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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu presented N500 million compensation to popular Nollywood actor, Babatunde Omidina, known as Baba Suwe and several others whose properties were demolished in Ikorodu to pave way for ongoing Igbogbo-Igbe Road expansion project. Sanwo-Olu presented the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken delivery of the first ever Nigeria-made cellphone called ITF Mobile.   The product was presented to him by Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, just before commencement of the week’s Federal Executive ...

The Senate on Wednesday referred the name of the Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, to its Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for screening as a National Commissioner of INEC representing Delta State. ...

A 27-year-old hairdresser identified as Hilda Asumani has been arrested by the police at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana for allegedly stabbing her lover to death after being denied grasscutter soup. The deceased, Prince Yaw Aboagye has reportedly been ...

Wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajia Asia El-Rufai has said that Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry and kidnapping, saying that, no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped. The Governor’s wife made the remarks in ...

The universities in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, have failed to make the 1300 tertiary institutions listed in the 2022 QS world university rankings. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global higher education analyst, on Tuesday released the eighteenth edition of the ...

Abductors of Dr Dan Ella, a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Art, University of Jos (UNIJOS), have demanded N10 million to secure his release. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) of the institution, ...

Lecturers under the auspices of Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) have suspended their 65-day old strike.   National Publicity Secretary of ASUP, Abdullahi Yalwa, who announced this, said the union suspended the strike following an appraisal of the report ...

Davido’s alleged new girlfriend, Mya Yafai shared the hot new photos of herself on her Instagram page.  

inspector General of Police Usman Baba Alkali says unhealthy inter-agency rivalry among security forces like the army, the SSS, and the police, among other agencies, is damaging Nigeria’s internal security. According to him, the trend had been of concern to ...

The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that it may conduct another national census in 2022. However, this is subject to the commission completing pre-census activities such as demarcation, administering questionnaire and seeking approval of the President. NPC Federal Commissioner ...

The Bayelsa Livestock Management Committee (BSLMC) has impounded 34 cows in Yenagoa, the state capital for violating the anti-open grazing law. Chairman of BSLMC, Mr David Alagoa, told journalists that the herders chose a convenient time in the night to ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari-led -administration over what it called, “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter. In the ...

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers in Nigeria (AUFCDN) has threatened to resume its strike and cut off food supply nationwide to protest failure of the Federal Government to pay the N4.75 billion compensation agreed with them. The ...

Oxford University students decided to get rid of a portrait of the Queen because she ‘represents recent colonial history’. Graduate members of the Middle Common Room committee at Magdalen College came under fire after reportedly voting overwhelmingly for its removal. ...

A South African woman, has given birth to 10 babies and broken the Guinness World Record on the most children born at the same time.     Gosiame Thamara Sithole, welcomed her 10 babies on Monday, June 7, at a ...

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh is 36 today. And she shared stunning new photos of herself on her Instagram page. Captioning one of the photos, she wrote; ”ON THIS DAY AN EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN WAS BORN FOR GREAT THINGS AND GREATNESS SHE ...

Ex-president Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, has just congratulated Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari for banning the microblogging site, Twitter. In a statement, titled, ‘Statement by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States,’ he said, “Congratulations to ...

Super Eagles captain, Ahmed Musa, threw the armband on the pitch, as they held to a 0-0 draw by Cameroon in Tuesday’s international friendly. The incident happened with 10 minutes left at the Stadion Wiener Neustadt. Gernot Rohr decided to ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has commiserated with the family of the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua better known as T.B Joshua. The Media Assistant to CAN President, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, ...

Davido has reacted to the prophecy of being poisoned and killed by one of his boys who live in his house saying God will expose the person. A Nigerian pastor in a viral video said he saw Davido being poisoned ...

The Kaduna State University (KASU) has suspended academic activities for its undergraduate students indefinitely. KASU Registrar, Samuel Manshop, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement in Kaduna. Mr Manshop, who did not give reasons for the suspension, however, said academic ...

Yoo Sang-chul, one of the stars of South Korea’s surprising run to the 2002 World Cup semi-finals, has died after long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 49.   Yoo played 124 times for South Korea from 1994 to 2005, ...

Singers Tiwa Savage and Seyi Shay, have been involved in a fight in a salon in Lagos. The duo were seen being pulled apart from getting physical at the salon as they threw altercations at each other. Seyi Shay had ...

  Maduabuchi Owuamanam’s wife has narrated how she tried to save her husband’s life by rushing him to three different hospitals after she was contacted to visit the scene. It was reported that an Igbo businessman and CEO of Blessed ...