Diamond Celebrities

An incestuous daughter has admitted helping her father kill her boyfriend, before having sex with her dad and illegally marrying him. Amanda McClure, 31, and her father Larry McClure, 55, tied Thomas McGuire, 38, up, battered him over the head with a bottle of wine, injected him with two vials of crystal meth, then buried […]

Following Federal Government’s announcement directing students in exit classes nationwide to resume for revision ahead of their forthcoming terminal examinations, Lagos State Government has directed SS3 and Technical Studies (TEC3) students in both day and boarding schools in the state to resume on Monday, August 3. Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, explained that the directive […]

A former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team [PRTT] Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre after nine months in detention. Mr Maina, who was arraigned before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on October 25, 2019, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his […]

The Guild of Medical Doctors, a body of private medical practitioners in Nigeria, says all claims made by Stella Immanuel should be taken with reservation. Immanuel, a Nigerian-trained doctor based in the United States, had claimed she treated over 350 COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine. She also said there is no need for people to wear face masks […]

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is not among the “deserving Nigerians” whom President Muhammadu Buhari has named some railway stations after. On Monday, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, announced that the president had given approval that stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors should be named in honour of some of the nation’s leaders. Bola Tinubu, […]

The Federal Government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday stressed that it is too early to declare that the country’s COVID-19 curve is flattening, as daily new infected cases fluctuate between 500 to 700. Flattening of the curve simply means that the rate of spread or transmission of the virus has gradually started […]

The Department of State Services said it has uncovered plans by some persons and groups to destabilise the country. The DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, in a statement noted that some prominent personalities and socio-cultural groups had resorted to “divisive acts through inciting statements aimed at pitting individuals, groups and ethnic nationalities against another.” The statement […]

Three neighbouring countries bought a total amount of electricity worth $81.48bn from Nigeria in the last two years, even as many households and businesses in the country continued to suffer blackout, ’FEMI ASU reports The invoices given to the Republics of Togo, Niger and Benin for the electricity supplied to them from Nigeria in 2018 […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered that a DNA test be conducted on nine-year-old Chidera Ekwerekwu following a protracted battle between the family of a late businessman, Victor Ekwerekwu, and his widow, Ndidiamaka Ekwerekwu, over the paternity of the child. But the widow has gone to Justice D.A. Onyefulu of the Anambra State […]

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Tolu Akande-Sadipe, has disclosed that about 80,000 Nigerian victims of trafficking were currently held as sex slaves and in forced labour across the world. According to her, the practice is rife in Lebanon, Mali and across the Middle East. Akande-Sadipe, who blamed the Ministries of Foreign Affairs […]

The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Friday said that Nigerians must learn to live with the Covid-19 pandemic for at least one year. Speaking at the media briefing by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 in Abuja, Iheakweazu said it is a reality our hospitals must live […]

The federal government Friday issued a circular directing all MDAs to carry out COVID-19 tests for all civil servants. The circular, dated July 17, 2020, and addressed to all Permanent Secretaries, was issued by the Head of Service of the Federation (HoS), Dr Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan. It was signed on her behalf by the Permanent […]

President Muhammadu Buhari was on Thursday sighted with a face mask for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had recommended the compulsory use of face mask while in public as one of the guidelines meant to curtail further spread of the virus in the country. But while […]

The House of Representatives has resolved to sue Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for alleged perjury and defamation of the parliament. Akpabio had on Monday, while appearing before the House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission at an investigative hearing, alleged that members of the National Assembly get 60 per cent of contracts […]

A lottery shop operator, identified simply as Baba Pool, on Thursday committed suicide over his alleged failure to pay some of his customers their winnings. It was gathered that the deceased hanged himself inside his shop in Kayode Market, Abule Ijesha, in the Sabo area of Lagos State. Punch learnt that the deceased, in a […]