The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old woman for allegedly pouring boiling water on her pregnant co-wife, leading to the d3ath of the baby. The incident occurred on July 17, 2026 in Daba Village, Bauchi Local Government Area during a domestic altercation. The spokesperson for the command, SP Nafiu Habib, who…
The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old man, Ahmed Saleh, for criminal trespass, attempted r@pe and theft at Malikiyya College of Health Sciences, Old GRA, Bauchi. The spokesperson for the command, SP Nafiu Habib, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, July 24, 2026. According to Habib, preliminary investigations revealed that…
It was around 2006. I was sixteen years old, living with my mom and my younger sister. Dad was working in another town far from home. Mom travelled to where Dad was very often, so whenever she was going to visit him, she would send us to live with my aunt. Sometimes she would be…
The group stage draw for the 2026 X1 Division One League (DOL) Super Cup has been completed, setting the stage for an exciting competition involving eight of the best-performing Division One League clubs in Ghana. The pairings were confirmed after a meeting involving the Ghana Football Association’s (GFA) Competitions Department, the DOL Super Cup Committee…
Vice Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has alleged that state governors defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are doing so under the belief that the presidency will write election results in their favor for the 2027 general elections. In an interview with News Central TV, the former Kano…
President Tinubu has appealed to Nigerian medical professionals practising outside the country to return home and contribute their quota to national development. The President made the appeal at the State House on Friday, July when he received members of the Nigerian Diaspora Medical Associations. The Director-General of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM),…
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and three inspectors over a viral video showing them making unprofessional and ethnically insensitive remarks to a member of the public. The officers were arrested following the circulation of the video, which captured one of them threatening to detain a motorist…
The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has inaugurated a seven-member caretaker committee to oversee its affairs in Osun State, despite the state government’s suspension of the union’s activities in motor parks. The committee, chaired by Kazeem Oyewale (Asiri Eniba), was inaugurated on Friday, July 24, at the union’s national headquarters in Abuja. The…
A 25-year-old woman has been charged after Irish authorities intercepted what Gardaí described as the most significant car bomb discovered in the Republic of Ireland in a decade. The explosive device, believed to contain suspected military-grade explosives, was found during an intelligence-led operation on the N2 near Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, close to the Irish border….
A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida, United States, has convicted a Nigerian-American licensed pharmacist and pharmacy owner, Olushola Yusuf, for her role in dispensing over 300,000 oxycodone 30mg pills to patrons who had no medical need for the drug. The United States Department of Justice announced this in a press release…
