndSARS protests ―Akiolu, Oba of Lagos

HRM Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, has said that during #EndSARS protests, $2 million and N17 million were stolen when youths attacked his palace on October 21, 2020. Many buildings were attacked by the youths in Lagos State a day after soldiers opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza on October […]

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Man sentenced to death in Nigeria for beheading a 2-year-old boy

A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, presided over by Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, has sentenced a 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for killing a two-year-old baby and also found him guilty of attempting to kill the mother, Rabi Yakubu. The Prosecuting counsel, Oluwabumi Akinola, had told the court that Mohammed […]

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Army allegedly detains civilian in underground cell for eight months over Facebook post

A civilian, Emmanuel Odaudu, has allegedly spent no fewer than eight months in the Nigerian Military Special Investigation Bureau underground cell in Abuja over an old Facebook video. Emmanuel’s ordeal reportedly started when he posted online shot videos of himself rapping in his uniform while he was in the army. It was learnt that the […]

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Driver, conductor allegedly rape lady, unknown to them, she is HIV positive

25-year-old passenger who was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a taxi driver and a conductor in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Monday, said she was scared to reveal she is HIV-positive. The woman‚ who was dumped in a cane field after the ordeal‚ told Reaction Unit SA (Rusa) security officers on Monday, she wanted to let […]

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EFCC intensifies Tinubu’s investigation, says its now a tech-driven anti-corruption war

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has requested Bola Tinubu’s asset declaration documents from the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), in a politically-charged inquiry that could see the former Lagos governor and the ruling party chieftain arrested and prosecuted before 2023. The anti-graft office in November 2020 asked the asset fraud investigation office to […]

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35-year-old wife, her four children die in house fire in Nigeria

35-year-old woman, Ebere Precious Ogbodo and her four children, Rejoice, Merkel, Harmony and Engel were killed in a deadly fire house fire in Jos, Plateau state. The very sad incident occurred in Gyel community, Jos South Local Government Area of the state on Thursday night, February 25. The children died instantly while their mother was rushed to Dee […]

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Nigerian Senate confirms appointment of new Service Chiefs

Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new service chiefs following the consideration of the report of the Committee on Defence which recommended their confirmation. The new service chiefs are Maj. Gen. Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea lrabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu […]

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