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Staying true to his threat of resigning if Boris Johnson becomes U.K’s Prime Minister, British finance minister Philip Hammond took a bow from Government on Wednesday July 24th.   Hammond, nicknamed “Spreadsheet Phil” for his dogged devotion to strict budgets had strongly opposed leaving ...

Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May formally tendered her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday as her successor Boris Johnson prepares to take over.   May arrived at the palace after earlier urging Johnson to deliver Brexit “in a ...

Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, says there is no available land for Ruga settlement in the state.   Speaking during a lecture in Abuja on Tuesday, the governor said the ideal way to begin the proposed settlement is to ...

Controversial Ugandan singer and politician, Bobi Wine has officially announced that he will run for president in the country’s 2021 national elections.   The 37-year-old whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, will challenge President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 33 ...

Two British men have died and another is injured after two planes collided mid-air and crashed over the South of France.   The tragic accident took place at around 12.45pm today July 24th over the high mountain Maddalena Pass, on the ...

The police in Abia state have been accused of releasing one Nnamdi Destiny who allegedly defiled his one month old daughter in Umuahia.   Activist, Gwamnishu Harrison Emefiena, who made the accusation online, said the incident happened two weeks ago. He ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has reacted to reports that President Buhari may be considering the proscription of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria other wise known as Shi’ites.   There have been rumors that the President might ban the Islamic movement ...

Alibaba revealed why people step away from a heated exchange in an Instagram post addressed to women who love slapping men.   According to the ace comedian, ‘respect, financial dependency, religion, what will people say, I was brought up to know ...

Reno Omokri has debunked a comment of ‘sleeping when Yorubas are beating the drums of war’ credited to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, as he revealed how two Yoruba men;  Benjamin Adekunle and Olusegun Obsanjo won the Biafran war for Nigeria.   Alleging that Nigerians never learn from ...

Neigbours formed a human chain around an immigrant man and his son to protect them from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who tried to take them into custody.   A video shared online shows residents in Hermitage, Tennessee, surrounding the man’s van ...

Unknown gunmen have abducted 18 traders travelling from Pandogari to Bassa in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. The traders were said to be travelling to attend the village market, which holds fortnightly, on Saturday. A trader, who ...

  Captain Simisola Ajibola pictured above is the Female pilot who averted the near tragedy on Air Peace aircraft that happened at the Muratala Mohammed International Airport Lagos yesterday July 23rd. The Air Peace Boeing 737 plane lost its tyres after crash-landing at the Airport facility. According ...

The emotional moment a US Army National Guard Sgt surprised his mother at work, after just returning from an assignment abroad, has moved viewers.   In the viral video, the young man named Christopher Williams is seen dressed in his uniform ...

A woman has conferred on herself the title of “wife material” after claiming she prepared a thick pot of soup for 850 Naira.   Merit Eke Chiemerie shared a photo of the thick bowl of okro soup and wrote:   ...

A youth Corps member serving with the Leadership Newspaper in Abuja, was hit by a stray bullet on his chest during the Shi’ites and Police clash in Abuja on Monday July 22nd.   According to the media house, Aliyu who works with its Hausa ...

On Monday, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision in company of armed government official stormed the Rochas Okorocha Foundation College in Owerri, Imo State to seal it off. According to reports, the East High Academy and East High College ...

The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa has said that the attack on 17-year-old Dennis Chinonso Obiaju Okoroji and his friend in Johannesburg on Saturday July 20th, was not a xenophobic attack but a criminal attack.   Chairman of NCA ...

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday, announced that it had imposed visa restriction on Nigerian politicians found culpable in sabotaging the 2019 election.   No name was passed off in the announcement, however Nigerian politicians affected by the visa restriction imposition are ...

A 22-year-old student of Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo state, has died shortly after his release after spending two months in EFCC custody.   Austin Isaiah was allegedly arrested for something he “knew nothing about”. He was held for ...

A car accident in which a Catholic Priest fractured his hip, revealed that he has been stealing church offering to the tune of $95,000.   When emergency workers responded to the accident in a California town last month, they saw bags ...

South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday said its fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots after Russian and Chinese planes entered the country’s airspace. The Russian and Chinese warplanes were flying in the first joint operation of its kind, according ...

Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, has joined other state governors in the South South, South East and South West, to reject the contentious Ruga settlement projects being proposed by the Buhari-led government.   The Governor vehemently rejected it saying ...

An accident which occurred on Tuesday at Akinhale village, Ewekoro, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, left three people dead and two others injured.   The accident involving an Iveco truck, with number plate AAA 912 XK, occurred after the driver lost ...

  A facebook user Dike Chika Nnamani, has shared a painful story of how her 8-month-old baby sustained some degree burn on his hand and feet. It was gather that Chika’s nanny kept the flask of hot water on a ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt’s Zonal Office on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 arraigned 65-year-old Igweneme Moses before Justice A. T Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on a four-count charge ...