EFCC orders banks to probe income sources of customers

  Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has directed banks to investigate sources of income of their customers before account opening. He gave the order yesterday when the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks ...

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Nigerian parents are the toughest – Rapper Wale

Nigerian-born American rapper, Wale, has talked about how Nigerians parents are the toughest while sharing his own personal experience. Wale spoke about how his parents asked him to get a job just one week after he signed with his record ...

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Tawa Ajisefini celebrates her husband as he becomes an American citizen

Tawa Ajisefini is celebrating her husband on becoming an American citizen. The actress shared the good news on her Instagram page writing; ”Congratulations on your U.S.A. citizenship my beloved husband You put a lot of time,energy ,and heart into achieving this ...

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Serena Williams pulls out of U.S. Open due to torn hamstring

Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week’s U.S. Open after the American said on Wednesday that her torn hamstring had not completely healed ahead of the final Grand Slam of the year. Williams, a six-times winner at Flushing Meadows, has ...

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Real Madrid make €160m bid for Mbappe as PSG forward turns down six contract renewal offers

  Real Madrid have submitted a €160 million (£137m/$188m) opening offer to sign Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain. The Spanish giants are optimistic about getting a deal done before the transfer window closes next week, as they feel Mbappe will ...

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Doctors’ recruitment for Saudi Arabia records large turnout in Abuja

Nigerian doctors in their hundreds, on Tuesday, stormed the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, as a consultancy firm, Meeds Consultancy, commenced interviews for those willing to work in Saudi Arabia. The firm organised the interview on behalf ...

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Travis Scott gifts daughter Stormi a yellow school bus

Popular American rapper, Travis Scott, gave his three-year-old daughter, Stormi, a big surprise after getting her a school bus. Kylie Jenner took to social media to document Stormi’s school bus adventure, and explained why the 30-year-old rapper surprised their daughter ...

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Basketmouth opens up on ‘rift with Ay

Popular Nigerian Comedian, Basketmouth has opened up on rift with Ayo Makun, AKA AY. Basketmouth in a Black Box interview with media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, said he fell out with AY because the comedian messed with loyalty. He further explained ...

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Attack on defence academy a national embarrassment – ACF

The pan-Northern socio-political organizstion, Arewa Consultative Forum expressed shock over bandits’ raid on the Nigerian Defence Academy where two officers were killed and one other kidnapped on Tuesday. The ACF lamented that the incident was a slap and embarrassment to ...

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Woman banned from zoo after 4-year ‘affair’ with chimpanzee

A Belgian zoo banned a local woman from visiting the park’s chimpanzee exhibit due to her “affair” with one of the primates. A chimpanzee named Chita arrived at the Antwerp Zoo 30 years ago. Over the past four years, Adie ...

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Delta community buries wedding party victims of ghastly auto crash

Bomadi, in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, mourns as seven women from the community, who died in a ghastly auto crash last Saturday while returning from a relative’s wedding ceremony, are billed for burial on Wednesday [today]. A ...

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Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda

A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge, government and diplomatic officials said. “The Government of the Republic of Uganda this morning received ...

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More beautiful photos of actress Funke Akindele Bello

More beautiful photos of actress Funke Akindele Bello   The actress shared the new photos on her Instagram page to the delight of her fans as she turned 44 yesterday.      

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Donald Trump slams Joe Biden for ‘evacuating thousands of terrorists’ from Afghanistan

  Former President Donald Trump continued criticizing his successor Joe Biden on his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal by claiming that terrorists are being evacuated from the airport in Kabul. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans will be left behind, Trump predicted. ...

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Nigeria records 655 new cases of COVID-19

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the nation’s total COVID-19 infections had Jumped to 188,243, across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, as of Aug. 24, 2021. These were the reported cases since the ...

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Afghanistan women’s national football team are successfully evacuated from Kabul

  Players from the Afghanistan women’s national football team had an ‘important victory’ on Tuesday when they were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated on a flight from Kabul. Global football players’ union FIFPRO thanked the Australian ...

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25-year-old man kills his 60-year-old mother over land in Kenya

  Police in Kericho, Kenya have arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly stabbing to death his 60-year-old mother. His mother had allegedly stopped him from leasing out a portion of family land. According to area residents, the suspect is known ...

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Toyin Lawani’s maternity photoshoot with her son sparks outrage

  Serial entrepreneur, Toyin Lawani has caused a stir on social media after she shared raunchy maternity photos with her son, Lordmaine. Toyin who is expecting her third child with husband, Segun Wealth. She shared hot maternity photos on her ...

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BBNaija: How I came out of depression after losing my wife in 2017 – Boma

BBNaija ‘Shine Ya Eye’ housemate, Boma, revealed that he fell into depression after his marriage crashed in 2017. According to him, he lost everything that year including his career which made him depressed. However, he was able to come out ...

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Heartbreaking moment Afghan flag flown at Paralympics with no athletes behind it

  This is the heartbreaking moment the Afghanistan flag was paraded around the Paralympics opening ceremony despite none of their athletes making it to the games. A volunteer stepped in to honour the country in ‘solidarity’ as the humanitarian crisis ...

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Wizkid’s ‘Made in Lagos’ tops Billboard world album chart

Award-winning Nigerian singer, Wizkid’s fourth studio album, Made In Lagos, has clinched the No. 1 spot on the Billboard world album chart. The feat is coming ten months after the album was released under Starboy Entertainment and RCA Records. The ...

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Truck kills Abia final-year student on motorcycle

  A final-year student of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Blessing Kalu, has been killed by a truck in Umudike Oboro in the Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. A source said Kalu, who was from Nkporo, in ...

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