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Posters of Kola Abiola, the son of Late MKO Abiola has flooded social media with the posters saying he would be contesting for President in 2023.   The poster also puts his party as APC. But a source in the ...

Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, the wife of late Yinka Odumakin, says her husband died on Friday, April 2, 2021, and not Saturday, April 3, 2021, as earlier reported. Okei-Odumakin, a rights activist, in another tribute to her late husband made available ...

Gunmen have razed another police station in Imo State few hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and outgoing Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu left Owerri, the Imo State capital. Osinbajo and other officials of the Federal Government, including ...

Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company said on Tuesday.   The ranks of the ultra-wealthy are expanding after a year ...

Donald Trump was pictured drinking his beloved Diet Coke despite calling on supporters to boycott the brand over Georgia voting rights. The ex-president was spotted with a bottle of his favourite soda sitting on his Mar-a-Lago desk in a tweet ...

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) is investigating the blood clotting in some persons who received the first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Director General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, spoke to the press at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s official driver, Sa’idu Afaka is dead. He died today after a prolonged illness. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, announced this on his twitter page. The President, in a statement by Garba ...

The Iyatsere of Warri kingdom, Chief Johnson Amatserunreleghe has announced that there will be no merrymaking in the oil city of Warri for the next three months. He said this as he declared a period of mourning over the passing ...

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has suspended the Chairman of Calabar Carnival Commission, Mr Gabe Onah, from office. Onah’s suspension is contained in a release signed on Monday in Calabar by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media ...

All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, paid a condolence visit to Mrs Joe Okei-Odumakin, widow of the late activist and columnist, Yinka Odumakin. The former Lagos State governor visited the widow at Odumakin’s Lagos residence. Odumakin, who was ...

A businessman, Uchenna Njoku, has been allegedly killed by his younger brother, Chukwuma, during an argument over N3000 debt at the deceased’s residence in the Odokekere area of Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered ...

  Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says despite the challenges facing Nigeria, the country has come to stay as one united entity.  Obaseki said this on Sunday when he received the Torch of Unity for the 20th National Sports ...

Hunter Biden convinced his father in 2017 to give public approval to his relationship with his brother Beau’s widow, saying it would be best for the grandchildren. “‘Dad,’ I told him, ‘if people find out, but they think you’re not ...

Pope Francis urged countries in his Easter message on Sunday to quicken distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, particularly to the world’s poor, and called armed conflict and military spending during a pandemic “scandalous”. Coronavirus has meant this has been the second ...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the greatest tragedy of his government is the death of empathy. Kukah, in his Easter message added that the Buhari’s government clay-footed fight against corruption had ...

A Tennessee woman opened fire inside a Burger King drive-thru window after apparently becoming enraged about the wait time, police said. Surveillance photos show the unhinged customer leaning through the Memphis fast-food joint’s open window while brandishing a black handgun. ...

Former President Donald Trump said “Happy Easter” in his own way on Sunday — linking his holiday wishes to his claims of election fraud. “​Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want ...

Singer Quindon Tarver, who gained fame as a child for his performance in 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet,” died in a car accident in Texas, a report said Sunday. He was 38. His uncle, Willie Tarver, told the Daily Beast that ...

A two-week-old baby has died after being hit by a car in front of his ‘hysterical’ parents in Brownhills this afternoon. Officers are investigating after a mother and baby were pinned against a wall after a BMW driver careered onto ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has adduced reason why the Federal Government should leave self-acclaimed activist, Sunday Igboho alone. He said the nation has lots of issues facing her which must be addressed urgently instead of seeking to arrest Igboho. ...

Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to redeploy the Commissioner of Police in Oyo, Ngozi Onadeko, and bring a sterner CP to the state. According to the Oodua Peoples Congress, ...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said no one deserves to be in any Nigerian prison when killer herdsmen and Boko Haram militants get arrested, freed and rehabilitated.   Kanu disclosed this on his ...

A 49-year-old man, Ubong Williams Akpan, has reportedly defiled his 12-year-old daughter in Ogun State, saying his wife was no more attractive to him. Akpan was arrested in April 2 by the police following a report lodged at Itele Ota ...

The Presidency has lambasted the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah over his 2021 Easter homily, saying it is an ungodly attempt to politicise the nation’s security. Kukah, in his Easter message, had said the greatest tragedy of Buhari’s ...

Tito Idakula, daughter of former Oyo State governor, Rashidi Ladoja, has disclosed that she had two abortions and dealt with the shame for a long time. Tito, who is also married to singer, Bez Idakula, in a post via her ...