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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that Nigeria has the second largest number of child brides in the world, with 23 million girls and women married out as children in the country, thereby ending their educational strive.   ...

  Two female corps members who turned up with others for the National Youth Service Corps’ three-week orientation exercise in Ebonyi State have been sent packing from the camp for refusing to wear trousers.   The corps members identified as Okafor Love ...

A video that has gone viral on social media captured moment a bribe-taking policeman lied to his colleagues about the amount he collected from a motorist.   Though the date and location the incident occurred was not immediately available at ...

The 2019 Alaghodaro summit commenced on a high note with inspection of Guard mounted by the Nigerian Police and a novelty Match with ceremonial kickoff taking by the convener of the women summit Betsy Obaseki, wife of the Edo State ...

  On Saturday, November 9th, Pope Francis officially announced the retirement of His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan as the Archbishop of Abuja Dioceses.   According to Josef Ishu, department of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, a letter arrived from Rome and Pope ...

  Dr Ore Falomo, the personal physician to Late Chief MKO Abiola, has died. Falomo, a former Medical Director of Maryland Specialist Hospital, was said to have died in the early hours of Saturday, November 9th after a brief illness. ...

According to the former presidential aide, ‘better to marry late than to marry and hate. 10 years with the right person is better than 50 years suffering with the wrong person.   He went on to say, ‘marriage is an ...

A major tragedy was averted at Lagos Airport Road as a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of Petroleum products fell and spilt its contents.   No loss of life was recorded at the incident scene with LASEMA’s heavy-duty equipment deployed ...

Aishatu Mohammed, wife of Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed has revealed that she had no formal education when she married her husband. In her words, “I was 16 years old and a stark illiterate when I married my husband. We were ...

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio has secured a win at the court of appeal which sat in Cross River State’s capital Calabar, as the court ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district he contested in on the platform ...

The border closure which has been enforced in all regions across Nigeria has seen smugglers get quite “innovative” to beat security operatives.   A video making rounds online captured the moment a woman was caught smuggling ‘foreign rice’ which is one ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has gotten an extension on the deadline to reduce data prices in the country.   Recall LIB reported that the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami gave the commission five days to carry out ...

A man has taken to Twitter to share an emotional story of how he adopted his girlfriend’s daughter after her own father rejected her.   Read her thread below.

River State Governor, Nyesom Wike has appointed a special adviser on Real Madrid Academy.   He is Christopher Green, a former board member and chairman of the NFF technical committee. He was sworn in along with the Permanent Secretary, Ministry ...

    Content creator and Influencer, Oloni has shared some of the bizzare DMs she recieved from several ladies detailing the kind of rituals they did to get and keep a man and it’s shocking.   In one of the messages, ...

  Taiwo, one half of the Lijadu Sisters music group has died at the age of 71.  The deceased who alongside her twin sister Kehinde achieved success in Nigeria and also had modest influence in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s ...

  Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram has announced the App will start hiding “like” counts on users’ posts in the US from next week.   Mosseri made the announcement at the WIRED25 conference in San Francisco on Friday, November ...

With a combined age of 211 years, a couple in Austin, Texas, have been named the oldest living couple in the world, according to Guinness World Records.   John Henderson is 106 and his wife, Charlotte, is 105. The Hendersons have ...

Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the EFCC, has cautioned Nigerian youths against joining the band wagon of the quest to ‘blow’ – the modern slang which according to him, depicts desperation for quick wealth, insisting that such mental state could push them ...

26-year-old Financial Analyst and ex-president of Nigerian Economics Students Association in Covenant University, Segun Afolabi has reportedly been murdered.   The deceased was killed at his residence in Gbagada on Monday November 4, by his gateman he helped financially and ...

Dara Oladosu, a Nigerian Tech developer and founder of Quoted Replies, was filled with excitement last night after he was offered a job at Twitter to help build a native “quoted tweet” feature for the platform.   Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, is ...

A Georgia student who went missing last month has been found dead.   The body of 21-year-old Alexis Crawford, a senior at Clark Atlanta University, was found in a park in Dekalb County off of Columbia Drive in Atlanta on ...

A police officer in Akwa Ibom reportedly shot dead a man at a wedding ceremony attended by the state governor, Udom Emmanuel.   The incident happened on Thursday, November 7th in Ikot Ukab, Nsit Ubium Local Government Area of the ...

Deji Adeyanju and other human rights activists in the country are currently staging a protest at the DSS headquarters in Abuja to demand the immediate release of Omoyele Sowore.   According to Adeyanju, ‘they have refused to release Sowore to ...

  Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been released from prison after a judge ordered the release.   The order which was handed down on Friday, November 8, 2019, came just one day after the country’s Supreme ...