More than 18.5 million children in Nigeria have no access to education, with girls accounting for more than half the number, the United Nations Children’s Fund has said. This is a staggering surge in cases of out-of-school children in Africa’s ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah did not mince words when defending his place as he declared he is the best football striker in the world. The Egypt international is on track to win the English Premier League Golden Boot. He also ...

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) says it will welcome APC national leader Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other aspirants willing to contest elective positions in 2023 on the party’s platform. SDP acting national chairman Supo Shonibare, who stated ...

Billionaire, Elon Musk, on Friday said his $44 billion deal for micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, is temporarily on hold. Musk disclosed this in a tweet via his Twitter handle, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts. “Twitter ...

Nollywood actress Rosy Meurer has hailed her husband, Olakunle churchill saying he is what every man should aspire to be. Thanking him for loving her and making love a reality for her, Rosy wrote; ”I love and admire you not ...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three residents of the territory for allegedly killing Terungwa Stephanie, a 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member. Stephanie was declared missing after leaving her residence for Community Development ...

The FESTAC Deanary of the Justice Peace Development Commission (JPDC), Catholic Church, says it has mobilised its officials ahead of the 2023 general elections. The commission, with its record in election monitoring and observation in Nigeria, disclosed this at its ...

  The governing Council of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) has appointed Professor (Mrs) Adenike Temidayo Oladiji as the eighth substantive Vice Chancellor of the University. The Council presided over by the Pro-Chancellor, Chairman of Council, Ambassador (Dr.) ...

    A newlywed couple left their guests stunned when they set themselves on fire in a one-of-a-kind wedding send off. Professional stunt duo Ambyr Bambyr and Gabe Jessop treated their guests to a “Hunger Games”-style wedding ceremony. They exited ...

    Michelle Jackson, the ex-wife of ace Nigerian music producer, Michael Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has revealed why their marriage crashed. Michelle, who is a United Kingdom-based model, returned to Nigeria in late April, 2022. In an ...

  Nollywood actress, Adunni Ade has accused her colleagues in the movie industry who hide behind fake accounts to body-shame her. The mother of two boys lambasted his colleagues saying that most of the actresses with “big nyash” have nothing ...

Ibrahim Maqari, imam of the National Mosque, Abuja has reacted to Deborah Samuel’s killing saying indeed Muslims have some red lines that should not be crossed. Absolving her killers, Mr Maqari hinted grave consequences awaited persons who crossed the religion’s ...

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is dead. He died today, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. The ministry also confirmed there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags across ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has expressed sadness over the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto State. We had earlier reported that the student who was identified as Deborah ...

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele was on Thursday, spotted at the Presidential Villa Abuja, where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari. Although the meeting held behind closed doors, Emefiele failed to disclose his mission in ...

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court sitting at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos has sentenced a 31-year-old Physics Teacher, Oluwajuwon Soetan and his brother, Olugbenga Soetan, a driver with a bank in Lagos to cumulative ten years imprisonment. Oluwajuwon worked at Bizben ...

    Growing up, identical twins Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak did just about everything in sync. “We played together, slept together, ate together,” Jill, 30, of Yorba Linda, California, tells PEOPLE. “My parents would talk about how we had ...

A Sokoto government official has allegedly threatened that more Christians in Nigeria will be murdered if they say things considered disrespectful to their revered Prophet Muhammad, following the gruesome killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian female student of Shehu Shagari ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, three bills aimed at improving the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing/proliferation financing framework in Nigeria. The bills are: the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, ...

Renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has advised the Federal Government to pay ransom to the terrorists holding the 62 abducted passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train. Gumi also advised the government to deal with the bandits with caution because of ...

Russia has said it will be forced to take “retaliatory steps” over its neighbour Finland’s move to join Nato. A foreign ministry statement said the move would seriously damage bilateral relations, as well as security and stability in northern Europe. ...

The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House. President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”. It’s the highest official total in the world ...

Whitemoney is currently trending on twitter because of his new single — ‘Na We-We’. He dropped the song first thing this morning, which made a lot of tweeps says music is definitely not his calling. Some said for what the ...

The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, speaks during an oversight of the Moniya Railway station in Ibadan on May 11, 2022. The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, on Wednesday asked the Chinese ...

A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and popular sociopolitical activist, Aisha Yesufu, has condemned the killing of a christian student in Sokoto State, identified as Deborah Samuel. In their separate reactions, Oby and Yesufu while condemning the incident, ...