Two Russian sisters have been reunited 78 years after they were separated by the turmoil of World War II, thanks to a television show and a police search. In footage of their meeting late last month provided by the interior ministry, Yulia and Rozalina Kharitonova, now 92 and 94, hugged and kissed as their family
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A 70-year-old teacher, Tom Miller Privet, was arrested and charged for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student in his classroom ‘every day’ for three months at Terra Environmental Research Institute Magnet School. According to Metro.UK, Police had reported that Privett, who was a history and government teacher at the school for 30 years, reportedly
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Fishermen in Foropa Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Saturday caught a marine creature identified as a Sea Turtle. Fox Channel learnt that Foropa community is along the Atlantic Ocean. An indigene of the community, Egbonkuma Fawei Young, confirmed the killing of the Sea Turtle. He said the sea animal
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A middle aged woman, Oluchi Olu, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly biting off her neighbour’s lower lip. The defendant, who resides at No. 37, Isolo Road, Mushin, Lagos, is standing four counts charged of grievous hurt, assault, breach of peace and inflicting a wound. Olu denied the charges brought against
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In an unexpected twist of fate, a lady was on Tuesday accidentally killed after she was hit by a bullet from the gun of an unknown soldier recruited by her sister to allegedly beat up a neighbour at Seaside Estate in Badore, Ajah area of Lagos State. According to eyewitnesses, a heated argument had ensued
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Prof. Pat Utomi, who served in the government of the late President Shehu Shagari, has described the ex-Nigerian leader as a true nationalist whose good deeds would not be adequately captured by newspapers and history. Utomi, who spoke on Monday at the “Never Again Conference” to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nigerian civil war,
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A Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old driver, Samuel Vincent, to two weeks Community Service for stealing a bag containing children’s clothes. The Judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, ordered Vincent to clean the Karmo Catholic Church for two weeks and ordered him to go back to Anambra after serving his punishment.
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The Zamfara state government has earmarked N7 billion in the 2020 budget for the construction of a new Government House, according to the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Bala Bello. The governor disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday after defending the 2020 budget proposals of his office at the House of Assembly. He said
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Kano state government said it has suspended the ban of opposite sexes riding in the same tricycle in the state. The Commander General Kano Hisbah Board, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina revealed the suspension on a live program on local radio station Tuesday in Kano. Sheikh Ibn-Sina stressed that government decision was to enable wider consultation before
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The Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has accepted his appointment to head the Kano Council of Chiefs after an ultimatum issued him by the state government with threats of possible dethronement. The Emir of Kano, in a letter to the office of the Secretary to the state government, called the attention of the Permanent
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A rights group in Delta State under the aegis of I know My Rights, is demanding for a proper investigation and subsequent prosecution of a Pastor who was alleged to have defiled his 12-year-old daughter at their Uwheru residence in Ughelli North local government area of the state. The Pastor identified as Benjamin Abu, who
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Scary report coming from Delta State has it that residents of Asaba were left bewildered after a 19-year-old boy allegedly impregnated his mother while testing his love charm. It was gathered that the boy, popularly called Ekenem had gone to a native doctor, who prepared a love charm for him to use on his mother
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s kinsmen have faulted the first lady, Aisha Buhari, over her Wednesday’s statement, which attacked the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu. Buhar’s kinsmen in an interview with The Pumch Newspaper in Katsina, on Wednesday evening, criticized the first lady for making what they described as purely private family affair, public. Recall that the
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