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FIRST DAUGHTER! Ivanka Trump has reportedly broken Barack Obama’s fundraising record on the way to raising $35million for her father, President Trump.   It is reported that Ivanka, 39, raised $13million during three fundraising events in California and one in ...

It has not been a rosy 2020 really.   Covid-19 came and upturned normal processes, forcing most to change lifestyles, increasing poverty rates and, unfortunately, increasing the gap between governments and citizens mostly in Africa. Similar to #EndSARS in Nigeria, ...

A massive stir was caused on social media after the people in Umuoji, Amucha, Imo state, exhumed the corpse of a dead body and found out that he was still “breathing” and his body had not decayed. A bystander could ...

The Federal Government is to spend between N269.38bn and N497.13bn on the provision of six million free meters to various unmetered power users across the country. Also, findings from separate quarterly reports of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on ...

  Prince William secretly battled coronavirus in April – days after his father Prince Charles contracted it – and was left ‘struggling to breathe,’ according to a report.   The Duke of Cambridge, 38, did not reveal he was sick ...

  General Overseer of Promise Kingdom Ministry in Sapele, Bishop Godday Iboyi Okokporo, JP, has called on a former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to retire from politics, saying that failure to do this will result in more ...

Adamawa State police command has arrested a 26-year-old man Eson Fatgoel a  resident of Guyuk in possession of  counterfeit naira notes in Adamawa .   The state PPRO DSP Sulaiman Yahaya in  a statement confirmed that  the suspect has allegedly ...

  President Buhari has announced that over 1million youths have registered for the Youth Investment Fund programme which opened on October 12, 2020.   Speaking at the maiden maiden National Youth Day celebration observed on November 1 and coinciding with the African ...

Nigerian youth calling for an end to police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country on Sunday stormed the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, to paint #ENDSARS on the floor of the facility’s entrance.   The protesters arrived the international ...

No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state and local ...

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has urged parents to instill family values in their children as a way to save the country from degeneration.   She made the call on Saturday in Kaduna during a ...

  Staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, received N357.098 billion as salaries, wages and other benefits in 2019, according to the corporation’s recently released audited financial statement. The NNPC Group had disclosed that its staff strength, as at ...

Former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has told Islamic clerics and fellow Muslims raining curses on rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, in mosques, to apply caution.   Aisha had last week lamented the ill-treatment she gets from fellow Muslims. Yesufu, co-convener of ...

A 40-year-old jealous lover, identified as Etifa Obukulubu, on Saturday in Igbogene area of Yenagoa Local Government Area, the Bayelsa State, allegedly set ablaze the home of his girlfriend over suspicion of cheating.   The deceased, a pastor working with ...

A 90-year-old widow in India was allegedly gang-raped by two men who stormed into her house at night.   The old woman said they left her “almost half-dead” after the attack in India on October 24. When she regained her ...

Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an “Aladdin’s lamp” for $93,000 and even conjured up a fake genie have been arrested in India, an official said Sunday.   Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of ...

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, 2020 has summoned the army to appear before it, Sunday Punch has learnt.   But the army ...

  The Nigerian Government has finally reacted to the vandalization of the properties of Television Continental, TVC, and the Nation Newspaper by hoodlums in Lagos State.   Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on Saturday, described the ...

The Queen will step down and make her son, Prince Charles, king when she turns 95, a royal expert has claimed.   The Monarch will celebrate her 95th birthday in April, meaning we could see a change very soon if ...

  Ghana legend Asamoah Gyan, Africa’s top scorer in the history of the World Cup, has returned to his homeland in a surprise move to sign for local side Legon Cities. His return was confirmed by the Ghana Premier League on ...

More than 10 persons lost their lives in Ondo State on Saturday night in an accident that occurred in Akungba-Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government of the State.   The accident was caused by a truck loaded with rice, which ...

  Sam Adeyemi, the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, has urged Nigerian youths to continue to insist on the government’s implementation of the 5for5 demands.   Following the EndSARS protests, youths had presented the five demands to the Federal ...

A Florida man was left with his scalp hanging off after paying $150 for a “full contact experience” with a black leopard.   Dwight Turner is suing “real estate investment expert and exotic animal breeder” Michael Poggi after claiming he ...

US president, Donald Trump, has hailed the courageous soldiers who rescued an American hostage in Nigeria today.   Philip Walton, 27, was seized by armed bandits on Monday, October 26. Walton was moved to a location in northern Nigeria where ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the resumption of all civil servants on salary grade one to 12.   This was contained in a circular by the Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, on Saturday. In the circular with ...