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President Muhammadu Buhari will Monday depart for Accra, Ghana, to attend the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary celebrations holding at the Independence Square on Tuesday, March 6. The president’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said in a statement on Sunday that Mr. Buhari is the only foreign leader invited to the historic event as the Special Guest of […]

The White House was placed on lockdown and the surrounding area cordoned off by emergency personnel Saturday after an apparent gunshot was heard. The US Secret Service said on Twitter that it was responding “to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound along the north fence line of @White House.” It […]

A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital. Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday. One needed head surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain, while the other […]

While the Nigerian government keeps mum on details on the attack on Rann community and the casualty thereof, the United Nations has confirmed that at least eight Nigerian security personnel were killed in the attack. The UN in a statement by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General António Guterres, also confirmed the withdrawal of aid workers from the community. […]

Many erupted in laughter at a high court in Abuja on Thursday when Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, displayed a bottle of coke, tissue paper, toothbrush and toothpaste to journalists after he was arraigned. The federal government arraigned Melaye on a two-count charge. The senator was accused of deliberately giving false information to the police […]

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Thursday expressed excitement over the return of her son, Yusuf, from a medical trip abroad. In a message posted on her Facebook wall, Aisha thanked God for the safe return of her son. She attached three photographs to show the excitement that heralded Yusuf’s return. Mrs. Buhari, however, […]

Nigerians are getting poorer despite the country’s slow recovery from recession and economic reforms are urgently needed, the International Monetary Fund has said. The Fund expects the government to “muddle through” in the medium term, and any progress could also be threatened if elections next year consume political energy and resources, it said in a […]

Hannah Beachler, Black Panther’s production designer, says a 400-year-old Nigerian language was one of the two languages that inspired Wakanda’s language. Wakanda is a fictional country and was used as location in some parts of the movie, Black Panther. Nsibidi, a language formerly used in parts of Cross River, was used repeatedly through the course […]

Rosa Elena Bonilla, the wife of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, was detained on charges of embezzling over 500,000 dollars in government funds, local media reported on Wednesday. According to the La Prensa newspaper and other media, the money had been deposited on a bank account of the former first lady’s office and was destined […]

A woman who claims to be the ‘most modified transsexual in the world’ has spent more than £42,000 to become a DRAGON. Eva Tiamat Medusa’s transformation includes a forked tongue, tattooed scales and even eight horns on her head. In 1997, Medusa, from Bruni, Texas, was living as a man, named Richard Hernandez, and operating […]

The United States government has imposed new sanctions on the terror group, Boko Haram, and its factional leader, Mus’ab al-Barnawi. The new sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department targets the Islamic State and its affiliate networks around the world. The U.S. department added Boko Haram, also known as ISIS-West Africa, to the sanction list for […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) squandered about $500 billion oil earnings in the 16 years it was in power. The PDP led Nigeria from 1999 to 2015 when it lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking at the opening of the APC National Caucus […]

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday declared his intention to contest for  the Imo West Senatorial seat in 2019. The Imo governor said his participation in the senatorial race will brighten the chances of President Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates of All Progressives Congress ( APC ) in general election in the State. Okorocha who […]