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A few weeks ago, just before our convocation in the University of Lagos, we at the department of Psychology received a sad emotional blow that our friend and classmate Ayobami whom some of us fondly called Ijogbon (trouble), had passed on as a result of poor health. Similarly, a year ...

Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a 33-year-old man, Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.According to Punch ,after the girlfriend made a U-turn, the deceased was said to have become worried, and this made neighbours, ...

According to a statement by the Defence headquaters, the major facilitator of the Chibok girls kidnap has been arrested ..The statement by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information reads A terrorists’ intelligence cell headed by a businessman who participated actively in the abduction of School Girls in Chibok has ...

After the Bomb blast at Emab plaza,Abuja which claimed 22 lives and left 50 others injured, some of the survivors have narrated their close shave with death to Vanguard A taxi driver, who identified himself as Malachy Odo, said he was caught up in the midst of the ravaging fire ...

Bomb blast rocked the Emab Plaza shopping complex in the Wuse district of the Nigerian capital, Abuja on Wednesday.Scores of shoppers were killed in the attack.�I can see human parts and some bodies scattered on the ground but we are too scared to get closer for fear of another bomb,” ...

President Jonathan who cut short his appearance at the AU summit, visited the site of the Emab Plaza bomb blast,Abuja this morning .He also visited the injured victims at Maitama General Hospital..He said.. Nigerians are struggling, thinking about how to contribute to the nation’s development and working very hard to ...

President Jonathan who was in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea attending the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union Heads of States when the bomb blast occurred at Emab plaza in Abuja yesterday June 25th killing 21 people, is said to have withdrawn from the summit & is currently back in the ...

A ghastly motor accident �occurred this morning on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway ,after Berger,causing a heavy traffic jam.The accident reportedly occurred after a truck ran over about five cars..According to Channels TV,six people died and several others injured

A former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche, today told an Ikeja High court that he has never stolen anything in his life, and it was absurd for EFCC to have labelled him a thief. While speaking in court, he said he joined United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, ...

The Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, has confirmed that 21 people died this afternoon when a bomb went off at the very busy Emab Plaza in Wuse 2, Abuja. He also confirmed that 17 people were seriously injured and have been taken to Maitama District Hospital,� Gwarimpa ...

A ritualist den owned by one pastor Ernest Nwankwo, the General Overseer of Holy Family Ministry a.k.a House of Mercy was yesterday June 25th uncovered at Ogolonto area in Ikorodu, Lagos, with 8 victims rescued. According to Vanguard, the den was discovered after a failed attempt by a woman identified ...

According to reports just coming in� a bomb just exploded in Abjua this afternoon, the explosion happened at Emab plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja at about 3.30pm. more details shorty

A police officer, Aurthur Okeke� (ID. No.453255) has been caught on tape violently harassing�a heavily pregnant woman in Lagos and her family members are right now demanding justice. According to Busayomi who tweeted the incident earlier on today, she is the victim’s sister in-law, Arthur had dragged her pregnant sister ...

Seun Osewa, the owner of Nairaland is yet to explain what really happened – he’s not answering messages directed at him on any of the social media pages – he kinda hinted us saying ‘the site may not be up soon. The site has been down for over 48 hours ...

Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for Apostasy, has finally been freed after she was re-arrested at Khartoume airport as she attempted to leave Sudan with her family to an undisclosed location.U.S. State Department during a briefing with reporters in Washington D.C today said Meriam is now free, ...

Authorities�in Iran banned�women from�entering most sporting events following the 1979 Islamic Revolution because mixed crowds enjoying games was deemed un-Islamic. According to CNN,for the past 35 years, the crowds at�football�games, Iran’s most popular sport have been all male.Iranian women�were briefly allowed to attend volleyball matches during the presidency of moderate ...

A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has gone missing. The plane, owned by the U.S. company Global Aviation, took off from Kano at 1800 hours yesterday en route Libreville in Gabon, where it was scheduled to arrive at 2300 hours, after a‎ stopover in Douala, Cameroon. ...

The 27-year-old woman was sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity. The case triggered an international outcry. She gave birth to a baby daughter while in prison.‘The appeal court ordered the release of Mariam Yahya and the cancellation of the (previous) court ruling,’ Sudan’s SUNA news ...

According to a report on NTANetwork, about sixty girls between the ages of 3-12 years have been abducted by insurgents in Kummabza village of Damboa local government area of Borno State. Reports from the area indicate that the insurgents also killed about thirty people and destroyed property worth millions of ...

    After Fayose was declared winner of the Ekiti state election, PUNCH reporters went round town to see how the ‘happy’ the residents were! Photos courtesy of Punch