Both 16-year-old twin sisters impregnated by a 16-year-old boy (Photos)

The predicament of a set of twin sisters in the Likoko community in the English-speaking region of Cameroon has been revealed by a Facebook user, Ayisha Toginia. Toginia, who encountered the pregnant teenagers when they visited the Solidarity Hospital in Buea revealed that the girls were subjected to sexual solicitations in order to feed. She […]

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Nigerian govt publishes photos of the 4 escaped inmates from Jos maximum Prison

Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has published the photos of four inmates who escaped from a prison facility in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. The photos were released Friday, July 9, via the NCS’s Facebook account in a post titled: Faces of inmates that escaped from Jos Custodial Centre. The NCS disclosed that the inmates escaped around 2am […]

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Kanu and Igboho: What Buhari must understand, By Niran Adedokun

On Tuesday, the Presidency expressed triumphalist emotions over two recent events spearheaded by the country’s security forces. The first is the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The second is the midnight invasion of the home of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho. Adeyemo is the chief […]

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ECOWAS court awards N30m to Agba Jalingo against Nigerian govt for ill-treatment, torture

ECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, West Africa, has ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to pay Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo N30 million. The compensation to Jalingo, a Nigerian citizen, is for his arrest and chaining to a deep freezer for about 34 days, while in detention in Cross River State without being […]

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Actress Rosy Meurer breastfeeds her son, bonds with him (Photos)

Gambian-born Nigerian actress and producer, Rosaline Ufuoma Meurer simply called Rosy Meurer, took to her Instagram page to share photos of her son, including one of her breastfeeding the newborn. The actress made sure to hide the newborn’s face in the photos shared to Instagram. See more photos below: Photo: Rosy Meurer

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Igboho takes Nigerian govt to court, demands release of 13 detained aides

Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN, counsel to the Yoruba […]

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Nigerian Army Commander felled by explosive device planted by Boko Haram, is buried in Abuja (Photos)

Remains of Nigerian Army Commander, Col. Husseini Samaila Sankara, who was killed by explosive device planted by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno state, has been laid to rest. Sankara, who was the Commander, Counter-Insurgency Operations under the ongoing Operation Hadin Kai in the North-East, was laid to rest at the Guards Brigade Cemetery in Abuja on […]

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Nigerian Police officers protest over unpaid allowance, non-reposting (Video)

Officers of the Nigerian Police Force, Counter Terrorism Unit, staged a protest to voice out their displeasure over unpaid allowance and refusal to repost them for over 7 months. The officers said they were deployed to Katsina state in January and the special duty was supposed to last for 3 months, but they have now […]

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Reps member accuses Nigerian Senate of 20 illegal insertions into Electoral Bill

A member of Nigerian House of Representatives from Benue State, Hon. Mark Terseer Gbillah, yesterday alleged that the Senate made 20 illegal insertions in the 2021 Electoral Act under consideration in the National Assembly. He alleged that the insertions were part of a larger scheme to rig the 2023 general election. The Benue lawmaker said […]

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Debunking the Debunker, By Akin Osuntokun

“We have been tuned to think it is constitutions (laws) that develop a society. Constitutions can NEVER take the place of visionary, competent and patriotic leadership”. “If rapid political progress is to be made in Nigeria, it is high time we were realistic in tackling its constitutional problems” –Simon Kolawole quoting Awolowo approvingly “In my […]

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Four herdsmen inmates escape from Jos maximum Prison

Four herdsmen held in custody at the Jos Maximum Prison in Plateau state have escaped. The fleeing inmates escaped in the early hours of Thursday July 8. The escapees were arraigned before a Barkin Ladi Court sometime last year. However, some herdsmen stormed the court and overpowered correctional warders helping five of the assailants escape. Four of […]

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Policewoman declared wanted for allegedly killing her lover-policeman, allegedly lured another man into hotel and shooting him dead (Photos)

The Kenyan woman police officer declared wanted some days ago by detectives over the killing of a lover-police officer is suspected to have killed another man. This platform earlier on reported that Corporal Carolyne Kangogo, 34, is on the run after allegedly killing Constable John Ogweno, whom she was in a relationship with. Mr Ogweno, […]

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Amnesty, Criminality and Rule of Law, By Onikepo Braithwaite

Last week, the three incidents which caught most of Nigeria’s attention, were the arrest of fugitive from justice, Nnamdi Kanu, and his repatriation to Nigeria to come and continue his trial (and possibly face additional charges); the raid/excessive attack on Yoruba secessionist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho’s residence in Ibadan, and the passing of the […]

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Prophet TB Joshua’s Lying-In-State holds in Lagos (Photos)

Funeral rites of popular tele evangelist, founder and General Overseer of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), late Prophet T.B Joshua, continued on Thursday morning July 8 with his body laid-in-state in his church in Lagos, Nigeria. His wife, children, family members as well as church members took turns to pay their respect to […]

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From Mushin to glory, actress Abiola Adebayo bags Masters degree from UNILAG

Nigerian star actress, Abiola Adebayo took a trip down memory lane after her convocation at the University of Lagos (UNILAG). She revealed that she went from being a street hawker to a secondary school dropout before finally acquiring her university degrees. Abiola added that combining schooling with her work as an actress was very challenging […]

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Gunmen attack Imo Assembly during plenary, Speaker, others narrowly escape death

Imo State House of Assembly descended into chaos on Thursday after the Speaker of the House, Paul Emeziem, announced the suspension of six members for alleged ‘unparliamentary conduct.’ It was learnt that the Speaker of the Assembly, Paul Emeziem, alongside some members of the House narrowly escaped being shot by some unknown gunmen after the […]

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Two Immigration officers killed by bandit in Katsina

Suspected bandits have killed two officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Katsina state, Nigeria. The officers identified as Umar Bagadaza Kankara and Lauwali Dutse, were killed in an ambush at Kadode check point in Jibia Local Govt Area of the state on Wednesday night, July 7. A security source told The Guardian that […]

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