40-ft container of Tramadol intercepted in Lagos
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 40-ft container loaded with Tramadol and other banned medicines at Brawal Terminal in Lagos.This...
African Union suspends Mali over military coup
The African Union (AU) has suspended Mali a day after its leaders were detained by mutineering soldiers and the president forced out.The AU’s 15-member...
Ekiti lady colludes with friend, fakes kidnap to extort money from...
The Police in Ekiti State have arrested a lady, Mary Idris, for allegedly faking her own kidnap on August 9, 2020, with a view...
Media personality, Dolapo Oni welcomes baby no 2
Media personality, Dolapo Oni and her hubby Prince Adegbite Sijuade. son of late Ooni of Ife, have welcomed another bundle of joy -- a...
Buhari’s nephew, Daura, reportedly flown abroad for treatment
Mamman Daura, a nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been flown to the United Kingdom for urgent medical treatment over an...
3 teenagers gang r*pe, drown girl, 13, in pond in Katsina
The police in Katsina State have arrested three teenage boys in Danmusa Local Government Area for allegedly gang-r*ping and drowning a 13-year-old girl to...
Bakare, Adeyemi, others who refuse to open churches are not believers...
Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has lashed out at churches that refused to open for worship in Lagos State, describing them as fake.Founder,...
Nigeria records 593 new cases of COVID-19, total now 50,488
Nigeria’s Covid-19 caseload surpassed 50,000 mark on Wednesday as the nation recorded 593 new cases.The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, put the nation’s...
Bayern thrash Lyon 3-0 to set up final clash with PSG
Bayern Munich have thrashed Lyon 3-0 to set up a mouth-watering final clash with Paris Saint-Germain.Bayern, favourites to win this year’s Champions League tore...
Bobrisky boasts of being the most talked about in Nigeria as...
Bobrisky has thanked his 2.9m followers on Instagram and boasted about being the most talked about male/female in Nigeria... well he thinks in the...
Singer is hit by train and killed while live-streaming himself listening...
A singer was hit by a train and killed while live-streaming himself listening to loud music in his car on a Romanian railway crossing.Footage...
My friends warned me before coming to BBNaija – Tolanibaj
Big Brother Naija housemate, Tolani “Tolanibaj” Shobajo, has said she was warned by her friends against engaging in s.e.xual intercourse throughout her stay on...
Kogi repatriates 78 beggars to 5 Northern states
As part of the efforts to rid the streets of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital of beggars, the state government has repatriated no fewer...
Girls make your own money it will save you from unnecessary...
Naira Marley has taking to Instagram to warn girls, especially those who follow him on twitter to try and make their OWN money as...
BBNaija 2020: Kiddwaya apologises to fellow housemates after his comments that...
BBNaija housemate, Kiddwaya has rendered an unqualified apology to his fellow housemates over his comments that he is richer than all of them.In a...
Covid-19: Osun reopens hotels, relaxation centres, others
After five months, the Osun State Government has announced the reopening of hotels and other categories of relaxation centres across the state.The state government...
Lagos Magistrate, Justice Bimbola Komolafe dies at 51
A senior Chief Magistrate in the Lagos State Judiciary Abimbola Aoko-Komolafe has died at the age of 51.Details of her death are still unclear...
WASSCE: 7 more Gombe students test positive for Covid-19
Gombe State Commissioner for Education, Dr Habu Dahiru has said seven students of Government Girls Secondary School Doma, tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the...
Operatives rearrest another escaped prisoner in Plateau
Security operatives deployed in Plateau State have rearrested a young man, Adam Yusuf, who escaped from the Jos Correctional Centre in the state capital.The...
NSCDC arrest 5 suspected cultists with human skull
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River has arrested five suspected cultists in the state with a human skull including...
150 invited guests find wedding venue empty as their contributions go...
At least 150 guests invited to the wedding of an employee of Kahama Water Authority in Shinyanga Region, Tanzania were last Sunday, August 16...
Apple becomes 1st US company to hit $2trn in market value
Apple on Wednesday became the first US company to reach $2 trillion in market value in the latest demonstration of how tech giants have...
#SchoolReopening: Students protest in Abuja over continued closure of varsities, polytechnics
Students in universities across the country protested in Abuja, Wednesday, over the continued closure of schools arising from the outbreak of coronavirus.The protesting student...
Workers rescued after 47 hours in collapsed railway tunnel
Four workers have been rescued after being trapped for 47 hours after a collapse at a railway tunnel construction site, office of the Pu’er...
Nigerian embassy in Canada closes to the public over unruly behaviour...
Nigeria’s High Commission in Ottawa, Canada has shut its doors to the public and suspended consular services until further notice.In a statement on its...
