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Jason Njoku, the co-founder of IrokoTV, is of the opinion that a person’s dressing does not in any way determine the level of success he or she can attain in life.   In a twitter thread posted on his timeline, Njoku said ...

Nigerian model, Lydia Okojie, has shared her terrifying near-death experience with alleged ritualists in Edo state.   Posting her story via Instastories, Lydia, a final year student of the University of Benin UNIBEN, said many would have insinuated she was ...

Mr. Okorie Agwu, a 42-year-old driver who works with Imo State Transport Company (ITC) has been remanded in prison for reportedly defiling and impregnating a girl he lured with N100.   Agwu’s victim was in JSS 1 and 11-years-old when he started ...

42-year-old Temitope Akinola has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing her two-day-old granddaughter by poisoning by her with an insecticide, Sniper.   Akinola was arrested following the complaint the baby’s mother filed with the police. The distraught ...

No fewer than 14 houses were said to have been burnt and two people injured following an attack on Dan-Anacha Village under Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State.   Local residents said trouble started during the week following the ...

A Nigerian lady took to Twitter to narrate how a friend’s in-laws warned her to stop calling her husband’s younger ones by their names.   According to @ToyinFab, her friend who was invited to a family meeting was told to ...

17 passengers and two crew members are feared dead after a small aircraft they were onboard, crashed into a densely populated area of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo this morning November 24th.   The plane, operated by the company Busy ...

A Nigerian man took to Facebook to share photos of a snake that swallowed another snake in front of his new developing site.   Nnamdi Jordan described the incident as an answered prayer. He wrote;   My brothers and sisters, ...

  Some Nigerians on Twitter have praised a 15-year-old boy who made a wooden standing fan all by himself, while some didn’t waste time to blast him over his invention. According to a social media report, the boy made the ...

  Abdulrahman Habeebulah, an Islamic cleric who allegedly raped a 16-year-old, has been re-arrested after his trial was initially stalled. In July, PREMIUM TIMES publishedan exclusive report on the rape of the teenage girl who attended the cleric’s Qu’ranic school in ...

A Taxify driver simply identified as Gabriel Wisdom, was reportedly killed by yet to be identified persons who ordered for his service on the hailing app.   The suspects shot Wisdom and went away with his white Toyota Corolla on ...

A police officer attached to the Igando Police Division has been shot dead by his colleague said to be a mobile policeman during a free-for-all along Lasu-Igando Road.   It was gathered that the killer cop shot into the air to ...

Nigeria’s Njideka Akunyili Crosby was visited in her studio by former US First Lady, Michelle Obama.   Njideka is a Nigerian-born visual artist. She is also the daughter of the late Dora Akunyili, who was the Director-General of National Agency for Food and ...

A pregnant woman was crushed to death by a commercial train passing through the rain line at Obuda community in Abia state on Saturday November 23rd.   According to reports, the pregnant woman was on a motorcycle heading for the ...

Flamboyant pastor, Chukwuemeka Odumejeje was on Saturday, November 23, conferred with an honorary doctoral degree from Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State.   Prophet Chukwuemeka Odumejeje, who has made news headlines numerous times because of his flamboyant lifestyle and the unconventional way he pastors ...

American rapper, Cam’ron’s girlfriend and mother of his son, Tawasa Harris, has reportedly died.   Her death was announced by her close friend Latanya Marie on Facebook.   “R.i.p Tawasa… I didn’t sleep all night bc of all the old ...

The Chairman and CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema has been declared wanted in Canada after being indicted over an alleged bank fraud and money laundering in the United States.   Though Allen Onyema and Air Peace’s head of finance and ...

The Osun State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged resident of the state, Mrs. Rukayat Abdulrahmon for allegedly killed her three-year old son Ganiyu.   Rukayat reportedly threw her only child into the well at their residence at Olorunosebi community of Kola Balogun, ...

The Benue Police Command has confirmed that three bodies, belonging to members of one family, have been found in a room in the northbank area of Makurdi, the Benue State capital.   The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Catherine ...

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says it has arrested a suspected human trafficker with five female victims en route Niger Republic to Europe.   The Comptroller General, NIS, Muhammad Babandede, disclosed this in a statement by the Service Public Relations ...

There was pandemonium at the Nigerian Correctional Service in Eket community of Akwa Ibom State as a prisoner was allegedly beaten to death by wardens of the correctional facility on Friday November 22.   The death of the prisoner who was reportedly ...

President Buhari has charged the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to work hard to ensure that the party survives beyond the end of his tenure in 2023.   The President, who spoke at the meeting of the National ...

One of R. Kelly’s alleged sex slaves and live-in girlfriends is speaking up on the nature of her relationship with the jailed singer.   Joycelyn Savage who is believed to have been under R. Kelly’s control for years took to Instagram on Saturday, ...

A South African man suffered severe burns on his face after the mother of his children allegedly poured hot water on him.   His sister, Sithembiso Dube, who shared his before and after photos online, said the woman attacked her ...

A Nigerian couple have become new parents after they welcomed a set of quintuplets, three boys and two girls, 16 years after they got married.   Mr and Mrs Egenti have been waiting for the fruit of the womb since they ...