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Mrs. Rachael Adewumi, founder of TAKEM Empowerment Initiatives (TEIs), an NGO, has advised women against remaining full-time housewives. Adewumi, at an end-of-year party on Sunday in Abuja, urged women to get an employment or learn a trade. The  party was ...

Saudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, the government says. Previously, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own. The restrictions had already ...

Former prisoner John Anthony Crilly, who robbed Nigerian businessman Augustine Maduemezia in his Manchester home in 2005 has turned out to be one of the heroes, who subdued the London Bridge terrorist, Usman Khan. Crilly, armed with a fire extinguisher, ...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has postponed the presentation of an Integrity Award to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo amidst protests over the tightening of space for freedom of expression in the country. Osinbajo was slated to ...

A South Korean court, on Monday, jailed three executives of Samsung Electronics for their role in a plot that included burying computers under factory floors at its biotech affiliate, in an investigation of alleged accounting fraud. Prosecutors began investigating the ...

Femi Falana, counsel to Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement, on Monday, alleged that the Nigerian government offered the activist a “death warrant” deal while in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Falana disclosed that the Nigerian government ...

Twelve persons have died in an accident on Sunday as a truck container carrying over 103 people somersaulted at Sawmill village along Mokwa-Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger state. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr ...

Lagos State Government stated that it has sealed 24 pharmacies and patent medicine stores in various parts of the state for illegal operation and operating beyond scope of pharmaceutical practice.   Prof. Akin Abayomi, the state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this ...

Femi Falana, has lashed out at the Department of State Services (DSS) over its statement in which it denied invading a trial court to rearrest Omoyele Sowore.   Recall that the DSS alleged that the #RevolutionNow convener violated his bail conditions ...

34-year-old Sanna Marin has become Finland’s youngest Prime Minister ever after winning Sunday’s election to replace Prime Minister Antti Rinne who resigned on Tuesday December 3, after losing the confidence of the coalition partner Centre Party over his handling of a postal strike. ...

Officers of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 24 members of an alleged dreaded cult group known as ‘Awawa Boys.’   A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana on Sunday, December 11th said the arrest ...

Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, have shut down 19 buildings in Igbogbo Baiyeku area of Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria for violating the town planning laws of the State.   General Manager, LASBCA, Engr. Abiola Kosegbe, led ...

  A Nigerian man identified as Alex Oluwatobi has taken his to Twitter account to narrate his encounter with a gay man on a bike in Lagos. In his story, he wrote on how the man was giving him nice ...

  The Presidency has finally reacted to the maltreatment of Omoyele Sowore, the convener of RevolutionNow Movement by officials of the Department of State Services (DSS). TGB had reported earlier that the DSS released Sowore on Thursday night after spending ...

  No less than 40 people were killed in a fire incident at a factory while the workers slept in the middle of the night. In a report by The BBC, the blaze broke out at the four-storey building in ...

  A lady has taken to her social media page to lament after a church she attended today sent her and her cousin out for “indecent dressing.”   According to the lady, they were blocked and turned back right from ...

A Nigerian man has been apprehended by residents of Post Service Army Estate in Ojo, Lagos for allegedly setting his girlfriend on fire for allegedly cheating on him. The suspect has been identified as Victor Oji from Benue State. When ...

  Former Nollywood actress and entrepreneur Mimi Ubini has narrated an experience she allegedly had with a pastor who wanted to sleep with her over a reference letter. According to the socialite, she had gone to see the man of God to ...

  Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz jr fight was one of the most anticipated in boxing and AJ regained his title, becoming a two time world heavyweight champion. Andy Ruiz jr who defeated Joshua in New York earlier this year ...

  Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services (DSS) has stated that they never invaded the courtroom to arrest Sowore Omoyele in the Federal High Court, Abuja. In a statement released by DSS on Saturday, the authorities accuse Sowore and ...

A statement from his family announcing Reinhard Bonnke death reads: “Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,It is with sorrow that the Bonnke Family would like to announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. He ...

  Femi Falana has slammed the Nigerian government over the rearrest of his client, Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday December 6.   According to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, he suspected the Department of State ...

  Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, has denied claims by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that they beat him up in Madrid, Spain yesterday Friday, December 6th.   Amaechi took to his Twitter handle on Friday to ...

  Seven policemen and operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been arrested and detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Bayelsa State Police Command, after money kept in a safe was allegedly stolen from ...

The Ogun State police command has arrested a herder Muhammad Garba, for allegedly killing a farmer identified as Segun Akinlade in Imala community of Abeokuta North Local Government Area. The herder reportedly got into a fight with the farmer who ...