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The family of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has announced the burial activities of their late patriarch, Dr. Emmanuel Adesanya Abiodun, which will hold between September 6 and 9, 2021 in Iperu-Remo. The family, in a statement issued on ...

The Lagos State commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu has ordered a 24-hour stop-and-search operation and vehicular patrol in the Lekki-Ajah axis of the state. CP Odumosu’s order follows the report that armed robbers disguise as beggars to harm innocent citizens ...

A number of stowaways appear to have fallen to a horrific death from an aircraft evacuating Kabul. Footage showed countless people jumping aboard the outside of a US Air Force plane seemingly trying to take off from a runway in ...

Below is the video and photos from the wedding ceremony of a man who married two women over the weekend in Delta State, Nigeria. Remember their wedding invite had gone viral? Well now see video and photos…     

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has urged the Taliban, who seized Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, to preserve lives, property and security as stipulated by “Islamic principles.” The kingdom said on Monday it stands with the choices that the Afghan people make ...

Following the loss of three of the institution’s professors to the rampaging coronavirus pandemic within days, authorities at the University of Ibadan (UI) have announced the adoption of a blended mode of teaching on the campus for the rest of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 into law. In statement issued by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari assented to the bill on Monday in his determination to fulfill his constitutional duty. The passage of the ...

Russia’s embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the ...

The United Apostolic Church of Christ (UACC) Worldwide has rejected same-sex marriage, saying it is un-African. UACC’s General Overseer, James Bayo-Owoyemi, described same-sex marriage as satanic and inhuman. He added saying any Western culture creeping into Africa should be subjected ...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it has arrested one Emmanuel Stephen for allegedly trafficking his 21-year-old girlfriend to Mali for prostitution. The agency’s Public Relations Officer, Vincent Adekoya, confirmed the arrest in a statement ...

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, alarmed by the rapid spread of violence killing dozens of people, has held a closed-door meeting with security heads and religious leaders. The meeting followed the attack on commuters along Rukuba Road in Jos North ...

At least 28 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early on Sunday, the health ministry said. Military and security sources said that the army had seized a fuel storage tank hidden by ...

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has once again solicited for support from the United States and other countries in the fight against insurgency within the country’s border. In an opinion piece published on Financial Times, Mr Buhari recognised the expanding grip ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has nabbed Nigerian medical doctor, Patrick Nwaokwu, for his involvement in multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud. Mr Nwaokwu, 50, was arrested on July 9, barely 24 hours after the U.S. issued a warrant of arrest on ...

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr Adedayo Omolafe is dead. Omolafe, popularly called “Expensive” died in Akure, the capital city of Ondo state in early hours of Monday, ...

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A prominent Afghan filmmaker recorded her dramatic flight from Kabul as Taliban forces moved in on Sunday — and begged for help on social media, saying the militants were “coming to kill us.” “The Taliban entered Kabul, unfortunately, and we ...

The death toll from Saturday’s earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 on Sunday — as the struggling nation prepared to get hammered yet again by Mother Nature with Tropical Storm Grace. The country, still also reeling from the ...

Gunfire could be heard at Kabul International Airport on Monday morning as Afghan citizens flooded the tarmac, some clinging to the jet bridge of a plane, as they desperately tried to flee the country. The chaos followed a disastrous day ...

  Ikorodu Bois have just graduated from basic school and they are thanking billionaire Femi Otedola and his daughter DJ Cuppy, who runs a foundation for making them have a basic education. They took to their official instagram page to ...

Veteran Nollywood actress Doris Chima is dead. She died after a long battle with breast cancer. She was diagnosed with the ailment in 2020 and her breast was cut off to prevent further damage. The chairman of the Actors Guild ...

President Biden plans to send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul Sunday, according to reports. The move to return thousands of American troops to the country brings the total number of US forces there ...

This is the moment Pretty Mike arrived at Sandra Iheuwa’s wedding with a herbalist! This got many Nigerians shocked, but not totally because Pretty Mike never attends a wedding without a drama – mostly WEIRD. Posting the photos of his ...

The Taliban took control of the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday, brazenly posing for pictures inside vacated Afghan government offices and meeting rooms. The images show heavily armed fighters from the extremist Islamic group standing around one Taliban leader ...

  Doctors were left baffled and down-right flabbergasted when they discovered a ladybird in the intestines of a patient in the US. The 59-year-old man attended hospital for a colonoscopy in which a small camera is inserted in the rectum ...