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Oyo State government, on Thursday, sealed off six hotels, four commercial banks, three filling stations, and seven companies for defaulting from paying the state’s land use charges.   In line with  the  government’s Land Use Charge revenue demand bill, the ...

Mozambique’s government has expelled two instructors found guilty of impregnating students at a police training school, Justice Minister Helena Kida has said. A disciplinary inquiry was held into the allegations against them, she added. It is unclear how many students ...

An EndSARS protester has received applause from Nigerians after he shared images of his body covered with tattoos of the tragic event that happened at Lekki toll gate.   20th October 2020 will forever remain in the heart of every ...

  Nigeria has officially slid into its worst economic recession in over three decades, TheCable can report. According to gross domestic product numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 percent ...

Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo has confirmed she went under the knife for Tummy Tuck surgery.   Iyabo Ojo, in a recent interview, noted that she did the surgery to improve her self-confidence. She said, “I have always been this way. ...

A 34-year-old trader, Mr Ndukwe Ekekwe, allegedly paralysed by officers of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on Friday presented before a Lagos judicial panel of inquiry, a photograph of one of the officers allegedly responsible for his paralysis.   ...

Osun State Government has lost its joint ownership of Ladoke Akintola University of Science and Technology LAUTECH with Oyo State Government as the National Universities Commission, NUC,has given the latter full ownership while it stopped the former   The commission ...

Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, aka DJ Cuppy has revealed that she messed up her relationship with Asa Asika, Davido’s manager.   In a question and answer session with her fans on Twitter, a fan asked her the name of her ex-boyfriend ...

Donald Trump Jnr has become the latest member of President Trump’s clan to test positive for Covid-19.   His spokesman said the son of the outgoing-US President is self-isolating but is experiencing no symptoms. “Don tested positive at the start ...

Enyinnaya Abaribe, senate minority leader, says the only person from the south-east region in the Aso Villa is a photographer.   Abaribe said this on Friday when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels TV. Amid the intense ...

Popular singer, Naira Marley has reacted to the controversy involving the separate birthday parties of Psquare, the twin bandmates who are now separated   Reacting to Davido’s tweet in which he called out those that attended the different parties the ...

Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, has hit back at his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Jose Mourinho, after he accused him of getting Raheem Sterling withdrawn from England duty under false pretences.   Sterling returned to his The Etihad at the start ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has vowed to include compensation to End SARS victims in the state’s 2021 Budget presently before the House.   Mr Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, the Chairman, House Ad Hoc Committee on the Victims of aftermath of ...

The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been offered N65 billion for Earned Academic Allowance and revitalisation by the Federal Government in a bid to end ASUU strike. Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari  offered the lecturers ...

Singer Paul Okoye has expressed strong reservations against for Davido calling out his friends and family.   Earlier today, Davido took to his Twitter account to slam those who went to Peter and Paul Okoye’s birthday separately. Paul made it ...

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Tesl TSLAa, Elon Musk, has overtaken his Facebook counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg to become the world’s fourth-richest person, according to Forbes.   The billionaire Musk’s net worth pushed up by $8.3 billion, to $105.4 billion ...

Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union.   In the suit which was filed at the ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has revealed the identity of the security operative who killed a vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke on Thursday at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.   It was earlier reported that Okereke was fatally ...

The World Health Organisation in a stunning announcement today said Gilead’s drug remdesivir is no longer recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are.   According to a WHO panel, there is no evidence it improves ...

Popular Nigerian Singer, Davido has stirred reactions from Nigerians on social media after he declared Mayorkun as the biggest artiste.   Davido said this during his recent interview with ShadeRoom. When asked who is the biggest artiste among him, Wizkid ...

Fire has razed some shops at the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.   Shops in a three-storey building in the market were razed by the inferno before emergency management agencies put out the fire. There was ...

Kidnappers are on the prowl in Edo State, abducting a Local Government chairman, bus passengers and a university student.   The abducted chairman is Waziri Edokpa, Esan Central LG. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Benin-Abuja Highway. on Friday. Edokpa, ...

Lauretta Onochie, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, has slammed CNN over its investigative report on the Lekki shooting.   On Thursday, the aide stated that CNN lied to the international community, adding that Nigeria will not ...

A retired Kaduna State Polytechnic lecturer, Mr. Austin Umera, yesterday shot his wife, Dr. Maurin Umera, a part-time lecturer at the Department of Languages in Kaduna State University (KASU) before committing suicide over a domestic quarrel at his residence in ...

  The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has dismissed the rumours making the rounds that one of the officers of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila was behind the reported murder of ...