•Actress Sophia Chisom Ikemba, popularly known as Soso Nigerian actress Sophia Chisom has said she usually keeps her teeth closed and uses only her lips while filming kissing scenes. The actress, popularly known as Soso, shared her opinion while reacting to comments by some actors who claimed they had never experienced a “good kiss” in [&helli...
•Britain’s King Charles III and US President Donald Trump The state visit by Britain’s King Charles III to the US would take place as planned, Buckingham Palace said yesterday, following a shooting at a Washington media gala. The incident late Saturday at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association came less than 48 [&hel...
•Gunmen A deadly shooting incident in Omoku town, in Ogba /Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, yesterday, Monday, January 19, 2026, has left one person dead and eight others injured. The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. along Sambo Street during a masquerade procession, when a clash erupted involving one Barrister Akpudi Ikec...
•Gunman Unknown gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in an attack at a township outside Johannesburg, police said today, in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month. The motive for the attack at Bekkersdal, 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of the city, was not clear, police told our correspondent. “Some victims […]...
Some truck drivers yesterday blocked the Ganaja-lokoja-Ajaokuta expressway in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of Kogi State over the shooting of their colleagues – a truck driver and his mate. The incident happened when security operatives keeping vigil on the highway allegedly shot the duo for refusing to stop for checking at their roadblock w...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump said yesterday he wanted Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “stop shooting” in Ukraine and sign a peace deal, one day after the US leader met Ukraine’s president at the Vatican. Trump, who boasted before his inauguration that he could halt Russia’s invasion of [&...
The Kano State Police Command has arrested two operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over the shooting of a 19-year-old woman, Patient Samuel, in Jaba Quarters of the state. According to reports, the operatives were arrested by the police yesterday, Wednesday, March 5 at around 10:55 p.m. Samuel, the victim, was rushed...
•Ismail Usman An herbalist identified as Ismail Usman has sustained a life-threatening injury while testing a self-made ‘bulletproof’ charm in the Kuchibuyi village in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Usman was said to have picked a locally fabricated gun after he had fortified himself with the charm he had prepared and shot himself...
•Troops The Osun State Park Management System has accused the police of shooting its chairman, Nurudeen Iyanda, popularly known as Alowonle, while in custody. In a statement issued by the group’s Secretary, Mukaila Popoola, it was alleged that Iyanda was shot in the early hours of today after being arrested over a domestic issue, reports [&hel...
No fewer than four persons have been killed after suspected cultists invaded Ifite Awka area, behind the school gate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State in an early morning attack today. Eyewitnesses, who live around Witness Garden, Ifite-Amansea Road, said gun-wielding hoodlums invaded the axis around 9:30am today and opened fir...

