The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned its impeached Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, against actions capable of destabilising the legislative arm and heating the polity. This comes after Obasa, on Saturday, while addressing his supporters on his arrival from ...
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Veteran actress, Oluwabukola Ajoke, aka Bukky Wright has opened up about her time away from Nigeria and how she changed careers during her stay in the United States of America. Speaking in an interview with Saturday Beats, she said, “I ...
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Manchester City came from a goal behind to beat Chelsea 3-1 in their Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium Saturday night. Chelsea broke the deadlock in the 3rd minute with a strike from Noni Madueke. City got the ...
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Cody Gakpo struck twice as Premier League leaders Liverpool thrashed Ipswich 4-1 to maintain their six-point lead over Arsenal, who survived Myles Lewis-Skelly’s controversial red card to snatch a 1-0 win at Wolves on Saturday. Arne Slot’s side cruised ...
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The University of Ilorin has appointed two new Deputy Vice Chancellors, Professors Taibat Odunola-Bakare and Mukhtar Adeiza Etudaiye, to succeed Professors Olubunmi Omotesho and Sulaiman Ambali, whose tenures ended in December 2024. A statement issued on Friday by the ...
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A woman in Eswatini, identified as Dumsile Dludlu has been remanded for allegedly snooping through the WhatsApp account of her husband, Samukeliso Matse, without his consent. Dludlu’s act is said to contravene Eswatini’s Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act of ...
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Iranian police arrested two young women after the publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country’s strict dress code, local media reported Friday. “Not long ago, two people, in the ...
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Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has urged the 2024 Batch C, Stream 2 corps members deployed to the state for their mandatory one-year national service to be worthy ambassadors of the National Youth Service Corps. Diri was represented by ...
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Former Chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers and the Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Adebanji Alabi, has cautioned telecommunications service providers against ripping off Nigerians with tariff increases without commensurate good services. Alabi, who bemoaned the poor services ...
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A heartwarming moment has captured the internet’s attention, as a video of Cameroonian football legend and President of the Cameroonian Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o, recognising a former teammate working as a security guard goes viral. The encounter reportedly took ...
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The Nigeria Police Force has narrated how its operatives in Ogun State rescued the abducted wife of a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who was abducted at her residence in the Arepo area of the state ...
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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of board Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. This is contained in a State House release ...
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Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has lost his elder brother, Sunday Makinde. In a statement on Friday in Ibadan, the state capital, the Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, said the deceased died on Friday at ...
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A United Airlines flight, a Boeing 787-8 outbound from Lagos to Washington Dulles, on Thursday, declared an emergency and made an air return to Lagos. Having established a return track to Lagos, PUNCH Online gathered that the aircraft crew ...
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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, on Friday, arrested two more suspects allegedly involved in the abduction of Mrs Folasade Odumosu, the wife of a former Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu. The suspects are 27-year-old Agbojule Smart, ...
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A wave of unease has swept through Gbagi, located in the Egbeda Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State, following the discovery of the lifeless body of an unidentified elderly man. The body was found beside the road on ...
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Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump’s “worrying” threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway. In a ...
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US President Donald Trump has said he is open to the owner of Tesla and the platform X, Elon Musk, buying TikTok. TikTok was recently banned in the United States because of national security concerns linked to its Chinese ...
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The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has announced a reward of ₦5 million and a bungalow for an award-winning Math teacher, Kayode Adewale, who was recently shortlisted for the prestigious $1 million Global Teacher Prize. Adewale, known for ...
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The Amotekun Corps has mobilised over 2,000 personnel to flush out bandits and other criminals operating in forests in the South-West region. Ogun and Osun states top the list with targeted 1,000 recruits each, while Oyo recruited 480 men last ...
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A 23-year-old Turkish OnlyFans model, Ezra Vandan, popularly known as Azranur AV, has been arrested for publicly vowing to have sex with 100 men in one day. Vandan was reportedly detained by cops in Istanbul after declaring her mission ...
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Court Orders Lady to Pay ₦150k as damages for failing to visit boyfriend after receiving ₦3k Transport Fare A Magistrate Court in Ilesa, Osun State, has ordered Rhoda Adu to pay ₦150,000 to her boyfriend, Olapitan Sola. She collected ...
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FirstBank’s FirstGem: Redefining Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria By Tosin Ajayi The story of women’s contribution to Nigeria’s economy is as old as the nation itself. It is no secret that women are the largest untapped source of ...
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WEMA BANK ANNOUNCES FINAL TRANCHE OF CAPITAL RAISE EXERCISE …Set to raise additional N200 billion in combination of Rights & Special Placement to complete CBN recapitalization requirement. Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully ...
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Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has responded to United States President Donald Trump’s recent executive order recognising only two genders: male and female. The policy, part of a series of directives signed by Trump upon resuming ...
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