In a direct challenge to the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has asked residents of the state to accept the old N500 and N1000 notes as legal tender. Mr El-Rufai gave the ...

  The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, will be stepping down after nine years at the helm of the world’s largest online video platform, she said in a blog post on Thursday. YouTube’s chief product officer, Neal Mohan, will be ...

  Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan is celebrating his 60th birthday on Friday by making an incredible $10million donation to Make-A-Wish. It is the largest donation ever received from an individual in the organization’s 43-year history. ‘For the past 34 ...

  Fighting erupted in some areas on the popular Lagos-Ikorodu expressway in Lagos State over the scarcity of the new naira notes and the hardship the policy has thrown Nigerians. On Friday morning, suspected touts in Mile 12, Ketu and ...

  The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has said that he had met the commercial banks and given them directives on how to make the old N200 naira notes available to Nigerians. Emefiele said this in ...

  A UK Pastor, Tobi Adegboyega has donated the sum of N4m to ailing Yoruba veteran actor, Chief Ojo Arowosafe, popularly known as Fadeyi Oloro. This comes after Daddy Freeze interviewed Fadeyi Oloro on Instagram. The live video session captured ...

  A court in South Africa has ordered the auction of a superyacht and two choice properties belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue as payment for a botched airline deal that resulted in the illegal arrest and ...

  Anambra Police Command has asked for the help of Nigerians to identify and reunite three children recently recovered from some suspects who are now in its custody with their parents. The Police Command, in a statement by DSP Ikenga ...

  A pregnant woman in Kano, Shema’u Sani Labaran, has died in the Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital over alleged negligence from doctors as a result of the new naira policy crisis. The late woman’s husband, Malam Bello Fancy, said her ...

  Dozens of enraged customers in Lebanon have taken matters into their own hands and attacked several banks in the country’s capital city of Beirut on Thursday, burning and protesting over the government-sanctioned withdrawal limit on citizens’ accounts since three ...

  A United States Senator John Fetterman has voluntarily checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek medical help against depression. The first-term Pennsylvania senator was admitted to hospital last week after feeling light-headed, an incident that ...

  He was born Habeeb Okikiola. But not many people know him as Habeeb. Rather they know him as Portable, a name he made famous ever since he contributed to the hit song, zahzoo Zehh featuring Olamide and Nigerian dancer ...

The regulating apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the modalities for reporting an over-charging Point of Sales (PoS0 agents. Mr Joseph Omayuku, CBN’s Director, Governor’s Department, at a briefing with journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital ...

  Tonto Dikeh’s estranged husband, Olakunle Churchill has penned a sweet note to the son he and the actress shares. King Andre is 7 today and just like his mom, his dad, Churchill has also penned a sweet note to ...

  Tragedy struck at Owena, Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State, when an SSS 2 student of Owena Community Grammar School, Mwafor Emmanuel, was found dead in a river. Mwafor, 19, it was gathered, went to the river ...

  Borussia Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi says eating African dishes, especially fufu is the secret to his speed. The striker who is of Nigerian descent netted the lone goal for the German side in their win over Chelsea in the Champions ...

  Paul Okoye of  P Square is not an happy man after he reportedly buys the sum of n40,000 cash with N70,000. Accoridng to him, he needed to pay for a certain visa fee, and it must be in CASH, ...

  Tonto Dikeh’s son with Olakunle Churchill, King Andre is 7 today. To celebrate him, his happy mum showed off the seven cakes she got for his special day. Celebrating him, she simply wrote; ”HAPPY 7th birthday to an Angel ...

  Soldiers avenging the killing of their colleague by a policeman on Tuesday stormed the Ogijo area of Ogun State to avenge his death and in the process, threw residents and business owners in the area into confusion Punch Metro ...

  The owners of the field where Prince Harry lost his virginity have said they ‘could put up a blue plaque’ to celebrate the occasion. Anna Pitt-Stanley and Dean Ellwood live in Splash Cottage, next to the site where the ...

Rihanna gushed over motherhood and her relationship with A$AP Rocky as she posed up a storm with her family for a sensational magazine cover shoot. The singer, 34, shocked fans as she revealed her second pregnancy by debuting her baby ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged Nigerians of Igbo ancestry who desire to participate in the general elections to vote for any candidate of their choice. IPOB made this assertion in a statement by its spokesperson, Emma ...

  Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday defended his administration’s currency redesign policy, which is causing hardship for millions of Nigerians. Mr Buhri admitted the difficulties the policy is causing but also listed what he said are the successes achieved so ...

  The Delta State Police Command has taken into custody persons described as “unguided youths/miscreants” following the unrest over naira scarcity. Scores of youths on Wednesday, in opposition to the non-availability of new naira notes, burned banks and vehicles. Some ...

  Funsho Adeoti, the estranged wife of Mercy Aigbe’s husband revealed that on Wednesday, February 15th was supposed to be their 20th wedding anniversary with the filmmaker. However Taking to a blog’s comment section to clarify their relationship stance, Funsho ...