Nigerian author, Onyeka Nwelue has lost his father. The author shared the news on Facebook as he revealed that his father died on Sunday morning, August 14. “My father has departed this morning,” the academic visitor at Oxford University ...

  The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered the police and other security agencies in the state to fish out the killers of a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh. Odeh, who was the school’s beauty pageant ...

A Kremlin official has betrayed Vladimir Putin and offered to secretly negotiate with the West, it has been claimed. The unnamed Russian elite has reportedly been in touch with enemy intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI5. A so-called ‘situation ...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit the UK next month for the first time since the Platinum Jubilee to attend two charity events – despite their ongoing row with the government over police protection. The couple will travel ...

Pastor David Ibiyeomie, founder of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt on Sunday said if he were in office, he would sack many government workers because they are very useless. Ibiyeomie, in a sermon, said he had worked before to a point ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the parents of the Nigerian students should beg the federal government to fulfil the promises it had with the Union so as to put an end to the ongoing ...

  Gunmen have abducted a Catholic priest along Okigwe-Umunneochi Road, between Imo and Abia states, Nigeria’s South-east. The incident happened on Friday. The abducted priest, Chinedu Nwadike, is the deputy registrar of the Spiritan University, Abia State. He was abducted ...

  The Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, and Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, have signed a peace pact to de-escalate religious tensions and ensure peaceful and secure atmosphere in the nation, ahead of the 2023 elections. The peace ...

Peter Obi Can’t Get Over 200 Supporters For Kaduna Rally Unless It Holds On Twitter: El-Rufai  Governor Nasir El-Rufai has mocked plans by supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to hold a two million-man march ahead of ...

  The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC) has put the current and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) under scrutiny. The committee said it discovered that the fund’s management failed to produce relevant documents to justify ...

Mr Dele Momodu has revealed his phone conversation this morning with PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He said Atiku’s aide had called him this morning and asked him to hold on for Mr President, who wants to speak with him. ...

Mr Macaroni Raises Alarm Over Threat Against His Life, Family For Not Supporting A ‘Particular Presidential Candidate’ Nigerian comedian and skit maker popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has said threats have been made against him and his family by supporters ...

  A 19-year-old comedian, Eyinatayo Iluyomade, has landed in prison for playing pranks by dropping a threat note of robbery at the counter of FirstBank, in Ondo town, Ondo State. Iluyomade was charged to court by the police on three ...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the position of the Federal Government in the detention and trial of Senator Ike Ekweremadu for alleged ...

Nigeria beat South Korea 1-0 on Sunday in the Group C football match at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, Complete Sports reports. Esther Onyenezide’s late strike gave the Falconets victory in their second match of ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the reintroduction of History as “a stand-alone subject” into the basic and junior secondary schools in the state. According to a memo addressed to private school owners and signed by the Director of Research ...

  Will Smith and wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, were spotted together in public for the first time since the infamous Oscars slap, which occurred in March. The couple enjoyed an afternoon date at Nobu Malibu on Saturday as they were photographed ...

  Annie Idibia has reacted following reports that her husband, Tuface has impregnanted a banker. Tuface’s management, led by Efe Omorogbe, responded to the viral claim by refuting it and labeling it as malicious and false. In the midst of ...

An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation. The blaze started just before 9 a.m. ...

Activist, Deji Adeyanju has hit at the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying that he is raising terrorists in the name of running for president. Adeyanju, in a tweet on Sunday lamented that everyone who criticised Obi had been ...

Munkaila Ado, a 27-year-old houseboy in Bauchi, has been arrested for the gruesome murder of his boss’ 13-year-old girl daughter after he impregnated her. Ado allegedly impregnated the minor and connived with her mother to take her to Gombe State ...

A woman has been arrested for attempting to sell her seven-year-old son to strangers in the hopes of receiving £4,000 in return. The mother-of-three, 36, allegedly advertised her son as being up for sale in an attempt to pay off ...

  Six people, which include players and officials of a grassroots female team, were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in Uronigbe, a border community between Edo and Delta states in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. Punch correspondent learnt that ...

  The governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Saturday said the All Progressives Congress would lose the case challenging his victory in the July 16 governorship poll because the election was free and fair. Adeleke spoke in Ijebu-Jesa, ...

Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, and her husband, Pastor Blessed Uzochikwa, on Saturday tied the knot in a church ceremony. This is coming a day after the couple celebrated their traditional marriage ceremony in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Singer and ...