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Veteran broadcaster, Otunba Kunle Olasope, is dead. The Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State-born eminent journalist, died in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday, October 6th at the age of 82.   Former Secretary-General, Efon Development League, Prince Adeyemi Adejoju, who confirmed the death ...

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina state has raised an alarm of being undermined by some All Progressives Congress (APC) “forces” in Abuja.   The Katsina Governor who got elected on the platform of the APC made the disclosure during a stakeholders’ ...

An American lady who took to Twitter to share her “struggle” with some prospective boyfriends in the past, narrated how she got humbled by a Nigerian man.   According to @flow_witme, she tried playing hard to get with the Nigerian man but ...

The body of a Kenyan Police Officer, Hesbon Okemwa Anunda, who went missing a week ago has been found at a thicket in the coastal island of Lamu, with his head and hand chopped off.   While investigations have been ...

The Lagos State Government has directed major food vendors, who sell meat in the state, to henceforth submit a ‘veterinary health certificate for trade of meat’ to the inspecting veterinary personnel in the state Ministry of Agriculture.   Gbolahan Lawal, ...

President Buhari has nominated Akinwunmi Adesina for re-election as the President of African Development Bank (AfDB).   Akinwunmi, while speaking at an event in Lagos on Sunday, October 6th commended Buhari for nominating him for re-election for a second term ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s unwarranted insult on former President Goodluck Jonathan over former UK Prime Minister, David Cameron’s comment, was misdirected as it ”best suits President Buhari and the APC administration.”   ...

Two friends who grew up in the same neighbourhood decades ago reunited by chance in the same neighbourhood and the same building so they decided to recreate a photo they took 27 years ago.   Twitter users Kola Aina and ...

Travellers and tourists visiting Nigeria have been asked to be careful of Bobrisky when they share public facilities with him, following report of the cross-dresser using the female toilet at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.   The Federal ...

A Nigerian man has taken to Twitter to share to narrate how a doctor in a general hospital allegedly referred his brother’s pregnant wife to his own private hospital for a C-section to be carried out on her, just because ...

A Twitter user took to the microblogging platform to accuse a 64-year-old man of killing her boyfriend, 23, and she shared a photo of the alleged killer.   “Murderer on the loose” Mochi wrote on a New York state ID ...

A gender reveal party did not turn out as planned and Instagram users believe this is a horrible sign for the couple.   In a video shared online, the parents-to-be are seen hitting a balloon with the aim of bursting ...

Government Girls Science Technical College Dapchi has been shut down after Boko Haram insurgents launched an attack at Babangida in Tarmuwa Local Government which is just 50km from the community.   The girls’ secondary school where over 100 school girls were abducted on ...

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked former British Prime Minister, David Cameron for accusing Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan of complicity in the rescue of Chibok girls, saying he should clean up the BREXIT mess he started.   David Cameron in his book titled “For ...

Two suspected members of a robbery gang, one of them a South African returnee, have been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, for allegedly dispossessing a laptop dealer of three Apple laptops valued at N1.5million at gunpoint. ...

  Five people were on Sunday afternoon, October 6th burnt beyond recognition in a motor accident that occurred along the Kaduna-Kachia Road in Kaduna State.   The accident, which happened in a bush about 56 kilometres away from Kaduna, involved two ...

30 Nigerian Islamic clerics who live in Makkah, Saudia Arabia have been “hired” to pray for peace in Borno state by Governor Babagana Zulum.   A statement released by the Borno Governor’s spokesman Isa Gusau, disclosed that the selected clerics from Borno, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano States ...

A Twitter user has raised an alarm after a ‘friend’ was allegedly subjected to police brutality by a drunk policeman who opened fire on him.   According to @momgbajabiamila the policeman allegedly assaulted his victim, shot at him and missed, vandalized ...

The Presidency has revealed why President Buhari choose the path of diplomacy in the wake of the xenophobic attacks that affected many Nigerians in South Africa.   In statement released by President Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba ...

There was pandemonium yesterday in Ribah community of Kebbi State as a middle-aged man climbed a mast and vowed not to come down until President Buhari resigns.   The drama lingered after the man refused to accept the Local Government Chairman’s ...

The Kwara State House of Assembly has said it directed the seizure of the Alimi Chalet and an expanse of land, popularly called ‘Ile Arugbo’, allegedly acquired by a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki.   The Assembly said the property belonged to the state ...

Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday afternoon, October 5th burnt a section of the Emir of Jajare’s Palace in Babangida headquarters of Tarmuwa Local Government of Yobe State.   Eyewitnesses said the insurgents entered the town in a commando style and headed ...

An attack on a military convoy in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents on October 3, left 11 soldiers dead and 14 others injured.   The 34 soldiers including two officers who were ambushed by Boko Haram insurgents at about ...

Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian president, has denied claims by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, that his government rejected the help of the UK government to rescue the Chibok girls after they were abducted in April 2014. ...

The Kwara state police command have arraigned a housewife, Mrs. Odunayo Olaniyi, before a Chief Magistrate Court in Ilorin, the state capital, for allegedly faking her own kidnap and that of her 10-year-old son, so as to extort half a million naira from ...