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Anthony Joshua plans to retire from boxing within the next five years. Joshua, 31, turned professional in 2013 following his Olympic triumph the year before at the London Games. He has since won, lost, and then won back three of ...

Nigerian comedian McEdopikin and his wife have welcomed their first child. The comedian shared the excited news on Instagram about their bundle of joy — a baby boy. While sharing the photos, he said his name can now be changed ...

  President Buhari today received the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in a close door meeting held at the State House, Abuja. More photos of the two leaders below…      

The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGAR), branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), on Thursday, decried the increase in the prices of cooking gas across the country. Its National Chairman, Mr Michael Umudu, told the News ...

Investigations are underway to “hunt down every man and woman” who took part in the deadly storming of the US Capitol building. Police and politicians vowed no one would escape justice after parts of America democracy’s home was destroyed by ...

                      A 33-year-old suspect, Hassan Ebere, has  revealed how he sold 6,000 dead poultry to residents of Maiduguri for five years so as to raise money for his livelihood since ...

          An inmate of Edo State correctional centre, Obehi Ogbeh, who escaped during the #EndSARS protest, has been rearrested on Tuesday in Ogun State, an official has said. The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ...

  Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe has asked that the sanction placed on his country by the US must end because the US has shown that they do not have the “moral right to punish ...

  There was pandemonium in the Orile area of Lagos State today January 7 after residents discovered a tunnel allegedly used by kidnappers and ritualists to carry out their nefarious activities. The tunnel is under a bridge that links to Lagos ...

  Mark Zuckerberg has banned Donald Trump from using Facebook indefinitely.   Facebook COO, Sherry Sandberg initially announced Trump has been banned from the platform for 24 hours, writing:   I am deeply disturbed by the violence that took place ...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has stated that there will be no mass disconnection of telephone subscribers over National Identity Numbers (NIN) registration.   The agency which said the current linkage of SIM registration records with the NIN was aimed ...

  Authorities in Ecuador are hunting for a man who allegedly bludgeoned his wife to death before super-gluing her skull back together to hide the injuries and make it look like an accident.   According to reports, Luis Hermida claimed ...

The management of First City Monument Bank has appointed Yemisi Edun as its acting managing director.   The decision came amidst the scandal involving the managing director of the bank, Adam Nuru. Mr Nuru proceeded on leave earlier in the ...

Kwara State Police command has arrested a 24-year-old Medinat Ibrahim, who allegedly faked her own kidnapping in connivance with two other persons. Parading the three suspects in Ilorin on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Bagega, represented by the ...

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 53 teenagers over alleged involvement in immoral acts in Kano City. Malam Lawal Ibrahim, the board’s Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Kano, said they were arrested ...

The Federal Government will need about N2.44tn for the vaccination of 164.8 million Nigerians, who will not have access to free vaccines the country is expecting from the international community. Currently, coronavirus vaccines available globally include those discovered by Pfizer, ...

Donald Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts have been suspended after he published posts deemed to incite violence amid the deadly Capitol riots. The US President’s Twitter account is locked for 12 hours and the social media platform told him to ...

An unknown Nigerian mother has dumped her newborn baby at a refuse dump in Ebonyi State.   According to reports, the baby was said to be found in a sack on Wednesday at Igweogbuofia Street, Kpirikpiri in Abakaliki metropolis of ...

Ahead of the January 16 local government polls in Kano State, the state’s Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) on Wednesday said it disqualified six candidates over their failure to pass its drug test.   Daily Trust reports that KAINSEC said it ...

  Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com Inc’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Including Thursday’s gains in Tesla shares, Musk, 49, had a net worth of ...

  Former Presidential Spokesperson, Reno Omokri has drawn a camparism between Goodluck Jonathan conceding defeat in the 2015 Presidential election and the insurrrection at the US Capitol which was centered on President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede after being defeated ...

  A hit-and-run driver has killed a 28-year-old man identified simply as Daniel in Ughelli, Delta state.   The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday, January 7, along the Ughelli axis of the East-West road.   It was gathered ...

  30-year-old ritual killer suspect, Tajudeen Monsuru, has revealed how he killed his girlfriend, Alani Mutiyat, others people, dismembered and sold their body parts then used the proceeds to enjoy himself.     Monsuru, who was arrested in Iwo on December ...

Alibaba has slammed a former minister of the Federation, Femi Fani Kayode saying sense and education do not go together. This comes after FFK shared a photo of protesters at Capitol building and captured it ”People Power”. Alibaba munched FFK’s ...

President Donald Trump has finally conceded defeat to Joe Biden, with the US president promising on an orderly transition to power on January 20   This was after a joint session of US Congress certified the victory of President-elect Joe ...