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The Presidency has issued an official statement to confirm that there is an on-going, unprecedented overhaul of the nation’s seat of government, in which a number of political appointments have either been revoked or not renewed in the Second Term.   ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday, November 8th presented a budget of N1.168 trillion to the Lagos State House of Assembly for approval for the 2020 fiscal year.   The proposed budget is to be funded by a projected ...

Corps members participating in Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election scheduled for November 16, have been advised to think of their safety first.   In a statement issued by Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, Director of Press and Public Relations of the National Youth Service Corps ...

  A yet-to-be identified lady has been nabbed after allegedly stealing a 4-months-old child from a mosque in Mushin.   Nigerian model, Adetutu who shared photos from the scene of the incident said the lady was caught in the act by ...

  A self-acclaimed relationship counselor has claimed that a woman, who once reached out to him to complain of abuse in her marriage, has finally been killed by her abusive husband.   Solomon Buchi wrote: “A woman reached across to ...

A herdsman identified as Iliasu Abubakar has been remanded in Oke-Kura Correctional Centre in Ilorin, after being arraigned before a Kwara State Magistrate Court.   The suspect who was arraigned before Magistrate Jumoke Bamigboye for culpable homicide reportedly confessed to killing his brother ...

Mr. Uchenna Duru, a 42-year-old electrician/fake lawyer has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly duping single mothers with promises of marriage.   The suspected fraudster who promised to marry a lady in Owerri but never showed up on the ...

Ifu Ennada has claimed she spent a whole one million naira on perfumes in one week during her birthday on July 23, 2019.   The reality show star who had a conversation with a friend during a makeover session, disclosed ...

Barely 48-hours after a section of the popular Balogun market in Lagos state was gutted by fire, another building on Jebba by Okobaba Street in Lagos Island where the market is situated, is currently on fire.   The cause of the fire ...

UK Scientist, Roy J. Levin of Sheffield University in his paper titled ‘The Clitoris – An Appraisal of its Reproductive Function During the Fertile Years: Why Was It, and Still Is, Overlooked in Accounts of Female Sexual Arousal’, claimed he has ...

Edward Kallon, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria has said about 1.2 million civilians are trapped and have been denied access to humanitarian aid and services in two local government areas now largely under the control of Boko Haram terrorists. ...

A boy who raped a 10-year-old girl while she was on her way home from school has been jailed for seven years.   The teen, 17, who cannot be named, said he raped the girl and strangled her till she was ...

42-year-old Ayuba John, has been arrested by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Nasarawa state for attempting to sell his three-year-old son for N5 million.   Parading him before newsmen, Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Mahmud ...

The five-storey building razed by fire at Balogun Market in Lagos Island has been demolished. The demolition began after fire fighters completely put out the fire on Wednesday morning.   This demolition follows the directive given by Lagos State Governor Babajide ...

  Playboy model and Hollywood actress Lauryn Elaine was tied with a dog leash and robbed by masked men at her North Hollywood home according to a reoort by TMZ.   According to TMZ who had access to the police ...

  A porn-addicted paedophile who was serving 17-years behind bars for abusing babies younger than six months old has been found dead in prison.   32-year-old Jared Perry was found dead on November 3 while in custody at Parc Prison ...

  #RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore has reportedly embarked on a hunger strike to protest the violations of his human rights.   Its not clear when he began the hunger strike, but his decision is connected with the fact that the DSS has ...

  A metal detectorist who was asked to look for his friend’s lost wedding ring ended up going home £100,000 richer when his equipment found a pot of gold.   Paul Raynard, 44, and best friend Michael Gwynne, 52, were on a ...

  Olu Victor Alonge, charged along with six other Nigerians in a multi-year wire fraud scheme, has been sentenced to a 10-year imprisonment by a court in Georgia, United States.   He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy C. ...

  Businesswoman Nwanneka Nkumah has been hospitalized after allegedly being sexually assaulted, brutalized by policemen in Lagos.   According to her version of the incident, ‘so I was going back home from work at exactly 1am this morning and this police ...

  A Mexican police officer who was involved in arresting the son of jailed drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been assassinated in a broad daylight execution.   The dead officer who authorities identified as Eduardo ‘N,’ 32, was ...

  A student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), formerly known as Anambra State University, was rushed to the hospital after she allegedly attempted suicide by drinking a popular pesticide called Sniper.   The lady, whose name has been given ...

A 59-year old Australian tourist has been killed by an elephant in Namibia.   According to the country’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), the Australian national was killed in the Huab River in the Kunene region where a group of tourists ...

At least, twenty-nine people have died in Bauchi state following the outbreak of yellow fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes.   Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHDA), gave the death toll ...

A Twitter user has questioned why Nigerian churches have different rules and expectations for their Nigerian/African members and their members in other continents.   While reacting to a period of fasting embarked upon by a popular church in Nigeria, a Twitter user ...