The federal government has released a statement informing Nigerians how President Buhari should be addressed at formal functions henceforth. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, gave the directive in a circular sent to ministries, departments and agencies of the federal government. The circular reads; “Government has observed with

The pregnant woman who was rescued from suspected kidnappers by some road safety officials, died on Sunday, after giving birth to a baby boy. The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) officials had rushed her to hospital after rescuing her around a filling station in Badagry. See previous report here According to

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu on Wednesday warned the Private Sector Participants (PSP) operators in waste management to desist from allowing themselves to be used to sabotage the new environmental policy of the Lagos State Government encapsulated in the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI).   Speaking against the backdrop of some

Imo businessman, Stephen Edwin Nnadiogu, who stabbed his four biological children and his sister-in-law to death, died hours after taking lethal substance suspected to be acid. Nnadiogu, from Isu Njaba, Imo State, murdered his children and sister-in-law on Saturday night, at his residence, 19, Ntueke Street, Awada, Obosi, near Onitsha,

The video making the rounds on social media, shows controversial Ghanaian clergyman, Daniel Obinim, praying for visa for his members. As the members step forward, they mention the country of their choice and then he lays his hands on them to receive the annointing for the Visa. Watch the crazy video

Senator Umaru Ibrahim Kurfi representing Katsina Central has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari is bidding for more time  to decide on his re-election bid, saying the president is consulting widely at the moment. Kurfi who is the vice chairman of the Senate committee on Finance also said majority of the Senators are

The Rivers state police command have arrested a pastor in Afam, a community in the state, over the death of three persons, Mrs Ada Ezeawa, Uluoma Onweagbo and her nine-month old baby, Christabel Joseph, all members of his church. Briefing newsmen at the state police command in Port Harcourt, the deputy commissioner of police in the state, Cyril

The case of a snake swallowing N36million belonging to JAMB shocked Nigerians but that may be just the tip of the iceberg. The commission’s registrar, Ishaq Oloyede says six agencies are currently engaged in trying to recover money lost to corruption including fresh cases of fraud totalling N83m uncovered in

A teenage boy was raped, burned, then beaten to death before being buried in a shallow grave. The body of Jeremiah Valencia was found buried on a roadside in January and his mother’s boyfriend, Thomas Ferguson, has been charged with his murder.   Jeremiah’s mother, Tracy Ann Peña, 35, her boyfriend, Thomas

The British government led by Theresa May has disclosed that it is cooperating with the Nigerian government towards finding lasting solutions to the Fulani herdsmen menace that continues to plague the country. This is contained in a letter signed by Angela Almona (Whitehall Nigeria Unit) of the Foreign and Commonwealth

Controversial journalist and die-hard Arsenal fan, Piers Morgan has written an open letter to the club, after they were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday. According to him, Arsenal has been deteriorating under Wenger for 10 years now, and he ‘needs to go for God

Mr Ejindu finally tied the knot with two women, Ebere and Oyediya, over the weekend at Agbala Amangwu Amogudu in Abiriba , Aba State. Previous report here More photos below…  

Popular Uyo-based Catholic priest and radio preacher, Rev. Fr. Patrick Henry Edet, who resigned from the priesthood last year is set to wed. Edet, who was a Roman Catholic priest for 11 years, announced yesterday that he will be getting married on Saturday, March 17. As for who he will be

Today, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) opened its case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N650m. The anti-graft agency called its first witness in the case, after rejecting the proposal by the ex-minister and her co-defendants to settle

A man has been accused of beating his wife to death before throwing her body into a lagoon in Lagos state. According to one Olarevolution, the couple who live in Oworonshoki, Lagos were known to fight physically. On February 12, they reportedly had another fight which led to the husband

Rihanna has become the first-ever artist to earn eight number ones from one album in the history of Billboard’s Dance Club Song chart. Her ‘Anti’ album was first launched in 2016, but it’s still making waves in the music industry, with ‘Consideration’ becoming the latest track to soar to the

Barely a week after an official in JAMB alleged that a mysterious snake swallowed N36m belonging to the examination body, Monkey’s have been accused of swallowing N70 million belonging to the Northern Senators Forum. Senator Shehu Sani while giving more insight into why Senator Abdullahi Adamu was removed as the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum earlier today, said

The Kano state police command has apprehended two young suspected kidnappers for abducting a 4-year-old child at Dorayi, Kano. The duo, identified as Jabir Usman Sule and Bashir Aminu, demanded for N2m as ransom from the parents of the abducted child. They reportedly handed the letter in which they made

Actress, Eucharia Anunobi today shared photos from the posthumous birthday she recently organized for her son, Raymond, who died on August 22nd 2017. Raymond would have been 16 on January 29th. Eucharia in an interview recently stated that she chose to celebrate her son’s birthday with the less priviledged as this has

R. Kelly has been evicted from two of his Georgia properties over unpaid rent, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution has reported. Filings with the magistrate court of Fulton County from Feb. 13 show that the Grammy-winning R&B singer has been evicted from two homes he was renting in Johns Creek. According to

