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Mrs. Rachael Adewumi, founder of TAKEM Empowerment Initiatives (TEIs), an NGO, has advised women against remaining full-time housewives. Adewumi, at an end-of-year party on Sunday in Abuja, urged women to get an employment or learn a trade. The  party was ...

Saudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, the government says. Previously, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own. The restrictions had already ...

Russia’s national team will be missing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after the World Anti-Doping Agency(WADA) handed down a four year ban over doping. Russia will also not be able to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and other major ...

Many people where shocked when CDQ took to social media to ’embarrass’ his colleague — Mochedah, saying the songstress would have been the most sexiest artist that ever came out of Nigeria, but she lost the title due to too ...

Former prisoner John Anthony Crilly, who robbed Nigerian businessman Augustine Maduemezia in his Manchester home in 2005 has turned out to be one of the heroes, who subdued the London Bridge terrorist, Usman Khan. Crilly, armed with a fire extinguisher, ...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has postponed the presentation of an Integrity Award to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo amidst protests over the tightening of space for freedom of expression in the country. Osinbajo was slated to ...

Carroll Spinney, the man behind Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, has died. He died at the age of 85 on Sunday. Spinney died in his home in Connecticut, and had been living ...

Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele has just announced the death of her father, saying she tried, but God knows best. Though she didn’t disclose when and what killed him, the actress and mom of two simply wrote; ”Dad!!! May your soul ...

A South Korean court, on Monday, jailed three executives of Samsung Electronics for their role in a plot that included burying computers under factory floors at its biotech affiliate, in an investigation of alleged accounting fraud. Prosecutors began investigating the ...

Femi Falana, counsel to Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement, on Monday, alleged that the Nigerian government offered the activist a “death warrant” deal while in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Falana disclosed that the Nigerian government ...

Twelve persons have died in an accident on Sunday as a truck container carrying over 103 people somersaulted at Sawmill village along Mokwa-Makera road in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger state. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr ...

A hungry artist has eaten the world’s most expensive banana and police had to intervene after his action caused a scene.   The banana duct-taped to the wall sold last week for $120,000 and was hailed as “a symbol of ...

  Nollywood filmmaker and actor, Abayomi Aderibigbe a.k.a Yomi Black has called out Toke Makinwa over her Instagram post in which she shaded Nigerians complimenting Cardi B over some acts she pulled off in Nigeria but slamming Nigerian celebrities for living same lifestyle. ...

Lagos State Government stated that it has sealed 24 pharmacies and patent medicine stores in various parts of the state for illegal operation and operating beyond scope of pharmaceutical practice.   Prof. Akin Abayomi, the state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this ...

Femi Falana, has lashed out at the Department of State Services (DSS) over its statement in which it denied invading a trial court to rearrest Omoyele Sowore.   Recall that the DSS alleged that the #RevolutionNow convener violated his bail conditions ...

34-year-old Sanna Marin has become Finland’s youngest Prime Minister ever after winning Sunday’s election to replace Prime Minister Antti Rinne who resigned on Tuesday December 3, after losing the confidence of the coalition partner Centre Party over his handling of a postal strike. ...

Dapo Abiodun, the Governor of Ogun State on Sunday, December 11th felicitated with the world heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua for displaying “Ogun standard of excellence” by reclaiming all titles in a re-match with his opponent, Andy Ruiz Jr.   Governor Abiodun ...

Officers of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 24 members of an alleged dreaded cult group known as ‘Awawa Boys.’   A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana on Sunday, December 11th said the arrest ...

Cardi B who left Nigeria for Ghana yesterday December 8, has apologized for keeping Ghanaian celebrities waiting after getting called out.   A handful of Ghanaian celebrities took to social media yesterday to call out the superstar rapper for keeping ...

Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, have shut down 19 buildings in Igbogbo Baiyeku area of Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria for violating the town planning laws of the State.   General Manager, LASBCA, Engr. Abiola Kosegbe, led ...

Some Ghanaian Celebrities have called out rapper Cardi B for allegedly shunning them after she arrived in the West African country. According to reports, several Ghanaians Celebrities yesterday trooped to Kempinski hotel where a meeting with Cardi B was supposed ...

  A Nigerian man identified as Alex Oluwatobi has taken his to Twitter account to narrate his encounter with a gay man on a bike in Lagos. In his story, he wrote on how the man was giving him nice ...

  The Presidency has finally reacted to the maltreatment of Omoyele Sowore, the convener of RevolutionNow Movement by officials of the Department of State Services (DSS). TGB had reported earlier that the DSS released Sowore on Thursday night after spending ...

  No less than 40 people were killed in a fire incident at a factory while the workers slept in the middle of the night. In a report by The BBC, the blaze broke out at the four-storey building in ...

  American Rapper Cardi B who is currently in Africa ,Nigeria precisely took out some time to visit the motherless baby home with huge gifts and Goodies.   Cardi B Visited Motherless Baby Home yesterday and she did the shopping ...