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  Actress Funke Akindele, who has put her acting career on hold for a more superior position has appeared on Channels Tv. While answering questions on why she joined politics, the actress said, she was tired of talking, and indeed ...

Cross River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has won the Cross River North Senatorial Primary rerun Unopposed. He emerged candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Cross River North Senatorial District. He was elected at a primary election rerun ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has denied a memorandum making the rounds suggesting he asked President Muhammadu Buhari for permission to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The memorandum, dated June 24, 2022 with reference number SH/VP/605/2./0 and titled ‘Permission ...

Gatwick Airport is running out of water during the scorching heatwave, causing more chaos for the under-fire industry. A burst water main has resulted in low water pressure throughout the airport. It is reported only two toilets are working in ...

Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has tendered his resignation in a letter sent by email to parliamentary speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardenena, according to an announcement from the speaker’s office Thursday. Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on a flight from Maldives earlier ...

What happened to Akin Alabi and Shina Peller’s friendship? This is the question many in Ibadan political scene have been asking. The sudden closeness of Akin Alabi and Senator Teslim Folarin, Oyo APC’s Governorship candidate makes it more suspicious that ...

Police escorts attached to a VIP has allegedly killed two tricycle passengers. The rider was also wounded. The incident happened at Ugbolokposo in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, around 7:30pm on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. According to ...

A family member of 21-year-old student, Lois Azurfa John, who was abducted on the Kaduna-Abuja train, has asked for prayers. The 300-level student of the Kaduna State University and her cousin, Peace Aboi, 28, were among passengers kidnapped by terrorists ...

The ECOWAS Court has declared unlawful the suspension of Twitter by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, and ordered the administration not to repeat it again. This development is coming on the heels of a suit by Socio-Economic Rights and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian military officers to confront terrorists and wipe them off the face of the earth. Buhari said this in Kaduna State while celebrating the sacrifices and successes of the Nigerian military in defending Nigeria courageously, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Adetiran family, their friends and associates on the passage of an accomplished musicologist, Assistant Venerable Oluwole Isaac Adetiran, who passed on at 75. Buhari urged the family to take solace in the quality ...

A 27-year-old homeless man, David Oladokun, has been arrested for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a toddler (names withheld) in Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday. The incident occurred at about 12 noon at Olunde, Ajiyo-Ajoro areas along Olomi-Ayedun road. The ...

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 49-year-old man, Ademola Akinola, to death by hanging for shooting his elder brother to death and taking away his motorcycle. Ademola was arraigned in December 2020 for robbing and ...

Maverick entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has asked Nigerians to fight for freedom and confront oppressors ahead of the 2023 election. Charly Boy said this via his Twitter page while querying the capability of current ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the African Action Congress (AAC) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) are yet to upload details of their governorship candidates on the electoral body’s nomination portal. While Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is the ...

  The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna State Command, on Wednesday, said its operatives rescued a girl who was chained and locked up in a room for eight years by her mother. DSC Habeeb Badamasi, Spokesperson for ...

At least six persons were reported dead, while scores were injured as a result of heavy downpour in Kafin-Hausa Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The local Government Council Chairman, Muhammad Saminu disclosed this when he paid a sympathy visit ...

Mua’zu Danladi, a 25-year-old man, who is a relation of ex-Governor Ahmad Adamu Mua’zu, has been shot dead at Boto village of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Danladi was killed when gunmen invaded the residence of Muazu’s ...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to allow Nigerians in diaspora to return to Nigeria with their expired International Passports. Mr Aregbesola gave the directive on Wednesday, in Lagos, while responding to a ...

Grief and shock engulfed residents of Omboo area in Suna East within Migori County, Kenya after an expectant mother took her life together with that of her daughter. Confirming the incident, Samuel Ondiegi who is the village elder in that ...

135-Year-Old Granny Dies, Leaves Behind 50 Grandchildren, 292 Great-Grandchildren, 256 Great-Great-Grandchildren Residents of Kajiado, Kenya are set to celebrate the life of a 135-year-old granny who died on July 4, 2022. Mosoni Lemoto Turume will be buried on July 16 ...

Three siblings and four adults have died from a two-day continuous rainfall in Lagos State. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Zonal Coordinator for South West, Ibrahim Farinloye. disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Giving a post-emergency phase assessment after ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has denied reports that it had secretly passed the Sharia Bill into law to get northern support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Chairman of the House Committee on ...

  A Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in the country’s first such case in almost a decade. Police in Sudan’s White Nile state arrested Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, last month, before her sentencing at ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has cautioned against the alleged plot to Islamize Nigeria. IPOB warned that it won’t allow any individual, government, or ethnic groups to Islamize Nigeria or turn it into a Fulani colony. Emma Powerful, the ...