A 12-year-old boy has died after he jumped from the roof of an Upper East Side building in New York City. The unidentified boy landed on a parked car, shattering the front window of the vehicle when he jumped from the roof of the 15-story apartment building at 1045 Park Avenue on Tuesday, April 6.…
The Department of State Services has denied reports claiming it tortured President Buhari’s official driver, Sai’du Afaka, to death. Afaka’s death was announced on Tuesday, April 6. According to a statement released by president aide, Garba Shehu, Afaka died in the statehouse hospital after a prolonged illness. An online report however, claimed he…
A final year student of the University of Port Harcourt identified simply as Gloria, has died few days after writing her first semester exam. It was gathered that the student of the Faculty of Agriculture reportedly collapsed in her room and died on Wednesday, April 7. The cause of her death cannot be ascertain, however,…
Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, says Nigeria is where it is today because of nepotism. Speaking on Tuesday, April 6, at the Palace of the Emir of Bauchi during a one-day working visit to Bauchi state, Mr Jonathan said the problem is with Nigeria’s leadership style that puts family, friends, and acquaintances over merit,…
The Federal government has received 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccines from India. Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID19, Boss Mustapha, confirmed this on Tuesday April 6, at the national briefing by the PTF in Abuja, adding that more vaccines are coming from African Union’s Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT). “As you are aware, Nigeria received…
Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have abducted a family of five in Ajowa Akoko, a community in Akoko north-west LGA of Ondo state. The victims, Ibrahim Olusa, a native of Daja Ajowa, his wife, and three children were said to be plying the Ajowa-Ayere expressway when they were attacked and abducted on Monday night, April 5. They were said…
Mark Elliott, a longtime voice actor known for narrating numerous Disney movie trailers and television promos and home video ads, has died at the age of 81. Longtime friend of Elliott’s, Chris Van Dyke, told The Hollywood Reporter that Elliott, who was reportedly battling Lung Cancer, died Saturday, April 3, at a Los Angeles hospital…
Kano State Government has slashed the salaries of political office holders in the state by 50 per cent for the month of March due to dwindling resources. The State Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, April 6, said the action was due to shortfall in the…
A military veteran reunited with his primary school mates decades after their graduation and he took to Twitter to share photos of them when they were still in primary school and now as adults. Barade, a criminologist and security expert, said they graduated from primary school in 1967. He said he hosted them recently…
Four members of the Anglican Church of Zaria Diocese in Kaduna state, have reportedly been kidnapped by suspected bandits along the Kachia-Kaduna Road in Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Channels TV reports that the incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday, April 6, when the bandits barricaded the road and opened fire…
