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Nigerian gay rights activist Bisi Alimi is celebrating his 18 years of testing positive to HIV. Recounting how he tested for the virus in 2004 and kept it to himself until 2009 when he came out openly to identify as ...

  Liverpool star Mohamed Salah is looking forward to the chance to set the record straight against Real Madrid in their upcoming Champions League final rematch. Salah and the Reds booked their place in the decider on Tuesday with a ...

Watford manager Roy Hodgson says he will leave the club at the end of the season and will likely retire from football. The 74-year-old, who was honoured at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday as he received a CBE for his services ...

On Wednesday, a 48-year-old man, Emmanuel Amamchukwu, appeared before the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill his wife for using make-up. Mr Amamchukwu, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution ...

The Ikeja Domestic Violence and S3xual Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Oliseh, to life imprisonment for defiling his friend’s 12-year-old twin daughters. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, described Mr Oliseh, the assistant pastor of the Anointed ...

The European Union has declared its plans to ban trading with Russian oil by the end of the year. This is part of its sixth package of sanctions rolled out against Moscow for its three month military assault in Ukraine. ...

Business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, has joined the race for Ondo South Senatorial District on Wednesday when he picked the N20 million expression of interest and nomination forms of All Progressives Congress, APC at the party’s secretariat in Abuja. Ibrahim, the ...

Nigeria’s transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has promised to build the world’s largest rail in the Niger-Delta region if elected president. “If I don’t become the president of Nigeria, forget it (Lagos-Warri-Calabar railway project). Nobody will do that project. You know ...

  Actor Yul Edochie has stylishly blamed his decision to take a second wife on his wife, May Edochie in a recent interview. Social media turned upside down after the news of Yul Edochhie’s second marriage to his baby mama Judy Austine became public. ...

  The Big Brother Naija Season six 2021 reunion hasn’t started airing yet, but Shine Your Eyes housemates have been shading and dragging themselves. Sammie has dropped some bombshell about what Tega did to him and his then love interest, ...

  Movie Director, Tchidi Chikere has shared a rare photo of himself with all of his children. He was pictured with his four sons from his first marriage to Sophia Williams and his daughter from his second marriage to Nuella ...

  A mum who drowned her two-year-old son in the bath after becoming fixated with the idea her family were possessed by demons has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Natalie Steele, 31, admitted the manslaughter of her son ...

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has formally declared his intention to contest for president in 2023 on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress. He made the declaration on Wednesday in Abuja. Fayemi promised to ensure youth empowerment ...

Abidemi Rufai, a former aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has pleaded guilty to a series of fraud cases against him in federal court in Tacoma, Washington state, prosecutors said. Rufai, 45, who gave his home address as ...

    Actor David Osagie, popularly known as Sir David, has been reported dead. He was said to have died hours after filming on a movie set. The actor was known for playing the role of a king in many ...

  Celta Vigo striker Santi Mina has been sentenced to a four-year prison term and given a €50,000 fine after he was found guilty of sexual abuse by a court in Almeria. The forward has, however, been acquitted of sexual ...

  Kim Kardashian revealed she would like to marry again in the latest teaser of Hulu’s The Kardashians. The 41-year-old mogul declared, ‘I believe in love. That’s why hopefully there will be just one more wedding for me.’ The sentiment ...

  Justin Bieber revealed he suffered a ‘little bit of an emotional breakdown’ after tying the knot with Hailey Baldwin and realizing marriage wasn’t going to ‘fix’ all his problems. ‘It’s a journey,’ Justin, 28, said during an interview with ...

Elon Musk Wednesday said that Twitter may charge a slight fee for commercial and government users, indicating at what Twitter will be like after he purchased the microblogging site last month. The Tesla CEO, however, clarified that for “casual users”, ...

The Nigerian army has recounted how Sergeant A. M. Linus and his military wife were killed and beheaded by gunmen in Imo State while on their way to formalise their traditional marriage. According to army spokesperson, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu the ...

  Khloé Kardashian says she was a ball of nerves on fashion’s biggest night. The reality star and Good American co-founder attended her first Met Gala on Monday and shared on Twitter that first-time jitters were in full effect. “Am ...

A former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The visit took place on Sunday but news is only just flying out. Adeosun was accompanied by Adeseye Senfuye, former accountant-general of Ogun state, and ...

Kautukari, a community in Chibok LGA of Borno state, was yesterday under attack by suspected fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). A resident told TheCable that the insurgents invaded the community around 6pm on Tuesday and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held a night meeting yesterday. The meeting held at the residence of the president in Abuja. It isn’t yet clear what the subject of the meeting ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has warned Apostle Johnson Suleman over what it described as “unprovoked verbal attack and ranting” against the group. The group said it was puzzling that a man of God would abandon his calling and resort ...