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A 24-year-old South African student, Kgothatso Mdunana, has fallen to her death from a 13th floor of a building in China. It was gathered that she died last Friday, May 7, after apparently falling out of the window of a friend's flat on…

China has maintained that its out-of-control rocket posed 'very little risk for objects on the ground', as it crashed into the Indian Ocean near Maldives after traveling more than five countries. The rocket called the Long March 5B, lost…

Nigerian man, Nonso Ekwalor Base, has been arrested at Indian airport with N200m worth of drugs concealed in his underwear. The accused was apprehended by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Tuesday, May 4, on the basis of…

Suspected Nigerian drug lord, Tiger Mustafa has been arrested at Anjuna in North Goa, India after two days on the run. Mustapha was arrested on Sunday night, May 2, by a joint team of Narcotic Control Bureau and Anjuna police. He had…

Two Nigerian nationals have been arrested and remanded in the custody of Pune police's cyber-crime cell on Friday in a case of cloning ATM cards in India. It was gathered that the police arrested the two men after a man complained of…

A baby who hasn't eaten for two days has been discovered after his mother had died inside their home near Maharashtra’s Pune. Maharashtra’s Pune is an area in India that has recorded countless deaths relating to the Covid-19 crisis,…

A Japanese woman was arrested on Wednesday, April 28, for allegedly killing her millionaire husband. Saki Sudo, 25, was charged for the alleged poisoning of 77-year-old Kosuke Nozaki in 2018, three months into their marriage, according…

Some men reportedly tied up and gang-raped a girl after tricking her with the promise of a coronavirus vaccine in India. According to reports, the rapists are people known to the victim and she returned home after the ordeal to report to…

In yet another romance scam, two Nigerian men have been arrested in Suwon, South Korea for allegedly swindling victims, mostly women, of tens of thousands of dollars. The Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, just south of Seoul, on Wednesday…

A 38-year-old woman facing execution in India has appealed for mercy and a review of her case in a last-ditch effort to avoid becoming the first woman to face death penalty in India since 1955. Shabnam Ali has been held in northern…

A 38-year-old, Nguyen Quoc Lam has been arrested in Binh Thuan, Vietnam for raping his housekeeper’s two-year-old daughter. The deputy director of the Binh Thuan police department, Pham That, said on Tuesday, April 20 that the suspect,…

Indonesia's navy is searching for a submarine with 53 people on board which has gone missing amid fears it sank during a military exercise off the waters of Bali. The 43-year-old German-made submarine, KRI Nanggala-402, was conducting a…

A monk, Thammakorn Wangpreecha in Thailand has chopped off his own head using a guillotine as an offering to Buddha in the hope he would be reincarnated as a 'higher spiritual being'. It was gathered that Wangpreecha, 68, had reportedly…

Nigerian football coach, Henry Chukwudi Opara and his Indian accomplice have been arrested on charges of cheating people in the guise of sending valuable gifts and foreign currency on social media. It was gathered that the 31-year-old…

Nigerian student, Nwaokorie Chikezi Patrick has been arrested in Selangor, Malaysia for allegedly duping a school headmistress of almost 13 million naira. The 41-year-old, who is a private college student is facing 24 charges of cheating…

Fact-check on the claim made by former Aviation Minister, Oluwafemi Fani-Kayode that Nigerian ship with 7,200 penises was impounded in China has shown that it's an unconfirmed report from a satirical website. According to Social media…

22 former soldiers have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Turkish court for their roles in a failed 2016 bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The judgement was passed on Wednesday April 7 after a sweeping political…

A 28-year-old man identified as Darren Manaog Peñaredondo has died after he was allegedly forced to do 300 squat-like exercises by police as punishment for violating Covid-19 quarantine rules in Philippines. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that…

A woman discovered at her son's wedding that the bride is her long-lost daughter. The woman was attending the wedding in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on Wednesday, March, 31, when she noticed the birthmark on the bride's hand and…

A Chinese factory worker, Wang Long jumped into a super-heated 900C steel furnace after allegedly losing £6,000 on the stock market. The 34-year-old  worker went missing from a night shift at the Chinese steel factory where he worked…

A train carrying around 490 people crashed into a truck and derailed killing at least 48 people and more than 100 others injured in eastern Taiwan. The train was said to have come off the rails in a tunnel just north of Hualien causing…

Two girls, aged 14 and 15, were dragged into a forest and gang-raped by eight men for hours until they passed out after going out to celebrate Holi in India. The eight men, aged between 19 and 22, and the two girls had gone out on Monday…

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan announced on Tuesday that a Japanese woman in her 60s died several days after being administered a dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The woman, said to have no underlying conditions or…

About 240 million scam phone calls have been intercepted by an online anti-telecom fraud platform of China's Ministry of Public Security to date, said a spokesperson with the ministry Friday. Besides phone calls, police departments also…

A spike in suicides across Japan last year has resulted in the appointment of a Minister of Loneliness, who will strive to address the consequences of isolation and depression triggered in part by the global coronavirus pandemic.…