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Governor Kayode Fayemi has suspended the College of Health Sciences and Technology provost Cecilia Adebayo over 100 students who took ill following firefighters’ fumigation of the school. The suspension was announced in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by Yinka Oyebode, ...

A US-based Nigerian, Eyinaya Ogbonna, who came to build a gas station in Abia State, Nigeria has been killed by a member of vigilante group in the state. The Rivers State Police Command has arrested and paraded Okorie Chukwuma for ...

Usher has another baby on the way! The R&B crooner and girlfriend Jenn Goicoechea are expecting their second child together. Usher’s rep confirmed the pregnancy to ET. Additionally, the couple shared the announcement at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards on ...

Kanye West has been seen for the first time in months amid rumours he’s dating model Irina Shayk. The rapper, 43, has remained largely under the radar since it was confirmed in February that he and Kim Kardashian, 40, were ...

  A woman is fighting for her life after she was beaten, gang r*ped and left hanging n*ked from an electricity pole in India, it has been reported. The victim was left for dead after she was ambushed by a ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspected internet frauster who allegedly tried to buy a Range Rover worth N44million with Bitcoin The suspect identified as Tobiloba Aramide Ogundiyan is accused by the EFCC’s Advance Fee ...

  A Nigerian man identified as Anthony Oregon has died after he was bitten by a poisonous snake friends claimed was sent by someone. According to Shadrack Okpomhe on Facebook, someone called the deceased to inform him that pigs were feeding ...

Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs has thrown some fuel onto the blazing Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck ‘romance reunion’ fire. The rapper, 51, appeared to make a dig at the twosome by sharing a snap from his time dating the Jenny ...

  The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) on Friday said 37 of its inmates were admitted and matriculated into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). A statement by the Public Relations Officer of NCoS, Mr Francis Enobore on Friday in ...

  Haraja Usman Baba, the president of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) and wife of the Inspector-General of Police, says she will remove beer parlours from police barracks, threatening to evict errant officers. “We are going to send signals ...

Facebook has lifted a ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made, following a resurgence of interest in the “lab leak” theory of the disease’s onset. The social network says its new policy comes “in light of ongoing investigations into the ...

  Nike said it ended its partnership with Neymar after he refused to cooperate with an investigation into sexual assault allegations against him. The company cut the star’s endorsement deal short with eight years remaining last summer without public explanation ...

Zamfara Government has said that repentant bandits have surrendered 203 sophisticated firearm, under the state government peace accord. The Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Garba Dauran, made this known to newsmen in Gusau. Dauran also said that 2,566 ...

The Nigerian Naira has suffered two consecutive days of melt down in the unofficial market as it tumbles by about N17 for each dollar. The market had some semblance of stability for weeks, selling and buying at between N480-485. But ...

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Thursday said Nigeria is on the verge of collapse as the 2023 general election is threatened in view of series of attacks on INEC offices. Falana spoke at the final sitting of the ...

The World Bank has approved a $700 million loan for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH). In a statement released yesterday, the bank said the credit will provide six million people with basic ...

Andrea Pirlo has been fired as manager of Juventus on Friday. Juventus made the announcement in a statement via their Twitter handle on Friday morning. Pirlo took charge of Juventus last year, replacing Maurizio Sarri. Juventus are now expected to ...

  Burna Boy and Wizkid have been nominated for the Best International Act at the BET Award Show for 2021. Burna Boy won the category in the last two years and Wizkid won it in 2012, when the category had ...

  Rita Daniels who is the mother of Regina Daniels, was not in the mood for trolling as she hurled curses at a fan who insulted her on Instagram. Many celebrities have to face online abuses from trolls on social ...

  The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the licence of Ahmad Isah’s Human Rights Radio for “recurring unprofessional conduct”. NBC issued a statement today, after meeting with the owner, Ahmed Isah, who host the Berekete Family Show on the ...

A band of Bororo herders with thousands of cows from Iseyin, in Oyo state, who tried to enter Ojoku-Ikotun axis of Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara state, have been chased out of the communities. They were chased out on ...

A Chinese national, Marra Thai and an aide of Gov. Abdullahi Sule were among the 15 people arrested for theft of rail tracks and rail sleepers in Nasarawa state. Governor Sule’s aide was identified as Yusuf Abubakar Musa, the adviser ...

Mr Jacob Oyedepo, the father of the late airman, Matthew Oyedepo, has said his son’s death will not make him stop the siblings of the deceased from joining the Army. Matthew died in the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 that crash landed ...

Private and missionary schools have shut down in Imo State as a result of the sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra on Monday, May 31, 2021, throughout the South-East region. Residents of Owerri also resorted to panic buying ...

  Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to flog former Governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu for calling him a dictator. Aliyu during an interview last week, said a certain “dictator in Rivers State” was behind the travails of ...