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Queen and Prince Philip not behind Archie skin colour remarks, Oprah says

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were not behind comments about the colour of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s child, according to Oprah Winfrey, who conducted the interview in which the startling revelation was made. In the interview ...

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Femi Fani Kayode hits back at ex-wife, calls her adulteress

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has debunked claims made by his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, that he physically assaulted her while she was pregnant. Fani-Kayode also alleged that Chikwendu was an adulterer who tried to seduce his friends while he ...

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Roadside sellers hawking petrol in Abuja

Roadside sellers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, are still in business hawking products in some part of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The long queue at filling stations was gradually disappearing after eight days of panic ...

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Policeman who stole guns in Abia arrested in Ebonyi

A policeman, Shedrack Aleke Igwe, working in the Armoury section of MOPOL base 28, Umuahia, Abia State, has been arrested with 5 AK-47 rifles he stole from the Armoury. Igwe, a constable, was reported to have carted away rifles in ...

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Death of two Imo undergraduates linked to generator fume

Two undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, have allegedly died as a result of inhaled carbon monoxide from a generator in their hostel.The students, Udeagbala Kenchukwu,21, and Stephen Anele, 21, were found dead after police operatives forced the ...

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COVID-19 vaccination certificate to become compulsory for travel – FG

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has said that the COVID-19 vaccination certificate, will soon become a compulsory requirement to travel anywhere in the world. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of ...

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Bandits breach Kaduna Airport, kidnap 9 at FAAN quarters

Scores of gunmen, wielding AK 47s and RPGs, breached the Kaduna Airport early today, storming through the runway 05, to attack the residential quarters of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria(FAAN). According to a report, the bandits succeeded in abducting ...

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Buhari, Osinbajo take Covid-19 vaccine (Photos)

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, today received the Covid-19 vaccine publicly at the Presidential Villa.President Buhari was vaccinated at 11:51a.m., while Professor Osinbajo took his at 11:57 am. It was preceded by e-registration of the President and the ...

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Court orders Daddy Freeze to pay N5m for committing adultery with married woman

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has ordered controversial on-air personality Ifedayo Olarinde also known as Daddy Freeze to pay the sum of N5million for committing adultery with a married woman named Benedicta Elechi. Court documents obtained ...

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Sadiq Daba had oxygen machine while acting in ‘Citation’ — Kunle Afolayan

Kunle Afolayan, Nigerian film producer, says Sadiq Daba, the late actor, had an oxygen machine with him while featuring in ‘Citation’, a 2020 film. Daba breathed his last at the Lagos state university teaching hospital (LASUTH) where he had been ...

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Bawa didn’t advise INEC not to sell forms to anyone —EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has described as false a report  that its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, advised the Independent National Electoral Commission against selling forms to persons with a file with the agency who are aspiring to contest in ...

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37 year-old mother of two dies during sex romp with lover

The police command in Adamawa State on Friday confirmed the death of a 37-year-old mother of two children who died in the house of her lover during sexual intercourse. The police also confirmed the arrest of the lover, one Lekan ...

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Ship of Lagos was heading in wrong direction in your time – Tinubu blasts Ambode

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday slammed the governorship era of Akinwunmi Ambode in Lagos. At a ceremony to commission a flyover bridge at Pen Cinema, which was begun by Ambode’s administration, ...

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Father, children arrested for alleged kidnapping in Ogun

The police in Ogun State said it has arrested a “kidnap syndicate made up of members of the same family.” Their arrest was sequel to many kidnapping cases within Sagamu and its environs in 2020. The Ogun State Commissioner of ...

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Amotekun arrest two men having sex in Ondo

Lmao… they want to spoil Ondo state oo. And then this elderly man says the small boy lured him into it lmaooo. Ondo State Security Network, Amotekun Corps have arrested two men caught having s.e.x. The duo, Seyi Balogun aka ...

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Dr Ngong becomes first Nigerian to receive Covid-19 vaccine

A medical doctor, Dr. Cyprian Ngong, who works with the National Hospital in Abuja, has become the first person to receive a jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria. The vaccination exercise began on Friday, following the arrival of ...

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Union Bank staff Oluwasanmi jailed for theft of N116m

Temitope Oluwasanmi, a staff of Union Bank and his friend Augustine Olayinka were handed various jail terms today by Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, Lagos State. The convicts were arraigned by the EFCC in December 2017 on ...

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Passengers stranded as Lagos Danfo drivers protest extortion by thugs, security operatives

Drivers of Lagos yellow commercial buses, popularly known as danfo plying the Mile 2/Badagry expressway on Friday protested against extortion by touts and security operatives. The majority of the drivers participating in the protest are currently occupying Ketu bus stop, ...

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YouTube to lift Trump ban if violence threat falls, CEO says

YouTube’s chief executive has said the platform may lift Donald Trump’s suspension, if the threat of “real-world violence” decreases. Susan Wojcicki said the company will look at government warnings and violent rhetoric to determine when it’s safe to lift the ...

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