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  Soyinka spoke when he played host to some students who paid him a visit on his 85th birthday. The literary icon said while state governments differ in success rates, “central government has failed”. He called on the federal government ...

Bidemi Aluko, the Super Falcons goalkeeper between 2012 and 2013 is reportedly battling breast cancer which was diagnosed with in 2017 while still playing for Rivers Angels in the Nigerian Women’s Premier League.   Narrating how she was forced to quit football over the ...

Some leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria FCT and North Central on Sunday, visited COZA Church in Abuja, over a rape allegation against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo by Timi Dakolo’s wife.   However, Pastor Fatoyinbo was seated with the congregation, ...

  The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has cancelled the 2019 Annual Vacation for Justices of the Court of Appeal. A statement issued by the Media Officer of the Court of Appeal, Saadatu Kachalla, said Justice Bulkachuwa cancelled the vacation due to “the ...

Two persons were reportedly killed in a renewed hostility between Usumtong and Ebom communities in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.   Chief Sunday Obite, the village head of Ebom, on Sunday, claimed that one Oti Ato and ...

Nine people have been confirmed dead, after a plane crashed into an island close to the northern city of Umeå, Sweden.   Local media reported on Sunday that the plane which was carrying people for a parachute jump, left Umea airport shortly after 1.30pm and ...

Two male Pakistani best friends went gone public with their mutual girlfriend, by sharing loved-up photos with her.   In the tweet shared, one of the guys said they both love the same girl and don’t fight about it because ...

  Second Republic Minister and ex-Chairman of Northern Elder’s Forum, NEF, Paul Unongo, has said that power will remain in the North after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023. He said the North will keep providing because they have an ...

  The Lagos state police command have arrested four men and a woman in connection with the murder of a 22 year old man, Olamide Omolegbe, who was wrongfully accused of stealing a phone.   Spokesperson of the command, Bala ...

  Men of the Lagos State Police Command in collaboration with Central Bank of Nigeria and other sister security agencies raided markets within Ikeja and environ where Nigerian currency is illegally traded. A statement from the command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, ...

A University of Benin student identified as Ephraim, committed suicide this evening, after jumping  down from a building.   Why the student committed suicide is yet to be uncovered, however it was gathered that the 300 Level English student of the ...

  No fewer than 500 witnesses are expected to appear before the Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal to testify for Governor Umar Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress. At a pre-trial hearing session, presided over by Justice Halima Shamnaki on Saturday, ...

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Saturday, said that Yoruba were not bereft of ideas of how to stop herdsmen attacks in the South West.   He said this while reacting to the death of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, ...

Zahra Buhari-Indimi waded in on the ‘rape epidemic’ that has been on news headlines for some weeks, and seems not to be ending.   The President’s daughter in her reaction to the several rape cases, said the law should never allow ...

  The Nigeria Police Force says it has started a “massive manhunt” for the killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Reuben Fasoranti. Mrs Funke Olakunrin was shot by armed men on ...

  The Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday, July 11, 2019, arrested 11 friends suspected to have murdered Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale, a student of the Cyprus International University.   Preliminary investigation into the incident, revealed that Obasanjo was dumped in his car’s trunk after ...

  The Police Command in Enugu State, on Saturday, debunked a social media rumour of a bomb explosion in Enugu State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency ...

President Buhari has made a  phone call to Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, whose daughter, Funke Olakunri, was killed by armed men along the Benin-Ore expressway on Friday July 12th   The President condoled with the grieving nonagenarian, wishing him the ...

  Officials of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had to put up US flags in their detention centers after Protesters demonstrating outside the center pulled down the US flag, demolished a ‘BLUE LIVES MATTER’ flag,  spray-painted it with ...

Mother of 8-year-old Oluwatosin Abosede, has quashed claims of her daughter being dragged to a store and raped by an unknown man.   Twitter user @YemieFash relayed the information he got on the platform after his phone conversation with the ...

A photo shared on Facebook by Anik Sutari, a doctor living in Serang, Banten, Indonesian, shows a scared little boy sitting on a roof to avoid getting circumcised.   The post has gone viral since Dr. Anik posted it on ...

  Parents of Muslim students at the International School Ibadan under the banner of ISI Muslim Parents Forum on Friday disclosed that they had filed no fewer than eleven (11) fresh court cases against the school, its principal, Mrs. Phebean ...

  At least 26 people, including several foreigners, were killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official said Saturday. A suicide bomber ...

Real Madrid coach and french football legend lost his brother to an undisclosed long-term illness. According to the official website of Real Madrid, coach Zinedine Zidane’s brother Farid has died at the age of 54. Zidane left the club’s training camp ...

Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin, the General Overseer, Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry (C.M.D.M), Warri, Delta State, popularly called Mercy City alias ‘The Arena of Solution and Power’ has saved a seasoned journalist, Mr. Emmanuel Ogoigbe from embarking on a suicide mission. ...