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Angry protests, technological glitches and a plummet in value marked the first day of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. The price of Bitcoin on Tuesday crashed to its lowest in nearly a month, falling from $52,000 (£37,730) to ...

Veteran actor, Richard Mofe Damijo aka RMD has told his colleague, Sola Sobowale that he will make sure he kisses her before quitting Nollywood. He says for over three decades that they have portrayed the roles of married couples, he ...

Anxiety is mounting in Magboro Community of Ogun over a suspected Cholera outbreak, with about 10 people already feared dead. The suspected outbreak was first reported on Friday, when a resident of the community living in an uncompleted building died. ...

At least 17 patients have been killed after heavy rainfall caused flooding at a hospital in Mexico’s central Hidalgo state, officials say. They say a river burst its banks and water then cut the power supply at the hospital in ...

Barrister I. Awo, the counsel for the Department of State Service, DSS, has told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that the case file containing the fundamental human rights enforcement application filed by aides to the embattled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, marked their 54th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. Their last child, Leke Adeboye, took to his verified Instagram page to announce the ...

An assistant director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Mr Christopher Orji, has reportedly committed suicide in Abuja. Orji’s lifeless body was reportedly found dangling with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at his residence at Federal Housing ...

  Inibehe Effiong, the lawyer representing the family of late Kubiat Isaac Akpan, the prospective National Youths Service Corps member who died in Police cell in Akwa Ibom State, said that autopsy report revealed that the deceased was tortured to ...

25-year-old housewife, identified as Mrs Lubabatu Ibrahim on Tuesday appeared before a Sharia Court seeking a divorce with her husband, Habibu Ibrahim over some challenges she could no longer cope with. Lubabatu, who resides in Rigasa area of Kaduna said, ...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has called on service chiefs to find methods to deal with the country’s security challenges. This directive was issued on Tuesday by President Buhari after meeting with the service chiefs at the presidential villa, Abuja. Usman Alkali ...

A Uber driver, Anthony Okafor, has died while conveying a passenger, said to be a reverend sister, to a destination in Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Okafor picked the woman from the Ikeja airport and started coughing and gasping ...

A 64-year-old man, Ayotunde Taiwo, is currently cooling his heels in police cell for allegedly defiling a two-year-old girl at Agbado area of Ogun State. Confirming the incident to newsmen on Tuesday, the state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the ...

The apex Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on Imo State citizens to ignore the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’a visit on Thursday, September 9. Rcall that IPOB had ...

Former presidential media aide and social media commentator, Reno Omokri has called on Imo indigenes, not to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state on Thursday. According to him, any Igbo who turns up to welcome Buhari to Imo State ...

A woman has demanded compensation from health authorities in northern Spain after discovering she was mistakenly swapped at birth with another baby 19 years ago, local reports say. The woman was mixed up with a baby who was born on ...

A woman with thick body hair says she is mocked for “looking like a man” but has now embraced her tufts and even lets others stroke her beard. Bethany Burgoyne, 30, an artist from Essex, UK, has been growing out ...

Annie gets under Tuface’s first instagram post after their marital crisis became public Annie Idibia went under her husband’s first instagram post today commenting on a post he made to promote his new song. Recall Annie had calle dhim out, ...

It was a great joy in Onitsha, Anambra State as a Deeper Life Bible Church woman, Ruth Nnanwuno Nzejiofor gave birth to a set of triplets. The Nzejiofor had been married for 15 years and have been waiting for the ...

Nollywood couples, Mide Martins and Afeez- Owo Abiodun are celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary today. They both took to their respective Instagram pages to celebrate their special day. Mide wrote; ”17YEARS & STILL COUNTING…. Happy 17th Wedding Anniversary To Us ...

A medical doctor has called out his collegue and friend of many years for allegedly snatching his legal wife. The doctor, Anthony Chijioke took to Facebook to claim that his collegue and friend, Dr. George Davidson Ozuzu snatched his wife ...

  A couple of florists ditched tradition on their wedding day to “prioritise fun” – snubbing rings, flowers and even a wedding cake. Instead, John Voyle, 61, and Richard Allison, 48, gave their guests a round of drag queen bingo ...

Head of Administration of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Mohammed Sani Soba, is dead.   He collapsed in his office and died.   A statement by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, explained that the chieftain, who suddenly died ...

The Abia State University, Uturu, has been thrown into mourning following the death of three lecturers at the school on the same day. A university source said the lecturers, Prof. A. I. Nwabughuogu of History/International Relations Department, Dr D. S. ...

Bandits have abducted a former Zonal Director of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ahmed Abdulkadir, his daughters and three others in an attack on Monday night in Bakori, Katsina State. A colleague of the ace broadcaster, who asked not to ...

Six minor girls in central India were stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rains. The incident took place in a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state. Videos that went viral ...