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After eight months of decline, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 15.36 per cent in December 2021, from 15.50 per cent recorded in November. The Statistician-General of the Federation, Simon Harry, disclosed this on Monday during a press briefing at ...

Bobrisky has said he has a lot of surgeries to be done this year. He announced this on social media saying his last surgery has affected his face and now making his face FAT. He says some fat are actually ...

DJ Cuppy has tweeted at Kanye West authoritatively telling him he is not the richest Black Man, but her godfather, Aliko Dangote is. Kanye in during an appearance on Hollywood Unlocked hosted by Jason Lee, had claimed he is the ...

The Olubadan-in-Council, made up of Ibadan High Chiefs and kingmakers, yesterday resolved controversies over who will succeed the late Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogunguniso 1, who passed away on January 2. According to the High Chiefs, they are unanimous ...

Nigerian footballer, Abba Bichi has urged Nigerians to have a rethink about blaming his religion, when a Muslim commits a crime. He says when a Muslim person commits a crime, the crime is not committed by Islam — which is ...

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) has estimated that Nigerian businesses lost N10.72 trillion ($26.1billion) within 222 days President Muhammdu Buhari shut down Twitter operations across Nigeria. “In business terms, the cost of the seven-month shutdown of Twitter ...

Super Eagles players will receive $10,000 each for the victories over Egypt and Sudan at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. This comes after the Nigeria Football Federation and the Eagles reached an agreement over the mode of ...

Residents of Gituamba village in Gatanga, Murang’a county have been left in utter shock after a middle-aged woman poisoned her two daughters and committed suicide Sunday morning. The woman is said to have left a suicide note behind in which ...

The Lagos State Government has announced that traffic on Dopemu road in the Agege area will be diverted for three months to work on the Babajide Sanwo-Olu Road. The Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion would start on ...

    Amber Rose on Sunday took to Instagram to distance herself from a nearly-seven-year-old tweet in which she predicted ex Kanye ‘Ye’ West would be humiliated by the Kardashian family after his relationship with Kim Kardashian was over. In ...

Jordan Cashmyer, a young woman who was previously featured on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, has died. She was 26. On Sunday, Jordan’s mother Jessica Cashmyer announced the news of her death in a statement on Facebook, which was written from ...

The coroner’s inquest into the death of Dowen College student Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr) commenced on Saturday at the Epe Magistrate Court. After hearing the parties, the presiding magistrate, Mikail Kadiri, ordered the Police to immediately release copies of statements obtained ...

A 40-year-old man was burnt to death in a fire incident that gutted his semi-permanent house in Mûûru village of Kirinyaga Central constituency, Kirinyaga county, Kenya. According to Kirinyaga county fire department official John Kiama, the fire started at around ...

Actress Toyin Abraham’s husband, Kolawole Ajeyemi is a year older today. And his proud wife took to her Instagram page to celebrate him on his special day and also made Timi Dakolo to surprise him. View this post on Instagram ...

Due to technical glitches, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the 8:00 a.m. train ride from Ujevwu in Delta from January 17. Fidet Okhiria, NRC’s managing director, explained that measures were in place to rectify the issues at the ...

A Somali government spokesman, Mohamed Moalimuu, was injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Sunday, a police source said. Police spokesman, Abdifitah Aden, said that a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moalimu’s vehicle ...

A Mother and her son have killed the younger sibling for money ritual. The son simply identified as Afeez Olalere confessed to the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command that his mother encouraged him to kill his kid brother ...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress and 2023 Presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has visited the family of the late Christopher Alao-Akala in Ogbomosho. The visit was to commiserate with with his family over the demise of the ...

  Four employees of an Oando Service Station in Alapere, Ketu Lagos have been arrested by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) for allegedly defrauding their employer, Mrs Funmi Alebiosu of N83 million.   The suspects identified as Obande Emmanuel, Dauda Akeem, ...

  Chimamanda Adichie was filmed playing the role of Cupid after a man brought her a book to sign for his girlfriend.   Chimamanda was in Lagos,  Nigeria, over the weekend for an event.   During her book signing event, as people ...

  Ebonyi government has warned residents of the state against obeying the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ahead of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s court outing.   IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful had announced that a sit-at-home protest will ...

Grammy Award winner, Burna Boy has cried out on social media saying HE DOESN’T WANT TO HAVE EMOTIONS AGAIN and he is willing to pay any amount to achieve that. The singer begged his fans to fill him in if ...

Omoooh!!! It’s getting really closer! Filmmaker Bimpe Akintunde, has narrated how she and her daughter narrowly escaped bandits attack on Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Bimpe said the attack happened immediately after Oni Garri, around 5pm!! Taking to her instagram page to narate ...

Obi Cubana has disclosed he is willing to sponsor the hawker who gave money to persons who were being transported to prison in a Nigerian Correctional Service van. The young hawker, Ekuma Jeremiah, was caught on camera in the Ajah ...

More than 72 hours after the Federal Government announced the lifting of the ban on Twitter, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is yet to tweet. Several media aides of the President have resumed using the platform since the ...