Diamond Celebrities

Just one cigarette a day is enough to raise the risk of heart disease and stroke by around 50 per cent, the Dailymail says in a report. Researchers have found those who smoke once a day expose themselves to fully half the risk of heart disease and stroke seen in people who smoke 20 cigarettes. […]

The federal government has directed security agencies to tackle the propagation of hate speech, especially through social media. The order was given at a security meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja. Mansur Dan Ali, minister of defence, had described the trend of hate speech on social media as worrisome. […]

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent comment on President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance in office as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘insulting’. Mr. Obasanjo had in a statement released Tuesday urged the president not to seek re-election, saying he has performed below par since assuming office. […]

The Nigerian presidency has kept mum over the excoriating public statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo calling on President Muhammadu Buhari not to run for re-election. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Mr Buhari, declined comments when reached by  Premium Times for reaction to the statement. He said the presidency […]

Incredible images show a ‘smiling’ deceased Buddhist monk being exhumed by his dedicated followers- two months after he died. Revered monk Luang Phor Pian died on November 16 last year in Bangkok, Thailand when he was 92-years-old. Originally from Cambodia, Pian spent the majority of his life serving as a well-known spiritual and Buddhist guru in the Lopburi, central […]

Nigerian singer, Dontom shared the photos with the caption “Who will ever believe that this is Abakaliki. A place that looked like a rat hole four years ago.. This is what leadership is really all about, thank you mr Governor Umahi …”Abakaliki is the capital city of the present-day Ebonyi State in southeastern Nigeria.   Singer, Dontom 

There seems to be no end to the alleged mind-boggling financial misappropriation in the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration. In the centre of it all is, according to records unearthed by investigators, is former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives have just uncovered the withdrawal of $1.3billion […]

The lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has urged the wife of the President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, not to be intimidated by her criticisms of the current administration. According to Murray-Bruce, Aisha does not belong to “the other room,” as the President once dismissed the First Lady over her allegation that a […]

A US court in Fort Bend County, Houston, Texas, has convicted a Nigerian, Osa Alohaneke, for the 2015 stabbing to death of his fiancée. A jury found him guilty on Friday of the slaying of Evelyne Ebane Epiepang. The jury is yet to determine his sentence. Alohaneke, 59, looked down and showed no emotion when […]