A court in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Monday discharged four out of six protesters arrested in November for demonstrating outside the National Assembly. Last year, Africa’s most populous country was swept by weeks of widespread protests sparked by anger over ...
Read More »Fire guts Agboju market in Lagos
Lagos police command, on Monday, confirmed that there was a fire incident at Agboju Market in Festac. According to the police, the fire started at about 0230 hrs. A statement signed by CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said: “The command contacted the ...
Read More »Nigeria’s security better now than it was in 2015 —Lai Mohammed
President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Monday said although the country is facing security issues, the security situation is better than it was during the 2015 government. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this claim while speaking at a ...
Read More »Four footballers, club president, pilot perish in plane crash
Four footballers and the president of the Brazilian fourth-tier men’s club Palmas Futebol e Regatas have died in a plane crash. The pilot also died in the accident shortly after take-off on Sunday in the central Brazilian state of Toncantin, ...
Read More »Adeyanju knocks Atiku Abubakar for abandoning Nigeria, relocating to Dubai
Deji Adeyanju, has called out Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President for abandoning Nigeria for Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. According to Adeyanju, Atiku, who contested the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ...
Read More »Three men beat 23-year old to death over alleged phone theft
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended three men for beating a 23-year-old man, Samuel Ajibade, to death over an alleged phone theft. The suspects narrowly escaped ...
Read More »Trey Songz arrested after altercation with cop
Trey Songz has been arrested. The Back Home rapper was taken into custody on Sunday after he was recorded getting into an altercation with a police officer at the AFC Championship Game, TMZ reports. During the game between the Kansas ...
Read More »Fake policeman arrested in Lagos
A man, David Omoruyi, has been arrested by policemen attached to the Area ‘E’ Command of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly having in his possession a fake police identity card and 30kg of weeds suspected to be Indian ...
Read More »Mexican president Lopez Obrador tests positive for Covid-19, symptoms mild
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Sunday on Twitter that he had tested positive for the Coronavirus. Obrador added that his symptoms were light and that he was receiving medical treatment. Mexico is in the grip of a ...
Read More »Immigration spokesperson in Edo, Bridget Esene abducted
The Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs Bridget Esene, has been kidnapped by suspected gunmen in Benin on Sunday. It was gathered that Esene was kidnapped at Ikhueniro near Benin City. The ...
Read More »Diego Maradona’s doctor forged football icon’s signature to get medical records, prosecutors confirm
Diego Maradona’s personal doctor did forge the football star’s signature to get copies of his medical records, prosecutors have confirmed. Leopoldo Luque was nailed by handwriting experts called in to examine documents seized in a raid on his home ...
Read More »Nigerian man, Adebayo Abudu murdered in South Africa, as NIDCOM files petition
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) said it has forwarded a petition to the Nigerian High Commission in South Africa, seeking investigation into the killing of a Nigerian, Adedayo Abudu. Abudu was ...
Read More »Gunmen abduct seven children, guard in Abuja orphanage
Suspected kidnappers have abducted seven children from the Rachael’s Orphanage Home, Abaji Area Council, Abuja. The gunmen also abducted a security guard identified as Joseph Mathew, including two housewives; Rukaiyyat Salihu, and Suwaiba Momoh, during the attack on Saturday. ...
Read More »Igangan/Fulani crisis: Town presents evidence, alleges herders collected N50m ransoms, raped 15 women
Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State on Sunday recounted their ordeals in the hands of Fulani herdsmen. The community leaders, who spoke during a visit of the state government delegation to the town, stated that they ...
Read More »Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport becomes world’s busiest airport in 2020
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was the world’s busiest airport with 43.768 million passengers in 2020, the airport said on Monday, the first time for a Chinese airport to reach this ranking. The data broke the record of the Atlanta International ...
Read More »Buhari an incompetent, disappointing leader – Attahiru Jega
Attahiru Jega, erstwhile chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, has excoriated the Buhari administration over its perceived mediocrity and laziness in handling critical national issues. Reeling out the scorecard of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Jega, a professor of political science, ...
Read More »Toke, Rita Dominic inspires Funke Akindele’s fashion style
Toke Makinwa over the weekend revealed her new boyfriend refused to let them take their own Lori and Micheal picture in the snow. She says the bush in him is so strong and so she let it slide. She took ...
Read More »Killer Michael Adebowale contracts coranavirus in prison, fights for breathe as he is placed on oxygen
The killer of soldier Lee Rigby is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus while serving his sentence at Broadmoor, according to reports. Michael Adebowale, 29, has reportedly been taken from the high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, to a ...
Read More »Silence from leaders over herdsmen worrisome – Bukola Saraki
Former Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki has expressed his disappointment over silence from major stakeholders on the recent killings and criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen in the Southwest. The former governor also called on political leaders to rise to quell ...
Read More »Fame has taught me, not all that glitters is gold – BBNaija’s Vee
Reality star and ex-BBNaija housemate, Vee has spoken out about what fame thought her. Vee shared the secret with her fans on Instagram. This was revealed during an interactive session with her fans. A fan had asked her “Has the ...
Read More »Nkechi Blessing finally addresses those calling her prostitute
Nkechi Blessing has finally taken out time to address those calling her a prostitute. Taking to social media, she questioned why anyone should ask a 32-year old woman what she does with her body. She also said it;s no longer ...
Read More »Anger as elderly grandfather weds ”under-aged” girl
Nigerians on social media have reacted to a souvenir shared online from a wedding believed to have taken place between an elderly grandfather and a young girl.The wedding allegedly took place in the Northern part of the country. Many said ...
Read More »“My abductors threatened to transfer me to Boko Haram” – Anchor University DVC
Prof. Johnson Fatokun, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Anchor University, Lagos, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of his abductors. The professor was released last week after spending three days in kidnappers’ den, and according to him, he together ...
Read More »Nollywood veteran actor Dan Nkoloagu is dead
Nigerian popular Nollywood veteran Dan Nkoloagu is dead. Nkoloagu died on Friday, January 22, after a brief illness at the age of 83. His son Dan Nkoloagu Jnr, announced his death on Facebook, as he shares photo of the ...
Read More »Ifeanyi Adefarasin’s sweet birthday message to husband Paul Adefarasin
Ifeanyi Adefarasin, wife to House on the Rock pastor, Paul Adefarasin, has written a sweet birthday message for her husband. Paul Adefarasin, is celebrating his 58th birthday today, 25th January 2021, and his wife took to social media to pour ...
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