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  A BRITISH pensioner is set to marry her Egyptian toyboy lover and claims despite their 45-year age gap he’s made her ‘feel like a virgin again’. Iris Jones, 80, met jobless 35-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Irbriham on Facebook before flying ...

  The Federal Government has directed the police hierarchy to commence the recruitment of special constables nationwide preparatory to  the implementation of its community policing policy. To begin  the recruitment of  constables, Adamu has directed state police commands to set ...

The Non Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State are threatening to down tools if the School Management does not reverse the backdoor recruitment, pay outstanding allowances and bonuses, and give due ...

Enugu state government has commenced demolition of illegal structures that may pose threat to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport. This according to the state government is in line with the requests made to ensure illegal buildings at the airport are ...

Twenty outstanding teachers in public schools in Lagos State will be acknowledged and rewarded with brand new vehicle each as part of efforts to motivate teachers in the state. The State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said this on Saturday during ...

  Nigerians are reacting to the news that Leah Sharibu has been forced into marriage with a top Boko Haram commander and given birth to a baby boy. A report from Sahara Reporters claimed that Leah Sharibu who refused to renounce ...

  CHINA’S president has warned of a “grave situation” as he said the killer coronavirus was “accelerating its speed”. Xi Jinping held a special government meeting yesterday to discuss the spread of virus that has killed 54 people and infected ...

  Leah Sheribu, a Christian girl kidnapped and held in Boko Haram captivity for over one year, has given birth to a baby boy.   Leah was delivered of the baby a few weeks ago following her forceful marriage to ...

  Nigerian songwriter and recording artiste, Peruzzi, has bought himself a house in Lagos.   The singer unperturbed about the recent rumour that alleged that he is the pimp of Chioma, took to his Instagram stories to show off his newly acquired ...

  Climate advocate Vanessa Nakate calls out racism after she is removed from image taken with her white peers in Davos. Social media users have come out in support of Ugandan climate advocate Vanessa Nakate after she was cropped out ...

  A man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping an epileptic minor at gunpoint.   An Edo state magistrate court sentenced Vincent Akande, a 40-year-old former vigilante, to jail for the rape of a 14-year-old girl who ...

The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 22 on Saturday as rescue crews searched for people who remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. Speaking at a televised news conference near ...

Six crew members of a nine – tanker vessel laden with poorly Automated Gasoline Oil are cooling their heels in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Arrested by the Navy along the waterways of Brass, on the ...

The Senate of the University of Ibadan has approved the provisional offer of undergraduate admission to 4,359 candidates for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, who presided over the emergency Senate meeting, said that out of this ...

A doctor has died from coronavirus nine days after getting infected with the deadly virus in China. Liang Wudong, 62, from Hubei Province, was suspected of contracting the disease on January 16 at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and ...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have evidence that the brother of Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend provided his intimate text messages to her sibling, who sold them to the National Enquirer, according to a new report. Prosecutors have obtained documents including a May ...

  A house-help has been apprehended by the residents of a community in Lagos after he made attempt to kill his master’s children by lacing their soup with the deadly SNIPER insecticide.   While being interrogated, the boy was asked ...

    A woman, Priscilla Kwange is presently in a dilemma after being impregnated by her son-in-law during the period she spent in their home for Omugwo, that is babysitting their new born child. It was a bad life experience ...

  A woman has planes to marry an aeroplane she claims she has been in a relationship with for six years. Michele Kobke from Berlin, Germany, first met the love of her life, a 737-800 Boeing plane she calls ‘Schatz’ ...

A Zambian Twitter user has narrated how she dealt with a man who didn’t value her time and presence.   @DonCorleAnn admitted that the man was her favourite at that time but he ‘ghosted’ her for over a month after ...

The face-off between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, got messier on Saturday, as unidentified thugs overnight set ablaze vehicles, canopies and chairs parked at the venue ...

Policemen at Surulere Police Station in Ilorin, Kwara are yet to recover from the shock they got, after a mysterious man walked into their station to report the murder of a truck driver, whom he identified as Emmanuel Adegoke. The ...

Police operatives from Ipaja Division of the Lagos Command led by CSP Tokumbo Abaniwonda, have arrested a 21-year old man, who confessed that he only goes to churches to steal properties and not for prayers. Tokunbo Lekan, who hails from ...

  The Commissioner for Health in Edo State, Dr Patrick Okundia, on Friday, in Benin said 76 out of 175 suspected cases of Lassa fever tested positive to the virus. Okundia made this known during a Lassa fever committee meeting, ...

A Catholic catechist from Rongo, Migori County, Kenya on Monday mid-morning, January 20, committed suicide over claims that his elder brother was frustrating and mistreating him in their parents’ homestead. Paul Ochuodho Mbogo’s body was found hanging from a rope ...