News

Canadian authorities are reportedly set to deport a family who fled Nigeria over fear of their daughters being subjected to female genital mutilation.   CBC reported that Rasheedat Bakare, her husband Afeez, their son Faaiq and daughter Faiqah all fled Nigeria and ...

  Despite losing the Kogi West Senatorial election, embattled Senator, Dino Melaye insisted that he won the election and that his conqueror, Senator Smart Adeyemi remained his political wife. INEC’s Returning Officer of the election, Professor Olajide Lawal, had said ...

10 people were killed in multiple fatal road accidents that occurred on 29th November 2019 at about 8pm at Filling kokuwa, Rimi-Zayam village along Toro-Bauchi road. The Public Relations Officr of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Bauchi State command, Rilwan ...

    Watford have sacked manager Quique Sanchez Flores less than three months after bringing him back for a second spell as head coach. The Premier League club announced the decision on Sunday, the day after a 2-1 loss to ...

  A Nigerian man has taken to Instagram to narrate his alleged encounter with some police officers who almost arrested him because he used a photo of Tottenham coach, Jose Mourinho as his Whatsapp DP.   According to @chu_chu_sam, the ...

Zahra Buhari-Indimi who held the first edition of her “An Afternoon with Zahra” which was organised in Abuja by her foundation ZMB Homes, publicly expressed her support for the social media bill which has ignited controversy in the last few weeks. ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for the deadly knife-attack in London on Friday, November 29, 2019.   The terrorist organisation said Usman Khan, 28, who killed two and injured five ...

  A former employee of the Ayete Microfinance Bank Limited in Oyo State, Sunday Fadayomi, who was prosecuted by the EFCC, was on Friday, November 29, 2019, sentenced to six years in prison without an option of fine for stealing ...

  An unidentified man is currently trending on twitter for creating a power generating transformer,   According to twiter user, @GospelJosiah who shared the photos, the young man built the transformer from scraps,  though he gave no further details about ...

    Comedian Mr. Hynenana has been called out for being a sexual predator after receipts of him admitting he smacked the buttocks of an old friend he was wooing. The lady accused Mr. Hyenana of smacking her buttocks and ...

    A shocking video of a Ugandan pastor flogging his church members for reportedly not attending service is making the rounds on social media. Pastor Paul Muwanguzi was seen in the viral video with a cane flogging several people ...

The Lagos Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol with registration number KJA-900XR, on Saturday burnt fire on the Otedola Bridge. The Public Affairs Officer of LASEMA, Mr Nusa Okunbor, made the disclosure in ...

  An unnamed tea vendor has stabbed one of his customers to death following a disagreement over N100 bread. The incident happened at 10pm on Monday November 25, at Juba Alaro Junction off Liasu road in Idimu, a Lagos suburb. ...

  Operatives of the EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office in a joint operation with some of the Commission’s operatives from Abuja, in the early hours of Thursday, November 28th, stormed a building described as ‘YAHOO ACADEMY’, allegedly used solely for the training of ...

Usman Khan, the terrorist who stabbed two people to death on London Bridge on Friday, November 29, may have been acting in revenge over the death of ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.   Al-Baghdadi died after he blew himself up ...

Detectives at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC have grilled Allen Onyema, the chairman of Air Peace airline over his indictment in a $44.9 fraud by the US government.   Recall that last week, the US Department of Justice ...

Dele Momodu in his weekly column ‘Pendulum’ writes about the rumours surrounding President Buhari and a possible third term agenda.   According to him, ‘on a serious note, I choose to believe President Buhari on this occasion. I can’t see ...

Nigerians on Twitter are reacting to the news of first lady, Aisha Buhari, showing support for the controversial social media bill. At a function in Abuja yesterday November 29th, Mrs Buhari said if China with over 1.3 billion can regulate their ...

The General Manager of LASTMA, Olajide Oduyoye has condemned in its entirety the continued attack on the officers of the agency in the course of carrying out the function of traffic management which has been entrusted to them by a ...

Unknown gunmen attacked some Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials travelling from Abuja to Lagos at Oshawa along the Lokoja-Okene highway at about 1:50 pm on Friday, November 29th.   The bandits killed the driver and left the other staff ...

  The man who carried out Friday’s stabbing attack at London Bridge has been identified as a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences.   The attacker, named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was out of prison on licence at ...

A Nigerian man, Olorunshola Islaq Tiamiyu Etti has taken to his facebook page to pen a very emotional post following the tragic death of his son who was just 16 years old. It was gathered that the man’s son died ...

  Diezani’s husband, Rear Admiral Alison Madueke (retd.), said that he advised his wife when she acepted a ministerial appointment in 2007, not to focus on money but maintain the good name of the family. Madueke made this known in ...

  An unidentified lady has been caught on camera stealing from a supermarket.   A twitter user @Capt__Rizzy took to his handle to share the disturbing video where the lady was clearly seen as she took an item from an ...

  A prosecution witness, Peter Ademola Adegoke, a Compliance Officer with Fidelity Bank Plc, on Friday told Justice Abdullai Liman of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos how the sum of N18bn was paid into the account of a ...