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About 8 people were killed and 15 wounded, today, when a car laden with an Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), exploded at Muna Garage Junction in Maiduguri, Borno state, killing 8 people including the occupant/driver and some passerby. Giving an update, ...

Lance Corporals Musa Maidabra and Edwin George, serving at 122D30 Regiment in Maiduguri, Borno State, have been arrested for transporting the about N80m ransom that was paid for the release of the wife of the CBN Governor, Margaret Emefiele and ...

Godwin Agbada, a bicycle repairer at No. 9, Morka Road, Ubiaruku, has blamed the devil for the alleged defilement of two girls aged 12 and 14 years in his workshop in Delta State, but denied having carnal knowledge of another ...

Margaret Effiong, has reunited with one of her kids, Nkoyo, 9, who was given out as a housemaid to a runaway child trafficker in Calabar. Nkoyo and another child, Patience Stephen, 8, were rescued by a lawyer and child rights ...

According to a facebook user, Onwuasoanya Fcc Jones wrote; Could there be a worst tragedy than having to see your grown up children taken away, just when you are so sure you have got them for keeps? At 11 and 14 years ...

According to Kufre, Akwa Ibom state Governor is on the verge of signing a deal with a China company for Ibom Deep Sea Port.He wrote… ‘In talks with China Merchants Group for Ibom Deep Sea Port in Shenzhen, China’. See ...

a Man was crushed to death, this morning, by a train at National Bus-stop, Ikeja, Lagos State cd: @adeniyijohnson

Mfoniso Udodoikpom, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, has been arrested by the policemen attached to Meiran Division, Lagos, for allegedly assaulting her 13-year-old maid, Esther, with a saw blade, as a punitive measure, for burning her pot of beans. ...

Innocent Anazodo, 46, was found with 7 wraps of cocaine in his anus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on his way to Italy. Anazodo, a trader selling shoes from Anambra State, was allegedly promised €2,000 to smuggle the ...

Helen was kidnapped at the corpers’ lodge in Omademe, Ikwerre LGA of the state, at about 3am on Friday and was rescued today, by the operatives of the Rivers State Police Command, Punchng reports. Speaking with newsmen, Helen said: “I ...