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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 ...

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 20, 919 on Monday as 675 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Seven deaths were recorded from the virus on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed ...

Steve Bing, an American producer, philanthropist, and writer has died by suicide at the age of 55. According to TMZ, he died on Monday June 22nd after jumping from the 27th floor of a luxury apartment building in L.A.’s Century ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said on Monday it had started reviewing the guidelines for lifting of the ban on interstate travels. Speaking at the daily press briefing of the PTF in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the task ...

A man, Chris Ndukwe, has reportedly committed suicide after stabbing his lover, Olamide Alli, to death at his place of residence on the Victory Point Estate in the Ilasan area of Lagos State. Although the reasons for Ndukwe’s action remain ...

A former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has lost her mother, Mrs. Cecilia Nwayiaka Ujubuonu. Ezekwesili’s spokesperson and publicist, Mr. Ozioma Ubabukoh, stated that Mrs. Ujubuonu died in the late hours of Sunday. An indigene of Ndodolu village, Umunuko, ...

Oyo State government’s decision to reopen schools from June 29 is insensitive, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba said on Monday. He warned that such decision if taken could raise Covid-19 infection figures in the state. As of ...

A Ghanaian monarch says the Nigerian high commission in the country was aiding a businessman to forcibly take over the plot of land belonging to his people. Joy News, a Ghanaian platform, quoted Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, paramount chief ...

There was tension in Ilesha in Osun State on Monday as a cult clash left two dead, forcing banks in the community and commercial activities to shut. It was gathered that the clash was between Eyie confraternity and Aiye cult ...

A transgender man has announced he is pregnant with his second child six years after he was branded a ‘monster’ when he had his first baby. Kayden Coleman, who began transitioning from female to male in 2009, said he found ...

Media personality, Toke Makinwa this afternoon spoke to women about how financial freedom is key and why they need to seek it. She says as a woman, you must have your own money. According to her, it’s okay to be ...

Mum-of-two Nicki Rodriguez is used to people starting conversations with her by saying ‘you’re so attractive’. The 44-year-old, from Brentwood, Essex, says she is regularly mistaken for her daughter’s SISTER – despite being 27 years her senior. And she attributes ...

X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has claimed she was told to bleach her skin and change her hair so she would “appeal to white people”. The singer, who won the TV talent show in 2008, has posted a video online ...