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Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, has filed an appeal at the Federal High Court Lagos for the reversal of an interim order secured by the EFCC for the interim forfeiture of her 2,149 pieces of jewellery and a ...

Oyo seems to have a handful of young people at the helm of its affairs and they include 31-year-old Adebo Ogundoyin who emerged as the state’s house of assembly speaker and 27-year-old Seun Fakorede recently nominated as a commissioner by Governor Seyi Makinde. ...

Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi, has banned the use of English language as a means of communication during any traditional function in any part of the state. He gave the directive during the First Ekiti State Arts and Culture Stakeholders’ Forum ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today August 19th, arraigned Mrs. Isabella Oshodin and Bob Oshodin Organisation Ltd before Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a 25-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of ...

A Nigerian man identified as Dibia Obinna has been deported by Kenyan authorities, after police accused him of being a drug and human trafficker.   His deportation followed his arrest in Nairobi and after interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi signed the ...

A man disfigured his wife and children by dousing them with acid in Kaduna and Twitter activists are calling for justice.   The abusive man, who is reportedly a staff of a popular bank in Funtua, Katsina state, allegedly divorced the woman ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, August 18th said he would keep Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate when he seeks re-election in November 2020.   “I’m very happy with Mike Pence,” Trump, who is expected to easily win ...

Asari Dokubo slammed Nnamdi Kanu over the attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu on some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at an event hosted by the Igbo community in Germany.   Recall we reported that Nnamdi Kanu described the ...

A lecturer at the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, mandated his students to carry a snake for some seconds each in order to earn scores for their continuous assessment.   In a video shared online, the students of Forestry and Wildlife ...

Officials of the Lagos State Police Command on Monday, August 19th sealed the venue of a gathering of pro-RevolutionNow activists to discuss the affairs of the nation.   According to reports, scores of well armed police officers from the command ...

Popular social media star, Christian Burns has threatened to commit the biggest terrorist attack in this century.   The 21-year-old, in a fit of rage, went on livestream to make the threats. His threats were strongly worded and has people demanding ...

Popular South African televangelist, Pastor Zabulon Buthelezi has been accused of impregnating the wife of a community leader and member of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in Boksburg.   Narrating how his wife denied him sex for 6 years while allegedly giving it ...

A truck belonging to Dangote hit two brothers, crushing the younger one  to death at Ekpo Abasi roundabout in Calabar South at about 1:45 PM, Friday.   According to eyewitnesses who spoke to CrossRiverWatch, the speeding truck driver lost control ...

The French Police on Sunday August 18, arrested a man in Haute-Savoie after his wife’s body was discovered in a suitcase in the boot of his car.   The couple’s two young children aged 6 and 7, sat in the back seat of the ...

A white woman was arrested for holding four black teenagers at Gunpoint in Arkansas.   The four black high school students were going door-to-door to raise money for their football team in Wynne, Ark., on the morning of Aug. 7, ...

The Presidency has denied claims in the media that President Buhari has banned the importation of food into the country.   Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, gave the clarification in a statement he ...

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has described as a campaign of calumny a recent statement credited to the Nigerian government that its leader Sheikh El-Zakzaky wanted to seek asylum in India before his repatriation.   The proscribed group said the lie was ...

Two men are being hailed as “heroes” after they jumped into the ocean to help prevent a girl in a wheelchair from drowning.   The men were on a cruise ship dock at St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands when there was ...

Joshua Joseph, a 7-year-old boy declared missing by his parents in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State in 2017, has been found with one Blessing Ozor who reportedly paid N1.05m for his ‘adoption’.   The adopted mother of the boy renamed Chisom, said she paid N1.05m to ...

A British man was left in a critical condition after he and his lover fell from a balcony while having sex.   The unnamed man, 30, and his Canadian lover, 28, were having a “passionate sex session” on a balcony that ...

A video making rounds on social media captured moment a yahoo boy (internet fraudster) identified as Junior allegedly ran mad.   Eyewitnesses stated that the young man in the video ran mad after failing to use his mother for money rituals, a ...

Three Members of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Katsina state, lost their lives in a car accident in Kankara local government area of the state yesterday Sunday August 18th.   According to reports, the corps members were heading towards Funtua to attend a Wedding ...

Rotimi Amaechi, a former Minister of Transportation and minister-designate has been promoted to the highest rank in the Catholic Church under the order of the Knights of St. John.   Amaechi was on Sunday, August 18th conferred with the Exemplification honour of ...

A Nigerian man identified as Shedrach was caught red-handed trying to sleep with his friend’s wife in Germany.   Shedrach who is said to be in good terms with his friend, got his wife’s number after he (friend) called him with ...

Prof. Maurice Iwu, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday August 16 met the N1bn bail with two sureties which a Lagos state High Court imposed on him.   The former Electoral commission boss was admitted to bail of ...