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The Ondo State Government has stated that Nigeria’s unity is under threat because President Muhammadu Buhari’ led administration is emotionally attached to Fulani herdsmen. The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo was reacting to the statement by the ...

Foreigners caught not wearing face masks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are being subject to an unusual punishment: push-ups.Video footage circulating on social media this week shows tourists in T-shirts and shorts being made to do the exercise ...

The Federal Government has extended the deadline for Nigerians to register and link their National Identification Number (NIN) to their SIM cards before February 9, 2021. This information was posted on the official Twitter handle of the NIMC. The NIMC ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission is considering making the National Identity Number a precondition for registering voters when the continuous voter registration exercise commences in a few weeks, The Punch has learnt. A national commissioner at INEC disclosed this during an interview ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Tuesday banned fuel tankers and other articulated vehicles from plying flyovers in the state. Mr Abiodun announced this decision during his assessment visit to the scene of tanker explosion, which occurred on Monday ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured that with the successful activation of the Economic Sustainability Plan’s (ESP) Cash Transfer scheme, the present administration’s vision of reducing extreme poverty by lifting at least 20 million Nigerians out of poverty in the ...

What should have been a normal leisure time on a Saturday afternoon at a Dar es Salaam hotel, Tanzania ended badly for a city resident, 80 year-old David Mluli, who died in circumstances that are subject to police investigation. Mr ...

A Nigerian Onyebuchi Johnbosco Ezedinugwu who has been living in Thailand with a 60-day tourist visa for over 7 years has been arrested by the Immigration Police. Ezedinugwu reportedly gained entry into Thailand in April 2014 on a 60-day tourist ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,301 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 113,305.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. “1,301 new cases ...

Omowunmi Ajiboye, a Nollywood actress and wife of popular actor Segun Ogungbe, has narrated how her son Obadara Ogungbe escaped from the Abeokuta tanker explosion that happened yesterday.The tanker incident occurred around 8:15 am on Tuesday on the Presidential Boulevard ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has finally given up the fight against non-trump fans and Biden, waving his great motivator bye from office. Trump leaves office today.Recall FFK had always said Trump would be sworn in for a second ...

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari again, saying he would be remembered like outgoing American president, Donald Trump. The former governor said Nigerians could not wait to see the end of the regime of President ...

Anyway Ghanaians are just like Nigerians.  Instead of praising the man who put it together, they started asking why the car is sounding like a generator and the mockery went on and on. Kontinu o, that’s how to make Africa ...

Timi Dakolo is 40 today and he is reminiscing on his past dreams, lol.The singer says he wanted to work in shell and then take his granny overseas too. Today, the dream is different. He just wants to live a ...

It has been six days since Bobi Wine, the man who came out second in the just concluded Ugandan Presidential election, has been placed under house arrest.Bobi Wine, his family, and staff have all been restricted from leaving their house. ...

Donald Trump granted pardons to rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black on Tuesday night as part of a last-minute spree that saw Trump issue clemency to many political allies on his final full day in office. Wayne, whose real name ...

The Sokoto central market has been gutted by fire.  The fire started around 7am and raged till afternoon, It was gathered that the fire was caused by a generating set. “The fire started from a generating set at Kofar Yan ...

A housewife identified as Suwaiba Shuaibu has allegedly killed her husband’s fiancee, 17-year-old Aisha Kabir in Gimawa Village, Doguwa Local Government Area of Kano State few days to their wedding. The husband, Shahrehu Alhaji Ali and his fiancee, Aisha (all ...

 Hehehe just like Rita Dominic, singer Waje has showed off her man and says it’s TIME. Though Waje only said its time and gave no major clue, her bestie Omawunmi however broke it down saying ”Besto Asoebi Loading ehhhhh! Congratulations ...

Suspected yahoo boys have been spotted in a video eating live chicken as a ‘native doctor’ performed rituals on them.  In the video, the young men were seen dancing to music as they hungrily ate the live chicken. The native ...

European regulators on Tuesday took a step closer to letting the Boeing 737 Max fly again, publishing a proposed airworthiness directive that could see the aircraft cleared within weeks after being grounded for nearly two years over deadly crashes. The ...

Gunmen have kidnapped an Adamawa traditional ruler, Ardo Mustapha. The monarch was reportedly kidnapped on Monday around 12 midnight at his home in Mayo-Farang, Mayo Belwa Local Government Area. Mr Mustapha is the District Head of Mayo-Farang and Sarkin Noman ...

An Israeli man regained his sight after a decade of blindness following the first artificial cornea implantation developed by Israeli medical tech company CorNeat Vision, the company announced this month. The patient, Jamal Furani, a resident of Haifa, began suffering ...

The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Udo Ekpenyong is dead. According to a Premium Times’ source, Ekpenyong died of Covid-19. He was said to have passed away on Monday.

Many were feared injured this morning in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital when a tanker fell on ever busy Kuto – Okemosan road.   The tanker fell after grazing through a Lexus jeep at the GTBANK stretch of the road. ...