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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN today, hosted students from the Northeast Children’s Learning Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State at the State House, Abuja.  

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday, visited the Obasanjo Market, at Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, with a promise to assist in having better structure and government backing. The visit at the Day Old chicks market recorded a massive turnouts of ...

Major General Farouk Yahaya has been appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the new Chief of Army Staff. Yahaya succeeds Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died last Friday in an Air Force plane crash. Yahaya’ s appointment was announced today ...

Mali’s interim president and premier have been released, a military official said on Thursday, three days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to be the country’s second coup in nine months. “The interim president ...

Remi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos central, was involved in an altercation with some Nigerians who attended the south-west zonal public hearing of the constitution review on Wednesday. The event held at Marriott Hotel in Lagos, with residents queuing to register ...

Seyi Olofinjana, former Super Eagles midfielder, has been named the new technical director of Grasshopper Club Zurich, a football team in Switzerland. The deal was announced in a statement released by the club on Wednesday. The 40-year-old will take over ...

  The Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil has arrested 17 students and recommended them for disciplinary action for harassing their female colleagues over their dressing. The institution said following verbal assaults on female students by a gang of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that growing insecurity and other social vices were seriously affecting the national development of his dream but assured that everything possible would be done to end the ugly development. President Buihari who disclosed this ...

  Socialite, PrettyMike, has shared the story of how a lady he met about eight years ago forced a pregnancy he wasn’t responsible for, on him.   According to PrettyMike, two years after the child was born, he decided to go for a ...

  Accountant-General of the federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris has backtracked after President Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie countered his claim of £4.2m Ibori loot being returned to the Delta state Government.   On Wednesday May 26, barely 24 hours after the Accountant-General said ...

  Residents of southern and northern parts of Kaduna State, yesterday, agreed to split, if it is the only thing that can guarantee peace. Speaking during the presentation and defense of their memos at the Senate ad-hoc Committee and the ...

DJ Cuppy is celebrating her billionaire father, Femi Otedola for all the privileges she enjoys from him. According to the music producer, though she built her own ‘Cuppy Empire’, she has enjoyed many privileges that are purely due to her ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said two lovers have been arrested for impersonating its Executive Chairman, Mr Muhammad Nami, to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS, disclosed this in a statement issued ...

  At least five reserve players from the blues team are expected to leave the team this summer Chelsea intend to sell several reserve players this summer to free up cash to sign striker Romelu Lukaku from Inter, writes the Sunday ...

Hollywood star, Brad Pitt, has been granted joint custody of his children with his estranged wife, Angelina Jolie following a lengthy court battle, Page Six reports. The 57-year-old Oscar winner has been fighting Jolie, 46, through the courts for nearly ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested nine suspected members of Eiye cult group in Ajegunle area of Ibogun during a supremacy battle with members of Alora confraternity. The Command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement said the ...

The body of a Nigerian Peter Ofor, was found floating in a canal of Kalkere Lake in the Indian city of Bangalore on Wednesday. Ofor, from Imo state, was declared missing on Tuesday by his friends, after he left home ...

Zinedine Zidane has decided to step down as Real Madrid coach with immediate effect, Spanish media reported on Wednesday. AS newspaper reported that the Frenchman has called time on his second spell in charge of the La Liga club, who ...

  Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why the president refused to attend the burial of late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. The president’s absence from the burial of the ...

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has declared 156 persons missing in the boat mishap which occurred in Kebi State on Wednesday. Mr Yusuf Birma, NIWA area manager in Yauri Kebbi State, disclosed this, adding that the accident was caused ...

Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane have tendered their resignation. Agence France-Presse reported this citing military and diplomatic sources. Late on Monday, a source told Sputnik that Malian military arrested the interim president and the prime ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has approved that the employment of two security guards for every primary and secondary school in the state. Mr Abiodun stated this during the 7th Quadrennial (15th) State Delegates’ Conference of the Nigeria Union of ...

The country’s dream to launch Made-in-Nigeria helicopter before the end of this year is gradually coming to fulfillment as the project has entered an assessment stage by the aviation authorities. This is as the officers from the Ministry of Aviation ...

Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday announced plans to let users stop displaying “like” tallies racked up by posts, letting people opt out of seeking status through the approval of others. The two platforms will let users shun ‘like’ counts completely ...

There’s an outcry on social media since a lady — @Julisco_ shared a story of how a man entered Owerri for the burial of his father in-law scheduled to hold this Friday, May 28th but was allegedly arrested by Imo ...