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The ancient tradition in Etinan council area of Akwa Ibom state which denied female children the right to inherit their father’s properties has been nullified. A High Court presided by Justice Pius Idiong quashed the practice yesterday while delivering judgment ...

South Korea’s first transgender soldier, who was forcibly ousted from the military after she underwent gender assignment surgery, has been found dead at her home. Emergency services found Byun Hee-soo, 23, in her home in the central city of Cheongju ...

The Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Oludare Kadiri has been impeached. A five-member committee set up by the House impeached Hon. Kadiri over an alleged public disturbance which he was found guilty. Hon Kadiri was on ...

Northern Nigeria Cattle and foodstuff traders have agreed to lift food embargo on southern Nigeria, following the intervention of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and a former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode. The traders, grouped as Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff ...

Kim Kardashian undoubtedly left fans in disbelief as she took to her Instagram story to reveal that she was wearing Kanye West’s brand of trainers.   The post was not a mistake as the 40-year-old showcased two up close and ...

The Federal Government has said that Nigerians will not be mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora disclosed while speaking on Arise Tv, that although the government is capable of vaccinating everyone, no ...

Veteran Nollywood actress Joke Silva has taken to social media to celebrate her late dad Afolabi Silva on his posthumous birthday. According to the actress, it has been 24 years since her late dad, Emmanuel Afolabi passed on and he ...

  The watchman of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State was involved in the abduction of the schoolgirls on February 26. This is according to the state governor, Bello Matawalle, who revealed this on Wednesday during an interview on ...

Nollywood actress, Bukunmi Oluwasina is expecting her first child with her husband.   The actress shared series of photos of her revealing baby bump as she captioned it with a heart emoji. She walked down the aisle with her long-time ...

A mob at Onimalu on Koloba Road, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos State, on Wednesday morning tied a teenager to an electric pole for allegedly stealing his mother’s cooking stand. The teenager, identified simply as Sunkanmi, allegedly stole the local cooking stand ...

#NoWaterInEnugu is currently trending on twitter as Enugu twitter users say there’s shortage of water at the moment because of dry season. While some say it’s an everyday thing and not because of the season. As expected other users from ...

For failure to pay examination fees of its students National Examination Council, NECO, has withheld results of the over 30,000 students of Niger State. Following this development, affected students risk forfeiting their admissions into higher institutions for one or more ...

The former governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday said that the  plan to recall him would fail completely. Okorocha through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, spoke in Owerri as he ...

The Nigerian Army has declared 12 officers and 86 soldiers missing in the wake of last week’s Boko Haram attacks on Marte and Dikwa local government areas of Borno State. A signal dated March 1, 2021 from Operation Lafiya Dole ...

Nura, son of famous business magnate, Dahiru Mangal, has died in a road crash.  It was gathered that Nura was involved in the accident while riding his power bike along Dutsimma road, Katsina. The incident reportedly happened not too far ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 464 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 156,963. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 3rd of ...

Naira Marley’s younger sister, Shubomi shared these beautiful photos of herself on her Instagram page.      

  Actress Uche Elendu via her Instagram page blasted a lady who accused her of constantly “lying” that her daughter is 4 years old. Uche had posted a photo of herself and her daughter and the troll, @dato_sharon_cross stormed her ...

Footballer Obafemi Martins has spoken out about his reported riff with Burna Boy.Recall Rapper CDQ had taking to social media to call Burna out talking about how disappointed he was about him. He ended it by saying Martins is nobody’s ...

Pastor Bulus Yakuru of the Church of the Brethren (EYN) has been freed by Boko Haram. He is with the Department of State Services (DSS). It was gathered that the agency and the Kalthum Foundation for Peace negotiated his release. ...

Buckingham Palace said it was “very concerned” about reports in the Times newspaper on Wednesday that assistants working for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had been bullied by her. The report comes days before the broadcast of an interview that ...

A cleric, Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing a charge for the r3pe of his member’s teen daughter has allegedly sold his church building and fled to an unknown place to establish another ...

Garba Shehu, a presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47. Shehu, who disclosed this in an interview with the BBC, said the president directed a clampdown on bandits who have refused ...

Workers and visitors to the Ogun Government Secretariat’s Complex at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta are now confronted with filthy sight of faeces and the accompanying stinking odour as a result of the collapse of the sewage system of the  Ministry of Environment. ...

Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba, is dead.The actor died on Wednesday evening after a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer. His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn. The deceased ...