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When animals from the Borno State zoo were destroyed by flooding, a massive tortoise was discovered walking about freely in Maiduguri.   Locals flocked to catch a glimpse and take phone videos as up to five guys are seen carrying the heavy tortoise in a video that has been circulated online.   The tortoise weighed […]

A Nigerian national was convicted of participating in an attempt to use fraudulent digital transfers to defraud a North Dakota legal practice. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota claims that between November and December of 2020, Christopher Agbaje and several others faked being a customer of the firm by posing

In Zamfara, armed robbers stopped the Gusau–Funtua route and abducted an unknown number of people. The bandits broke onto the highway in the early hours of Thursday, September 12, and erected a barricade around the Tazame axis of the road, according to Yusuf Tsafe, a commuter who was left stranded nearby and spoke with Channels

In the Bassa hamlet in the Shiroro local government area of Niger State, 28 terrorists were killed by airstrikes carried out by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft.   Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations, Group Captain Kabiru Ali, stated in a statement on Thursday, September 12, that the terrorists were eliminated on Wednesday, September

Nigerian women who are purportedly imprisoned in Libya have begged for assistance. Many of the ladies were shown in what appeared to be a detention facility in a video that was making the rounds on social media. Some of the women claim that they have spent more than a year in the institution. In the

After being carried away by his head and mauled by a mountain lion, a five-year-old boy suffered severe injuries. On Sunday, September 1, the boy was playing with a group of kids in Malibu Creek State Park in California when the mountain lion approached. He was with his family at the time. The child was

Between 2021 and 2023, 1,425 foreign students who were accepted to British universities had their entry to the nation refused at the airports. A total of 161 Nigerians were impacted since they were turned away at airports all around the United Kingdom. India led the list of affected foreign students with 644, accounting for 45%

After the passenger on a New Jersey Transit bus appeared to have spat on the driver, the driver was shown on camera beating the man and putting him in a chokehold. On Friday afternoon, August 16, in Newark, a packed bus broke out in a violent confrontation that resulted in the arrest of the driver,

Investigators now have a complete transcript of the cockpit audio from the Voepass ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop that crashed last week in the city of Vinhedo. The two-hour recording shows the co-pilot noticed a steep loss of altitude about a minute before the crash, according to TV Globo. He then asked the pilot what was