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Desecration: Ogun monarch abducted, N200m ransom demanded

  The traditional stool of another monarch has again been desecrated as kidnappers seized Oba Tajudeen Omotayo of Imope in ljebu area of...

Monguno: Saint among sinners

By Gongbeat Ken Ken Ugbechie It appears some people do not want this scourge of terror to end. Each time someone of repute tries...

Missing N4.4bn NASS funds: SERAP in legal tangle with Senate President, Speaker

    “In the annual audited reports for 2015, 2017 and 2018, the Auditor-General of the Federation raised “concerns about alleged diversion and...

Bloody Ekiti poll: Three people felled by bullets

  Ekiti State may have returned to the era of bloody electoral violence as at least three voters were killed in March 20...

Just in: Benue Gov. escapes assassination in fresh bandits’ attack

  Few weeks after Benue Governor Samuel Ortom raised an alarm that Fulani herdsmen were plotting to kill him, the state chief executive...

Buhari, myself riven by suspected political partisanship — ex-Chief Justice of Nigeria

  “As if that was not enough, I was also accused of setting free some high-profile criminals, whereas I ceased to be a...

Herdsmen’s attack: Fleeing Ogun residents still in Benin Republic — Red Cross

  Contrary to the Federal Government’s claim, the Nigerian Red Cross Society says Ogun residents who fled the country for Benin Republic in...

Dynamite bursts in Osun ex-governor Oyinlola’s country home in Okuku, chaotic situation takes over

  Pandemonium has erupted in Okuku, the country home of one-time Governor of Osun, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, following a devastating explosion that shook...

Mosque leader plotted rape of pastor’s relatives after wife converts to Christianity

The leader of a mosque in western Uganda allegedly sent men to rape three female relatives of a church pastor last month as...

Bizarre: Danfo Driver Hacks LASTMA Godwin To Death ln Line of Duty

    By Boye Ajayi Some commercial bus (Danfo) drivers have allegedly macheted an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA),...

Video: In Ruins… Gateway Ota abandoned, left to rot

      By Aoiri Obaigbo Photographer, poet, author of The Wretched Billionaire. This broken down building beside the bubbling Shoprite mall, used...

Tanzania’s President’s death: VP Samia Hassan takes over as Tanzania’s first female president

  Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan will take over from today as Tanzania’s new president, following the death of President John Magufuli on Wednesday....

Tanzanian President Magufuli dies in office at 61

  Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died, according to the country’s Presidency. Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan who announced on Wednesday, said Magufuli was...

US releases Travel Advisory for Nigeria for its citizens

    The U.S. Department of State has released Travel Advisory for Nigeria, warning its citizens not to travel to some high risk states....