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The Electoral Institute which is the training and research arm of the Independent National Electoral Commission is worried about the decline in the interest shown by eligible voters in the country’s democratic process. The institute is now advancing a conversation ...

The Queen has pulled out of her annual visit to the Sandringham Women’s Institute meeting as she has a cold and is “not feeling up to it”. The 93-year-old royal pulled out of her annual meeting with the Sandringham branch ...

An Tory MP has spoke out about the “embarrassment and shame” she felt as a teenager when she was forced to use toilet paper or newspaper instead of sanitary products when she had her period. Raising the issue of period ...

There was pandemonium in Uyo Akwa Ibom state capital on Wednesday as residents of Abak Road, Uyo, by the flyover caught two armed robbers that robbed a pregnant woman and burnt them to ashes. It was gathered that the hoodlums ...

Reno Omokri has told men that a woman who does not like money is not an asset. He said this while reacting to men who hate on women that love money. According to him, failure to like money is the ...

  The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, says it is time the Federal Government arrest the leaders of the Miyetti Allah for allegedly sponsoring crimes in the nation. Rev. Samson Ayokunle, CAN President, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday said ...

Burkina Faso’s parliament has approved legislation allowing the military to use civilian volunteers in the fight against armed groups. Legislators in the West African nation on Thursday allowed the “understaffed” military to arm civilians, a move that underscores how outnumbered ...

As part of efforts to ensure free flow of vehicular movement in the State, the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has stepped up its operations to arrest defiant pedestrians crossing major roads and highways across the metropolis, with 36 ...

An oil thief, Abednego Ogede, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and convicted in absentia by Justice Rilwan Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on December 18, 2019, was on Wednesday sentenced to 10 ...

The Pakistani government announced that transgenders are now eligible for free health care. Homosexuality, meanwhile, is banned and punishable under the law with prison or death. Pakistan’s government opened a free health care program for transgenders earlier this month as ...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would love to be attending his impeachment trial underway in the US Senate, but that his lawyers had advised him against it. “I’d love to go. I’d sort of love (to) sit ...

The novel coronavirus in China that has killed 17 people and infected hundreds more might have made its first jump to a human from a snake, according to a study by a group of Chinese scientists, while a Chinese professor ...

Human rights lawyer, Ayo Sogunro, says Lagos is not a mega city like they have portrayed it to be, declaring it a city where people suffer. Ayo says, people wake up as early as 5am just to get to their ...

Okay! SO some Nigerians actually report hacked facebook accounts to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC? Well now, EFCC now wants to educate them on the appropriate source they need to report to, and what they need to do ...

Three people died on Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the deaths and ...

These shocking photos capture the gruesome injuries a toddler suffered after she was allegedly burned by her family’s maid. The 16-month-old girl needed treatment in hospital for the second-degree burns last week. Police say her family’s 30-year-old housekeeper repeatedly dunked ...

Meghan Markle’s dad has lifted the lid on the phone call in which she told him she was dating Prince Harry, saying he knew he was a “high number”. Thomas Markle Snr spoke to his daughter and future son-in-law on ...

High court judge and human rights advocate Katerina Sakellaropoulou has been elected Greece’s first female president by the parliament. Sakellaropoulou was nominated by the ruling conservative New Democracy party, but also managed to secure the backing of the main opposition ...

A woman was reunited with her long-lost dad after 56 years, thanks to a Facebook algorithm. Karen Harris was put up for adoption by her parents when she was born in 1964. She was told the name of her dad, ...

  Nigeria has dropped two places on the annual corruption perception index published by Transparency International. According to the recently released report on Thursday, Nigeria is now ranked 146 out of the 180 countries considered. Nigeria also scored 27 out ...

There’s currently a search to apprehend a student of Ambrose Ali University (AAU) and her friends who teamed up to beat a younger student. According to the SOS sent out on twitter to nab the lady, the twitter user alleged ...

  This looks like one of ‘those’ stories, but yea, we will still report it. It’s  making the rounds on SM people, lol. So a lady has revealed she lost her womb due to numerous s.e.x sessions with a dog. ...

The world’s first soft robotic heart is in development which could clear NHS transplant waiting lists. The “hybrid heart” will be the first ever made of soft artificial muscles and sensors and then coated in human tissue grown in a ...

UN human rights experts have demanded an immediate investigation into allegations Saudi Arabia’s crown prince hacked Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s phone. They said Mohammed bin Salman should also be investigated for “continuous, direct and personal efforts to target perceived opponents”. ...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced Abel Okoro and Vincent Wilson, for kidnapping the wife of Senator George Thompson-Sekibo and two of her female friends. Abel Okoro and Vincent Wilson were sentenced to life imprisonment without an ...