A 15-year-old student of Army Dat Secondary school, Imo state, Queendaline Ekezie collapsed and died after she was allegedly forced to do frog match by two soldiers in her school for coming late. Her father, Hyginus, on hearing the news, passed out and was rushed to a hospital in the

A trader and University of Maiduguri graduate, Chikeluo Celestine was shot dead by suspected armed robbers. According to the brother, Lord King, Chikeluo was killed at his shop on Tuesday, February 20th. He didn’t say where the incident took place. “CHIKELUO CHIKELUO. MY BLOOD BROTHER, YOU GUN DOWN YESTERDAY AT

A security guard at Oko Agbon in the Yaba area of Lagos, has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for allegedly killing his colleague, Ahmed Oyesiji.   According to a report by Punch, the suspect, Moshood Adigun, reportedly stabbed Oyesiji in the neck with a broken bottle and the

In a recent interview with Channels TV, Senator Shehu Sani, who represents Kaduna Central in the senate, accused the govenor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, of running the state like he was a military administrator.   Sani said this while reacting to the demolition of the secretariat of an APC faction in the state on Tuesday February

Fulani herders in Ekiti and South West have taken a traditional oath binding on them to assure the host communities in Ekiti, and by extension, the South West Nigeria, that they would no longer behave unruly, kill or allow their cows to stray into farms. The traditional oath, revealed to

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday, paraded a Beninnois native doctor, Rasheed Akinola, who admitted to being the armourer to a gang of trans-border armed robbers, who specialised in snatching exotic vehicles in Nigeria and moving them to Cotonou, Benin Republic. Akinola was paraded by the Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday granted an order separating the trial of the ‘missing’ leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu from that of other co-defendants. The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako also agreed to a request by the Federal Government to separate

A violent gang brutally murdered a 20-year-old man by hacking him to death with a samurai sword hours after a teenager was fatally stabbed less than half a mile away in London.   The 20-year-old was attacked in the middle of Bartholomew Road, Camden, by a bandana-wearing gang wielding a samurai

A hospital in Ajah, Lagos allegedly refused to take in an unconscious accident victim despite pleas from good samaritans who brought the victim to the hospital. According to actor Segun Arinze who shared the story, the man was brought unconscious to the hospital but the staff made no move to

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has challenged the media to contextualize their reporting so that those who destroyed Nigeria will not be made to look like the country’s new saviours. The Minister said this when the Chief Executive Officer of TVC Communications, Mr. Andrew Hanlon, led

Until last night, Barcelona forward Lionel Messi had not scored in his career against Chelsea but finally broke the jinx with at Stamford bridge with his goal in a Champions League match. It took him nine games, but Lionel Messi has finally broken through against Chelsea finding the net in the 75th

Nigerian singer, Banky W and his partners who formed the Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) record label have now rebranded. According to a lenghty Instagram post by Banky W, EME which has over the years developed and nurtured superstars like Skales, Wizkid, Niyola, Suka SOunds and more will no longer serve

Kabiru Ishaq SA’ID, the Head Northern Operation of the #iStandWithBuhari organisation, was involved in a motor accident at Sabon Yelwa village, before Zaria City, Kaduna State on Tuesday. Fortunately, nothing happened to him. More photos below…

A young man identified as Moshood has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his friend to death during a fight over N1000 note they found on the ground at Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos. It was gathered that a fight ensued between the two friends over ownership of the money with

A young lawyer, Oladelemi Philip Olubakin has sued the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association, through Abuja Human Rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) over theft of intellectual property. In a post published on his Facebook page earlier today, Olubakin said he had made a painting of President Buhari to personally

A two-week-old baby, Prince Ouko, who was stolen from Kenyatta National Hospital two days ago has finally been found in Kawangware, Nairobi on Tuesday. On Sunday, February 18, Police released a screenshot of CCTV camera footage capturing the moment a woman walked away with the twin boy. The mother of the

The Kaduna State government has officially released a statement on the controversies surrounding some a building it demolished in the early hours of today. While Senator Hunkuyi has taken to twitter to call out the state governor for personally driving the bulldozer to demolish his house in what many refer

Early this morning, the one-storey building belonging to a faction of an APC secretariat in the Sambo area of Zaria was demolished. The state government has issued a statement giving reasons for the demolition. Read the statement below Statement on 11b Sambo Close, from Kaduna Geographical Information Service The Kaduna State Urban

Two Nigerian illegals and a Thai taxi driver were arrested in Aranyaprathet, a border town of Eastern Thailand, after a dramatic border chase traversing five checkpoints. The Nigerians were eventually rounded up in a sugar cane plantation trying to return to Cambodia. The drama began around 8am when a policeman on his

The relationship between Nigerian singer, Mr 2kay and former Big Brother Naija housemate, Gifty hit the rocks a while but they both can’t seem to stop talking about each other. As much as they try not too, they keep dragging each other and Gifty has repeatedly said she’s no longer in a relationship with