Christians from other denominations will bow before you ―Pastor Adeboye prays for his congregation (Video)

An X (Twitter) platform user, Oo Nwoye @OoTheNigerian, has shared a video clip which shows Pastor EA Adeboye making a prayer at the 2021 youth convention of his church, the RCCG. In the prayer, the cleric made reference to how the sons of the prophet bowed before Elisha after he was endowed with the double […]

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Nigerian lawyer who allegedly brutalised 11-year-old maid surrenders to police

After a N2m bounty placed on her by Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, female Nigerian lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor, who allegedly abused her 11-year-old maid has surrendered herself to the police and will be arraigned in court. Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, the media aide to the State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo, who […]

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Teachers, lecturers now required to sign sexual harassment prevention form in Nigeria

Teachers and lecturers in various institutions of learning across Nigeria are now required to sign the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Code of Conduct form. The requirement is part of measures to check the alarming rate of sexual-related violence in learning institutions across the country. According to the standard operating procedure for the prosecution […]

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Jimi Solanke, Wasiu Ayinde and the cartoon called Nigeria, By Tunde Odesola

Aníkúlápó is the man who bears death in a pouch, not Jimi Solanke. Solanke knew a braggadocious name couldn’t stop death. So, when death came calling, Solanke followed it without fear. But Solanke wasn’t afraid of death, he was afraid of life – this he told me many years ago at the backstage of the […]

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American singer Usher, longtime girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea, wed (Photos)

Grammy Award winning American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, and entrepreneur, Usher Raymond IV simply called Usher, and his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Goicoechea secretly said “I do” on Sunday, February 11, 2024, after the Super Bowl halftime performance. According to People magazine, Usher, 45, who headlined the 2024 Super Bowl, married his music executive girlfriend, 40, […]

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Court orders Nigerian govt to re-open prosecution of Dele Giwa’s alleged killers

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja Nigeria, on Friday, ordered Nigerian government to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of the murder of founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, and other journalists in the country. Mr Giwa was 39 years old, when, on October 19, 1986, he was blown to smithereens by a parcel bomb […]

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Nigeria’s capital importation plunges 26.4% to $3.9bn in 2023

Foreign capital inflow into Nigeria dipped by 26.4% to $3.9 billion in 2023, plunging to a 17-year low since 2007 when capital importation stood at $5.3 billion. Latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in 2023 was $1.15 billion, indicating 29.5 percent of the $3.91 billion […]

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Nigerian govt withdraws treasonable felony case against Omoyele Sowore

Nigerian government has applied to withdraw the treasonable felony charge that the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led government filed against a civil rights activist and convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, in 2019. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in a letter dated February 14, which he wrote […]

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Russian opposition leader and President Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Russia’s most significant opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s critic has died in an Arctic Circle jail at the age of 47. According to the Russian prison service, he collapsed and died on Friday, February 16, after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term. The […]

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Nigerians slam two Nigerian women who flaunt their love on Valentine’s Day (Photos)

Nigerians on the social media platform, X (Twitter) have reacted to photos shared by two women who seem to be Nigerians in a relationship. The agreement on X this year is that lovers would be brief with their Valentine’s Day message. A template was shared to this effect and people followed the template on Thursday […]

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Gbajabiamila is the social menace that must be regulated, By Abimbola Adelakun

At a recent public event where he represented his principal, Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, used the opportunity to retrieve the hackneyed topic of social media regulations. While he noted the bid failed while he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, he did not indicate that any new development had since […]

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Nigeria’s Naira falls again in the parallel market

As Nigerian economy continues to go bad, severely hurting the Nigerian people, the country’s currency, the Naira dipped to N1,600 against the dollar on Thursday. According to one platform for currency monitoring, the Naira plunged to N1,600 per $1 despite efforts by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to salvage the free fall of the […]

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Jealous nurse slices off her boyfriend’s penis in his sleep, accuses him of infidelity

A jealous nurse sliced her boyfriend’s penis off with a kitchen knife as he slept following a heated row over his alleged infidelity in Peru. The healthcare worker, named Marleni Rimarachin Colunche, is said to have carried out the bloody attack on Iván Céspedes, her partner of four years. The couple, both aged 39, worked […]

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Tennis star, Serena Williams encourages new mums to love themselves, shows off post-baby body in bikini (Photo)

International tennis superstar, Serena Williams has taken to her Instagram page to urge new mums to love themselves amid the changes in their body. The tennis legend, who stated that she loves that her body is not picture perfect, welcomed her second child in August 2023, said self-love is important. She shared a photo of […]

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Top 20 African teams in latest FIFA ranking (Full list)

Latest FIFA men’s world football rankings, released on Thursday February 15, 2024, show that Morocco leads all African men’s national football teams, with Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt, and Cote d’Ivoire closely following. This is coming after the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) that ended on Sunday, February 11, which saw the Super Eagles of Nigeria […]

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Labour Party suspends its National Treasurer

National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party (LP) has on Wednesday, slammed a six-month suspension on its National Treasurer, Ms. Oluchi Opara. Her suspension was officially announced at a media briefing held at the party secretariat in Abuja. Opara had at a press conference on Monday, accused the LP National Chairman, Julius Abure of […]

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What would your lifestyle be If You were the Richest Person in the World? By Muyiwa Adetiba

I have met many wealthy men in the course of my work. Just the other day, I was regaling a few close friends of how my interview with American billionaire David Rockefeller in Nigeria got me my first US visa. This happened in – of all places- far-away Trinidad where I went to cover the carnival and […]

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