Manchester City will provide a test of seeing how genuine Everton’s revival is, Carlo Ancelotti on Tuesday, despite the Premier League champions’ shaky campaign. Everton coach Ancelotti, 60, has guided Everton to two wins in his first two matches in…
Zamfara hisbah commission says it arrested a police officer and three women allegedly engaged in immorality at a hotel in Gusau, the state capital. Atiku Zawuyya, chairman of the commission, spoke while parading the suspects at the commission’s head…
Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau State High Court on Tuesday told the former Governor of the state, Jonah Jang, that he has a case to answer in an alleged N6.3bn fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. J…
Mr Kayode Opeifa, the Executive Vice Chairman, Presidential Task Team on Apapa Restoration of Law and Order, says his team has delivered its mandate to bring sanity to Apapa axis of Lagos by ensuring easier access in and out of the area. Opeifa sai…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with Dr Akinwunmi Adeshina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the President Villa, Abuja. The AfDB boss, who arrived the Presidential Villa at about 11.20a.m, was es…
The tropical islands of Samoa and Kiribati will be the first in the world to welcome 2020 as they are located just west of the International Date Line which runs down the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Fireworks to welcome in the new decade will explo…
Commenting on the Federal Government’s decision, the Benue State Governor, Ortom on Monday appealed to Buhari not to withdraw troops code-named Operation Whirl Stroke deployed in the state. Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke were deployed in the stat…
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has said the state government will not destroy any buildings as it embarks on road expansion in the state. Abiodun said this on Monday while examining Ikola-Navy-Osi-AIT road in the Ado-Odo/Otta Local Government Area…
Arsenal head coach, Mikel Arteta, is set to lose Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, with the striker desperate to play in the Champions League again, the UK Telegraph reports. A summer exit is looking likely for the 30-year-old, who joined from Borussia Dor…
Fear has gripped Christian communities in Borno State as Boko Haram insurgents have continued to attack areas dominated by Christians in the state. For the past two weeks, attacks have been continually launched by the terrorist group on communities …
Operatives of Interpol have arrested the Edo State Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism, Mr Osaze Osemwingie-Ero, for alleged money laundering just as the Edo State Government denied having anything to do with the arrest. Osemwingie-Ero was re…
Worried about the killings of Christians by members of the Boko Haram sect and other terrorist groups in the North, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has called on the Igbo in the region to return home. MASSOB state…
Ted Terry, father of Chelsea legend John Terry has been arrested for allegedly attacking his partner, Evelyn Minkey. Terry was said to have attacked Minkey during the late-night row at the couple’s home in Chafford Hundred, near Grays, Essex, The Su…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and security chiefs are meeting at the Presidential Villa at present. The agenda of the meeting is unknown. However, sources at the Presidential Villa say it may be connected with a review of th…
A court in north-western Vietnam sentenced six men to death for raping and murdering 22-year-old student Cao My Duyen in a case that shocked the country earlier this year, state media reported on Monday. On Feb. 2, gang leader Vi Van Toan told his g…
A ghost worker who by the records had retired from the Zamfara state civil service has remained on the payroll and he is now 119 years old. The fictive centenarian is among 485 workers who were supposed to have gone on retirement but are collecting …
The Kano State Government has made arrangements to begin the payment of N30,000 minimum wage. At the end of a meeting held between the state government and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council in Kano on Thursday, it was agreed that Kano Sta…
Texas-based billionaire Dan Friedkin is poised to buy out a consortium led by fellow American James Pallota and own a majority stake in Italian club AS Roma. The deal is reportedly worth up to 780 million euros ($872 million), according to several r…
Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godswill Akpabio has attributed the high-level of indebtedness of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to massive looting of the agency under previous administrations. Senator Akpabio told newsmen in Abuja that …
Nigerian Afrobeats crooner, Burna Boy, has been placed on number three spot on New York Times ‘The 54 Best Songs of 2019’ for his song ‘Anybody.’ The first two on the list of 54 songs are Lizzo for the song ‘Cuz I Love You’ and FKA twigs for ‘Cellop…
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command and soldiers from the Guards Brigades on Saturday, foiled a bank robbery in Mpape, a few metres from Maitama, Abuja. During the face-off, the security forces gunned down a suspect who attemp…
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote said he lost N25 billion($68.6million) to the Apapa ports-Oshodi gridlock from 2017 to the 2019 financial year. He spoke on Saturday evening as he and works and housing minister, Babatunde Fashola took a tour of th…
The Ogun State Police Command has banned street carnivals or public procession across the state. In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police warned the residents to desist from any activities that may lead…
Actor Andrew Dunbar, the body double for Theon Greyjoy on HBO’s Game of Thrones and a frequent extra on the series, died at home in Belfast, Ireland on Christmas Eve. His death was confirmed by friends and coworkers, but no cause was given, reports …
The ruling All Progressives Congress on Saturday said only Peoples Democratic Party looters have been sent out of their illegitimate jobs and not the “fictitious” 40 million Nigerians quoted by the opposition party. The ruling party said the Preside…
Police in Sokoto, on Friday, dispersed members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, the Shiites, who had gathered for a procession in the state. The police intervention, which took place at Danbuwa roundabout along Old Airport Road, according to the …
Gunmen on Saturday invaded the family house of the Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr Philip Shaibu. It was gathered that residents in the house were sleeping when the robbers struck. Shaibu, who hails from Jattu in Estako West Local Government Area, bui…
Fresh reports suggest that Mrs. Olubunmi Diya, the widow of the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s pastor who drowned alongside his two children while swimming in a Spanish hotel, may consider a legal action against the company. The deceased, Gabrie…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has contested the claims by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, that Christians were not being persecuted in the country, saying “he got it totally wrong.” The body insisted that Christians were being kille…
The release of a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, after four years in the Department of State Services detention, has altered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s strategy concerning the retired colonel’s trial. It was gathe…
Over the last decade, online sports betting has grown tremendously with hundreds of several sports betting brands spread all across the country and easily accessible to over 200 million Nigerians. Online sports betting in Nigeria is regulated by the…
Veteran actress, Joke Muyiwa is one thespian who has remained relevant despite her age. The revered role interpreter stated that 2019 has been a busy year for her. In her words: “2019 has been so busy, I have done a lot of projects this year and I …
The police and members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites clashed on Friday evening at the old airport area of Sokoto. Residents and passers- by had to scamper for safety as motorists and those on foot des…
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has crossed the line of decency with his recent efforts to erase the legacies of his (Saraki’s) late father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki…
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