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The Secretary to Ondo State Government, Mr Ifedayo Abegunde has resigned his appointment. Abegunde said he would communicate his next line of action within the next 24 hours. Vanguard, however, gathered that he would be defecting to the opposition Peoples ...

It is triple jeopardy for Aishat as her journey to Lagos State for greener pastures has become a nightmare. Punch Metro gathered that the 16-year-old was gang-r*ped by four men at a motor park in Ijesha, Surulere, where she was ...

Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma,  has said the names of those earning more than N330 million annually as pension will be published soon. While speaking at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Owerri, ...

Nigerians are in shock and mourning a pretty young lady who celebrated her birthday yesterday but died shortly after. Known as Deborah, her friends have taken to social media to share videos from her birthday party, which saw her very ...

Five graduating students of the Nigerian Law School have made First Class, while 632 of the students failed the Bar Final Examinations, the Director-General of the school, Prof. Isa Chiroma (SAN), has said. Chiroma said in a statement on Sunday ...

The family of the late Oyo governor, Abiola Ajimobi, said on Sunday that it had no intention to bar the Deputy Governor of the state, Rauf Olaniyan, from the eight-day Fidau prayer organized for the deceased. Ajimobi’s former media aide, ...

Benue State University Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, Prof Godwin Achinge, is dead. Achinge, who was also the vice-chairman of Benue State Action Committee on COVID-19, had earlier tested positive for coronavirus. The academic, according to a source, died on Sunday afternoon ...

The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Delta State, Goodluck Ofobruku, has been kidnapped. The Punch gathered that the union leader was kidnapped around 8 pm on Saturday while driving out of his house behind the Immigration office along Ibusa/Asaba road ...

Madagascar has placed its capital Antananarivo under a fresh lockdown following a new surge in coronavirus infections, two months after the restrictions were eased, the presidency announced Sunday. “The Analamanga region (under which the capital is situated) is returning to ...

Popular author, Chimamanda Adichie has mourned her father who died after a brief illness on June 10. Taking to Facebook on Saturday, she lamented that she can’t come into the country following the closures of the nation’s airports. In her ...

TV personality Adam Savage’s sister has accused him of repeatedly r.a.p.ing her for years in the late 1970s. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the woman, named Miranda Pacchiana, 51, alleges that Savage abused her repeatedly between the ages of ...

The forthcoming indie film Habit stars Paris Jackson as Jesus, and Bella Thorne as a ‘street-smart party girl with a Jesus fetish’. And the movie is making waves before it’s even released, with a Change.org petition protesting the film racking ...

Pose star Billy Porter has become the first openly gay man to cover Essence. The 50-year-old fronted the July/August issue in a plunging frock done in black, green and red, the colors of the Pan-African flag. During his interview he ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Mr Yahaya Bello as the governor of Kogi State. A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgement delivered on Saturday in ...

Two youngsters have been hit by stray bullets during a confrontation between customs men and petrol smugglers at Seme border in Lagos State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), two boys – Hunsu Taiwo (12), and Ganjo Henry (10), ...

Drama ensured on Sunday morning after Oyo state deputy governor Rauf Olaniyan was denied access to the venue of the eighth day fidau prayers of the former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, at Oluyole, Ibadan. Olaniyan arrived at the ...

An Indian businessman has paid about $4,000 for possibly the world’s most expensive face mask. It is a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. However, the mask may not be as effective ...

89 years old billionaire, former Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, and wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, on Friday told of their joy as they proudly showed off their newborn for the first time. ‘It’s only his second day in the world ...

Ikenna Nweke, a Nigerian Ph.D student in Japan, says not everyone from his country is a criminal. While on his way home in Japan on June 19, Nweke had found a wallet containing a “huge sum of money”. But rather ...

American billionaire rapper Kanye West has announced that he would run for president in 2020 in an apparent challenge to President Donald Trump, with whom he has a friendly relationship with and his presumptive Democratic rival, former Vice-President Joe Biden. ...

Nigeria’s COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases have surpassed 28,000 mark after the nation recorded 603 fresh cases of the virus on Saturday. According to figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Nigeria now has 28,167 confirmed cases. However, from ...

The United Nations has condemned Boko Haram attack on one of its helicopters in the Damasak area of Borno State. The incident, which occurred on July 2, led to the death of two persons including a five-year-old child. The UN, ...

Three countries, the United States of America, India and Ghana, have written respectively to the Federal Government requesting the extradition of 11 Nigerians, a report has revealed. The cases for which the Nigerians are wanted in the foreign countries include ...

The Oyo State Government has condoled with the family of former state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, saying they should be consoled by his forthrightness. The state government expressed the condolence in a letter dated June 29, signed by Governor Seyi Makinde, ...

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said it is almost impossible to achieve physical distancing on flights without hurting the revenue of airlines. He said this during a webinar attended by stakeholders in the aviation sector. The webiner focused on ...