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A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows TikTok, a video-sharing app developed in China, on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018.   As concern for ...

Workers in Ogun State have cried out to Governor Dapo Abiodun to pay their salary deductions, saying “we are dying.” The Ogun State Salary Earners’ Co-operative Thrift and Credit Union Limited alleged that Governor Abiodun had refused to pay their ...

A 37-year-old mother of two, Joy Sunday, has confessed to the police in Ogun State that she bathed a woman with hot water for accusing her of having an affair with her husband. Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen ...

  Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the arrest of 207 citizens and foreigners on corruption charges. They include government employees, according to the kingdom’s anti-corruption body, Nazaha. The agency carried out the raid over the just-concluded month of the Islamic ...

  The Federal Government has approved over N4 billion in the 2021 budget for fueling of police vehicles across the states in Nigeria. The Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Dingyadi, made this known on Tuesday in a statement issued ...

  A man who was disturbed by the sound of his toilet continuously flushing was left horrified when he discovered a huge snake hiding inside it. The shocked individual, who lives in the town of Breitenfurt, near Austria’s capital Vienna, ...

The Nigerian Hunters Council says bandits and kidnappers are the “bigger animals” they are currently targeting in the forests across the country. Speaking with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja, Joshua Osatimehin, commander-general of the council, appealed to the national assembly ...

Femi Falana has disclosed that the Benin Republic government refused to put freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, on a waiting plane after his arrest in the French-speaking country in July. Falana said the Nigerian government told their Benin Republic counterpart to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has made a telephone call to Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan, offering to help as the European country grapples with ravaging wildfires. Buhari also expressed his sympathy over the destruction wrought by the wildfires. The wildfires ravaged vast ...

The Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in the United Emirates (UAE) has clarified viral news reports that Ghanaian passport holders can enter the country without visa. In a statement on Monday, the embassy said although there is an agreement ...

The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates, has dropped in Forbes’ real time billionaire ranking. Gates who was the fourth-richest man in the world dropped to the fifth position. According to Forbes, he’s now worth $129.6 billion, slightly less than ...

Gunmen in seven vehicles stormed the Nnewi Police Area Command, in Anambra state on Monday afternoon. Witnesses said the gunmen overpowered the policemen in a shootout and carried away some arms. The station is located on the Okigwe Road area ...

The vehicle of Nigeria Customs Service chasing rice smugglers reportedly crushed seven persons to death in Jibiya LGA of Katsina State on Monday. It was gathered that the vehicle, which rammed into a group of people by the roadside, had ...

Chris Okotie has attacked late TB Johsua’s preaching and the late Prophet himself, saying he claimed to be the same as Jesus Christ. The founder of the Household of God Church, Chris Okotie, has described the late founder of The ...

The son of the Pastor a Nigerian man called out today on Facebook, [see post here], has called out his Pastor father — Moses Adeeyo saying the divorce matter between him and his mother is still very much in court.   ...

The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church International aka Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has advised women against joining the feminist movement. The clergyman who gave the advice during a sermon to his congregation stated that feminism leads to ...

An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country. The boy’s family is in hiding and many of the Hindu community ...

The Eselu of Iselu, Oba Ebenezer Akinyemi, has withdrawn the appointment of Senator Rochas Okorocha, as Otunba Asoludero of Iselu, in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Oba Akinyemi in a copy of a letter addressed to the ...

A topic is currently the trending news on social media, It’s about Bright Ben and his wife of 12 years. According to the man who just cried out on social media, his Pastor married his wife of 12 years. Bright ...

  Two Nigerian fraudsters, Tobilola Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru have lost their mansions, N200m cash and more to the Federal Government. The properties lost are in upscale Lekki axis of Lagos. This is after their arrest and successful ...

More troubles are brewing for suspended aide to Ogun Governor, Abidemi Rufai, who was indicted for alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Rufai was arrested at the JFK airport in New York on May 14 over alleged $350,000 ...

Schools, Shops, banks in Abakaliki shutdown as residents obey IPOB-sit-at-home order. The group had called for the exercise to protest the arrest and detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government, but Kanu’s brother over the weekend called ...

Dino Melaye has silenced rumour mongers saying he never asked anyone not to post his picture with Hushpuppi, assuring Nigerians that he is a political celebrity. Dino reacted to this on his Instagram page with a laughing photo and wrote; ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has disclosed that it has so far recovered N89.2 billion excess and illegal charges slammed on customers by banks in Nigeria. Meanwhile the apex bank also said that Nigeria’s financial system is sound, resilient ...

Two North Carolina men were killed by a light-rail train in the middle of a memorial for their brother — who was killed in the same spot two weeks ago, reports said. A LYNX Blue Line train in Charlotte plowed ...