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Dr Boniface Igbeneghu has stated that he will not be speaking anytime soon on the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him in the BBC #SexForGrades investigative documentary that was released on Monday, October 7th.   Igbeneghu, a senior lecturer ...

A mother of three, identified simply as Mummy Pelumi, has reportedly committed suicide at Mangoro area of Lagos State.   The woman, who is also a pastor’s wife, took her life when her husband was on evangelism. Witnesses said the deceased ...

Former Director General, Bureau of Public Reforms, Joe Abah says the Director-General of National Centre for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe’s ”obesssion” to anything that has to do with Bobrisky, is officially becoming embarassing.   Abah said this on Twitter while ...

Venita Akpofure, one of the housemates of the just concluded 2019 Big Brother Naija Reality Show has expressed her displeasure with Omashola’s comment about her during the finale of the reality show.   There was a report that Omashola described the ...

Controversial OAP, Daddy Freeze has just shared his observations about the just concluded Big Brother Naija reality show.   The season four of the show saw Mercy smile home with the 60million ‘winner takes all’ worth of prizes and according ...

The Imo State police command have arrested eight undergraduates of various institutions in the state for involvement in cultism.   The state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Ladodo, who paraded the suspects at the command headquarters in Owerri, said the Anti-Cultism Unit ...

Nigerian writer, Lola Shoneyin has weighed in on the recent sex for grades scandal by recalling an incident that happened to her years ago.   The popular Nigerian writer and poet said she was sexually assaulted by a Deputy Vice ...

The Police in Rivers State on Monday, October 7th said they have killed “a notorious gang leader’’, Linus Lebari, 35, popularly known as Bobby/Devil, terrorising Ogoni area of the state.   The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, in Port Harcourt said that operatives from the ...

The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, is of the opinion that Nigeria’s population as it currently stands is more of a liability than it is a blessing. Nigeria’s population currently stands at 201 million.   The monarch said this today October ...

The United States began withdrawing American troops from Syria’s border with Turkey on Monday, October 7th as the Trump administration says it has hands off an explosive situation between the Turkish military and U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters.   President Trump in a ...

Following the BBC ”Sex for Grades” documentary that was launched today, comedian Wale Gates has shared the story of how a lecturer in the University of Lagos. UNILAG, pestered a married woman who was one of his students for sex and how her ...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has sacked his Special Assistant on Political Matters, Augustine Pelemo on Monday, October 7th.   This was contained in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo. The statement reads; “This directive ...

Ijaw leader and politician, Chief Edwin Clark who served under former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, as Federal Commissioner for Information in a recent interview with Vanguard said there is no politician in Nigeria better than Igbo politician.   When ...

Twitter user @damiancaring has accused a police officer based in Cross Rivers state of brutalising her and damaging her car just because she honked at him while they were both driving on a road in the state. Continue to read her ...

A UNILAG lecturer has been exposed by BBC Africa Eye after he was caught red-handed propositioning a student (an undercover reporter) for sex to make her pass.   BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos ...

On October 19, 1986, renowned journalist and founder/editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, Dele Giwa died through a letter bomb and it was the first time such incident occurred in the country.   General Kunle Togun, a former director of Military intelligence ...

A stranded man hanging on to a truck on Sunday, October 6th fell off the speeding truck on the Third Mainland Bridge but was rescued by Rapid Response Squad (RRS) officers on the bridge.   The young man, identified as ...

The Ogun State police command have arrested two persons identified as Emmanuel Aro (25) and Anu Olofinju (25) with a human skull along ijoun road in the Eggua area of Ogun State.   Emmanuel and Anu were arrested following a complaint by one Amoo Bankole who reported ...

A woman has accused police officers in the Ogudu division of ramming into her with their car after which they threatened to shoot her when she confronted them.   Doris Jay shared a video of her injured legs and alleged ...

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 ...