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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). According to the board, the results will be released today, November 2, 2020.  The result of the exam that commenced ...

A 13-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped in Pakistan and forced to marry a 44-year-old man who made her convert to Islam, campaigners say.   Arzoo Raja was abducted from her home in Karachi on October 13, and two days later ...

A knifeman shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ was shot dead by police after stabbing an officer and trying to set fire to a police station in a Muslim-majority region of Russia.   The 16-year-old was armed with a knife and a Molotov ...

#EndSARS protests have returned to Abuja. In a video making the rounds, the protesters were seen confronting Military men who had come to ”challenge” them. In the video, protesters were heard saying they have a right to record the scene ...

                                          A soldier has been accused of flogging a lady in Ibadan right on her buttocks for allegedly dressing indecently. This happened in Oyo state and social media users are saying she was flogged for simply dressing indecently.   ...

Adele has reportedly turned down £40 million worth of diet endorsement deals following her epic seven stone weight loss.   The Someone Like You hitmaker, 32, has apparently been flooded with offers from TV networks, brand and marketing firms who ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a Nigerian soldier allegedly used a scissor to cut off a man’s hair in Peere, Ibadan, Oyo state. In the video, the man was seen chopping off his ...

  China is removing domes and other decorative elements from mosques across the country, reports say. The move is part of a cultural whitewash to suppress the influence of Islam. The Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, has ...

FIRST DAUGHTER! Ivanka Trump has reportedly broken Barack Obama’s fundraising record on the way to raising $35million for her father, President Trump.   It is reported that Ivanka, 39, raised $13million during three fundraising events in California and one in ...

It has not been a rosy 2020 really.   Covid-19 came and upturned normal processes, forcing most to change lifestyles, increasing poverty rates and, unfortunately, increasing the gap between governments and citizens mostly in Africa. Similar to #EndSARS in Nigeria, ...

A massive stir was caused on social media after the people in Umuoji, Amucha, Imo state, exhumed the corpse of a dead body and found out that he was still “breathing” and his body had not decayed. A bystander could ...

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The Federal Government is to spend between N269.38bn and N497.13bn on the provision of six million free meters to various unmetered power users across the country. Also, findings from separate quarterly reports of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on ...

  Prince William secretly battled coronavirus in April – days after his father Prince Charles contracted it – and was left ‘struggling to breathe,’ according to a report.   The Duke of Cambridge, 38, did not reveal he was sick ...

Rapper Travis Scott pulled out all the stops on Halloween, dressing up in an elaborate Batman costume, though the reaction to his outfit lead to the rapper deleting his Instagram altogether.   The 29-year-old rapper (real name Jacques Berman Webster ...

Interior designer, Ehi Ogbebor has gifted her personal assistant a Mercedes Benz.   Sharing the news on her Instagram page, Ehi explained that her PA also doubles as her accountant and accounts for every penny and that she took care ...

  General Overseer of Promise Kingdom Ministry in Sapele, Bishop Godday Iboyi Okokporo, JP, has called on a former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to retire from politics, saying that failure to do this will result in more ...

Adamawa State police command has arrested a 26-year-old man Eson Fatgoel a  resident of Guyuk in possession of  counterfeit naira notes in Adamawa .   The state PPRO DSP Sulaiman Yahaya in  a statement confirmed that  the suspect has allegedly ...

  President Buhari has announced that over 1million youths have registered for the Youth Investment Fund programme which opened on October 12, 2020.   Speaking at the maiden maiden National Youth Day celebration observed on November 1 and coinciding with the African ...

Nigerian youth calling for an end to police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country on Sunday stormed the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, to paint #ENDSARS on the floor of the facility’s entrance.   The protesters arrived the international ...

No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state and local ...

Mr Latin has thrown a surprise birthday party for his colleague Taiwo Hassan ‘Ogogo’. Ogogo whose birthday was on 31st of October received lots of gifts and well wishes from family, friends and colleagues. Sharing the video on his page, ...

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has urged parents to instill family values in their children as a way to save the country from degeneration.   She made the call on Saturday in Kaduna during a ...

  Staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, received N357.098 billion as salaries, wages and other benefits in 2019, according to the corporation’s recently released audited financial statement. The NNPC Group had disclosed that its staff strength, as at ...

Former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has told Islamic clerics and fellow Muslims raining curses on rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, in mosques, to apply caution.   Aisha had last week lamented the ill-treatment she gets from fellow Muslims. Yesufu, co-convener of ...