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Nigerian media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has compared Nigerian pastors with Nigerian Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, who gave out his birthday monetary gift meant for a Rolls Royce. According to him, pastors who are regarded as spiritual father  receive money through offering meant for the needy and use […]

The Archbishop of Bendel Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Ughelli Diocese, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Cyril Odutemu, weekend, lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s led Government has borrowed the destinies present and future generations of Nigerians away. Odutemu who stated this in a sermon at the funeral service of Mama Hannah Victoria Macaulay, mother of erstwhile […]

A former governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko, is dead. The Ode-Ekiti-born politician was said to have died on Saturday  after he collapsed in his office in Abuja. According to Television Continental, he was rushed to a hospital where he passed on. TVC reported that one of Aluko’s aides who spoke on condition of anonymity told Radio Nigeria that […]

The United States government believes now is the time for major geopolitical players across the world to start treating Africa as one of them. U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Antony Blinken, stated this on Friday while addressing members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja. “United States firmly believes that it […]

Dubai’s flagship carrier, Emirates, has yet again announced a suspension of flights to and from Nigeria until November 30. The airline in a statement on its website said customers who have been to or connected through Nigeria in the last 14 days will not be permitted on any Emirates flights bound for Dubai. “Affected flight bookings […]

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says the leaked report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters is an attempt to unleash further misery on the state. APC spokesman in the state, Seye Oladejo, disclosed this via a statement issued on Thursday. […]

The House of Representatives Thursday urged the Ministry of Health to devise a strategy to address the underlying mental health factors causing rising cases of suicide in the country. It also sought a review of the mental health laws to strengthen mental healthcare services to Nigerians to reduce the rate of suicide. This followed the […]

The  Ogun State House of Assembly has ordered security agencies to arrest a Nollywood star, Goriola Hassan, for allegedly parading himself as the Oba-elect of Imobi in the Ijebu-East Local Government Area of the state. The Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, during plenary on Thursday ordered that Hassan should be arrested and presented to the Assembly within […]

Four persons have died and five others rescued as a building under construction collapsed in the Badagry area of Lagos State on Wednesday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed the figures in an update. “Nine Casualties who were construction workers were recorded of which five adult males were rescued and taken to the […]

The security guard at the apartment where the murdered Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Michael Ataga, was found has narrated to the court how he recorded his conversation with Chidinma after the incident. Chidinma, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, was accused of killing Ataga. The undergraduate and two others, […]

The United States of America has said it welcomes the final report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the EndSARS protests of October 2020. The panel’s report was submitted in a brief ceremony at the Lagos State Government House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday. According to the report, no fewer than nine EndSARS […]

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Lagos chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, has revealed that Nigerian professors do not earn more than N416,000 as monthly salary. Ashiru disclosed this during an interview on the Sunrise Daily programmed on Channels Television, stating that university lecturers deserved better welfare packages. He said, “No Nigerian professor […]

Nigeria may experience fuel scarcity in coming days following the threat issued on Monday by The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas has given the Federal Government a two-week strike notice, raising the possibility of fuel scarcity across the country in coming weeks. NUPENG members basically control the downstream arm of the oil sector […]

The application fee required for each of the 5,000 houses built in 34 states of the federation by the Federal Government is N10,000, it was learnt on Monday. Also, it was gathered that applications for the houses had been rising daily after the Federal Government unveiled the portal last Friday. Punch correspondent observed on the […]

No fewer than nine #EndSARS protesters were killed at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020. This was contained in the report of the reports submitted by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters obtained by our correspondent on Monday. According to the report, nine protesters were […]

The Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has sacked its public secretary, Mr. Okelo Madukaife over alleged anti party activities, including congratulating the winner of the just concluded governorship election, Professor Charles Soludo. The state chairman of the party, Mr. Basil Ejidike stated this at a press briefing in Awka. He said […]