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The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Edo State command, Mrs. Bridget Esene, has narrated how the five gunmen that abducted her on way to church in Benin on Sunday sold her in the forest to ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday honoured former governor, Babatunde Fashola by naming the LagosHOMS, Iponri after him. The project is now known as ‘BRFHOMS, Iponri’. The governor commissioned the project on Wednesday, delivering additional 132 homes to the ...

Telecommunications companies have been licensed to register people who do not have National Identity Numbers so as to reduce the large crowds at the offices of the National Identity Management Commission, the NIMC has said. Director-General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, said ...

The reason for his visit is yet to be disclosed.   More photos of the respected king with the President below…  

  A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has admitted more exhibits as evidence in the ongoing fraud trial of singer Azeez Fashola, better known as Naira Marley. Trial judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos ...

          Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora simply known as Cee-C has shared her experience after battling the deadly COVID-19 disease. According to the brand influencer and lawyer, she contracted the virus and revealed that ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended a governorship aspirant Mrs Jumoke Anifowose with immediate effect. The Spokesperson of the party in the State, Alex Kalejaiye confirmed her suspension to our correspondent via a telephone call on Wednesday. Her suspension ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has announced the deployment of 200 officers of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun to Ibarapa and Oke Ogun zones. This is in the wake of the crisis in the area between local ...

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has dissociated himself from several accounts on social media platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, posting unverified information in his name. Igboho made this clarification while speaking to reporters. Many accounts bearing ...

Seun Kuti has condemned the reopening of schools by the Nigerian government amid the second wave of COVID-19. Kuti, in a post shared on Instagram described the action of the government as wickedness, adding that politicians who recommended the reopening ...

Seven self-confessed ‘witches’ have come before a court in Adamawa State capital, Yola, for allegedly using demonic powers to afflict a three-year-old girl with an illness. The seven accused persons include a 60-year-old woman, one other woman still at large, ...

Former teammates, Romelu Lukaku and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were involved in a heated clash in Tuesday’s Coppa Italia quarter-final clash between AC Milan and Inter. Tempers flared up just before the break after Lukaku took exception to a foul by Milan ...

A US federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing a 100-day pause on deportations. Judge Drew Tipton granted a 14-day temporary restraining order until the case could be further examined, following a request by Texas Attorney ...

Vanessa Bryant mourned her late husband Kobe and daughter Gianna in a social media post marking the one-year anniversary of their deaths. “I miss my baby girl and Kob-Kob so much, too,” Bryant wrote on Instagram early Tuesday. “I will ...

The Ugandan troops have withdrawn from around the home of opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, ending his house arrest since a Jan. 14 election won by long-serving President Yoweri Museveni. With the vote behind him and fraud claims ...

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has called on the Federal Government to help in funding the National Sports Festival, scheduled to hold in the state. Obaseki said the state is ready to host the 20th edition of the sports ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Wednesday after lawmakers from his ruling coalition visited night clubs despite his government’s call for people to avoid unnecessary outings to curb the spread of Covid-19. The news is another headache for Suga ...

Nollywood actor Ernest Asuzu is dead.   The actor died on Tuesday evening. According to his wife, Jennifer  Asuzu, the actor fainted and never woke up. His remains are on the way to the east for funeral rites. Rest In ...

A lady identified as Eno Patrick has alleged that Deborah Okezie, mother of Don Davies, the ”physically and s3xually molested” student of the Deeper Life HIgh School Uyo campus snatched her friends husband. The incidence which happened 15 years ago ...

A sexagenarian, Paul Okedare, and his wife, Funke, are in pain after a co-tenant, identified only as Tunde, allegedly brutalised them at their residence on Unity Street, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State.   Punch Metro gathered that Tunde, ...

Former Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose has slammed the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed over his security comment. The minister had said Nigeria’s security is far better now than it was in 2015. This statement has caused uproar on social ...

Jennifer Lopez has hit back at trolls who called her a “liar” for denying she’s had Botox.   The singer/actress, 51, looks incredible and she’s put her flawless skin down to a combination of living well and being kind. J-Lo ...

Odion Ighalo confirmed his Manchester United exit with an emotional farewell to fans.   The striker said his ‘dream comes to an end’ after his loan from Chinese side Shanghain Shenhua expired. Ighalo took to Instagram to show his appreciation ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,267 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 124,263. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. “1,267 new cases of ...

  Operatives of the Oyo State chapter of the Western Nigeria Security Network, more commonly known as Amotekun, have intercepted a truck loaded with gunmen suspected to be herdsmen heading to Igangan community in the recently troubled Ibarapa area of ...