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  Serbian sports star,  Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets to win a 10th Australian Open title and a record-equaling 22nd grand slam on Sunday, January 29. After securing the 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victory, Djokovic went ...

  A container has fallen on a fully loaded bus in Ojuelegba, Lagos state this afternoon, January 29. Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency LASTMA says efforts are currently being made toward rescue and evacuation.   Watch ...

  The star of ‘Shanty Town’ Chidi Mokeme sat down with BBC Pidgin to open up a little bit more about the show and what he needed to do to get into the role. Chidi did some very extreme things. ...

  The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, says he wonders how white people were able to convince Africans that polygamy is a sin while homosexuality is a human right.   In a post shared on his Instagram page, the monarch ...

  Police have arrested a 34-year-old Nigerian national, Chiduziem Ukaegbu, for illegal stay in Goa, India.   Anjuna police picked up the accused from his residence at Siolim on Saturday, January 28, 2023.   According to Mapusa SDPO, Jivba Dalvi, police received ...

  Singer, Paul Okoye aka Rudeboy has tackled the Nigerian Senate for calling for the extension of the deadline of the swapping of the redesigned Naira notes.   Worried by the scarcity of the newly redesigned notes to common Nigerians, ...

  Two Nigerian nationals have been reportedly killed in Johannesburg, South Africa at the weekend.   Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report, however, it was gathered that one of the deceased identified ...

  A Nigerian activist, Marvin Mordi has expressed shock after he allegedly spotted a newly married woman sneaking out of a hotel room in Asaba with another man.   “Fear married women in Asaba most of them knack more than ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the exchange of old naira notes by 10 days.   This was disclosed in a press statement issued today January 29. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, said the ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced a further extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards PVCs by one week.   INEC had earlier extended the deadline for the collection of PVCs to January ...

  Abuja-Kaduna train services have been suspended by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) after a train derailed on the corridor.   The train which was a few minutes from its destination in Abuja derailed on Friday afternoon, January 27.   In a ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he joined the Nigerian army where he retired as a Major General, to escape the pressure of getting married. The President revealed this during a visit to the Emir of Daura, Faruk Faruk, ...

An angry patient threw urine at nurses who were sitting in a canteen gossiping after he spent 4 hours waiting to be attended to at a clinic in South Africa.   In a video shared on social media, the man can be ...

  Cristiano Ronaldo has been gifted a unique £630,000 watch to celebrate his big money move to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia.   The Portuguese forward completed a £175million-a-year deal to move to the Middle East in January, two months after ...

  The governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Adamawa State, Alhaji Aliyu Maina is dead.   Maina died on Wednesday, January 25, after a brief illness in Abuja. National Publicity Secretary of the NRM, Olusola Afuye, who made the announcement ...

  Nigerian entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, aka Area Fada has issued a warning to the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman. After several sex scandals with ladies in the entertainment industry, ...

This was announced in a statement by his son, Dr Uche Ikonne. The Abia State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Prof Uche Ikonne, has passed on. This was announced in a statement by his son, Dr Uche Ikonne, on Wednesday. ...

Nollywood actress Lilian Afegbai is having a renaissance in the Nigerian entertainment industry these days. The actress since starting her Akanchawa Baddie life style has been garnering a lot more fans, myself included, and now she has taken her very ...

  The management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has barred students of the institution from wearing miniskirts, face caps, rolled sleeves, and other ”indecent attire” while on campus.   The school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, gave the directive ...

  Arsenal have confirmed the £21million signing of Poland defender Jakub Kiwior from Serie A side Spezia.   The 22-year-old was in London over the weekend and was at Emirates Stadium for Arsenal’s 3-2 win over Manchester United on Sunday January 22.   Kiwior ...

The fashion industry is mourning the death of young model Jeremy RuehlemannJeremy Ruehlemann. The news of the passing away of the 27-year-old model was announced by his friend Gianni Simpson on Facebook. The cause of his death hasn’t been revealed. ...

  Workers of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO), have called off the industrial strike they embarked upon in the early hours of Monday. The industrial action caused chaos at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from 4am on ...

  Two Nigerian nationals, Akuchie Ifeanyi Franklin and Fidel Ndubuisi, have been arrested in India for alleged involvement in online fraud.   The cyber police in Kerala arrested Akuchie, from Bengaluru on Monday, January 23, 2023, following a complaint by a Nallalam ...

  The Police Service Commission (PSC) has described as false an online report claiming that it endorsed the tenure elongation of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba. The rebuttal was contained in a statement by the Head, Press and ...

  A dad allegedly shot dead his 14-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself after a call to his estranged wife.   Ava Wood, a ninth-grader at Durgee Junior High School in Baldwinsville, was discovered in her bed Friday, Jan. ...