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The federal government has asked Nigerians stranded in Turkey to pay $1,300 for one-way flight ticket. In a statement on its website, the Nigerian embassy in Turkey said those returning home are expected to pay $1,300 for economy class while ...

The family of Emmanuel Kushi has been distraught over the kidnap of their daughter, Patience, which occurred four days ago. Their fears were further raised by bizarre messages from suspected cultists who kidnapped the 20-year-old undergraduate in Bauchi State. One ...

The confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world surpassed 10 million last night, with the United States ad Brazil posting huge figures. The death toll has also surpassed 500,000, according to the latest figures by worldometers.info. United States and Brazil ...

Facts emerged on Saturday that a lingering cold war between the family of the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the Oyo State Government was largely responsible for the delay in his burial. According to Islamic injunction, ...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Saturday presented the party’s certificate of return to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki. He said the party was delighted to have the governor who he said has seen ...

Oyo State Government has shut five private health facilities in Saki and Ibadan allegedly for contravention and unethical practices. The state task force on private health facilities, headed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Basiru Bello, shut down the facilities ...

  The Lagos state government generated a sum of N25 billion through taxation in April despite the total lockdown imposed on the state. This is according to head of The Lagos State Inland Revenue Service, LIRS’ Information and Communication (ICT) Department, Mr. ...

A Nigerian writer identified as Alex Adekunle James has taken to social media to write on the reason why he returned a sum of over $2500 he picked on the ground. According to him, he never for once thought of ...

NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it’s offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon. The space agency has set an ambitious goal of sending astronauts back to ...

Peter Okoye has revealed how his nuclear family tested positive for the novel Coronavirus and battled it for three weeks. The former Psquare member who now goes by the name Mr P made this known on his verified Instagram account ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Saturday, wrote from where he was isolated from his family, deploring the increasing cases of covid-19 in the state. He said it had become obvious that community transmission of the virus had reached ...

Lagos and Osun state governments have threatened fresh lockdowns amid increasing covid-19 cases in the states and the country. Fresh 684 Covid-19 cases were recorded in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory on Friday by the Nigeria Centre for ...

A woman who lives in Abule-Egba area of Lagos known as Mrs Bukola Agboola on Thursday was rescued by neighbours after attempting suicide. The mother of two was said to have attempted suicide on Thursday night, in her residence at ...

Ondo state government has sacked the striking Residents doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMETH). Their sacking was contained in a letter announcing the suspension of the institution residency training programme from August 1st, 2020. The letter ...

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said criminality is the order of the day and insecurity is one issue common to Nigerians, regardless of tribe, language, religion, location, gender, age, or social position. He noted that restructuring is the solution, adding that ...

Media personality, Layole Oyatogun has chastised Nigerians over glorification of fraud. She took to social media to write about how she was defrauded and all the money in her bank account wiped off in far away china. She also spoke ...

A pensioner called police on a nine-year-old girl after she wrote “Black Lives Matter” in chalk outside her home, it has been reported. The woman accused little Mira Acklin of vandalising the street where they live in Ohio and called ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking assistance in finding six Nigerians who are linked to a $6m fraud. The bureau took to its Twitter handle to solicit help in finding the six men who are wanted for “their ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has confirmed that another member of his cabinet has tested positive for Covid-19. This latest new case brings to four those who have contacted the pandemic in the Oyo State cabinet. The governor had ...

The United Nations (UN) says it has launched an investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having s.e.x in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New ...

Ogun State government has warned street beggars to desist from the act of street begging or face punitive measures of sweeping market square for two weeks. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Mrs. Funmi Efuwape gave the ...

Immediate-past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said he has accepted the decision of the National Executive Committee NEC to dissolve the National Working Committee NWC which he chaired until Thursday. He said President ...

It was a tragic end for a middle-aged destitute man along Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, after a shuttle bus ran over him. The man, whose name and address had yet to be identified, was reportedly crushed when the driver, one Rahmon, ...

On March 8, 2019, the eve of the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, Stephen Alao, a then corps member serving in Kebbi State, was involved in a fatal accident. His skin was pierced, his body stuck in the ...

  Nollywood actress, Funke Adesiyan, has stated that she is still in shock over the death of former Oyo governor, Abiola Ajimobi, who died on Thursday aged 70. The Personal Assistant to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari on Domestic and ...