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“Dry”, a 2014 movie by Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke Linus, will screen at the 2018 Ray Charles Week which will take place at Dillard University, New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S. on Friday 26th october The movie’s theme focuses on the practice of fistula and under-age marriage among young Nigerian women. It ...

Rufus ‎Daramola Kehinde has been sent back to prison by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter to death. Inspector Johnson Okunade the prosecutor, told the Court that the accused committed the offence of raping his daughter to death on August 10 in Iyin-Ekiti. He urged ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday indicated that it was working round the clock to come up with a policy that would monitor, regulate and control the number of children a woman can give birth to. It went ahead to make it known that it has launched a massive consultation of ...

Yesterday, thursday night, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for the members of Kannywood Entertainment Industry. During his speech, President Buhari vowed put an end to the terrors of Boko Haram sect soon. He said: “It’s totally wrong for any believer in God to kill ...

Earlier today, the leader of the now proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was spotted in Jerusalem, Israel. Photos and Videos of him praying in Jerusalem was shared online by Radio Biafra. Kanu went missing in September last year after the military invaded his home in Abia state. ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has banned the production and importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations to check substance abuse among Nigerians. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made the decision known in a statement issued by Mr Olajide Oshundun, Assistant Director of Information in ...

An armed robber who specializes in robbing and dispossessing commercial motorcyclists popularly known as ‘Okada riders’ of their motorcycles has died in an accident while trying to evade arrest after shooting at a victim and snatching his motorcycle at Abule Ijaiye area of Lefenwa, Ogun State. A statement by the ...

The governor made the appeal on his twitter handle.  

Former aviation minister, Femi Fani Kayode has just described President Buhari as the greatest terrorist to ever rule Nigeria and he says former US President Barack Obama helped put him there following the ousting of Goodluck Jonathan . See his tweet below…

  A Nigerian man has been arrested in Thailand for deceiving women into transferring him money as a part of a romance scam. The suspect identified as Light Chinezurum Mmaramigro was arrested on Friday morning, April 27, at his apartment in Bangkok after he posed as an online suitor, engaging ...

  The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Haddy Ametuo, says “some ghosts “ initiated the recall process against Sen. Dino Melaye. Mr Ametuo, who stated this in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday on the botched recall process, expressed delight that the efforts had ...

The young man pictured, according to Mohammed Ciroma, used to work at an abattoir in Missouri before he became addicted to drugs, precisely codeine syrup. “This young man is at the abattoir in maiduguri. He was a hard working fellow, before becoming a victim of drug abuse, namely, codeine syrup. ...

This is according to Tracka, an independent body which tracks government spending.  

A Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto has sentenced two persons, Abubakar Umar (Abuja) and Rukkayya Isa(Nana), to one year each and a fine of one hundred thousand naira each for human trafficking.   Abubakar Umar, from Sokoto State, and Rukkayya Isa, from Republic of Benin, were arraigned by the ...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday, met behind closed doors in Lagos with all the APC aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election. The meeting, which held at the old State House, Marina, had in attendance the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, ...

The National Economic Council, NEC, presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday April 26th, agreed to stop the movement of herdsmen in the country, starting with Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna and Plateau. The meeting which had in attendance state governors, approved the creation of ranches across the country. Briefing ...

  The spokesperson of Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Imam Imam, has died. He died in the early of today April 27th at an Abuja hospital where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed alment. He was 41. Presidential media aide, Bashir Ahmad, who confirmed Imam’s death, took to twitter ...

  Romeo Oriogun from Ilesha and a worker with Community Individual Volunteers for LGBTQ/KAPs, has narrated how a man suspected to be a homosexual was allegedly lynched today in Isiala Mbano, Imo State. Mr Oriogun said he will share details of the incident on Friday. “He didn’t steal, he didn’t ...

chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West has said that he has not been allowed to see his family, his lawyers. He also said that he has been denied food at the National Hospital in Abuja where the operatives of the Nigeria ...

Barely 24 hours after two catholic priests and 17 parishioners were killed by suspected herdsmen, 16 persons were today killed by suspected herdsmen in Ali Agundu and Tsav council wards of Guma Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. Confirming the attack, the state commissioner of police, Fatai Owoseni, said unidentified ...