Wrestling star Hana Kimura has died aged just 22. The Stardom ace was regarded as one of the up-and-coming professionals in the wrestling world and tipped for the very top. Stardom said in a statement on Twitter: “Stardom fans, We ...
Read More »Trump orders immediate reopening of worship places in US, says country needs serious prayers
President Trump on Friday demanded that states allow places of worship to reopen “right away” and threatened to overrule any that defy him. Marching into the White House briefing room for a hastily called announcement, Mr. Trump declared places of ...
Read More »Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Oyewumi is dead
Veteran Nollwood actor, Prince Femi Oyewumi popularly known as Laditi is dead. Laditi died early hours of yesterday, Friday May 22nd, when he was rushed to the hospital. He was rushed there on thursday night but gave up the following ...
Read More »No kissing the bride as Sri Lanka lifts weddings ban
Sri Lanka has lifted a ban on wedding receptions as part of an easing of coronavirus restrictions, but grooms may not kiss the bride – at least not in public. Wealthy Sri Lankans usually hold wedding celebrations with thousands of ...
Read More »Ondo court stops 16-year-old schoolgirl’s marriage to cleric as ninth wife
An Ondo state family Court in Akure has quashed a forced marriage of a 16 year old Secondary School girl to an Islamic Cleric with eight wives, Alhaji Yusuf Lateef. Lateef, who is an Ore based cleric was to make ...
Read More »Retired Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte dies at 88
Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, is dead. The retired judge died at the age of 88. His son, Gogo confirmed his father’s death saying he died in Port Harcourt. The late justice left behind four boys ...
Read More »Imo abolishes payment of pensions to ex-governors, speakers
Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has assented to a bill repealing the law that created pension allowances and gratuities for former governors, deputy governors, assembly speakers, and deputy speakers. Signing the bill into law in Owerri on Friday, the governor ...
Read More »Another teacher is arrested for having sex with her student
A Wisconsin teacher is accused of having s.e.x with her 16-year-old foster son who is also her former student after her husband is said to have secretly recorded their alleged trysts. Stephanie Pudlowski, 38, was arrested on May 15 after ...
Read More »Ex-President Jonathan donates 500 bags of rice to Ebonyi
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has donated 500 bags of 5-kilogram rice to the Ebonyi government as palliatives to cushion the effects of covid -19 on its people. Dr. Kenneth Ugbala, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), disclosed this after the ...
Read More »Widow of WWE star Shad Gaspard who drowned at the beach pens heartbreaking tribute to him
The devastated widow of former WWE star Shad Gaspard has paid tribute to her late husband who drowned after being swept out to sea at Venice Beach. Siliana Gaspard, 35, took to Instagram, describing Shad as a ‘real life superhero’ ...
Read More »Wife allegedly stabs sleeping husband to death in Delta
The Delta State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a housewife, who allegedly killed her husband, Mr. Uzougbo Iwebunor, on Friday May 15, in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North LGA of Delta. Command spokesperson, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, told newsmen on Friday ...
Read More »Trump orders US flags lowered to half-staff for 3 days to honour Covid-19 victims
President Trump has ordered for American flags on all federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff over the next three days to honor those who have passed away from coronavirus. Trump tweeted: ‘I will be lowering the flags on all ...
Read More »Dismissed Kano commisioner who mocked Abba Kyari’s death, recovers from coronavirus
Dismissed Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Kano State, Engineer Mu’azu Magaji has recovered from coronavirus. He took to his Facebook page to announce he has been confirmed covid-19 negative and discharged. “To the Glory of Allah SWT, today Friday ...
Read More »Kylie Jenner accused of another Photoshop fail as fans spot editing blunder in sexy snap
Kylie Jenner has been accused of another Photoshop fail as fans spotted an blunder in her latest sexy snap. The reality TV star, 22, shared a picture of herself lounging on a sofa in front of a pricey Hermes handbag. ...
Read More »New way of testing blood without using painful needle uses mobile phones
A tool to measure haemoglobin – without drawing blood – has been created by scientists, using a phone. The ground-breaking method uses pictures of a person’s eyelids to assess the levels. Being able to perform one of the most common ...
Read More »Khashoggi’s fiancée says ‘no one has right’ to pardon killers
The Turkish fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday “no one” had the right to pardon his murderers after his sons said they “forgive” the killers. Khashoggi — a royal family insider turned critic — was killed and ...
Read More »Door of military helicopter falls from the sky but miraculously, no one got hurt (photos)
Shocked onlookers reportedly screamed in horror as a helicopter door broke off the aircraft at 800ft and plummeted to earth, hitting a nearby building before coming to land in the grounds of a secondary school where kids were playing. The ...
Read More »I will sack you if you embark on strike, El-Rufai threatens doctors
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has vowed to sack doctors and other health workers threatening to embark on strike. He said his administration would not succumb to blackmail by the doctors. El-Rufai, in a statement on Thursday night by his ...
Read More »27 more workers in Oyo company test positive for COVID-19
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said 27 more members of staff of iSON Xperiences located in the Ibadan South West Local Government Area of the state have tested positive for COVID-19. At least 63 members of staff had ...
Read More »Drake and Future’s new song calls Kylie Jenner a “side piece”
Drake and Future just gave Kylie Jenner the most unexpected shout-out. On Wednesday night, an undisclosed song from the two rappers went viral after it was debuted during Night Owl Sound’s Instagram Live. In it, Drake and Future namedrop the ...
Read More »Chilling story of the evil care home worker who slit throats of 19 disabled patients
It was a short and familiar car ride for Satoshi Uematsu from his home to a care facility where he’d spent many hours as a caretaker for the disabled residents. It was the early hours of July 26, 2016, and ...
Read More »Woman dies after birth of conjoined twins in Imo, husband abandons them
A taxi driver in Owerri, identified as Anayochukwu Njoku, from Umuakagu, Agbahara Nsu in Ehime Mbano council area took to his heels and abandoned his wife when he realised that she gave birth to conjoined twins. Njoku’s wife, Chidinma, was ...
Read More »14 year-old schoolgirl with no hands achieves the ‘impossible’ and learns to play piano
A teenager who lost both her hands to meningitis has defied the odds by learning to play the piano. Tilly Lockey, 14, was determined to prove a physiotherapist wrong after she said she would never master it. Tilly said she ...
Read More »President Buhari to observe Eid-el-Fitr with family at home
With the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations around the corner and the month-long Ramadan fast coming to an end, President Muhammadu Buhari will be conducting his Eid prayers with his family at home. This is in observance of the lockdown measures in the ...
Read More »Chess star Oladapo Adu stranded in Abidjan after going there to represent Nigeria, says his Tunisian colleague has been evacuated
Nigerian chess player, International Master Oladapo Adu, has been stranded in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, for nine weeks following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Adu was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he went to compete at the ...
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