Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has announced that it will bar Russian state media from running ads or monetising on its platforms anywhere in the world, the parent company of social media company Facebook said ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned down an offer by Washington to help evacuate him from Ukraine, US media outlets say. Mr Zelensky said “the fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride”, the Associated Press reported, citing a senior ...

  Poland will not play their World Cup qualifying play-off tie against Russia because of the nation’s recent invasion of Ukraine, according to the head of the national federation. The two sides are set to go head-to-head on March 24 ...

  Manchester United have ended their deal with club sponsor Aeroflot as a result of the growing crisis in Ukraine. The club announced on Friday they had withdrawn the airline’s sponsorship rights following the Russian invasion of its neighbouring country. ...

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Friday sentenced Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, and his accomplices – Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu to life imprisonment. The court found Evans guilty of the kidnap of Mr Donatius ...

    A pregnant housewife, Jamila Ardo, has been remanded for allegedly kidnapping herself and collecting a ransom from her lover. Ardo, who hails from Wauru Jabbe in the Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, allegedly abducted herself ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. The President assented to the bill at past midday on Friday at a brief ceremony held at the Council Chamber of the Aso Villa in Abuja. The ...

A paramilitary officer attached to the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (task force), Monday John, has been feared killed during an attack on the agency around the Kara bridge area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. Punch Metro ...

Kanye West ‘s latest romantic interest, influencer Chaney Jones, 24, looked identical to his estranged wife Kim Kardashian as she hit the beaches of Miami on Wednesday. The brunette bombshell could have easily been mistaken for the Keeping Up With ...

  Russia has expressed its regret after UEFA stripped the country of the right to host the 2022 UEFA Champions League final. The European final was scheduled to take place at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg on May 28. ...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin has ordered that a 23-year-old lady, Nike Owolabi, be remanded in a Federal Correctional Service Centre for allegedly abducting a newborn baby at Ajisafe Hospital, Omu Aran in Irepodun local government area of Kwara ...

The police in Ondo have arrested Nkanu Patrick for impersonating an Assistant Superintendent of Police. Mr Nkanu, 50, was arrested by a team of police officers from the Ore Division on Wednesday at about 2 p.m. The police team were ...

Troops of Operation Thunder Strike/Whirl Punch have killed 55 bandits around Labi general area along the Kaduna – Birnin Gwari road. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja Thursday. He said the bandits came ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were ridiculed after intervening in the Ukraine crisis with a statement condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion, amid jokes that the Russian president would be ‘shaking in his boots’. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wrote on ...

Again, the President, Major-General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), has disclosed that he is looking forward to when he will hand over the baton to the next president in 2023 and be addressed as a former president. The president said this on ...

Nollywood actor Saint Obi and his wife, Linda Amobi, are battling over the custody of their three children after a divorce suit. According to a lawsuit filed by the actor’s lawyers in Suit No: HCT/128/2019, the actor is alleging an ...

Tension has again enveloped the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State following the kidnap of a traditional ruler, Diket Gupiya, by gunmen. Gupiya is the paramount ruler of Pushit District, the country home of the state deputy governor, Sonny ...

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has called for prayers for Ukraine which has been invaded by Russian forces. In a video on his verified Facebook page, Apostle Suleman said, “We are going to ...

  The Chairman, Innoson Group of Companies, Innocent Chukwuma, has so far received 109 cows from friends and associates, in support of his mother’s funeral. The contributors included banks, companies, individuals and others. The Nnewi businessman and the manufacturer of ...

  Marlian music act Ilerioluwa Oladimeji aka Mohbad has said raised the alarm over attempts on his life by suspected members of the Marlian group. He said should anything untoward happens to him, Naira Marley and the crew members should ...

  A man, who posed as a medical doctor, has been arraigned before a court yesterday in Ede, Osun State, for allegedly cutting off a patient’s hand. Yusuf Olaniyi is being tried for attempted murder, false representation, breach of public ...

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in an address on Friday said that his country had been left to fight Russia on its own after a full-scale invasion was launched on Thursday. Mr Zelensky noted that the attacks had killed over 130 ...

Up to 1,000 Russians have descended on central Moscow calling on Vladimir Putin to halt his invasion of Ukraine. Police clashed with demonstrators as hundreds of people flooded the historic Pushkin Square, one of the busiest areas in Moscow. Locals ...

  The Lagos State Government, through the state Ministry of Transport, has urged Lagosians to always demand tickets from officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority when arrested. The Assistant Director, Ministry of Transport, Olayinka Olawole, who said this ...

  A newly discovered piece of destructive software found circulating in Ukraine has hit hundreds of computers, according to researchers at the cybersecurity firm ESET, part of what Ukrainian officials said was an intensifying wave of hacks aimed at the ...