It was a moment of reprieve for Nigerian preacher Mr Oluwole Ilesanmi who was halted from expressing his Christian views and driven four miles away by police as he was awarded a £2,500 payout for wrongful arrest.

Eighty-Five percent of Nigerians believe rape cases are prevalent in the country, according to a report released by NOIPolls.

Emergency workers responding to a car crash in a California town last month found a priest with a fractured hip and, much to their surprise, bags of cash he allegedly stole from the local parish.

Google on Sunday celebrated Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta with its Doodle on what would have been her 75th birthday.

Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by the Ugandan government.

Police in Kano have arrested a 35-year woman, Aisha Ali who poured hot water on her husband’s laps and private parts at a village called Fayen-Fayen at Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano state.

A trader, Mrs Kuditat Ajayi,52, told an Igando Customary Court that she slept with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband.

An Ibadan based commercial bus driver, Hakeem Yusuf, on Thursday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, that he often beats his wife, Ronke, because of her alleged infidelity and deceptiveness.

The tranquility hitherto witnessed by residents of Ilaje and Ajah communities in Lagos State, is presently being truncated by the   eruption of crises which have left not less than 10 persons dead, with others injured. Houses, including churches   were burnt and women, both married and singles , allegedly raped by the invaders   who stormed the communities under the cover of the darkness. Some of the residents, especially those living close to the waterside, have fled their homes.

The Police in Lagos have arrested a 20-year-old woman, Blessing John, for allegedly biting off the manhood of her boy friend, simply identified as Johnson, while trying to escape from being raped.

Barely five days after a deadly pipeline fire that killed over a dozen people at Ijegun town, north of Lagos, residents of the community have foiled another pipeline vandalism.

A 104-year-old World War ll Veteran of the Nigerian Army, Adamo Aduku on Saturday urged the Federal Government to pay his pension.

Nigerians have continued to react to the assault on Sales Girl in Abuja by a Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Senator Elisha Abbo The video shows the angry senator assaulting a sales girl, (a nursing mother) at a sex toy shop in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja. Below are some of the reactions […]

The wife of Biodun Fatoyinbo, the senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), has said that you know your foes, ‘friends when you’re in trouble’

The Coalition of Public Interests Lawyers and Advocates (COPA) on Monday urged Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, to surrender himself for investigation having stepped down from the pulpit as senior pastor of the church.