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The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed the Muslim Ummah to look out for the new moon of Sha’aban 1442AH from Saturday. Abubakar made the call on Friday in a statement by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman, Advisory Committee ...

The Lagos State judicial panel hearing cases of police brutality and SARS-related abuses has awarded a petitioner, Marc Chidibere Nwadi the sum on N7.5 million. Chidiebere Nwadi first appeared before the panel on Saturday, November 28 before the panel where ...

South African Police, on Thursday, arrested five persons in connection with the collapse of VBS Mutual Bank, the country’s biggest banking scandal in recent years. The Police said the suspects were arrested in an early-dawn raid at various places in ...

Precious Chikwedu, former wife of Femi Fani-Kayode has broken her silence over her affair with the former aviation minister. In a tell-all statement, the former beauty queen detailed her relationship since she met Fani-Kayode, how he often turned her into ...

The Ooni of Ife’s wife, Queen Naomi has explained how she dealt with a lot of pressure from the public after she failed to conceive after 2 years of marriage. She was engaged in an interview on TVC where she ...

Members of the Akwa United FC team have been involved in a motor crash along Ezionye Express Road in Enugu. One player and two officials of the club sustained injuries during the accident and have been taken to the hospital. ...

The Federal Government, Friday, apologized to Nigerians over the latest N212.61 petrol price confusion in the country. Speaking at the groundbreaking for the Rungas composite cylinder manufacturing plant in Alaro City Free Zone, Epe, the Minister of State for Petroleum ...

Nigerian disc jockey and billionaire daughter, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola – DJ Cuppy has taken to social media to gush over her elder sister, Tolani. According to her, Tolani has been her rock and support system as she has always had ...

A referee relieved himself in the centre circle after being caught short seconds before the start of a cup match in Brazil. Denis da Silva Ribeiro Serafim elected to pee in his pants – without pulling his shorts down – ...

                        For the last 14 years, we’ve been Keeping Up With the Kardashians, following the famous sisters as they navigate their lives. But while we were merely watching through ...

Amaju Pinnick, president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been elected into the FIFA Executive Council. Pinnick, 50, was elected as a member of the FIFA Council during the 43rd CAF Ordinary General Assembly which was held in Rabat, ...

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International Apostle Johnson Suleman has refuted claims that he owns three private jets.Apostle Suleman took to social media to share a photo of Archbishop Benson Idahosa to celebrate him on the anniversary ...

A man has taken to Twitter to narrate how his fiancée, Precious Patrick Ibor who was travelling from Calabar to Ibadan, were kidnapped by “criminal herders” alongside other female passengers.He explained that he had spoken with her at 7:37pm on ...

Goodwill Zwelithini, the controversial but revered king of the Zulus, South Africa’s largest ethnic group, died on Friday aged 72 after weeks in the hospital for a diabetes-related illness, the royal palace announced. The king wielded great influence among millions ...

Kennedy Ibeh, the member representing Obowo State Constituency in Imo State House of Assembly, has sponsored a bill to regulate the outrageous cost of customary marriages in Imo State. Ibeh, while presenting the bill for the second reading on Wednesday ...

The police in Rivers State have arrested a father of four, Favour Ibama, for allegedly r3ping and stealing from some women in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. A spokesperson for the state police command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while parading ...

Justice P. Mallong of the Kaduna Federal High Court has ordered the remand of one Collins Samuel in a custodial centre for allegedly defrauding the United States of America of the sum of $8,000. Samuel, under the guise of being ...

The World Boxing Federation (WBF) Super featherweight Champion, Ridwan Scorpion Oyekola was lucky to have escaped death following an attack on his vehicle by gunmen moments after being presented a 10 million naira cheque at Oyo State government secretariat on ...

About 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a loved one to Covid-19, according to a new poll, as Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.   The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found ...

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho says his agitation is for Yoruba nation and that there is no going back on this.   Igboho, in a statement issued by his media aide, Olayomi Koiki on Thursday, called ...

Nollywood actress, Anita Joseph, has advised parents to stop kissing their kids in the mouth.   According to the curvy actress in a video she shared on her Instagram page, she beckoned on parents to only peck their children on ...

Lord we put Nigeria in your hands. Please rule US, PLEASE LORD. Things are getting out of hands, it is SCARY. Gunmen have abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando area of ​​Kaduna State.Police Public Relations ...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has jailed one Chief Vincent Nnamdi-Otto for one month for contempt of court. Nnamdi Ototo, a monarch, while responding to cross examination from the witness box on a disputed land suit, ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday explained why he has not yet taken the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Many governors have taken the vaccine but Sanwo-Olu is yet to take it even when the state took delivery of the vaccines ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 287 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 159,933. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “On the 11th of ...