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MTN suffered a 1.5% decline in its total subscriber numbers to 237-million in the first quarter of 2017 from 240-million in the fourth quarter of 2016. “While our reported subscriber numbers are lower than we had expected, this is largely the result of an ongoing review of subscriber definitions. We are planning to further modernise […]

Wema Bank Plc has announced the launch of ALAT, which it described as the first fully Digital Bank in Nigeria. This announcement was made by the Managing Director, Mr. Segun Oloketuyi, in a launch event at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, on Tuesday. Mr. Oloketuyi said Wema Bank is happy to power ALAT as the […]

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff, Yisa Olanrewaju Adedoyin, has pleaded guilty to receiving the sum of N70,050,000 from the N23 billion alleged Diezani Allison-Madueke bribe meant to compromise electoral officers before the 2015 general election. Adedoyin alongside Christian Nwosu and Tijani Inda Bashir were re-arraigned Wednesday on an amended six-count charge bordering on receiving […]

The paparazzi who took topless photos of Kate Middleton in 2012 are learning the hard way as the royals have taken them to court and are demanding a compensation of £1.3 million for breach of privacy. Over four years ago, celebrity magazine, Closer, and French newspapers released half-naked photos of the Duchess of Cambridge taken while […]

A High Court in Minna, the Niger state capital, has granted former governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu, and his ex-chief of staff, Umar Nasko, bail. Both men had been remanded in prison by the court on Tuesday last week after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned them on charges of corruption and fraud. […]

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has been reportedly injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in Balla village inside Borno state last Friday. According to AFP, two Nigerian Air Force jets had bombarded an area in the village where the sect members had gathered to pray. “Shekau was wounded in the […]

Lagos-based rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has urged the Nigerian Senate to declare the office of the president vacant and constitute a medical panel of experts to examine the health status of Muhammadu Buhari in order to determine if he can still continue to function in office. In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Adegboruwa said the […]

In what is presumed to be Mercy Aigbe’s  reaction to the issue that her husband, Lanre Gentry raised, regarding what most men wouldn’t tolerate, especially what he has tolerated so far in their 7 years of marriage, the actress has taken to social media to drop a note.  In the message, Mercy Aigbe said that: “When […]

A Twitter user with the handle (@Simplyrisque) has revealed how she handled a case of a guy with a small D. According to her, she lost interest in having s*x with the guy right after she saw the guy had a small D, and she quickly had to improvise by telling him her “Period was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has again failed to attend the Federal Executive Council Meeting on Wednesday. His absence on Wednesday marks the third time the President will miss the weekly meeting since his return from the United Kingdom in March. Following his absence from the meeting last week, speculations over his health had shot up, especially […]

The Arewa Consultative Forum has faulted the former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande and other prominent Nigerians for their comments regarding President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. Akande had on Monday raised the alarm over the President’s health and urged Nigerians to pray fervently for his quick recovery. Falana, others also […]

Workers at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington have been on a sit-in, paralysing activities at the mission in the United States. The workers said they have not been paid salaries for the past five months, forcing them to embark on the strike. Although some departments of the embassy are said to still be functional, they […]

President Buhari’s media aide, Tolu Ogunlesi, who is also Head of Digital Communication for the Nigerian President, has slammed @Blacktolive, a Twitter handle which celebrates anything concerning black excellence, for celebrating Esther Okade, a 13-year-old British-Nigerian who is set to earn her PhD by 2018. Esther Okade came to limelight in 2015, after a CNN report […]

Alexis Brett who had had 9 sons before now, is pregnant and it is still another boy on the way. Alexis who lives in a modest 5-bedroom flat with her family, is the only lady in the family. The 32-year-old wife and her 42-year-old husband, David, will soon become the first U.K family to have […]

Nigerian reggae legend and the rain maker of the ‘send down the rain’ crooner, Majek Fashek, who had to be sent to a rehab to get a hold on himself over drug addiction, really looked healthy as he worshipped with the General Overseer of House on the Rock, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, at the church’s headquarters in Lagos […]

Amber Rose took to her Instagram to react to parents who say their kids follow her and she should be more of a role model to them. Read what she posted below. Amber Rose, Instagram

According to reports, an unidentified female corpse was seen floating on the River Niger, at Onitsha main market as people gathered to behold it. As gathered, it rained the previous night and many believed she might have been drowned while others insisted she was murdered and pushed into the river. More photos below:

Media personality, Funmi Iyanda have revealed that Yoruba men don’t mind if their wives cheat, she made the statement in a video posted on her YouTube page. OUR STANCE ON THIS TOPIC: “Really? That statement should just be taken as Funmi’s opinion, maybe she formed it with the type of men around her. Who is […]

A section of the palace of Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, in the Iga Iduganran area of Lagos Island has been gutted by fire. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fire started from an air condition in an apartment inside the palace, destroying furniture and other household items in the room. It was gathered that the […]

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently investigating the federal universities established by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan over allegations of financial misconducts. The Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, disclosed this during the inauguration of a seven-man probe panel on the 12 new federal universities established by Jonathan’s administration between 2011 […]