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Nigeria’s Consul-General in Guangzhou, China, Mr Wale Oloko said on Tuesday that no fewer than 36 Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises would be participating in the forthcoming China International Small and Medium Enterprise Fair. Oloko made the announcement in an e-mail sent to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that the […]

Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has been hospitalised in the United States of America for an unknown ailment. Anwukah is said to be currently receiving treatment for prostrate and urinary related diseases in a hospital in the United States of America. A reliable source in the Ministry of Education, told New Telegraph […]

The suspect was paraded alongside other crime suspects on Tuesday at the Command Headquarters in Akure, the state capital. Commissioner of Police in the state, Gbenga Adeyanju, told reporters that Muhammed was apprehended almost at the same spot where one suspect had been caught earlier. The suspected terrorist, who was arrested on October 1 in […]

Sunday’s service of Ajegunle Baptist Church, Agbowo, Ibadan, was held outside the church’s gate as some group of members aggrieved over their Pastor’s alleged financial impropriety, improper behaviour and abuse of pulpit locked the church. The aggrieved members under the umbrella of “Concerned Members”, are insisting that church pastor, Reverend Oyewole Oyekan, leaves the church […]

Former Director-General of the Institute of Agricultural, Research and Training, Prof Benjamen Ogunmodede, has said that he and two other persons convicted alongside him spent N177m to bribe lawmakers and some employees of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Ogunmodede and two staff members of the IAR&T were, on Tuesday, sentenced to 40 years in prison […]

The man who shot dead 59 people and injured 527 others in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a multimillionaire who took a huge arsenal of 23 guns into his Mandalay Bay hotel room, which he transformed into an elaborate sniper’s nest before opening fire on a country music festival on Monday. Stephen Paddock, 64, […]

The popular OAP, Moet Abebe flashed her boobs in a denim jumpsuit photo she posted on her Instagram page. She somehow resembles one Nigerian ex-first lady. Credit: Moet Abebe, Instagram  

Diezani Alison-Madueke, has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the Attorney General of the Federation to bring her back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom, where she travelled to shortly after leaving office in 2015. She said she would like to appear in court in Nigeria to defend a criminal charge bordering […]

As the world shifts gear into electric cars, abandoning the fossil fuel burning internal combustion engine, Nigeria continues to play Ostrich, preferring the conundrum of stupidity to sense and sensibility. Instead of investing massively in the vast farmlands of the north and encouraging the production of finished value added products, the federal government is pumping […]

Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, who has hyperlactation syndrome which makes her produce 1.75 gallons of chest milk a day, with 5,000 ounces stored in her freezer, has reportedly donated 700 gallons to charity. It was also gathered that over the past three years, she has donated 700+ gallons of chest milk,  almost twice the world record in […]

A Ugandan man identified as David Ntege has reportedly collapsed and died after bumping into his wife who claimed she went abroad for further studies. He met his wife with another man at a restaurant where he had checked in for some refreshments. TUKO reports that David and his wife got married in a colorful wedding […]

Watch this very disturbing viral video that shows a mother beating her daughter with a machete in St. Thomas, Jamaica. The chubby mother can be seen wearing only her underwear as she grabs her daughter and give her the beating of her life. The incident happened in 2016, but the video just made its way […]

Light Fidelity, also known as LiFi, which uses visible light from LED bulbs to transfer data much faster than radio wave-based WiFi, has been developed by China. WiFi could become obsolete in a few years as Chinese scientists have  developed a faster way of transmitting data via LiFi. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported the […]

BEING TEXT OF SPEECH BY PASTOR ‘TUNDE BAKARE AT THE STATE OF THE NATION BROADCAST ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2017 AT THE LATTER RAIN ASSEMBLY CHURCH HEADQUARTERS Introduction Fellow citizens of Nigeria, Happy Independence Day to you all. At crucial moments such as this, I have, by the grace of God, stood on this platform […]

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Reverend Matthew Kukah believes that the opinion of the President and other public office holders should not determine the restructuring of Nigeria. Bishop Kukah, however, said the leaders have the responsibility to process the demands of the people who, he said, were displeased with some of the happenings in […]

Nollywood star Samuel Ajibola has unveiled to the world a behind-the-scenes photo from the widely anticipated episode of ‘Dele Issues’. This episode features the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, and is scheduled for release on the 14th of October 2017. Samuel Ajibola who is popularly known as Spiff in the sitcom ‘The Johnsons’ made […]

The total amount the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB, remitted to the federal government coffers between 2010 and 2016 is N 50,752,544, PREMIUM TIMES can reveal. This is about one per cent of the N5 ‎billion the agency remitted to the federal government in 2017 alone. The seemingly ridiculous nature of the remittances before […]

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up 15 committees to investigate various allegations against 15 Judicial Officers, including two Chief Judges. In a statement by the Director of Information, Soji Oye yesterday, the NJC praised the decision of the Zamfara State Government approving the recommendation of the NJC for the compulsory removal of Justice […]

One gunman released a rapid-fire barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring at least 527 others attending a country music festival below, officials said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The shooter, identified by law enforcement officials as Stephen Craig Paddock, […]

Two gunmen in the early hours of Monday shot and killed a circulation representative of The Sun newspaper in Onitsha, Anambra State. The gunmen were said to have stormed the Sun circulation office at about 10:25 a.m. in a motorcycle, killing the circulation rep, Mr. Fabian Obi. The office, which is located at the old market road in Onitsha […]