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A 35-year-old teacher in Edo State, Bright Asiruwa who in 2007 raped an 11-year-old pupil (name withheld) has finally been jailed for life after a long legal battle.
In 2008, the matter commenced at an Abudu High Court before it...
A Nigerian woman has been found guilty of people trafficking after she forced two other Nigerian women into prostitution by making them eat snakes in an African black magic ceremony.
MailOnline reports that Lizzy Idahosa, 24 (pictured), and her husband...
A Lance Corporal, Muazu Haruna, today under the influence of alcohol shot dead his colleague at Onopa area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The suspect attached to the 423 Battalion, Elele Barrack, in Rivers State but working in Bayelsa...
Mercy Johnson and her hubby, Prince Okojie welcomed their second child together today.
The Nollywood actress gave birth to a baby boy at around 8am Nigerian time at St Joseph Hospital University of Maryland, Baltimore in United States.
Mother and child...
Lagos based Nollywood actor Clems Onyeka on Tuesday was killed in a crossfire between the police and armed robbers while he was on location for the shooting of a film at Asaba, the Delta State capital.
Armed robbers had intercepted...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who turned 30-year-old in May and his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, have donated $25 million (about N4bn) to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to aid in combating the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Zuckerberg...
A final year student of the Department of Business Education, University of Maiduguri, Mari Paul Dirkwa accused of stealing cars was on Tuesday paraded to newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The Borno State Police Commissioner, Clement Adoda who...
The police in Lagos on Tuesday arraigned a 33-year-old, William Ime, before a Yaba Chief Magistrates' Court for beating his 10-year-old daughter, Janet to death.
The accused, who lives at Oko Ado Village, Ajah, on Lagos-Epe Expressway, is facing a...
You might think that just one cigarette 'can't hurt'. But it could in fact cost a smoker almost 14 minutes of their life, according to new calculations.
MailOnline reports that a new website has worked out how much time a...
A frustrated lover who was denied sex by his mistress for three years after showering money and gifts on her was yesterday arraigned before an Ijeshatedo Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged attempt to set his lover’s apartment ablaze for...
The Lagos State Government has started its scheduled activities marking the 2014 Energy Conservation Month with a road show.
The programme, which comes under its implementing agency, the Lagos State Electricity Board, LSEB include road shows that have been slated...
Bayelsa State is in shock after one of the sons of former governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Oyoms was killed in cold blood in Dubai.
Also known as ‘Governor-General of Niger Delta’, a powerful name that has stuck...
Information has emerged about a couple from Usi-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State who recently went public accusing their relatives of plotting to circumcise their 5-year-old daughter.
It would be recalled that Miss Olufunke Oyenekan and her...
A freak lightning strike last Friday killed three teenagers at Aiyetoro area in Ogun State.
The victims, Sunday Mulero,13, Dare Olaifa,15 and Sodiq Segun,15 were all together at Ijale-Ijaka Street in Ijoun when it started raining heavily. A terrific thunderstorm...
A man has confessed to killing his wife at Igbele near Araromi Ale Olorunda Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.
The deceased, Silifat Yakubu was found bludgeoned to death in the early hours of two Saturdays ago by passersby.
Also...
Nigerians residing in the UK are currently hit by hard times as authorities step up efforts to sensitize the public on the likelihood of immigrants from West African countries contracting the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
It would be recalled...
A woman in Ekiti State is presently locked in a fierce battle with her in-laws following her strong stance against her husband's relations plan to circumcise her daughter.
Sunday Sun reports that Miss Olufunke Oyenekan, mother of the 5-year old...
A staff of Ondo State Radio Vision Corporation was yesterday killed by the office generator when it blew up and killed him.
The deceased, Rotimi Fagbemi was an engineer in the engineering department of the state-owned electronic media, and was...
A UNICEF Partner, Plan International has revealed that about forty thousand underage girls are married off daily to men by their parents worldwide.
The chief executive of the nonprofit organization working in 50 different developing countries, Nigel Chapman made the...
Frances Oneya Danu, daughter of one-time Sole Administrator of Kano State and Chairman, Nigeria Football Association, Brigadier-General Dominic Oneya (rtd) tragically passed away yesterday morning at Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State after she was gunned...
