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A 76-year-old American senior citizen, who was jailed in Spain for smuggling 5lbs of cocaine became an unwitting drugs mule after suffering a brain injury, the US said. Victor Stemberger, from Virginia, is in a Spanish jail a year after ...

  First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its mobile banking application, FirstMobile has been upgraded with new and improved features to promote safe and convenient Mobile Banking experience for customers. The bank in statement said the mobile banking ...

Oyo State House Assembly on Tuesday held a special sitting in honour of the late former governor Abiola Ajimobi. Addressing the Assembly, Speaker Adebo Ogundoyin said the news of the death of Ajimobi filtered into the state like a dream. ...

Nollywood actor, Afeez Owo, has denied welcoming twins with his wife, Mide Martins, even though he wishes to have one day. The movie star said this in a video he shared on Tuesday introducing the real parents of the newborn ...

A woman has claimed rich men are all “terrible lovers” and says they’re not worth the comfortable life they can offer. Jana Hocking, 34, from Sydney, recently dated an older man who was “very financially comfortable” – owning a Range ...

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello on Tuesday said the fear of Coronavirus kills faster than the virus itself. According to him, a virus that has killed 510,909 people worldwide as of Tuesday was an “imported” illness that was “forced on ...

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Tuesday supervised the destruction of illicit drugs, expired and adulterated packaged foods worth over N380 million. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the items were intercepted at various places within Kano City ...

Fatima Ganduje-Ajimobi, who is married to late Isiaka Ajimobi’s son, Idris has taken a swipe at Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. According to the daughter of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Seyi Makinde can never surpass the achievements of ...

The Federal Government has said it facilitated the release of 39 Nigerians arrested for illegally entering Ghana. It said the citizens would be repatriated home during the next evacuation exercise. The Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, in a post on ...

An Egyptian belly-dancer has been jailed for three years after a court ruled she incited “debauchery” in a TikTok video. Sama el-Masry was also fined £15,000 (300,000 Egyptian pounds) on Saturday as part of a crackdown on social media posts. ...

It has proved frustratingly elusive for more than 70 years, but scientists say they have finally worked out why men can’t find the ‘G-spot’ – it isn’t there. Doctors say there’s no proof women have a small, super-sensitive region that ...

Fire has gutted the popular Ajao market in the Ajao area of Lagos State. The punch gathered that the incident started around 1am on Wednesday. Although the cause of the fire incident was yet to be ascertained, our correspondent learnt ...

A murder suspect has narrated how he killed his 30-year-old girlfriend, Happiness Winifred, and dumped her body in a well. Shagbada Erigga made the confession on Tuesday when he was paraded alongside 32 other suspects for various criminal offences at ...

Mask-wearing pupils catching up with friends at one Bangkok high school were quickly told to spread out as they headed back to lessons on Wednesday after months of distance learning due to coronavirus restrictions. The teenagers, resuming classes along with ...

A young single mother has tragically woken up on the morning of her 30th birthday to find her one-year-old daughter had suddenly died in her cot. Elle Wilkinson discovered her youngest child Lola lying face down in her bed at ...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday asked the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to widen the tax net rather than overburden the people and business concerns. Ola Awoniyi, his Special Adviser on Media in a statement in Abuja ...

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to force the Digital Satellite Television, owned by MultiChoice, a South Africa-based cable service provider, to provide pay-per-view options to Nigerian subscribers. The government also said it has amended Nigeria’s broadcasting code to prevent ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a self-acclaimed lawyer, Elijah Ojo, for allegedly duping a client into parting with N300,000. Ojo was reported to have collected the money from a client to perfect her bail condition, but ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared a former staff of the anti-graft agency identified as Gloria Obioma Elih for fraudulent practices. The former staff, Elih was accused of allegedly demanding and receiving gratification from ...

Lagos State Government has announced the take over of covid-19 testing by a consortium of health professionals and private laboratories. Commissioner for Health Prof Akin Abayomi, who made the disclosure during a press conference today at Alausa, Ikeja, added that ...

Celebrity disc jockey, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy has received an autographed Manchester United jersey from forward, Odion Ighalo. Cuppy shared pictures on social media of Ighalo’s number 25 jersey which arrived on Tuesday ahead of United’s Premier ...

A three- storey residential building was on Tuesday gutted by fire in Umuoji street by old road, Nkpor, Anambra State. The fire, which affected the topmost floor of the building located close to a hospital, was reportedly caused by electrical ...

Rosemond Alade Brown, a Ghanaian actress better known as Akuapem Poloo, has shared a nude photo of herself on social media to celebrate her son’s birthday. In the now viral photo, the movie star could be seen squatting completely unclad ...

  The Rivers State Police Command has paraded a man suspected to be a serial killer who has confessed that he specializes in abducting and killing his victims in Igbo-Etche, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. The suspect, who ...

At her 34-week scan, Alexandra Jechorek was shocked to realise her baby girl had a full head of hair before she was even born. Her locks were so thick, they could be seen clearly on the screen while she was ...