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There are reports that this Nigerian man named Adeola Ibrahim, who is a Christian migrant has been kidnapped along with a Ghanaian and an Egyptian migrant. More below...

Unclaimed bodies of victims of the Anambra fire incident that occurred along Upper Iweka road on  Sunday May 31st  were given mass burial in the state earlier today. The state governor Willie Obiano was present at the funeral. More photos below.

A newborn baby's penis was almost cut off by bungling medical students as they tried to remove the tot's umbilical cord, it has been claimed. The trainees are then said to have whisked the baby away to surgery to repair the damage. But dad Diego Rangel Izaguirre says he and his wife were not told pf what had happened, and only became concerned after being denied access to their newborn. He said the students at Saltillo hospital, in Mexico, told him his son had suffered "a minor accident". Mr Izaguirre, said:   "When my child was born and they cut his umbilical cord they injured his penis. And unfortunately when the surgeon started sewing it, he made other two new injuries, almost two centimetres deep" Mum Zulem Contreras said: "This shouldn’t have happened, they should have assigned a gynaecologist to take care of him, not students". The couple have made an official complaint but hospital officials claim the newborn is ...

No fewer than 25 Generals, who were affected by the appointment of their juniors as service chiefs last Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari have been given six weeks to voluntarily retire from the Nigerian Armed Forces. Vanguard reports that,the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Kenneth Minimah, disclosed this yesterday while handing over to his successor, Major General Tukur Buratai at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja. By army tradition, the affected Generals cannot serve under a junior officer to them and must mandatorily go home.In his speech, Minimah, who said that some very senior unnamed officers have been given notices of retirement, urged those affected by the development to take the notifications for retirement in good faith.He joked that while the affected officers were given six weeks’ notice to proceed on retirement, the retirements of the former service chiefs were simply relayed to them on the radio.

When you heard the news that Toke Makinwa’s husband impregnated his girlfriend, you all took to social media to rain insults on Nigerian men. Why men cheat on women they love became a topic for all female radio presenters in the country. Aren’t you all tired of asking the same question over and over as if it is some perplexing unfathomable mystery?  Your question is rhetorical, but since it keeps coming up again and again, let me provide some explanations to help you understand the reasons. I will simply tell it like it is, with no bull, tact, or political correctness. It’s just that oftentimes; women do not accept the explanations. But in fact, one can understand it through common sense. Sometimes a man would cheat on his wife or girlfriend because he doesn’t love her anymore; he is bored with her, or even possibly unhappy with their relationship. In such scenarios, even women can become unfaithful as well. Women must understand that men are fundamentally different from...

In an attempt to find the man she had a night stand with,a desperate mum-to-be posted a childish sketch of him online.She claims the sketch will be enough for him to recognise himself and come forward. The Mexican American woman from the East Village area of New York posted an advertisement on Craigslist under the title: "We Hooked Up. It Broke. Baby On the Way."She wrote "If you want to be in the child's life it will be born soon. "I hope you will. "I am Mexican-American. "5'4'' 100 lbs when we screwed. You told me you wore a business entrepeneur [sic].  "I tried to draw you. "I'm no police sketch artist, but I think the resemblance is there. "You are Middle Eastern. Tallish. "Had about a 6 and a half inch d***. "We had sex 3 times. "Then you disappeared.  "If anybody from the village area recognized this man let him no (sic) he has baby son coming....

The former National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, yesterday raised the alarm over what he saw as plot by the State Security Service (SSS) to implicate him in alleged security breaches. He said Nigerians should know that the invasion of his house by the SSS was a sheer witch-hunt. He said it was sad that the operatives of the security agency broke into his ailing father’s house in Sokoto and broke his safe. Dasuki, who spoke exclusively with  The Nation  correspondent on the phone yesterday, said he does not deserve such treatment because as the National Security Adviser he did not maltreat any Nigerian. He said he was subjected to a 12-hour ordeal from 6pm on Thursday till 6am on Friday.He said  “The SSS operatives came in two trucks with a search warrant from a Magistrate Court. The warrant gave them the power to search for ‘illegal weapons and any incriminating item.’ You can imagine what that is supposed to mean.“I left office on Tuesday and t...