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Malta is offering to pay holidaymakers up to £173 each this summer to encourage tourists to return. Popular holiday destinations have struggled during the pandemic due to travel restrictions resulting in closed borders and bans on trips abroad. Malta, which ...

Neymar was left red-faced after being caught watching an illegal stream with X-rated images of women popping up in the corner. The Brazilian ace wasn’t involved in Paris Saint-Germain’s 4-1 win against Strasbourg on Sunday due to suspension and decided ...

                Nollywood actress, Mide Funmi Martins is a year older today and she decided to delight her fans with a blue outfit. The mom of two dazzled in a blue number showcasing her ...

Four teenage girls are accused of setting fire to an unoccupied Pennsylvania house and posting footage of the inferno to Snapchat. Police used the social media post to identify and later arrest the teen suspects, ranging in age from 12 ...

A human right lawyer, Aishat Temin, has condemned the act of a cleric who allegedly beat a student to coma for stealing money from a local safe (piggy bank). The police had arrested the cleric identified as Moshood Alabi, who ...

A disgruntled former Walmart employee in North Carolina is accused of crashing into his old workplace and driving through the aisles, a report has said. Lacy Gentry, 32, who was fired in February, allegedly rammed into a Walmart store in ...

The family of the late activist and Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, today announced the order of his funeral rites. A terse statement by his widow, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, today said the rites would span three days – starting from Thursday, ...

The Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria has called on the federal and Oyo state governments to ensure the return of the displaced Sarikin Fulani Igangan, Alhaji Salihu AbdulKadir, to Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, lamented the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, presumably won by late philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, blaming the annulment on ‘bad belle’, adding that ‘bad blood’ denied Abiola the top seat. Obasanjo said ...

The Minister of Com­munications and Digital Economy, Alhaji Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Sheikh Pantami, has reportedly been placed on the US watch list over a possible link with Al-Qaeda. Ibrahim, also the Dep­uty Secretary General of the Supreme ...

Heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua has vowed to defeat WBC heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury in July’s unification bout, saying there is no hiding place for Fury. Joshua disclosed early Monday morning that the 258MGT and Match Room Boxing have received the ...

Kwara Government has announced that the 10 colleges involved in a recent hijab controversy should resume for the third term session on Monday, 12 April. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Kemi Adeosun, said on Sunday, said ...

The Federal Government confirmed on Sunday that the Ebute Meta train station, the most iconic on the Lagos-Ibadan train service will be named after the first Lagos state governor, Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson. Johnson, who was military governor of Lagos between ...

South African rapper, AKA’s fiance, Nellie Tembe fell to her death on Sunday at the Pepper Club Hotel in Cape Town. The rapper whose real name is Kiernan Forbes and Nellie got engaged in February 2021. A statement from the ...

The General Overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministry, Archbishop Samson Benjamin protested against the Buhari administration on Sunday in Lagos. Benjamin, popularly known as Jehovah Sharp Sharp, carried a coffin as he marched through the streets of Festac. The Bishop claimed ...

The Police Command in Osun says a suspected ritualist has killed and cut off the head and hands of a female food vendor in Ile-Ife on Saturday. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, who said this in a statement on ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, the chief campaigner for Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello as Nigeria’s president in 2023, used the scathing words ‘an idiot and accursed slave” for Bello. Bello had said in an interview that if President Buhari asked him to jump ...

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects for the alleged killing of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64, in the Arida area of Ikotun. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Sunday ...

Music producer, Solomon Oyeniyi, aka KSolo, has lambasted singer, Seyi Shay, for harsh comments to a young singer at this year’s audition of the television reality show, Nigerian Idol. Seyi Shay had told the singer, “Somebody lied to you and ...

The federal government has destroyed over 329,000 birds across 62 farms following the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) which has continued to wreak havoc on farms across the country since the first reported case on January 29. From ...

The dreams of Hammed Omotosho, a secondary school leaver in Agbado, Ogun State, sadly ended after he was electrocuted while fixing the electricity of a building disconnected in the neighbourhood. The 24-year-old, who was a cobbler and a member of ...

With over five years of nurturing, teaching and creating platforms for aspiring DJs in Nigeria, founder of Kaywise Academy, Ayorinde Okiki, popularly known as DJ Kaywise has said the success recorded by the academy over the years has reassured him ...

The Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, axis particularly areas along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway close to the Iyana-Iba market the Okokomaiko (PPL) area, and the university’s gate on the LASU-Igando road, are now a hotbed of violent crimes. Clutching dangerous weapons ...

Dare-devil armed robbers on Sunday killed two security guard in Akure, the Ondo State following an attack on a popular filling station. The deceased security guards attached to the filling station, A A Rano, located on Ondo road within the ...

There was jubilation on Sunday when the Senior Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Ogundipe, who was granted post-conviction bail, returned to the church. Members burst into shouts and songs of appreciation when he entered ...