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Retired British soccer player David Beckham yesterday received the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Leadership Award during the UNICEF Ball. The global charity honored the 40-year-old soccer player Tuesday night for his ongoing work with children around the world as well as that which he does through his own charity, Seven. During ...

Governor of Anambra state Willie Obiano is pictured above with his wife and two kids.

A heavily armed man who identified himself as both Jesus Christ and the son of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe was charged Friday morning for attempting to kidnap one of the Obama family’s dogs. He was actually a crazed North Dakota man named Scott Stockert and he was arrested ...

Dashing General Overseer of the Abuja based Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries, Prophet Emmanuel Omale, who had Jim Iyke as his best man when he wedded years back has called for prayers to prevent the violent death of a top Nollywood female star. He said if fervent prayers aren’t ...

It seems the General Overseer and founder of Living Faith worldwide Bishop Oyedepo is set to retire from active service. The church popularly known as Winners Chapel is about to witness a change of baton as the first son of Oyedepo, David Oyedepo Jnr is set to take over the ...

A Kado Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday ordered a 27-year-old man, Sunday Vincent, to be imprisoned for three weeks for constituting a public nuisance. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option to pay N3,000 fine and warned him to desist from committing any crimes. ...

9-year-old Chinwedu Precious, a housemaid has been left disfigured after her employer poured hot water at Alagbado area of Lagos State.According to PM News, the unfortunate incident occurred on 27 December, 2015 . The young girl’s 26-year-old boss, Mrs. Ifeoma Mbakwe, who hails from Anambra and resides at Idowu Street, ...

Visafone has sacked over 83 per cent of its workers as part of its acquisition by the MTN Nigeria. Over 2,000 employees were disengaged with effect from January 5, 2016, and were paid three months’ salaries as severance package. The only employees left were those in the personnel and transmission ...

Can you recognize Timaya in that photo, it’s really a Throwback. He shared this photo on his IG page with the caption

A constitutional lawyer and founder of Change.org, Ms Carol Ajie has petitioned US President Barrack Obama, the National Judicial Council (NJC) amongst others, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived disobedience of court orders. This came following Buhari’s statement during a presidential media chat in Abuja that the former National Security Adviser ...

According to reports, a drunk policeman, Stephen James, on Saturday shot and killed three men at a hotel in the Ketu area of Lagos State. He shot and killed twin brothers identified as Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle (who were the only children of their mother) and their friend known simply ...

Over 100 persons have died on Thursday in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state when an industrial Gas plant suddenly exploded . According to Vanguard, the explosion rocked the Inter Corp Oil limited(LPG Gas Plant), an subsidiary of Chikason Group. According to an eye-witness, the fire incident which started ...

Read the President’s Christmas message to Nigerians below; I felicitate with all Nigerians, especially our Christian brothers and sisters, on the joyous occasion of this year’s Christmas. On this occasion of the commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, let us all rededicate ourselves to the virtues of peace, love, ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission NCC says that telecommunications company MTN will have to pay a $3.9 billion fine for failing to disconnect users with unregistered SIM cards by Dec. 31. ‘Appropiate action will be taken’ should MTN fail to meet the deadline, a source at NCC told Reuters. Meanwhile MTN ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate payment of December salaries to Federal Government workers. This was disclosed yesterday in Abuja by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun,at the end of the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting.She said salaries were already being paid in response to the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has apologised to Nigerians over the fuel scarcity that has persisted across the country since October.This comes after the Minister of Information,Lai Mohammed blamed the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan for the current scarcity. According to PM news, the apologized during the presentation of the 2016 ...

Nigeria’s president Buhari presented the national budget for 2016 to the national assembly on Tueday, December 23. See the full breakdown of the budget he presented below GDP Growth Rate Projection 4.37% Revenue Projection 3.86 Naira Deficit 2.22 trillion Naira (equivalent to 2.16% of Nigeria’s GDP) Oil Related Revenues 820 ...

Nigerian sprinter and long jumper Blessing Okagbare over the weekend beat the World’s fastest man Usain Bolt to win the Guinness World Book of Records prize for most IAAF Diamond League appearances in 2015. Guinness Book of records said, �Multi-discipline athlete, Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria participated at 38 Diamond league ...

Following his visit to president Buhari at the state house today,Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has urged Nigerians to be patient as the nation will attain greatness soon. Speaking with State House correspondents after his visit to pray for the president and the nation,he said �What is happening now ...

Telecommunications giant, MTN in a new twist of event has dragged the Government to court over the fine by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).Read the communique shareholders and staff of MTN received below; Herewith a further update on the fine imposed on MTN Nigeria and renewal of cautionary announcement: Further to ...