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Aduba Daniel, a student of the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa state, has died after reportedly drinking Sniper (an insecticide) upon discovering that he failed four of his courses. According to reports, Daniel was rushed to the Tantua hospital, Amassoma, where it was realized that he had drunk the whole bottle. All efforts to save […]

Miss Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Olugbenga Oluboyo, was on Sunday found dead at her boyfriend’s house in Akure. Oluboyo, who was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was found dead in the house of Mr. Adeyemi Alao, popularly known as

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Friday, remanded 18-year-old Mayowa Segun and 29-year-old Adebowale Wasiu, for allegedly breaking into a shop and stealing various items including beer, soft drinks, bush meat and recharge cards worth N41,950. The Prosecutor, Sunday Osanyintuyi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 4,

It was a narrow escape for a lady who got Kidnapped in Benin but got rejected by the ritualist. According to Osagie James who broke the news, the lady had boarded a bus with others in Benin, but the bus diverted and took them inside a bush to butcher them for ritual. They tied them

A 24-year-old rape victim in Kaduna State (name withheld), who was allegedly raped at 14 by her landlord, said on Friday she regretted collecting N2,000 to keep quiet about the incident. Sharing her eight-year ordeal with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna, the victim alleged that the landlord took undue advantage of her when

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has fired yet another shot at President Muhammadu Buhari whom he believes is too old to lead the country. At a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the governor commented on the visit of President Emmanuel Macron of France to Nigeria. Aged 40 years, Macron

The Bauchi State government have closed the Sa’adu Zungur Model Primary and Secondary School in its capital, Bauchi, over illegal marriages among senior students in the school. The closure order, which also affected the primary section of the school, was given last Friday by the state deputy governor, Nuhu Gidado,  following a report received by

The Osun Police Command on Thursday arrested the wife of a traditional ruler and two persons suspected to have set ablaze the house of her rival, killing her three-year-old stepdaughter in the process. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Olafimihan Adeoye, said the husband of the suspect and a traditional ruler, Oba Morufudeen

A fleeing suspected armed robber has died in an accident involving the vehicle that he and other gang members snatched from a woman in Katsina State. It was gathered that the robber and his colleagues had on Wednesday stormed the house of the owner of the vehicle and took the vehicle after robbing the woman

A British Court sentenced a Nurse, Josephine Iyamu, to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes, controlling them through voodoo. The London-based British citizen, Iyamu, 51, was found guilty in a “landmark modern slavery case’’ after the first prosecution involving victims outside Britain, the National