Manchester City have announced that owner Sheikh Mansour will pay for the flight and transfer costs for supporters on the official club trip to the Champions League final. City are set to fly out to Portugal to meet Chelsea on ...
Read More »Jason Derulo welcomes first child with girlfriend
Jason Derulo has welcomed his first child with girlfriend Jena Frumes. The 31-year-old singer became a dad earlier this month after the model gave birth to their son Jason King Derulo, and the new mum admitted her life has ...
Read More »Ex-Kwara governor Ahmed breaks silence on being grilled by EFCC
Former Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed has opened up on why he visited the headquarter of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in Abuja. The former governor said he was not arrested or grilled over alleged N9 billion ...
Read More »Buhari seeks Senate approval for fresh N2.3trn external loan
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has asked the Senate to approve another N2.3trillion ($6.18bn) external loan. This is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read at plenary on Tuesday. Buhari said the ...
Read More »Coronavirus victim believed to be dead wakes up moments before she’s cremated
An elderly woman thought to be dead woke up moments before being cremated. Shakuntala Gaikwad tested positive for Covid-19 at the beginning of May and isolated at her home in Baramati in Mudhale, India. When the 78-year-old started to develop ...
Read More »Traditional Worshippers To Get Official Public Holiday In Lagos.
The Chairman, House Committee on Lands, Representing Ikeja II Constituency at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adedamola Kasunmu, has recently revealed the plans of the Lagos state house to pass a bill, recognising a special holiday for the ...
Read More »How magistrate granted Baba ijesha bail despite JUSUN strike – Lawyer
Adesina Ogunlana, lawyer to embattled actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has narrated how the thespian was granted bail by a magistrate on Monday despite the ongoing strike by judiciary workers. Baba Ijesha is being detained by the ...
Read More »NAFDAC approves emergency use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday gave Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine the nod for conditional emergency use for Nigerians from 18 years Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this ...
Read More »Senate seeks review of NIN policy as requirement for JAMB registration
The Senate, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Ministry of Education, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to review the implementation of its policy making the National Identification Number (NIN) a mandatory requirement for ...
Read More »16-year-old secondary school student commits suicide
A 16-year-old final year student of Miracle Senior High School at Barkoniaba in the Sunyani municipality of the Bono Region, Ghana has allegedly committed suicide. Leticia Kyere Pinaman is alleged to have been found hanging at the school’s dining hall ...
Read More »Naomi Campbell secretly welcomes baby girl at 50
From supermodel to super mom! Naomi Campbell announced on Tuesday, May 18, that she welcomed her first child. “A beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother,” the actress, 50, captioned an Instagram photo of her hand ...
Read More »El-Rufai sacks nurses, warns KASU lecturers over strike
Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sacked all nurses below Level 14, who abandoned their duty posts to participate in the strike spearheaded by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He also threatened to sack lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU), who ...
Read More »Okowa sacks CoS, SSG, commissioners, political aides
Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has dissolved the State Executive Council and sacked all the commissioners and political appointees. Former Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu made this known today. Aniagwu said the decision was taken after Tuesday’s state executive ...
Read More »“I’m not a Nigerian artiste. I don’t make money from Nigeria” — Burna Boy
Once again, Grammy award-winning artiste, Burna Boy, has sparked a debate on the Nigerian Twitter space over a tweet in which he claimed that he does not make money from Nigeria. The singer made the statement while responding to various ...
Read More »We are not aware Baba Ijesha has been granted bail – Police spokesman
The Lagos State police command has said it’s unaware of the reported bail granted to embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha. Recall that the lawyer of the ace comedian had on Monday evening announced that ...
Read More »Nigeria suspends issuance of new passports till June 1
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has announced the suspension of receiving and processing of all fresh passport applications nationwide until June 1. Babandede, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that a new passport ...
Read More »Emir of Kano, passengers escape death as Kano-Abuja Max Air engine fails
The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero, and scores of other passengers escaped death after the engine of a Max Air aircraft flying the Kano-Abuja route failed. Daily Nigerian reports that the fault was noticed 10 minutes after take-off from ...
Read More »Gunmen invade sharia court in Katsina, kidnap Judge
Gunmen have reportedly invaded a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State and kidnapped a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3pm on Tuesday. ...
Read More »Benzema back in France squad for Euros after six-year absence
Karim Benzema has been named in France’s 26-man squad for this summer’s Euro 2020 tournament, with the Real Madrid star earning a recall from Didier Deschamps to the national team for the first time in six years. Benzema had been a ...
Read More »Many Nigerians hypertensive but unaware – Expert
The president of the Nigeria Hypertension Society (NHS) Professor Ayodele Omotoso says one in every three Nigerian is hypertensive. The professor, who made the claim in a press statement issued to mark World Hypertension Day (WHD), explained that studies conducted ...
Read More »Gunmen kidnap UNIJOS professor, husband in Plateau
A professor with the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Jos, Grace Ayanbimpe, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The Punch learnt that the professor was abducted in the early hours of Monday alongside her husband by the gunmen who stormed ...
Read More »Dangote’s son-in-law Jamil advises those intending to marry
Dangote’s son-in-law, Jamil Abubakar has given a word of advice to those intending to marry asking them not to be a liability to themselves and others. Jamil in a tweet pleaded with his friends and family intending to get married ...
Read More »Two policemen killed in fresh attack on Ubakala police station (Photos)
Gunmen in the early hours of Monday set ablaze the Ubakala Divisional Police Station in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia and killed two policemen. The attackers also set ablaze all the vehicles in the premises. The ...
Read More »12-year-old girl raped & stabbed to death by paedo
The depraved beast who allegedly raped and stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death has been arrested. Sergey Matyushin, 49, is said to have followed Anastasia Guzhvina for several days before attacking her in the village of Bolshoe Kozino in Russia’s ...
Read More »Sharon Ojong effortlessly rocks a blue hair
Who else will dare? She turned 35 today tho. Happy birthday babes!!!
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