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Senate President Ahmad Lawan has broken his silence on suspension of micro blogging and social network platform Twitter by the Federal Government. He said Nigeria and Twitter need each other. He called for amicable resolution of the feud with Twitter. ...

A 34-year-old Nigerian man recently separated from his wife has attacked her parents’ home in Douglasville, Georgia, United States, killing her and his mother-in-law before taking his own life. Udoamaka Nwamu, of East Point, Fulton County, took a handgun to ...

The corpse of a baby girl, suspected to be a day old, has been recovered in a well at Tsalle Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, was confirmed in a statement ...

The President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster, as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment in a statement issued in ...

Yoruba Nation agitators have threatened to shut down the country if there is bloodshed in the South-West region during the protest that will be staged on June 12 –Democracy Day. This was made known by Olayomi Koiki, media spokesman for ...

A now suspended Virginia Tech footballer, David Etute, has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of a man he met on dating app, Tinder. Etute, who has Nigerian roots, had allegedly beaten a transvestite s.e.x worker to death ...

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has vowed to deal ruthlessly with anyone or group planning procession or gathering under any guise on June 12 which is designated as Democracy Day. Ayade in a statement signed by Special Adviser, Media ...

  Barely a week after suspending the operations of American-owned microblogging site, Twitter, the Nigerian government has joined Koo, an Indian microblogging platform. Last week, Twitter had pulled down a tweet of President Muhammadu Buhari on the civil war. Three ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced it is sending three artefacts back to Nigeria. CNN reported that two of the works, a pair of 16th-century Benin Court brass plaques of a “Warrior Chief” and “Junior Court ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has condemned the rate at which Nigerians mutilate, deface, squeeze and even spray and sell the naira notes. The apex bank threatened that “abuse of the currency attracts a penalty of not less than six ...

A naked woman destroyed a restaurant in Florida during a rampage before she was Tasered “in her breasts” by police, footage shows. Tina Kindred, 53, was acting “out of control” as staff used trays as shields and patrons ran out ...

Reverend Fr. Mfa Mdooyonga Solomon of the St Augustine Parish, Makurdi in Benue State has gifted an old woman a house in return for her past widow’s mite generosity. Solomon was attacked by bandits on 5 October 2020 in his ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have attacked the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria in Kaduna State, abducting scores of students and lecturers in the institution. An eyewitness told one of punch correspondents that the gunmen invaded the school located along the ...

President Buhari has said his directive to shoot criminals with AK47 stands. The President repeated this on Thursday while declaring his support for the Nigeria Police Force and expressed his intolerance for all criminal activities in Lagos State and the ...

Chief of Staff to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Muhammad Abdullahi has said 73 per cent of women in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State said that it was okay for a man to beat a woman. ...

Clergyman of the Christ Apostolic Church, Prophet Samuel Abiara paid a condolence visit this morning to Evelyn Joshua, the widow of clergyman, TB Joshua, who died last Sunday.   More photos below;    

  Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has declared June 12 as day of protest for Yoruba Nation agitators. The self-acclaimed Yoruba activist said the agitators will hold ‘peaceful rallies’ across the southwest region on Saturday, June 12. Igboho, ...

  Former U.S. president Donald Trump ordered his top White House attorney, Donald McGahn, to issue a false statement at the height of the Mueller investigation, though he knew that lying could carry criminal consequences for both of them McGahn, ...

The Ogun State government has banned the sales of all cooling system servicing/repairs related to gas across the state until further notice. This is in furtherance of the state’s bid for the safety of lives and property via an earlier ...

A woman has been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of killing her husband before cutting his penis off and cooking. Dayane Cristina Rodrigues Machado, 33, was arrested by police in the Brazilian city of Sao Goncalo – across the Guanabara ...

President Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the commercial operations of Lagos-Ibadan railway at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station, Ebute Meta, Lagos. He described the feat ‘‘as another milestone in the drive of this Administration to revitalise the railway system and establish ...

Microblogging and social network giants Twitter has reached out to the Federal Government for negotiations over the recent suspension of its activities, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed. Speaking with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal ...

Nigeria is in talks with four West African countries expected to buy unused electricity from it. The acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman, Executive Board of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), Engr. Sule ...

The unprovoked attack on a five-member Muslim family in London, Ontario has led to calls for the crime to be designated an act of terror. Four members of the same family were run over by an attacker while strolling on ...

A toe-curling video shows how a lesbian porn film began to play on a screen inside a Covid-19 vaccination centre. The x-rated film popped up unexpectedly on TV that was previously playing public service broadcasts at the facility in Costa ...