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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday administered oaths of office on nine federal permanent secretaries at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the permanent secretaries were sworn-in in two batches of five and four before the ...

Pastor Kayode Shogbesan of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Yola, Adamawa State, has been kidnapped. The pastor, who doubles as a professor of Fishery at Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, was abducted on Tuesday night, according to a ...

  Donald Trump has been impeached in the United States House of Representatives. The House has found the Republican president abused his office by asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, his biggest rival in the 2020 election. Members have so ...

As of February 2020, Nigerian citizens will need to pay a fee of €80 instead of €60 when applying for a Schengen Visa from Nigeria. Children too, will have to pay €40 instead of €35, as it is currently. Nigerians ...

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has been asked to commence committal proceedings against the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unity Bank Plc, Mrs. Oluwatomi Somefun, and commit her to prison for allegedly flouting orders made by the ...

Senator Rochas Okorocha has denied confirming the supposed death of Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, who represents Imo North in the senate. Okorocha in several tweets denied confirming the ‘falsehood’ while responding to a tweet from The Nation calling it absurd. Another ...

  The first Clasico of the season ends all square in a goalless draw at Camp Nou.   Barcelona and Real Madrid were unable to break the deadlock this evening, which has epitomised their respective starts to the season.   ...

A member of the House of Representatives and owner of Quilox night club, Shina Peller, has revealed that he has resigned from the management of the club since he became a member of the House. The lawmaker revealed this while ...

A Nigerian Christian by the name Sola Adio has said Marlians are demonic and you can’t be a Christian and a Marlian at the same time. Sola made this known on twitter explaining why it is dangerous and the Bible’s ...

A husband left his wife for her older sister one month after she forgave them for snogging in a garden shed. At first Lindsey Clarke, 41, was glad her husband Wayne and her sister Sarah got on well Sarah lived ...

A dog walker was killed after a tyre flew off a truck and smashed into her. Kimberly Touchton, 22, was likely to have been caught off guard by the killer truck, according to police. And truck driver Brian Seth Carmichael ...

The Ondo State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA), on Tuesday, said a notorious drug dealer, Ohimai Ayodele, who masterminded the killing of four agency officers last February had been arrested. The state Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Haruna ...

Trolololo… House of Phreedah Body Care Ceo, who was recently in the news for practicing INSTANT BLEACHING — a video which shocked Nigerians and afterwards led NAFDAC to her shop to carry out some findings. She is however in the ...

A gynaecologist is urging women not to remove their pubic hair. Dr Jen Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible, warns waxing or shaving creates “microscopic trauma” that can lead to infections. While the purpose of pubic hair is somewhat of ...

Angry youths have set ablaze a pentecostal church in Akure, Ondo state after the corpse of a year-old boy, initially declared missing in the church, was exhumed. Sotitobire Miracle Church was the target of the arson today, thecable.ng reported. The ...

A 24-year-old woman from Kiembeni in Mombasa is receiving treatment at the Coast Provincial General Hospital after she was allegedly scalded with a mixture of hot water and cooking oil by her estranged husband. Winnie Wambua claims that on December ...

Just hours after a California couple exchanged their wedding vows over the weekend, police say two brothers came to the newlyweds’ backyard reception uninvited and beat the groom to death with baseball bats. Joe Melgoza, 30, was found suffering from ...

Ekiti State Government has started publishing names and photographs of convicted sex offenders in line with the state plan of getting rid of all forms of violence against Women and Children. Olaoluwa is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in ...

The Jigawa State Government has opened tender for the construction of 90 Friday congregational and five daily prayer mosques, across the 30 constituencies of the state. Isma’il Ibrahim, the spokesperson, office of the Secretary to the State Government, made this ...

  A mother who was allegedly beaten in a 4am assault at her home in Ireland has died in hospital. Nadine Lott, 30, died in St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, at around 6pm yesterday where she had been in a serious ...

  Big Brother Naija’s former housemate Uriel is now a British citizen. So happy is Uriel that she shared the good news on IG writing; ”British Babe. Off to buy a bag and drink posh British champagne. I’m officially a ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari came under fire on Wednesday, hours after he signed on his birthday the N10.59 trillion 2020 budget, as he offered too generous gift to the National Assembly: a N37 billion fat envelope to renovate the complex. ...

The Senator representing Imo North Senatorial District, Benjamin Uwajumogu is dead. Uwajumogu of the All Progressives Congress reportedly slumped in the bathroom while taking his bath and was rushed to a private hospital in Apo, Abuja where he was confirmed ...

The Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Cross River, comrade Ben Ukpepi has been reportedly kidnapped from his residence at CROSPIL estate, Akpabuyo, LGA. According to a source who pleaded anonymity, the event occurred at about 7:30 to 8 pm ...

Eight members of a local music group in Kebbi State have been physically assaulted on the orders of an aide to the state governor, Atiku Bagudu. Governor Bagudu’s Personal Assistant, Faruku Musa Yaro widely known as Enabo, is alleged to ...