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  Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was named UEFA Player of the Year and Carlo Ancelotti took the coaching honours after they led the club to a record-extending 14th Champions League title last season. Benzema was in red-hot form, scoring ...

  A 17-year-old pilot became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed today in Bulgaria, where his journey began five months ago. Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed on an ...

  The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the killing of an Inspector by gunmen on Wednesday in Coker Aguda area of Lagos. The spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ...

  Suspected herdsmen have been alleged of attacking two farmers at Ifira-Akoko in Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victims, who were hospitalised and in critical condition after the incident. According to a youth in the ...

A three-year-old girl woke up at her own funeral after doctors allegedly wrongly told her parents she had died from a stomach bug. Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza was declared deceased 12 hours before the service on August 17 but began ...

A Russian rocket strike on a train station killed 25 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow’s invasion began. Five of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in ...

The Majority Leader of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Nnamdi Okafor, has slumped and died in South Africa. Reports have it that Hon Okafor, who represents Awka South State constituency 1, slumped and died in the early hours of ...

The federal government has stated that it cannot recommence the Abuja-Kaduna train services for now because it will be insensitive to the plight of families whose loved ones are still in captivity. The Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo told state ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said insecurity in some parts of the country is being worsened by fake news and misinformation. A statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Assistant Media, Segun Adeyemi, said the ...

  Meghan Markle has relived the horror moment a FIRE broke out in son Archie’s nursery while the family were on tour in South Africa. The long-awaited first episode of Meghan’s podcast Archetypes dropped yesterday – nearly two years after ...

The Naira opened trading at N429.07 but closed at N430.67 to a dollar on Tuesday, depreciating 0.3 per cent from N429.43 it exchanged in the previous session on Monday, data published by FMDQ website where forex is officially, revealed. Naira ...

    Actress and politician Funke Akindele is 45 today. To celebrate her new age, she released beautiful new photos of herself to the delight on her fans on Instagram. Captioning one of the photos, she wrote; ”OLUWASEUN! Happy birthday ...

A business man, Isma’il Ibrahim, on Tuesday dragged one Zainab Muhammad, his mother in-law, to a Shari’a Court at Rigasa Kaduna, for allegedly refusing to allow his wife return to her matrimonial home. The complainant, Resident at Police Station road, ...

  Nigeria legend Sunday Oliseh has resigned as the head coach of German side SV Straelen after losing five straight matches in the Regionalliga. The 47-year-old Oliseh, who took up the role in June 2022, tendered his resignation after his ...

  The World Health Organisation has acknowledged Togo as the first country to eliminate four Neglected Tropical Diseases globally. The WHO made this known during its Regional Committee for Africa meeting held in Lomé on Monday. Between 2011 and 2022, ...

Ukraine on Tuesday launched its new football season despite Russia’s ongoing invasion, in an apparent attempt to give a morale boost to the war-ravaged nation. In the first match of the Ukrainian Premier League, Shakhtar Donetsk drew 0-0 with Metalist ...

The Nigerian government, on Tuesday, signed a fresh agreement with the U.S. government for the return of over $23 million looted by the late dictator Sani Abacha. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, represented the ...

The team that represented Nigeria at the ongoing FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup are sleeping in the departure hall of the Istanbul airport. They have been there for over 20 hours, and by the time they depart the airport at ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Abuja branch, has challenged the Federal Government to mention any of the things done to bring to an end the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union, declaring that the strike will ...

Will Smith’s popularity has severely dropped in the wake of his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards this past March. In a report from Variety citing his Q Scores – a metric that measures the fame and appeal ...

  Four religious sisters who were kidnapped while on their way to Mass Aug. 21 have been released, according to their order. Sisters Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu were kidnapped Aug. 21 in Nigeria’s Imo state, ...

Actor Nosa Rex aka babarex has acquired a mansion to celebrate his seventh wedding anniversary. He shared stunning picture with his wife and penned beautiful message to celebrate their anniversary. Few hours later, Nosa shared picture of his newly acquired ...

A mum says she wept after allegedly clashing with “arrogant” Cristiano Ronaldo in a phone call when the ace smashed her teen son’s phone on the ground. Sarah Kelly, 37, spoke out after the Manchester United striker accepted a caution ...

A couple have mysteriously died at home in Katsina state. The couple, Muhammad Umar and Sayyada Shamsiyya were found dead in their apartment by neigbours around 5pm on Friday, August 19, 2022. According to neigbours, the couple had partook in ...

The National Pension Commission has vowed to go tough on relatives, workers and retirees who fake deaths of contributors to the Contributory Pension Scheme in order the get the benefits entitled to deceased persons. To ensure that a worker is ...