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Some social media users have taken a swipe at the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, for buying bicycles to ease the movement of civil servants within the state secretariat. It was learnt that though the government did not announce ...

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has disclosed that his interactions with bandits were done in the presence of government officials. Gumi disclosed this while rebuking those calling for his arrest and prosecution over his interaction with bandits. The Islamic ...

Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in a hospital in southwest Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former media executive ...

Twenty-eight year old Ogbonnia Paul Chukwudi met his waterloo as his was arrested by security operatives after successfully impersonating as a soldiers for four years in Cross River State. The fake soldier from Ebonyi State has been impersonating for the ...

Anthony Joshua, a medical practitioner,  Mbewu Chijioke Precious and 12 others have been sentenced to prison for cyber crime by justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State. The Uyo Zonal Office of the ...

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has advised residents to use a nose mask in public regularly to avoid been infected with the second wave of Covid-19. The Public Relations Officer of the authority, Mr Olumide Filade, made the ...

Oyo State Government has announced the suspension indefinitely of the last Saturday of the month environmental sanitation exercise and restriction of movement during the period in the state. The monthly environmental sanitation exercise between 7 am and 10 am, was ...

Omooooooooooo lol. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha left reporters stunned and amused on Tuesday when he interrupted his own news conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge tough questions.  Prayuth became frustrated when asked about ...

Beyonce has backed Meghan Markle in a powerful show of support for the Duchess of Sussex.   The megastar is the latest big name to publicly praise the former actress for her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. Beyonce, 39, says ...

Recall members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had promised to embark on a nationwide protest today? Well they kept to their promise.The protest is coming following plans to amend the national minimum wage ...

Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have handed over at least seven bags of 50kg rice to bandits in Katsina State as a bribe to escape abduction or other forms of attack. The Sector 4 Command of the Joint ...

Gunmen men struck in the early hours of Tuesday in Eteh-Okofi, a silent agrarian community in Koton Karffe Local Government Area of Kogi State and abducted three sisters. They have demanded a huge sum of money if the girls must ...

A teenage girl got the surprise of her life when she found a fearsome-looking venomous snake hiding inside her asthma inhaler. She was bringing the washing in at her home in Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia, when she saw the snake ...

A businessman, Abideen Adebayo has urged an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the 27-year-old marriage between him and his wife, Sherifat. He told the court that Sherifat and two of their four children were in the habit of ...

Police in Bayelsa State have arrested and paraded a 56-year-old man, Christopher Chiabata, from Onuebum Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state for beating his wife to death with a pestle. He was apprehended after a failed attempt ...

An adulterous affair with a married woman produced fatal results for a Gokwe man after he was stabbed to death by his lover’s angry husband when the two were caught pants down on the marital bed. iHarare has learned that ...

A woman shot dead her ex-boyfriend because he refused to pay for her boob job, it’s claimed. Cristina D’Avila Teixeira Rodrigues, 24, was arrested in Brazil for allegedly executing the businessman with a shot to the back of the head. ...

A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has shaded Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh over claims she thought Olakunle CHurchill was ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son when she married him. Reno who was wading into the Meghan Markle/Royal Family crisis said a similar ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi, has given Sahara Reporters a seven-day ultimatum to retract what she describes as an injurious and defamatory publication against her. She gave the ultimatum in a letter to the newspaper and signed by her ...

Infamous “Soho grifter” Anna Sorokin reflected on her post-prison success in a new interview, saying that “in a way” crime pays. The 30-year-old convicted thief, who goes by the alias Anna Delvey, told BBC Newsnight she’s been inundated with media ...

Piers Morgan has left ITV’s Good Morning Britain following a row over comments he made about the Duchess of Sussex. It brings the controversial host’s time on the show to an end after six years. ITV announced the decision after ...

In her first public response to Prince Harry and Meghan’s extraordinary interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this week, Queen Elizabeth II says the royal family is “saddened” to learn the extent of the challenges faced by the Duke and Duchess ...

At least, 55 persons were abducted in different attacks on Katsina villages, Daily Trust is reporting. Gunmen stormed the village of Katsalle in Sabuwa Local Government Area on Monday night, abducting 30 persons, the majority of whom were women. A ...

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, has commenced an advanced diploma course in native medicine. The Special Adviser to the Anambra State Governor, Mr Willie Obiano, on medicine and herbal practice, Dr  Onyekachi Ibezim, disclosed this at  a press conference ...

A convicted internet fraudster, Akinrinmade Adeniyi, who was sentenced to three months imprisonment in Abeokuta, is to forfeit his car, a laptop computer and a phone to the Federal Government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, ...