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  U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano has died, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday, just as he was preparing to step down because of an unspecified illness. The 72-year-old Japanese had held the position of IAEA ...

Nollywood actor cum politician, Desmond Elliot has called for the ban of foreign movies in Nigeria to enable the growth of the Nigerian Movie Industry.   The 45-year-old representing Surulere constituency at the Lagos State house of assembly  said this in an interview ...

Following the controversy that trailed the clemency granted to Yewande Oyediran, a lawyer sentenced to seven years in prison for killing her husband, Lowo, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Oyo state, Mr Seun Abimbola, has revealed why the ...

The mystery surrounding the missing ear of a baby at the Victory Children’s Hospital, Onitsha, Anambra State, has been linked to canivorous rats.   A police report released on Sunday, cleared the hospital, its management and workers from blame over the 2015 incident ...

  President of Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has condemned the labelling of the Fulani herdsmen as criminals.   He alleged that the name-calling was being instigated by some politicians and enemies of the Fulani ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana and former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa have warned President Buhari to take pragmatic steps in tackling the insecurity and ethnicity brewing in the country as the nation is already heading towards anarchy.   ...

The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has indicated that it has only five days more to wait for President Buhari to submit the list of his ministerial appointees before it proceeds on its two-month annual vacation, according to ...

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 38 suspected cultists in Ikorodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.   According to Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana, youths from Idiroko, Adeola and Ajose of Owutu area in Ikorodu, ...

The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 57-year-old man identified as Tijjani Yahaya, for allegedly stabbing his 20-year-old brother, Aminu Mohammad, to death.   This is contained in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer ...

The DeKalb County Police in Atlanta are searching for a man who has been robbing several businesses in an unusual disguise.   According to the department’s criminal investigative division, the man, who has not been identified, has robbed several Waffle Houses, two ...

Romulo Pilapil, a 56-year-old carpenter from Philippines has been left almost unrecognizable after a mysterious ailment that made his face swell to three times its original size.   Revealing that it all started after he was diagnosed with sinusitis three ...

In a video making rounds on social media, a staff of a commercial Bank, UNILAG branch has been caught on camera having sex with a Lady in his office, yesterday night in Lagos. Shared with caption.. So away from the ...

  A tricycle driver popularly identified as Oluchi has been reportedly stabbed to death during an argument over N350. According to a report by a Facebook user identified as Ray Smart, who took him to the hospital for treatment after he was ...

  Mike’s wife, Perri has reacted to the misunderstanding her husband had with Tacha after the Saturday night party at the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality TV show. In her reaction, Perri commended her husband for handling the situation like a real ...

Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to explain the whereabouts of an allegedly missing $1bn from the Excess Crude Account security fund. The PDP in a statement today said, “the Peoples Democratic Party of ...

Femi Otedola has promised to take care of the medical bills of ailing veteran actor, Sadiq Daba.   Otedola disclosed this in a statement released yesterday July 21st.   Recall that Daba travelled to the United Kingdom in 2017 for the ...

Bashir Umar, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel who returned a missing €37,000 to its owner, will now be rewarded by the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces.   In a statement released on Sunday, spokesperson for NAF, Ibikunle Daramola, revealed that its ...

Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control along with some policemen escaped getting lynched during an enforcement exercise at the Head Bridge Drug Market in Onitsha, Anambra State.   NAFDAC in a statement by its Director-General, ...

Domestic workers and relatives of Goodluck Jonathan are currently under investigation over stolen valuables including jewelries worth over N300m belonging to the former President.   One of the suspects and management staff of Mrs. Jonathan’s Aridolf Resort, Hotel and Spa ...

Yewande Oyediran, the daughter of Venerable Oyetunde Oyediran, allegedly received a state pardon, barely 2 years into serving her 7 year jail sentence for killing her husband.   The convict had stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyediran, in the neck on February 2, 2016 at ...

  Timi Dakolo has insisted that he never discussed his wife’s virginity with anyone neither did he do that with any media house. The singer made the statement during a Press Conference held earlier today where he said he himself wondered ...

Femi Fani-Kayode clashed with Dele Momodu over his comment of President Buhari being the ‘father of the nation’.   The Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, in a tweet which was a response to the ‘explosion’ in different parts of the country, stated that ...

A man shocked onlookers, after he scaled a 19-storey building in the suburb of West Powelton, Philadelphia, to save his bedridden mother from fire.   The dramatic scene came, after a fire which is thought to have started in a rubbish chute, broke out at ...

  There was confusion at a wedding in Accra on Saturday, July 20, 2019, after another lady showed up claiming she was pregnant for for the groom. The confusion led the bride’s family to return the man’s dowry at the ...

  Today’s kids are three times more likely to aspire toward a career as a YouTuber rather than an astronaut, according to a new study. Toy production firm Lego surveyed 3,000 children between the ages of eight and 12 from ...