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  A political support and economic advocacy group, Fusion 774, has urged the former Chief of Army Staff and Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Ambassador Tukur Buratai, to join the 2023 presidential race. The group said it was ...

A 15-year-old girl in Adamawa State has confessed to beating an 85-year-old woman to death. The girl, Happy David, allegedly armed herself with a stick, stormed the residence of the woman and beat her up on accusation of witchcraft. It ...

  The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday visited the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress, as well as some political office holders in the state as the presidential primary of the ...

Nollywood actor, Ibrahim Yekini- Itele D Icon, has welcomed a new child with his wife, Olayiwola Aminat Omowunmi. The actor announced this via an Instagram post where he shared pictures of his wife and the new born. The couple welcomed ...

    Nollywood actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has said that she was never afraid to fall in love. In an Instagram post, the actress encouraged her fans not to give up on love as she described love as a “beautiful ...

Popular influencer and author, Japheth Omojuwa has announced his engagement to his girlfriend, Demilade Odu. Omojuwa in series of tweets wrote; “Here we go! Done deal. So, Q4 2021, I asked #demilade_odu to marry me. And Demi said, “Yes”. Having ...

  No fewer than four children have lost their lives in Ondo State after they were electrocuted at the Oke-Aigo axis in the Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of the state. The tragedy occurred after a newly installed power cable fell ...

Graham Douglas, a former Minister of Labour and Productivity, is dead. DailyTrust confirmed that the former Minister passed on Monday at a hospital in Abuja, FCT. Graham-Douglas served as minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity under Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. The ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a ...

  Antonio Rudiger is close to joining Real Madrid after giving his word during advanced negotiations over a lucrative four-year contract. It is unclear exactly what the 29-year-old will earn but it will be a significant pay-rise to his current Chelsea ...

A twitter user, Toyosi Olufade, in a thread has shared how he lost his fiancée in an accident last month in Ibadan. Olufade chronicled the different roles that operatives of government agencies and fellow citizens played during the accident and ...

    Twitter Inc has kicked off deal negotiations with Elon Musk after he wooed many of the social media company’s shareholders with financing details on his $43bn acquisition offer, Reuters has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The ...

  A married woman, Funmilola Osundare escaped death by whiskers in Akure, the Ondo state capital, after her yet to be identified boyfriend, suspected to be a ritualist butchered her. Vanguard gathered that the timely intervention of neighbours saved the ...

A presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has been mocked on twitter for appealing for funds in order to purchase the N100 million presidential forms of the party. Garba, who had earlier lamented over the huge ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is changing passengers’ experiences at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by introducing innovations. Some of the innovations will include; e-tags to ease traffic flow at the toll gate, banning illegal car hire ...

    The lawmaker representing Oron Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Nse Ekpenyong, is dead. Mr Ekpenyong, 58, reportedly died on Saturday. The chairman of Mbo Local Government Area, Asuqwo Eyo, confirmed the death. He said the federal ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected Nigerian “billionaire drug baron”. The suspect is Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, Chairman of Mallinson Group. A statement this morning by NDLEA Media Director, Femi Babafemi said he is ...

A Japanese woman certified the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew ...

Estranged wife of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Olori Badirat Olaitan Adeyemi, has mourned the monarch, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, who died Friday night, aged 83. In an Instagram post today, Olori Olaitan, shared an emotional tribute to the late monarch, ...

  Actress Uche Ogbodo has asked single ladies to be patient as there are still good men out there so they should work on being the best version of themselves and they will find them. She wrote; Ladies Be Patient ...

A coroner sitting in the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has barred journalists and the public from covering and witnessing the inquest. The case aims to unravel the circumstances that led to the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Sylvester ...

Residents of Gashu’a town, the headquarters of Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State were, on Sunday, thrown into pandemonium following a loud explosion that rocked the town. Gashu’a is about 188 kilometers north of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital ...

An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, identified as Ezekiel, has been accused of brutalising his sisters for having boyfriends. Ezekiel was said to have visited his siblings, Amarachi and Chidinma, at their house in the Kuje ...

Reno Omokri, a former media aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has debunked reports that his former boss would soon declare to run for the 2023 presidential elections. Reports had earlier emerged that Jonathan, whose poster surfaced in some parts of ...

  There was a fire incident at the Makurdi branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Benue State. A portion of the bank went in flames in the early hours of Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that they noticed the fire ...