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The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of a Brigadier General in an attack by the Islamic State West Africa Province in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday. In a statement signed by the Director, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one Precious Omonkhoa for an alleged $200,000 (about N108 million) bitcoin investment scam. Omonkhoa was arrested on November 8, 2021, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, following credible intelligence received by the ...

  FC Barcelona have confirmed they have reached an agreement to bring Dani Alves back to the club from January onwards. It was recently revealed that Barcelona would be meeting with Alves to discuss a return to the club. He previously ...

The funeral arrangement for the late Nomthi Odukoya, wife of the senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church, has been announced by the church. Sharing an e-flier of the funeral arrangement on its Facebook page on Friday, the church announced ...

Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, over alleged certificate fraud. Solebo held that Igwe should be kept at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre ...

Again, scores of local government pensioners in Ogun State on Thursday shut down the state secretariat in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta while protesting the alleged non-payment of their 10-year outstanding gratuities. The pensioners, under the auspices of Local Government Pensioners’ Association of ...

Meghan Markle’s estranged father says she ‘deceived’ people by claiming she had not giving authorisation to a senior aide to brief the authors of her biography. Thomas Markle slammed his daughter following revelations from her then press secretary Jason Knauf ...

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official told AFP. The blast happened in Spin Ghar district of the eastern province, a hotbed of ...

Just as news has been going round that the Nollywood actor’s marriage is in crisis due to him allegedly cheating on his wife many times, the couple have now released beautiful family photos of themselves. We guess it’s to counter ...

The wife of late Biafra leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu took to social media to celebrate what would have been their 27th wedding anniversary. Sharing a thowback photo from their wedding she wrote; ”Nnam ukwu, Though Sunward you ...

The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing ...

A hit-and-run driver, Itoro Clement has confessed to knocking down the missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem. The driver stated this while being paraded by the police at the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) premises, Guzape, Abuja. He said he knocked ...

  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said the competitiveness which Nigerians display abroad is a result of the good education they acquired before travelling out of the country. This is as he urged Nigerians in Diaspora to ...

A businessman who organised the doomed flight carrying footballer Emiliano Sala has been jailed for 18 months. The Argentine striker and his pilot, David Ibbotson, died after the light aircraft crashed in the English Channel in January 2019. David Henderson, ...

  Pastoralists under the umbrella of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore said they are willing and ready to quit open grazing in line with public suggestions if government would make financial and logistics provision for alternatives grazing for them. The ...

As Nigerians continue to be under burden of high food prices, an October 2021 Food Security and Nutrition Analysis, also called the Cadre Harmonise, Thursday, revealed that 12.1 million Nigerians will be thrown into food crisis before the end of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented a Certificate of Return to Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the winner of Anambra State governorship election. Soludo, the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliace, APGA, was declared winner of the November 6 election ...

Dream Kardashian is living in a Barbie world! On Wednesday, the daughter of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna celebrated her 5th birthday with an epic Barbie-themed party at Kris Jenner’s home. Rob, 34, and Dream’s aunt Khloé Kardashian shared several ...

Almost 4000 prison escapees have not been recaptured, according to interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola. He revealed this Thursday during a media briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Media Team at the State House, Abuja. In 2020 alone, 4,369 inmates escaped ...

More than 200 clients watched on helplessly yesterday as an armed robber shot their fitness trainer in the head and killed him during a live-streamed Zoom training session. Lawrence Masinge was shot dead in a suspected armed robbery in his ...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded Anambra State Governorship Election, Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the outcome of the polls. Uba said this in a statement titled, ‘Senator Andy Uba Rejects the outcome of Anambra ...

Nkechi Mogbo, the owner of the short service apartment used by the murdered Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Michael Ataga, has told the court how he rented her apartment. A 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, ...

The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday said a housewife, identified simply as Suliyat, was arrested for stealing a goat. A statement by the command’s spokesperson, Daniel Adigun, said the suspect left her ...

The Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, Femi Otedola, has celebrated his daughter, Florence, popularly- DJ Cuppy, on her birthday. DJ Cuppy, who is an entrepreneur and artiste, clocked 29 years on Thursday. To celebrate his daughter, the proud ...

Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion, former governor of Edo State, is currently being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over what a source described as alleged criminal diversion of public funds to the tune of N1.6bn. ...