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Top baby names list for 2021 reveals familiar trends For the second year in a row, these two names are the most popular for girls and boys – leading BabyCenter's Top 100 Baby Names list. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/Ye09DkL
Students sing to teacher with stage 4 cancer outside hospital: 'It was overwhelming' In an emotional goodbye visit, 26 children sang worship songs prior to Carol Mack's move to hospice care via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/nj4dKGH
The Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Hussein Adamu has been accused of covering up for the Managing Director of Lower Niger River Basin, Dr Aremu Saheed who has been accused of corruption and misappropriation of funds. A group seek…
The African Action Congress (AAC) has announced its final lap of voter registration drive ahead of the 2023 general elections. This follows the extension of the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise by the Independent National Electo…
The son of a pastor allegedly killed and dismembered the body of his girlfriend, simply identified as Anita, and dumped her remains near a river in Abuja, SaharaReporters exclusively gathered on Sunday. SaharaReporters on Monday, June 20, 2022,…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Uche at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with pellets of cocaine concealed in his private parts. Igwedum, according to…
David Nwamini Ukpo, the young man involved in the organ harvesting allegations against a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, has broken his silence. Ukpo, whose kidney was to be harvested for Sonia, daughter of…
A woman, Kezia has alleged that her estranged husband, a former lawmaker, Robinson Uwak burgled her house alongside gunmen in military uniform and abducted her twin children. Uwak is a former member of the House of Representatives who represente…
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai The anti-corruption group, Human & Environmental Development Agenda has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices & Other Related Offences Commission and the Code of Conduct Bureau to tho…
File photo used to illustrate story. Residents of the Ukpor community in the Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State have been in panic after gunmen and Nigerian Army personnel engaged in a shootout. Major roads, shops and other pub…
Olusegun Obasanjo Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said his choice of a running mate ahead of the 1999 presidential election, was one of the costly mistakes he made. Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples De…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR), which was initially scheduled to end on June 30, 2022. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the commission, announced a continuation o…
Late Osinachi Nwachukwu, the singer of the famous gospel song, Ekwueme has been laid to rest in Abia State. Her remains were buried on Saturday in her hometown, Isochi Umunneochi in Abia State. Osinachi, the singer of the famous gospel song,…
A 33-year-old man identified as Gabriel Volts has been arrested by the Nigerian police in Delta State for allegedly beheading his son for ritual purposes. In a statement by the police spokesperson, Bright Edafe, the suspect took his one-year-old…
Some youths in Osun State have expressed their displeasure with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Yoruba following the alleged exclusion of the gubernatorial candidate of the Young Progressive Party, Ademola Bayonle (DAB) from the debate…
File photo used to illustrate story. The Kano Hisbah Command, Kano State Censorship Board (KSCB) is currently making moves to regulate the social media in the state. Ismail Na’abba Afakallah, the Executive Director of KSCB, disclosed this in an…
An angry mob has reportedly lynched a kidnap suspect and set his body ablaze in Awada in Anambra State. The state Police Command on Friday confirmed the incident. SaharaReporters gathered that the deceased was a member of a seven-man gang of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not recognise Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, the former Niger Delta Minister, Godswill Akpabio, and the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) …
File photo used to illustrate story. Terrorists on Friday morning bombed a police station at Eika-Ohizenyi, in the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. A police inspector identified as Jubril was killed during the attack, according to a r…
File Photo At least four suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo boys have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force over the death of a retired Police Deputy Superintendent and three others in Sapele, Delta State. Some gunmen ha…
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has condemned the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Kanu would not be granted a court bail, describing it as "fal…
A pro-Biafran group known as the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has accused traditional rulers in the South-East region of Nigeria for the indiscriminate attacks, kidnapping and killings in the region. T…
The U.S. Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the …
A splinter Ohanaeze Ndigbo group has threatened to sack former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as a member of its decision-making organ “Ime-Obi” over his arrest on suspicions of organ harvesting and child trafficking in the United Kingd…
A prosecution witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Adamu Dahiru, has told the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja at a resumed trial how three former employees of First Bank of Nigeria conspired with hackers to st…