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The Lagos State House of Assembly has vowed to include compensation to End SARS victims in the state’s 2021 Budget presently before the House.   Mr Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, the Chairman, House Ad Hoc Committee on the Victims of aftermath of ...

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Tesl TSLAa, Elon Musk, has overtaken his Facebook counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg to become the world’s fourth-richest person, according to Forbes.   The billionaire Musk’s net worth pushed up by $8.3 billion, to $105.4 billion ...

Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union.   In the suit which was filed at the ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has revealed the identity of the security operative who killed a vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke on Thursday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.   It was earlier reported that Okereke was fatally ...

The World Health Organisation in a stunning announcement today said Gilead’s drug remdesivir is no longer recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are.   According to a WHO panel, there is no evidence it improves ...

Fire has razed some shops at the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.   Shops in a three-storey building in the market were razed by the inferno before emergency management agencies put out the fire. There was ...

Kidnappers are on the prowl in Edo State, abducting a Local Government chairman, bus passengers and a university student.   The abducted chairman is Waziri Edokpa, Esan Central LG. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Benin-Abuja Highway. on Friday. Edokpa, ...

Lauretta Onochie, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, has slammed CNN over its investigative report on the Lekki shooting.   On Thursday, the aide stated that CNN lied to the international community, adding that Nigeria will not ...

A retired Kaduna State Polytechnic lecturer, Mr. Austin Umera, yesterday shot his wife, Dr. Maurin Umera, a part-time lecturer at the Department of Languages in Kaduna State University (KASU) before committing suicide over a domestic quarrel at his residence in ...

  The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has dismissed the rumours making the rounds that one of the officers of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila was behind the reported murder of ...

Newspaper vendors in Abuja have taken to streets to protest the killing of one of their colleagues, Ifeanyi Okereke Elechi.  The vendor, Ifeanyi Elechi, was said to have been shot dead on Thursday evening by a security aide to Gbajabiamila. ...

A man who kidnapped and r3ped a girl before burying her alive has been executed by lethal injection in the US.   Orlando Hall was convicted for his role in the horrific kidnapping, r3pe and murder of the 16-year-old sister ...

A heartbroken Nigerian man, Umar Suleiman from Nasarawa State has taken to Facebook to remember his daughter 4 years after she was abducted. He penned a heart wrenching post about her saying life has not been the same since they ...

The Duke of Cambridge says a new investigation into how the BBC secured an interview with his mother in 1995 is “a step in the right direction”.   The BBC has promised to “get to the truth” about the events ...

Police in Limuru, Kiambu County, Kenya have launched a hunt for a 42-year-old man who fatally hacked his 30-year-old girlfriend in the wee hours of Thursday morning (November 19) following a domestic dispute.   John Ekale Eipa allegedly killed Risper ...

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have marked their 73rd wedding anniversary by releasing a photograph showing them opening a card from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children.   The homemade gift was created by Prince George, Princess Charlotte ...

Rudy Giuliani was mocked for his ‘dripping hair dye’ on an apparently accidentally open microphone during a live stream of a press conference on boss Donald Trump’s own YouTube channel.   Giuliani, the star of Borat 2 and Trump’s personal ...

                    Obianuju Catherine Udeh better known as DJ Switch has described Nigeria as a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy.   Udeh live-streamed the shooting of peaceful protesters at the Lekki ...

Lmao, but the rings haven’t been working since 1900, lmaooooooo.   He took to social media to greet married people saying ”una well done oo”, then after the hailing, he dropped the bombshell. But will that one work too? People ...

Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State is back in the news once again.   It is the school where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents while writing exams in April 2014. More than 100 of the ...

Three Nigerians declared wanted by Singapore Interpol have been arrested by the cybercrime unit of the police in Lagos.   One of them was found with 50,000 email addresses of people being targeted for business email compromise. The Nigerians were ...

An Instagram user with the handle @shammah_yinse has shared a video which shows cane marks on a school girl.   According to her, the girl who is obviously in high school was brutalised by her mother because she saw her ...

CNN has replied the Federal Government of Nigeria after Lai Mohammed held a press briefing today where he spoke about the international report.   Lai also claimed the report isn’t true and described the Lekki shooting as a Massacre without ...

Isaac Orisadeyi, the younger brother of the Commissioner for Special Duties in Oyo State, Mrs Funmilayo Orisadeyi, has been killed by gunmen.   The 45-year-old was reportedly shot along Nihort-Idi-isin Road in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Tuesday. A ...

A human rights lawyer, Kenechukwu Okeke, has threatened to file a criminal complaint against all members of staff of Cable News Network, CNN for releasing the report of its investigative findings on the shooting of peaceful protesters in Lekki, Lagos ...