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The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has said that one of its personnel and nine inmates were killed when gunmen attacked its Correctional Centre in Jos, Plateau State on Sunday. Mr Francis Enobore, the Public Relations Officer of the Service, disclosed ...

A Portuguese football team Belenenses, has been hit with 13 cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus after a player recently returned from South Africa. The new variant was found after Belenenses played a Primeira Liga match against Benfica ...

A Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor, Babajde Sanwo-Olu, on Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Enforcement, Ayo Williams is dead. “Willy” as fondly called by colleagues and admirers, died late Sunday evening, after a brief illness. A senior ...

  Paris Saint-Germain superstar Lionel Messi has been awarded the 2021 Ballon d’Or. At a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Monday evening, the 34-year-old Argentine forward was crowned the world’s best player for the seventh time. It is a record ...

Two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in London bringing the total number of people with the strain identified in the UK to 11. The new London cases – one in Camden and the other in Wandsworth ...

Music act, Durella has turned into a businessman while also saying he has returned to the music scene. The singer who was always been compared to D’banj told Punch that though he is back in Nigeria and ready to drop ...

Henry Soembis Longs, a member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, is dead. The late Longs was the representative of Pankshin South constituency. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said he died in Jos, the capital, after ...

Nine staff of Zaria Local government Council abducted by kidnappers 19 days ago have regained their freedom. It was learnt that N40 million was paid as ransom before the release of the nine female victims from their abductors. A source ...

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has described the Lagos State EndSARS panel as “illegal”. Keyamo also claimed it was not within their jurisdiction to investigate Federal Government institutions and officers of the Nigeria Police ...

Chief Ben Adaji, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to permit responsible Nigerians to bear arms for self-defense.   Speaking at a media brief in Jalingo, the capital ...

  Singer Buju has revealed his feelings about his performance at the 02 Arena in London during Wizkid’s show, screaming he is just from Babcock.   He said, “I was at the 02 and I had people singing my songs ...

  A Mass Communication teacher with the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Ayatu Momoh is dead. It was gathered that he slumped and died at a community meeting on Sunday in Offa, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Momoh, an Igala ...

A businesswoman heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 80 pellets of cocaine. A statement ...

  Manchester United have confirmed the appointment of Ralf Rangnick as their interim boss, with the 63-year-old German returning to the dugout following a spell as manager of sports and development at Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow. The Red Devils have ...

A Nigerian lady, Hannatu Yahaya has died on her wedding day. Hannatu got married to Isyaka Yusuf, in Kawon Maigari, Kano, on Saturday, November 27, but sadly died on the same day. According to her family members, they were preparing ...

Czech President Milos Zeman has appointed the leader of a centre-right alliance Petr Fiala as prime minister on Sunday in a ceremony he performed from a plexiglass cubicle after testing positive for COVID-19. Fiala leads a bloc of five centre ...

Veteran Nollywood actor, Clem Ohameze has been gifted a sum of N8,000,000 for his surgery by Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin of Christ Mercy Land Ministries. Recall the actor recently recorded a video, where he informed his fans about hos ordeal ...

A co-defendant with alleged billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, Chiemeka Arinze, has died in prison custody. Evans is standing trial alongside, Joseph Emeka, Chiemeka Arinze and Udeme Upong, over the attempted kidnap of Chief Vincent Obianodo, ...

Ontario’s Ministry of Health has confirmed two cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in two individuals with recent travel from Nigeria.   The two travellers have been isolated, according to a statement by Ontario ministry of health.   “Today, the ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 116 concerned Nigerians filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to direct and compel President Muhammadu Buhari to take immediate steps to ensure the arrest of soldiers and police officers ...

The police have arrested a 78-year-old man, Moshood Habibu, for killing his elder brother over a land dispute in Ogun State. Habibu reportedly hacked his 94-year-old brother, Salisu Surakatu, to death with a cutlass, the Police Public Relations Officer in ...

Yet-to-be identified gunmen, suspected to be bandits, on Sunday attacked the Jos Correctional centre. The bandits were said to have pretended to be on a visit before they opened fire on reaching the gate of the correctional facility. A senior ...

Nollywood veteran actress, Joke Silva has made a shocking revelation of how she was blacklisted in Nollywood. According to the actress she had this job with this ‘big marketer’, but along the line, the job extended more than the agreed ...

Unknown men have killed an Imo State-born businessman, Anthony Mkpado at his home in Ika South Local Council of Delta State. It was learnt that the 58-year-old Agbor-based electronics dealer was killed on Wednesday at about 2:00 a.m. along old ...

Actress Didi Ekanem’s house has been gutted by fire. The actress shared the videos of her house burning last night while lamenting that’s all she’s got. All her properties, and some cash went with the blaxe. Watch the videos below… ...