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Athletics icon Usain Bolt has moved to trademark a logo showing his signature victory celebration pose. The retired Jamaican sprinter submitted an application in the US last week. He is known globally for the move – in which he leans ...

Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has said Nigerians do not have enough leaders to look up to in the current system. Adiche made this statement during her keynote address at the ongoing Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association at ...

  Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Federal Government to quickly secure the release of Azurfa Lois John, a 21-year-old Christian, who was one of the victims of the Kaduna-Abuja train attack. ...

  Toyin Abraham has revealed she dragged her colleague, Lizzy Anjorin to the police over their public fight and ‘threats’ saying the riff has now been settled by the police. She also revealed that Lizzy apologized to her at the ...

Tonto dikeh hs begged for a hug on the gram after having a bad day. She revealed to her fans and fellow celebrities that Sunday was really a bad day for her, and then asked they give her a hug. ...

Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu and her husband are celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary today. Sharing before and after photos of them on her Instagram page, the activist wrote; ”I was 24 years 4 months and 5 days when I ...

Francis Olagoke Oguntulu, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area chairman, Kehinde Oloyede, has been shot dead by some armed men at a party. In a statement from the media office of the LG boss on ...

    No fewer than 137 persons out of the 344 civil servants on the directorate cadre jostling to be appointed as principals of the nation’s 110 unity schools across the country failed the examination organised by the Federal Ministry ...

  Priyanka Chopra Jonas is the picture of true motherly love in a couple of new photos of herself with daughter Malti Marie. Being mindful not to show the entire face of her little girl, whom she and husband Nick ...

  Medical doctors across Nigeria may embark on strike if the President Muhammadu Buhari regime and all the state governments do not attend to their lingering demands within two weeks. Godiya Ishaya, the president of the Nigerian Association of Resident ...

Defeated governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, says he is confident the Osun Election Petition Tribunal will upturn the victory of his challenger and declare him winner of the July 16 election won by Ademola Adeleke. Mr Oyetola made the ...

  A notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has embraced the peace initiative of the Zamfara State Government as part of efforts to end banditry in the north-western state. Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Hassan Nasiha, disclosed this during a ...

  A 49-year-old father, Amoda Bola, has reportedly impregnated his 14-year-old daughter in Ode, Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The father has been arrested by the police in Ogun, DAILY POST reports. The suspect, a resident of ...

  Poor finishing and hard luck did Nigeria in on Sunday to bow out of the ongoing FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup after a 2-0 loss to The Netherlands. The Falconets could not reenact earlier round performances, which saw them ...

  The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said he almost collapsed when he had a phone call with Mrs Foluke Adeboye, wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, ...

  The police in Osun State have arrested five suspected political thugs in respect of Friday night’s attack on the convoy of the wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola. An operative of the Directorate of State Service (DSS) ...

  Yomi Fabiyi and his babymama, Amarachi Grace Jimoh have started a new war on social media over N70,000, N50,000. Amarachi had called the actor out saying he sent her N50k this month for child support, and it’s way to ...

  The Speaker, Kaduna  State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Yusuf Zailani, on Sunday, said the state House of Assembly has no plan to impeach Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Late evening on Saturday, reports had emerged on social media that the ...

  Gunmen wreaking havoc in parts of southeast have abducted four Reverend Sisters of the Catholic Church in Imo State. The incident occurred on Sunday at the popular Okigwe-Enugu Road while the victims were on their way to mass on ...

  Spartacus star Ioane ‘John’ King has died aged just 49, seven months after getting a terminal cancer diagnosis. The actor is understood to have been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma cancer – which forms in glandular tissue – of the pancreas ...

The congregation of Omega Fire Ministries fell under uncontrollable anointing as the second daughter of its General Overseer, Apostle Johnson Suleman, Divine Johnson Suleman conducted a powerful deliverance during a ministration. She became a hot topic on social media over ...

  The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has released journalist and publisher of CrossRiver Watch, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested at his resident in Lagos State on bail. Accoridng to the police, he was released from detention at exactly 10:00pm ...

  A woman who spent more than N40,000,000 [£50,000] to look like her idol Kim Kardashian says it was worth every penny. Cherri Lee grew up believing the American socialite was the most “beautiful woman in the world”. Deciding to look ...

  Gbenga Adeyinka 1st, one of Nigeria’s leading comedians and MC, has threatened to institute a legal suit against singer Tobechukwu ‘Peruzzi’ Okoh over his absence at the June 12 edition of Laffmattazz with Gbenga Adeyinka and friends. Adeyinka, The ...

  Edouard Mendy’s shocking error helped a relentless Leeds side beat Chelsea 3-0 at Elland Road in one of their most impressive displays since returning to the Premier League. Goals from Brenden Aaronson, Rodrigo Moreno and Jack Harrison made sure ...