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Dubai shuts all bars and clubs over Covid spike after Brit influencers who flocked there mocked travel ban Dubai is closing all its bars and pubs in February following a Covid spike after British influencers mocked a travel ban. It ...

If a book cover currently making the round son twitter is anything to believe then Lagos NURTW boss, MC Oluomo who is currently in a hot romance with Interior designer Ehi Ogbebor is set to become an author.   The ...

Kwara State Government on Tuesday got a legal green light to proceed with building on the controversial Ile Arugbo land in Ilorin, with the court striking out former Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s case challenging government’s take over of the land. ...

The Kaduna home of Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon has been gutted with fire. Fearon, the Secretary-General of Anglican Communion Worldwide with headquarters in London, is also Chairman of the Kaduna Peace Commission. His four-bedroom duplex also houses the centre for Christianity ...

Ha! Instagram big boy, Mompha has reacted to the fresh N157 million fraud allegation leveled against him by he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.   It will be recalled that Mompha was linked in the charges against 606 Autos ...

A popular activist, Aisha Yesufu has reacted to the warning issued to her by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Yesufu described Kanu as “made in China Shekau.” The IPOB leader had warned Yesufu, a ...

The Ogun State Police Command said it had commenced investigation into the alleged invasion of privacy of guests at the Pavillion Hotel, Ayepe, in the Odogbolu area of the state. The development followed public outcry against the hotel after an ...

A Lagosian. Nike Adekola, is yet to recover from the shock of losing her husband, Suleman, who reportedly committed suicide by drinking a local insecticide in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Suleman, a tricycle operator, ...

On Monday, a 17-year-old boy, Quadri Taiwo, appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for threatening his mother’s life. The police charged Taiwo for breach of peace and threat to life, punishable under sections 168 and 56 of the Criminal ...

Rapper Silento has been charged for murdering his cousin. The rapper was arrested on Monday for allegedly shooting his older cousin to death in a suburb of Atlanta. The rapper, whose real name is Richard Lamar Hawk, 23, was charged ...

Bolton have signed West Ham forward Oladapo Afolayan and Burnley goalkeeper Lukas Jensen on loan until the end of the season. Afolayan made a goalscoring debut for the Hammers in their recent FA Cup win over Doncaster. The 23-year-old joined ...

Two 15-year-old girls were drugged and gang r*ped by 10 men after meeting a man on Snapchat, a court heard. They pleaded with them to stop during the attack in a park in Australia, it was said. Four men have ...

Anthony Okorodas who was sworn in as a judge of Delta State High Court by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in 2018, has expressed how devastated he was after a DNA test conducted on his three adult children revealed they are not ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command on Sunday arrested nine suspected members of a notorious land grabbing syndicate for allegedly unleashing violence on the people of Agbogun village, in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state. The suspects, ...

  Good news!!! The deadline for the NIN – Sim linkage has been extended by eight weeks by the federal government of Nigeria.   we can all leave panic mode now… The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module ...

  Resident of Kajola village via Ayete in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State have called on Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho to come to their rescue from a group of ...

Andrew Brooks, a research professor at Rutgers University who led the development of the first FDA-approved Covid-19 saliva test, died suddenly on January 23, according to a Rutgers statement. His sister, Janet Green, confirmed to CNN on Sunday that the ...

Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The son-in-law of Donald Trump and his deputy Avi Berkowitz were nominated by one of the former US president’s lawyers for their ...

As the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, reached retirement on Monday, the Presidency has said no date has been fixed for announcement of his successor. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said on a programme on Channels Television that he ...

A suspected serial killer and notorious cultist, Owolabi Oludipe has been shot dead during a gun duel with operatives of the Ogun State Police Command. Confirming the killing via a statement issued on Monday, the Police Public Relations Officer in ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has named internet celebrity, Ismail Mustapha, alias Mompha, in its amended N157.1million fraud charge filed against an auto dealer, Sarumi Babafemi, alias 606. Mompha has since November 25, 2019 been facing a separate ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 676 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 131,918. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. “On the 1st of ...

The Ogun government on Monday refuted reports on some social media platforms insinuating that it had enlisted the help of Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, to combat crimes in the state. Igboho, had stormed Ogun on Monday on his ...

Nigerian Air Force personnel attached to the 211 Regiment of the NAF Base, Neze, Imo State, have shot dead a Computer Science lecturer of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Imo State, Okonye Nduka.It was learnt that Nduka was killed by ...

Lagos State posted its highest COVID-19 deaths in a single day on Monday, with the deadly virus striking 15 people dead in the State. Of the 21 people killed by the virus in Nigeria on Monday, 15 of the fatality ...