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  An award-winning journalist in Ondo State, Shola Ilesanmi, who was a correspondent with the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, is dead. Ilesanmi gave up the ghost on Tuesday after a brief illness While describing the death of the journalist, who ...

  Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Monday, condemned the removal of state police from the amendment of Nigeria’s constitution. He called the development a disservice, noting that the prolonged spate of insecurity made the demand a necessity. ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has reserved ruling in a suit filed by a broadcaster and radio talk show host, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, seeking to set aside a judgment ordering him ...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kebbi state command, Tuesday arrested and paraded a 40 year old suspect, Aminu Bello for allegedly raping his 13 year old daughter Hafsat. Parading the suspect, the Kebbi state commander Musa ...

Singer Davido has declared his third baby mama, Chioma as the world’s greatest Chef. He made this known while commenting on her post on Instagram. See it below….

  Annie Idibia has said that her children must have a mother that they can brag about. Annie had in a recent post online, reflected on her humble beginnings and in the process, commended herself for gracing the cover of ...

A spare part dealer identified only as Dauda, has died after falling from a two-storey building in Ilorin, Kwara State. Punch Metro gathered that the victim, believed to be in his 30s, fell from the top of the building where ...

  Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss says he has received an offer to buy Chelsea from Roman Abramovich alongside a group of several others. Abramovich has come under increasing pressure over the past week following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, with Labour ...

UK’s most wanted woman Sarah Panitzke has been arrested in Spain. Spanish police said Tuesday they had arrested the Briton over a £1 billion VAT scam, after nine years on the run. The fugitive, identified by Britain’s National Crime Agency ...

Adidas has suspends its partnership with Russian Football Federation. The sports equipment giants — Adidas said Tuesday they have suspended their partnership with the Russian Football Federation in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Adidas is suspending its partnership ...

The Canadian High Commissioner, Kevin Tokarr and some sailors visited the Oshodi Underbridge in Lagos, where they participated in a chess tournament with some children. Founder of the Chess In Slums initiative, Tunde Onakoya shared the beautiful news on his ...

The first group of Ghanaian students evacuated from Ukraine arrived home on Tuesday as Nigeria and other African nations stepped up efforts to rescue stranded citizens following the Russian invasion. This is as many Nigerians, including students are still stranded ...

An unidentified man has burnt to death while trying to pull a stunt in a masquerader attire in Anambra State. Punch correspondent gathered that the incident happened at Ogbunike, during the Eli’m Ede Cultural Festival, on Saturday. The Eli’m Ede ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Tuesday, met the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in a bid to reconcile him and his estranged political godfather, Bola Tinubu. Though the details ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on another medical trip to London. He departed Abuja today for Nairobi, where he is billed to participate in the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme, scheduled for 3rd – ...

  Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, turned down the bail application filed by the detained former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner of ...

New Satellite images have shown Russian convoys bearing down on Ukraine as Monday peace talk failed to end the deadly invasion. The alarming images revealed a three-plus-mile convoy of Russian military vehicles snaking toward Kyiv. Hundreds of tanks, mobile artillery, ...

Major Hollywood film studios are halting the releases of their upcoming movies in Russia, including Disney’s latest Pixar film and Warner Brothers’ “The Batman,” in protest of its invasion of Ukraine. “Given the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the tragic ...

    The death of Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, founder and executive chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspapers has been announced by the family. According to the statement issued on Monday, Mr Ojeagbase who is also the ...

  The subject of the Netflix true-crime documentary The Tinder Swindler is being sued for millions of dollars by the real Leviev diamond family to which he allegedly pretended to belong. In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Israeli Russian diamond ...

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, says the vision of his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, is most needed at the national level, saying Nigeria will be lucky to have him as president. Mohammed said though he has declared his intention ...

The United States has expelled 12 Russian diplomats at the United Nations over national security concerns, U.S. and Russian diplomats said on Monday. The U.S. mission to the United Nations described the Russian diplomats as “intelligence operatives” who had been ...

A shipment of terminals from Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink have arrived in Ukraine, according to a top Ukrainian official. Ukrianian vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov shared an image of a truckload of Starlink terminals late Monday, writing, “Starlink ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has mourned his late shoe maker. The VP expressed sadness over the death of Mr Ojima Omale aka OJBest, who had got his attention on Twitter and made shoes for him. OJBest’s death was announced on ...

Students of tertiary institutions under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students on Monday protested in parts of the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, against the ongoing waning strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of ...