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Gunmen kidnap lawmaker’s wife in Jigawa

Gunmen have allegedly kidnapped a housewife in Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa, the Police have confirmed. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), a security source said that the woman is the wife of a Jigawa State Assembly members representing Miga constituency, Haruna Dangyatun. SP Abdu Jinjiri, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in […]

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JAMB suspends compulsory NIN requirement for candidates until 2021  

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the compulsory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) for candidates sitting for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) until 2021. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, had disclosed that the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will have registration centres around computer-based test (CBT) centres across the

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Brazil’s Supreme Court rules in support of Neflix movie depicting Jesus as a gay man

A Brazil Supreme Court has overturned the order by a judge asking Netflix to remove the controversial movie where Jesus was depicted as gay. Judge Antonio Diaz Toffoli, head of the Supreme Federal Court on Thursday, January 9, rejected a decision to stop Netflix from showing the controversial movie, “The First Temptation of Christ”, depicting Jesus Christ in

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Drama as patient’s relatives strip female doctor naked in Abuja

The President of FCT Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Roland Aigbovo, has narrated how relatives of a patient stripped a female doctor naked in an Abuja hospital. Aigbovo decried heightened assault and threat to the life of medical doctors by relations of patients in the Federal Capital Territory. In a statement on Friday in Abuja,

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Ebonyi man kills father with walking stick over cooked yam

An Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abakaliki, on Thursday, remanded in a correctional centre a 37-year-old man, Chibueze Iduma, for allegedly killing his father with his walking stick over cooked yam. The deceased, Mr Emmanuel Oba Iduma was allegedly killed by his son who got infuriated upon returning home and seeing that his dad ate

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Photos from wedding ceremony of former Catholic Reverend Sister who married a policeman

Few hours after her pre-wedding photos went viral on social media, photos from the wedding ceremony of a Catholic Reverend Sister who quit her religious devotion to get married to a police officer has surfaced. The former Catholic Reverend Sister posed in different traditional attires in her traditional wedding photos. She was also spotted carrying a cup

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Parents allegedly beat daughter to death for having baby for Yoruba Muslim boy

Residents of Agiliti community at Mile 12 area of Lagos State have accused the parents of an 18-year-old girl identified as Amaka Nweke of allegedly beating her to death for dating a Yoruba boy. Amaka was also allegedly tortured and starved by her parents who were enraged that she got impregnated not just by a Yoruba boy

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Police arrest suspected killers of Moradeun Balogun, lady who was stabbed in Lagos

Four suspects, Ugochukwu Udochukwu, Chidiebere Nnanna, Samuel Nnanna and David Obi, have been arrested for stabbing a lady, Moradeun Balogun, to death. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu said the suspects perpetrated the crime after dispossessing Balogun of her valuables around the NCIE bus stop in the Gbagada area of the state, adding that

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Mother faces jail for saving kids from burning house instead of North Korea leaders’ portraits

A North Korean mother might be jailed for saving her two children from a house fire and allowing portraits of North Korea’s past leaders to burn. The country’s Ministry of State Security has reportedly placed the woman under investigation after a fire broke out in a home shared by two families in Onsong County, North

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Man arrested for strangling dog with rope after having sex with it

A middle-aged man from Kangundo in Machakos County of Kenya, Boniface Mutuku Munyao, was arraigned before a Kangundo Magistrate’s Court  on Thursday January 9, for allegedly engaging in bestiality with a female dog before killing it. The suspect’s last sexual act on the dog was on Wednesday January 8, after which he strangled the animal with a rope. He

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