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  The management of Benue State University, Makurdi, has directed all staff members to resume work. According to the statement issued by the university’s registrar, Dr Mfaga Modom, titled, “Reopening of the University,” the management directed all staff members of ...

Singer Reekado Banks has lost his mother. He shared the sad news on his Instagram page. A poster announcing her death reads: “It is with Heavy heart that we announce the passing of our wife, mother, grandmother, sister, confidant and ...

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Dr Babachir Lawal has distanced himself from joining the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to settle scores with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the controversial Muslim-Muslim Presidency ...

  Shakira appears to be settling scores with her ex Gerard Piqué via her music after the Spanish footballer was allegedly unfaithful. The 45-year-old Colombian pop star first appeared to include a jab at Piqué, 35, in her single Te ...

  THE All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) says the 422 member-list released at the weekend is not conclusive. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the council said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. ...

  In partnership with FirstBank – Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider – Verve International, Africa’s leading payment technology and card business, has launched its third National Consumer promo designed to reward users of FirstBank verve card with ...

To mark the end of its 150th anniversary year, FrieslandCampina presents its new short film, A New Day. The film pays tribute to the many generations of dairy farmers who have made FrieslandCampina what it is today; a dynamic, forward-looking ...

Nollywood actress Zainab Bakare has described how having a buttlift procedure increased her self-esteem and confidence. Zainab Bakare, whose butt-lift procedure enhanced the contour of her bum claimed she had no regrets going under the knife and isn’t covering it ...

  Controversial cross-dresser Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky has owned up to being a side chick. The Instagram celebrity, who took ‘risk’ to become ‘Bobrisky’, also defined the class of side chick he/she belongs to. He/she claimed to be the one ...

  An Ikeja High Court has sentenced the deposed Baale of Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos Mutiu Ogundare, charged with faking his kidnap to 15-year jail term. Justice Hakeem Oshodi sentenced Ogundare having convicted him of a two-count bordering ...

  Apple chief executive Tim Cook says there are still “not enough women at the table” at the world’s tech firms – including his own. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Mr Cook said technology “will not achieve nearly ...

  Police in India are searching for a teacher accused of beating a Dalit student to death over a spelling mistake, officers said amid violent protests triggered by the incident. Nikhil Dohre was struck with a rod and kicked until ...

Prince George Told classmates ‘My Father Will Be King So You Better Watch Out’ Bombshell Royal Book Claims He might only be nine, but Prince George knows exactly who he is and had a royally cheeky comeback for a classmate ...

  Three suspects conveying 150 bottles of ‘skuchies’ have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. ‘Skuchies’ is a cocktail of drugs, including cannabis sativa, tramadol tablets, codeine, swifnol, among others. The trio – Francis Friday, Kemi Adeyemo, and ...

The National Industrial Court Abuja has struck out a suit instituted by one Umar Lawal, asking the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its seven-month strike and return to classrooms. Lawal, who claimed to be the President ...

A United States district court has sentenced Abidemi Rufai, a suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, to five years’ imprisonment for fraud. The District Court in Western Tacoma in Washington jailed Mr Rufai on Monday for wire ...

DJ Cuppy has announced her graduation from the University of Oxford. She took to her Twitter handle to mention how proud of herself she is even though she did not get a merit or a distinction. “Got my THESIS result, ...

  Former Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel has announced his retirement from professional football after 20 years. Obi retired at the age of 35 with laurels won for both clubs and country, including Nations Cup, and Champions League, among ...

  Mark Zuckerberg Is NOT One Of America’s Ten Wealthiest People For The First Time Since 2015 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not one of America’s ten wealthiest people for the first time since 2015, thanks to his company’s plummeting ...

  The Nigeria Police Force has declared an Indian national Ayan Asit Chakraborty wanted. A Gazette Bulletin with Ref No AR: 3000/ZN.2/MTU/TMI Vol. 2/141 announced that the Magistrates’ Court had issued a warrant of arrest in Lagos. The suspect is ...

  A family in Kamacuku village, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya is in mourning after a woman allegedly killed her husband before hanging herself. Moses Kirimi’s body was found in a pool of blood in the parking lot of his home on ...

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced 66 internet fraudsters to various jail terms. The jail terms range from two weeks, four months, and six months of community service to ten months imprisonment. The convicts ...

  Basketball’s world governing body has opened an investigation after players on the Mali women’s team were filmed physically fighting one another following their World Cup loss to Serbia in Sydney. The scuffle between Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou ...

  President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and ...

  Political economist Pat Utomi has dared Bola Tinubu to go for a medical checkup and make the result public, claiming the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate is unfit. He threw the challenge on Monday while fielding questions on ...