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The former chief executive of Wirecard, a German electronic payment platform, has been arrested in Munich today after the company admitted that $2.1 billion missing from its accounts probably “do not exist.” Markus Braun, who resigned as chief executive on ...

  A 22- year-old man, Ayokunbi Olaniyi, on Tuesday appeared before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having s.e.x with a pig. The police charged Mr Olaniyi, who resides in Eleti–Odo area, Iwo Road, Ibadan, with one count of ...

200 Nigerians stranded in South Africa will be evacuated on Thursday, June 25th. Those booked to fly back to the country have already made payment. They paid $840 for economy class and $1350 for business class, a source said. The ...

Kidnappers of father of former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, have demanded a ransom of N100m to free him. The victim, Pa Dariye, who is said to be in his late 80s, was abducted at his residence in Mushere, ...

The Residents Doctors Association of Nigeria, Ondo State Chapter, has announced the commencement of an indefinite strike effective Wednesday, June 24. The action of the health workers is based on alleged neglect and poor welfare by the state government despite ...

No fewer than 13 out of the 27 members of Imo Assembly have tested positive for coronavirus. It was gathered the 13 tested positive on Monday when test was conducted on them. In a swift reaction, the Special Adviser on ...

Police personnel have rescued a 40-year-old Filipino lady, Irene Panas, allegedly held hostage by one Chukwudi Odo, whom she met on Facebook in 2019. Panas, an accountant based in Manila, was lured to Nene-Uno village in the Enugu East Local ...

The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has fired all aides attached to his deputy, Agboola Ajayi. He took the decision on Tuesday following the defection of Mr Ajayi to the opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party. ...

A man in the United Kingdom has been jailed for throwing a five-month baby at a TV cabinet after losing a live football bet. Taylor Biggins, who is from Birstall, Leeds, was sentenced to two years and ten months for ...

Rapper Travis Scott is said to have spent a whopping $23 million on a large home in the Hollywood Hills. The former partner of Kylie Jenner is reported to have purchased a 16,700 square-foot mansion with 11 bathrooms and seven ...

England footballer Kyle Walker has reportedly rekindled the romance with former lover Annie Kilner, two months after welcoming a baby with Lauryn Goodman. According to a report in mirror.co.uk, Kyle, 30, surprised Annie, 27, with a huge white love heart ...

Novak Djokovic and his wife, Jelena have tested positive for coronavirus. Their children tested negative. Although he is not showing any symptoms, Djokovic said he and his wife will go into 14 days of self-isolation. In a statement released on ...

315 Nigerians stranded in the United Arab Emirates and Senegal due to the coronavirus pandemic have returned home. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known via Twitter. Onyeama said 298 nationals were repatriated from the UAE while ...

The United Nations has appointed ‘African Queen’ crooner, 2baba (formerly 2face Idibia), as its Refugees Goodwill Ambassador. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced this on Tuesday via its verified Instagram handle. It acknowledged the musician’s ...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the closure of the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The IGP sent the directive through the Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala ...

A 35-year-old man, Bebu Abiodun, allegedly brutalised his wife, Ronke Adeyemi (33) for refusing to abort their 3-month-old pregnancy in Ode-Irele, Ondo State. According to Ronke’s brother, Jimmy Adekunle, the husband beat her and inserted his hands in her private ...

Lagos hair seller, Bo_Hair on instagram has flaunted her baby bump. The young entrepreneur who first told her followers her stomach was growing because she has been eating big eba lately, has finally admitted she is expecting a baby. She ...

Fresh coronavorus lockdown measures have been announced in Germany after an increase in cases linked to an abattoir. Armin Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state, said 100,000 people in Guetersloh county should only have contact with their own household ...

Story of most Nigerian successful Nigerian women… A Network Marketing Pro, Adenike Odubawo has recounted what she went through in her marriage and how her ex-hubby always hated she was richer and even claimed she was bossy. The marriage however ...

US President Donald Trump will prolong a ban on US employment permits to year-end and broaden it to include H-1B visas used widely in the tech industry, the White House has said. A senior administration official told journalists the move ...

A man, Osas Onyeokweni, and his wife, Tomisin Onyeokweni, have been arrested by the Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for molesting and indecently assaulting a 20-year-old girl. Mr Onyekweni was said to have called his former girlfriend on ...

An unnamed official of the Covid-19 task force of the Ojodu Abiodun Local Council Development Authority of the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, who was filmed assaulting a woman, has been arrested by the police. The woman, identified ...

Mad oh! A man who shot dead his former neighbor when she answered the door at her Massachusetts home had disguised himself as a UPS driver, prosecutors have said. Robert Bonang, 61, is charged with killing 59-year-old Laurie Melchionda after ...

A controversial Russian priest has taken over a convent after claiming that the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax and church leaders were “working with the forerunners of the Anti-Christ”. Father Sergei Romanov, together with a group of armed cossacks, began ...

The American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for offering assistance to it in the investigation and prosecution of six Nigerians involved in Business Email Compromise (BEC) and wire fraud in the ...