Prophet Ogunmefun docked for r.a.p.ing girl sent for ‘evil cleansing’
A 57-year-old pastor, known as Prophet Ebenezer Ogunmefun, has been charged with one count of s.e.x.ual abuse of a 15-year-old girl.Ogunmefun was arraigned by...
2023: Gov Fayemi’s presidential campaign posters flood social media
Presidential campaign posters of the Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, have flooded social media with the 2023 presidential election only three years away.The...
Fire razes building in Ooni of Ife’s palace
A fire has gutted a building in the palace of Ooni of Ife, in Osun State.According to a source in the Palace, the fire...
Kano woman slaughters 5-year old son like Eid-el-Kabir ram
A 27-year-old woman living in Kano, Saratu Ya’u, who slaughtered her five year-old son, like an Eid-el-Kabir ram, has been sent by a Kano...
Veteran actress, Iya Osogbo reveals why she stopped acting
Veteran Yoruba actress Grace Oyin-Adejobi popularly known as Iya Osogbo has disclosed why she gave up on appearing on screen again as she clocks...
Life after coronavirus: Thousands flock to Wuhan pool party
Thousands of people packed shoulder-to-shoulder with no face masks in sight, frolicking on rubber floats and cheering along to a music festival.It's not a...
Popular Ghanaian singer, Efya reveals why she may not get married
Popular Ghanaian singer, Efya has disclosed that she is not considering getting married anytime soon.Speaking in an interview with Adom Tv’s Abena Abrafi Agyemang,...
Barcelona officially appoint Ronald Koeman as new manager
Barcelona, on Wednesday morning officially appointed Ronald Koeman as the club’s new manager.Barcelona made this known in a statement via the club’s official website.Koeman...
U.S 2020: Ex-Secretary of State Powell dumps Trump, endorses Biden
Democratic candidate, Joe Biden received a major support Tuesday night as Collin Powell called on Americans to massively vote for him.Biden has been officially...
BBNaija 2020: My net-worth, bank account BIGGER than all housemates...
Big Brother Naija, BBNaija 2020 housemate, Kiddwaya has said he cannot be compared with any housemate in the reality TV show.Kiddwaya, who is the...
Gunmen abduct ex-commissioner’s children, NSCDC personnel in Zamfara
Gunmen have abducted two sons of a former commissioner in Zamfara, Alhaji Bello Dankande, and two others, including a personnel of the Nigeria Security...
Nigerian oil mogul jailed in UK
A Nigerian oil mogul and the Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment...
Diri files 12 grounds of appeal to reverse sack by tribunal
Governor Duoye Diri of Bayelsa State, on Tuesday, lodged 12 grounds of appeal before the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the tribunal...
Faces of Mali’s alleged coup leaders [photos]
Tuesday’s military coup in Mali that supplanted the government of President Boubacar Keita was led by two colonels: Sadio Camara and Malick Diaw.According a...
BBNaija 2020: You are cold, hostile towards me – Erica cries...
BBNaija 2020 housemate, Erica, on Tuesday, decried fellow housemate, Laycon’s attitude towards her.Erica lamented that Laycon was cold and hostile towards her.She made this...
Rescued Yobe monarch narrates experience in hands of abductors
Alhaji Isah Mai Buba, the District Head of Mashio in Fune Local Government Area of Yobe State, who was abducted by unknown gunmen last...
Teacher jailed 28 months for stealing N28,000 in Jos
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old teacher, Thomas Joshua, to 28 months imprisonment for stealing...
Governor Oyetola pardons 962 demoted Osun civil servants
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been commended for pardoning 962 workers who were demoted for committing administrative infractions.Some of the workers had...
Covid-19: 18 Nurses, 7 support staff test positive at UITH
Chairman, University of Ilorin Teaching hospital,(UITH) chapter of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Comrade Olatunde Olawunmi Tuesday said that no fewer than 18 nurses...
Lawyer sues Lai, FG, NBC for hiking hate speech fine
Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has sued the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; the Federal Government and the National Broadcasting Commission for...
ASUU gives condition for resumption of talks with FG
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to pay the withheld salaries of its members to pave way...
Lawyer detained for five months by DSS gets N2m bail
A lawyer, Emperor Ogbonna, who has been detained by the Department of State Service for about five months, was granted bail by the Federal...
6.8 magnitude quake strikes off western Indonesia
An earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitudes rocked Indonesia’s western Bengkulu province on Wednesday.However, no damages or casualty was reported, a disaster agency official said.The quake...
President Keita resigns, parliament dissolved in Mali coup d’etat
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned. He announced this in a televised address on Tuesday, as the coup in Mali unravelled.He also dissolved the...