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The remains of 34-year-old football enthusiast, Emmanuel Samuel, allegedly killed by a policeman in Abuja have been buried amid tears, Punch reports. The deceased, with his fiancée and friends, went to watch a football match on Sunday, July 11, when ...

A referee restored order after a controversial penalty decision by pulling out a gun. The extraordinary moment the match official strolled around the centre circle with the weapon in his hand was filmed by fans who kept a safe distance ...

Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been caught on video kneeling before the newly crowned Olu of Warri Ogiame Atuwatse 111. Obasanjo visited the monarch on Sunday during a coronation thanksgiving service in Warri, Delta State and well he ...

Ex-BBN stars, Gedoni and Khafi have welcomed a baby boy. Khafi revealed this on her Instagram page. Her post read: “Our miracle is here and he is perfect. “Thank you to everyone who joined our live gender and baby reveal.” ...

FIFA and the player’s union FIFPro are cooperating to evacuate male and female footballers who wish to leave Afghanistan, the global body’s secretary general Fatma Samoura told AFP on Sunday. Last week, hardline Islamist militants the Taliban took control in ...

  Big Brother Naija housemate, Maria has listed six housemates she would like to evict on Sunday. Recall that on Biggie instructed Maria to prank six housemates. Having won the Head of House for this week, Maria was given a ...

A fresh batch of 15 students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, were freed on Saturday, after they had spent 48 days in captivity. Baptist Convention President, Rev. Israel Akanji, supervised the reuniting of the freed students with their ...

Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, a drug dealer wanted for attempting to export 69.65kilograms of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the United Kingdom (UK), has been arrested. The suspect had tried to move the substances through the NAHCO export shed of the ...

  Arin Olowoporoku, one of the housemates who were evicted from the Big Brother Naija show last Sunday has said that even before she went for the show, she knew that people would judge her based on her appearance, particularly ...

The new Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has bestowed new titles on his mother, Gladys Durorike Emiko; and wife, Ivie Uhunoma Emiko, following his coronation as the 21st ruler of the Warri Kingdom. His mother, erstwhile Olori Atuwatse II, ...

  New Olu of Warri ascends throne   At exactly 3.30 p.m., Gabriel Awala, the Uwangue of Warri Kingdom, lowered the crown on Tsola Emiko as the 21st Olu of Warri. August 22, 20216 min readAs the Saturday rain poured ...

An Afghan mother has gone into labour on evacuation flight, forcing military plane to descend in altitude. The plane landed at a base in Germany. Air force officials said the woman gave birth to a baby girl at the Ramstein ...

Few months after emerging as the winner of the fifth edition of Mrs Nigeria in March 2021, Terere Obaigbo is set to take on the rest of the world in January 2022 at the Mrs World Pageant.   She is ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, “over his failure to probe allegations that N106bn of public funds are missing from 149 ministries, departments and agencies.” The suit followed the grim allegations by the ...

Barcelona manager, Ronald Koeman, has admitted that opposing teams no longer fear them again following Lionel Messi’s exit. Koeman’s men were held to a 1-1 draw at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. It is the first time Barca have dropped points ...

The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has said it will soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, disclosed this in Abuja in an interview with NAN ...

  Big Brother Naija housemates had in a secret diary session nominated those they would like to evict from the show. Organizer of the show on Saturday released a secret diary session showing the nominations on Show max. Recall that ...

The Varsity don, Ishaq Oloyede who remitted N30bn to FG has been reappointed as JAMB registrar. 66-year-old Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence brought innovations to the Joint Admissions andMatriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar ...

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has begged the government and people of Ondo for forgiveness over the August 14 killing of 23 Muslim travellers from Ondo, who were passing through Jos after attending a religious event in Bauchi. The apology ...

The Nigeria Police announced on Sunday that they have busted Gloria Okolie, the spy girl of the Eastern Nigeria Network, accused of being the mastermind of violent attacks against police targets. The alleged spy is 22 years old from Umutanza ...

Without showing any remorse, Stephen John, a farmer in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo state confidently said that he derived “so much pleasure rap!ng old women in the farm”. Stephen was arrested by police detectives in the state after ...

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has presented a staff of office to Nasiru Bayero, the emir of Bichi. Bayero was appointed emir of Bichi by Ganduje in 2019 following a split of the Kano emirate into five. Speaking at ...

Tunji Olurin, a former Oyo state Military Governor is dead.   Olurin, who hails from Ilaro in Ogun state, was said to have died on Saturday at the Lagos state University Teaching Hospital. His death was confirmed by his brother, ...

Former Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose at the weekend met the ‘Obasanjo of Lagos’. Popularly known as “Oshoko”, Fayose posted the trending photo of the meeting on Twitter. “I met this man. He is popularly known as Obasanjo and I joined ...

  Jerry Gana, a former minister of information and former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria has the highest number of “miserable people in Africa”. Gana said this on Saturday at a retreat organised by the ...