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26-year-old Precious Teya from Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe, who was arrested last week for reportedly sleeping with a 13-year-old boy has challenged the minor’s age in court and also insisted that she had no way of telling that the juvenile was a minor.   Teya who was arraigned on charges of indecent …

Emmanuel Nworie, a first-class mathematics graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka has bagged a fully-funded scholarship at a university in the United States.   Nworie bagged the scholarship after a photo of him tilling the soil in Ebonyi state owing to poverty and a lack of a platform to utilize his …

A delivery driver in Vietnam is being called a hero after he miraculously caught a toddler who fell from a 12th-floor balcony.   Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, was sitting in his truck, waiting to deliver a package to a residence in Hanoi on Sunday, Feb 28, when he heard a …

Zamfara state government this morning March 2 received the Zamfara school girls who just regained freedom from their captors.   Recall that 317 schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, were abducted by bandits on Friday, February 26.   The state governor, Bello Matawalle, via his social media handle, …

A debate is currently happening on Nigerian Twitter after a young lady claimed it isn’t possible to live a good life with N400, 000 a month salary.   The lady with the Twitter handle @CO_Chiamaka  wrote ”400k monthly can’t give you a soft life sha. Especially not in Lagos or …

A group of sympathisers is appealing to a United States court to temper justice with mercy on former Forbes U-30 honoree Obiwanne Okeke known as Invictus Obi over his conviction for wire fraud. The sympathisers in separate letters of attestation to character sent to Rebecca Smith, the judge handling the …

A woman had to undergo a liver transplant after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening condition.   Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after last Thanksgiving.   About a month later, Smith started to have stomach pains but was reluctant to go to the hospital because …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the country instead of the ban placed on it by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN.   Osinbajo made the call when he spoke at the Bankers Committee Vanguard in Lagos State today February 26. ”First is that …

A naked man was filmed running down a high street as police officers chased after him.   Ross Springham, 29, was spotted in his birthday suit in Notting Hill, west London in the early hours of Sunday morning, Feb 21.   Residents called police but when officers arrived, he started running away. …

A 20-year-old in Nashville, Tennessee has been shot dead after a robbery prank being filmed for a YouTube channel went wrong. According to a press release shared by Nashville authorities, YouTuber Timothy Wilks was shot dead in the parking lot of a Hermitage, Tenn. trampoline park on the evening of Friday, Feb. …