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A second ex-employee of powerful New York State Gvernor Andrew Cuomo has accused him of s.e.xual harassment, charges the governor denied on Saturday. This time the allegations came from 25-year-old former health adviser Charlotte Bennett, who told The New York ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has called for the immediate and unconditional release of a former aide to the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Salihu Yakasai, from security custody. The PDP described as unacceptable, the arrest and detention of Salihu, ...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will be completed in the first quarter of 2022. He said this during an interview on Bond FM on Sunday. According to him, the delay in the ...

BBNaija Dorathy Bachor has stepped up the ladder as an entrepreneur as she launches a lingerie line named MFC Lingerie. MFC Lingeria, according to the reality TV star, was born out of the need to cater for the full chested ...

Ogun State Police Command yesterday declared that the embattled Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Oludare Kadiri, is being detained at its Criminal Investigation Department (CID) following reports that he coordinated people who carried out series of attack ...

The kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State have been released and are currently in the palace of the Emir of Anka waiting for transportation to Gusau, the state capital.   Details later…

Popular Nigerian music producer, Ayorinde Faboro popularly known as Dr Frabz is dead. The death of the prolific music producer was confirmed to The Punch by his colleague, Samklef. However, according to a tweet by popular singer Nikki Laoye, the ...

Justice T. A. O Oyekan-Abdullai of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere on Friday, ordered the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu to direct his officers, currently stationed at the premises of Eko Club, Surulere to vacate. The judge gave ...

Two workers of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) are now battling to survive from injuries they sustained when their vehicle ran over a landmine allegedly planted by Boko Haram terrorists at Mainok, in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno ...

The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has stopped daughter of former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from imposing levies on traders at the Computer Village in Ikeja. Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, who is the Iyaloja-General of Lagos had introduced ...

The young lady whose house was demolished by her ex-boyfriend that after she ended their relationship, has surfaced in a now-viral photo, posing on the debris of the house. It was earlier reported 2 days ago that a South African ...

Big Brother Naija, BBNaija season 5 star and former Miss Nigeria contestant, Nengi is currently under fire after she posted a photo of herself at 12. Taking to Twitter, Nengi posted the photo she took many years back with her ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed that Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, a former aide to Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, is in their custody. Tanko-Yakasai in our custody – DSS This is disclosed this in a statement by the Peter ...

Dangote has paid N500,000 to each family of the eight students killed on Jan. 23 when one of its trucks lost control at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State. The Students’ Union Government of the university made the disclosure ...

Actress, Tayo Sobola, aka Sotayo Gaga, has urged her fans not to judge her and other celebrities based on what they read on social media. The actress stated this during an Instagram Live chat with her fans that was monitored ...

Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court said in a unanimous ruling ...

A New York woman is recovering after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening condition, causing her to need a liver transplant. Queens resident Dana Smith, 37, got a nose piercing shortly after Thanksgiving, CBS New York reported Thursday. ...

Fuji music icon, General Ayinla Kollington, has narrated how he escaped being attacked by some of his music rivals and antagonists while he was under the tutelage of his late musical godfather, Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura. The ...

The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate shutting down of tertiary institutions in border areas of the state. This was as a result of the abductions of about 317 female boarding students of Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, ...

Civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, have joined other Nigerians to demand the immediate release of Salihu Tanko Yakasai, who was allegedly arrested by the Department of State Services. “We condemn the unlawful arrest of journalist Salihu ...

A rooster fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight in southern India has killed its owner, sparking a manhunt for the organisers of the event, police said on Saturday. The bird had a knife attached to its leg ready ...

Parents of the 27 abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, have commended Niger state government for securing their release, along with 15 others. Gunmen on 17 February abducted the students, three staff and 12 family members. They were released ...

The two missing French bulldogs of Lady Gaga have been found, two days after they were stolen by gunmen, who shot her dog walker in Los Angeles. Reports said an unnamed woman on Friday brought the dogs, named Koji and ...

  Jonathan Pitroipa has announced his retirement from professional football, citing personal reasons for his decision. The forward had an illustrious playing career, making a significant impact for Burkina Faso and the various clubs he played for. The highlight of ...

Hundreds of coffins and two chapels fell into the sea after a landslide caused a portion of a cliffside cemetery in northwestern Italy to collapse earlier this week.   Workers captured footage of the walls of the traditional Italian cemetery ...