Diamond Celebrities

Nigeria’s Super Eagles team B on Saturday crashed out of the ongoing West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup of Nations in Senegal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the team lost all their games so far in the tournament. In Saturday’s encounter, the home-based Eagles lost 2-3 on penalties to Cape Verde, after […]

Omoyele Sowore, convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, is still in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) because his bail conditions have not been met. The federal high court in Abuja on Friday granted a N100 million bail to Sowore with two sureties who must be resident in Abuja and have landed properties within the federal […]

Traveling for Nigerians increasingly requires adequate planning. With Nigerian passport ranking 83rd in freedom to travel across the world, acquiring a visa is always difficult and strenuous. However, there are visa-free countries accessible to all Nigerian passport holders. With just a valid passport, you can gain entry into these African countries without having to stress […]

President Donald Trump, has announced that he wants people to be denied U.S. visas if they cannot afford healthcare in order to prevent immigrants from “financially burdening our healthcare system’’ In a statement released late Friday, the White House said immigrant visa applicants will have to demonstrate that they will be covered by health insurance […]

Two members of a fraudulent gang have been arrested by the police for allegedly parading themselves as officials of the Kaduna State Government to commit fraud. The suspects are Adamu Garuba, who impersonated a lawmaker in the state and his sister-in-law, Rita Waziri, who acted as the Commissioner for Works. They reportedly connived with one […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Pretoria, South Africa, advised all Nigerians in The Diaspora to always remember their country with skills, resources and talents, and work towards living decent and dignified lives that bring honour to their fatherland. The President, who met with Nigerians in South Africa, charged them to be diligent, focused and resourceful […]

Counsel to Sowore,  Mr.  Femi Falana, SAN, on Friday told the court that President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2003 after he lost election under the defunct ANPP decided to stage protest all over the country and was never arrested or prosecuted, rather he was disbanded by police, who briefed him to go to court to […]

A yet to be identified middle-aged​ man narrowly escaped death from angry mob after he was accused of mysteriously causing the disappearance of another man’s genital organ. The incident which occurred on Wednesday in Benin City, Edo State, at one of the new generation banks located along Sapele Road, caused commotion inside the banking hall, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday reassured Nigerians living in South Africa that actions and measures have been taken to prevent reoccurrence of xenophobic attacks against them. Apart from reported deaths, many Nigerians have lost properties and their means of livelihood to recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Buhari, during a town hall meeting with Nigerians […]

Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu outlined yesterday reforms towards delivering a modern Nigerian Police Force with the launch of a new rule of engagement and the announcement that he has placed an order for tasers or stun guns, to reduce killings of suspects. Special trainings, he said, have also been lined up for special […]

Chris Ngige, minister of labour, says complying with the demand of labour unions on minimum wage will lead to the sack of many workers. He said this when the leadership of the United Labour Congress paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Abuja, on Thursday. The minister said a wage bill of N580 […]

The senate has introduced a bill which seeks to impose a tax on all communication services including electronic messaging and data usage. The ‘Bill for an act to establish the communication service tax’ introduced for first reading during Wednesday’s plenary session, recommended a 9% charge for using the service It specifically provides that such tax […]

Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that the Senate must begin to make sacrifice and aid in cutting down the cost of governance by having just one Senatorial representative instead of three per state. Mr Okorocha, the senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, argued for the cut in the cost of running the legislature during plenary […]

Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, says the national crime profile of the country has continued to decline in relation to the previous quarters. Adamu said in Abuja that this trend is indicative of the effectiveness of policing strategies which are based on community partnership practices, application of cutting-edge policing technologies and crime management solutions, […]

Former Super Eagles striker, Isaac Promise has died at the age of 31. Promise was the captain of the Beijing Olympics’ Eagles squad that won silver. A statement from the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, said the federation was saddened by the death of Promise. “We are sad to hear of the sudden demise of former […]

The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday rejected plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to return toll gates to highways in Nigeria. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, said the idea was insensitive and lamentable. He stated that the insensitive idea, in the midst of excruciating economic hardship and high costs […]

A 27-year-old housewife, Faiza Yusuf, on Wednesday dragged her husband, Muhammad Abubakar, before a Shari’a court sitting at Rigasa, Kaduna State, seeking divorce over his lack of/ interest to have more children. Yusuf, who resides in Nasarawa area of Kaduna, told the court that her husband does not want her to give birth. “We have […]

A Zimbabwean pastor, Seti Magan’a was on Sunday arrested during a church service for allegedly raping and infecting one of his congregants with a sexually transmitted infection. According to iHarare, the pastor and the unnamed member of his church had multiple sexual encounters after he had first forced himself on her. The 28-year-old victim told police that […]