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Kelly Rowland has suggested being in a band with Beyoncé is ‘torture’ due to the unescapable shadow cast by the mega star. The 39-year-old Say My Name singer is a founding member of Destiny’s Child alongside 38-year-old Beyoncé and the ...

A Nigerian Professor, Charles Egbu, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University. According to a statement on the UK Varsity website, he will take over from Margaret House, who will be stepping down after seven years. Mr Egbu will ...

The Kano State House of Assembly has begun a process to review the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), law of 2014, to provide for castration as punishment for r3pists in the state. The House took the decision following a motion ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday set aside the Oyo State High Court judgment restraining the governor and or government from dissolving local government councils in the state. Justice Haruna Tsammani, who delivered the judgment, said the ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight police personnel for their alleged involvement in the assault and extortion of a social media influencer, Olumide Bakare. Confirming the arrest, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said the errant ...

The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator ...

Nigeria recorded 643 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing total cases to 34,259. Announcing via its website, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said six more coronavirus-associated deaths were reported in the country on Wednesday, bringing total confirmed fatalities to ...

A prominent Egyptian journalist has died of Covid-19, his daughter has said. Mohamed Monir was arrested last month after appearing on the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, which is banned by the Egyptian government. He was charged with joining a terrorist group, ...

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson and Winnie Mandela, tested positive for coronavirus the day she died. Her son Zondwa Mandela today revealed his mother did have the disease – but it may not be what ...

The six Southwest States have agreed to reopen schools for SS3 students to participate in the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) next month. The States are Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti. Their decision is contrary to the ...

The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Taraba State chapter, Peter Gambo, has been reported dead. Peter Gambo who was isolated early this month at the Taraba State specialist isolation centre Jalingo, died Tuesday morning of Covid-19 at the ...

One Emmanuel Opoku, who allegedly poured hot water on his wife’s two b.r.e.a.s.t s, has been remanded by a magistrate’s court sitting in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The accused was charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm ...

Police operatives in Rivers State have arrested two notorious kidnappers in connection to the kidnap and murder of one Ereba Gospel Dinabari. The suspected kidnappers arrested by Police operatives in Rivers State led the police yesterday to a forest where ...

The Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to direct the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity to set up a committee to review the age limits for job seekers in the country to allow competent applicants to be employed. The ...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has denied all the allegations made against him by a former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joi Nunieh, saying there is no iota of truth in them. Nunieh ...

Akintunde Arotile, the father of the first Nigerian female combat pilot, Tolulope, in this interview with GBENGA ODOGUN, says Tolulope from childhood planned to be a pilot Tell us briefly about yourself. I am Engineer Akintude Arotile. I worked with ...

A fresh-faced mother-of-two had TikTok users demanding to see her birth certificate after she revealed her age in a viral video. Stylist Gail Murray-Gonzalez, of Long Island, New York, is 46 but admitted she is often mistaken for someone in ...

George Floyd’s family filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death. The suit says the officers violated Floyd’s rights when they restrained him and that the city allowed a ...

Another decapitated body, wrapped in a plastic bag, has been found on the roof of a McDonald’s outlet in Bronx, New York. The incomplete body was found early Wednesday, cops and sources told The New York Post. The grisly discovery ...

Gunmen have stormed Gudi, the ancestral home town of Nasarawa Governor, Abdullahi Sule, in Akwanga local government, where they killed two persons and abducted a house wife. It was gathered the former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku’s nephew, Mr Salisu ...

The Kogi government says it is considering selling some non-performing assets of the state to raise capital for infrastructural development. In a statement today, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo said the government is also considering “divesting from ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) National Campaign Council for Edo governorship today held a crucial meeting behind closed doors at the Government House in Rivers State. A statement by the Rivers Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, today quoted ...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish the City University of Technology, Auchi, Edo and two other tertiary institutions in the country. Others were the Nigerian Maritime University Okerenkoko, Delta State, and the Federal College of Education, ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday granted social media influencer Adedamola Adewale also known as Adeherself bail of N500,000. In a ruling, Justice Sherifat Solebo also ordered that Adeherself must provide two sureties with reliable means of income which ...

The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released. The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released.Mr Magu was released on Wednesday evening. He was arrested last week Monday and has ...