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The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said that his chances of leaving President Muhammadu Buhari’s ruling party are “very, very high”. Bukola Saraki – who as Senate President is the third most senior politician in the country – made the comments to Reuters on Tuesday, after 14 APC senators defected to the Peoples Democratic Party […]

A married woman who was planning to divorce her husband and marry her 33-year-old lover has stabbed the new man to death. Reports say 31-year-old Jacqueline Souza killed her fiancé, Brandon Watkins, on the suspicion that he was cheating on her with several women. Jacqueline was reportedly in the process of divorcing her husband to […]

Jimoh Moshood, spokesman of the Nigeria police force, says the siege at the residence of Senate President Bukola Saraki was “stage-managed for public sentiments”. Speaking on a Channels TV programme on Wednesday, Moshood said the force had no hand in the incident. In the early hours of Tuesday, some police vehicles and officers were seen […]

Ivanka Trump has decided to shut down her company after deciding to pursue a career in public policy instead of returning to her fashion company. Trump’s clothing and accessory business has been operating with limitations to reduce potential violations of ethics laws and the perceptions she’s profiteering off her White House role. Given those restrictions, […]

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), an NGO says 90 per cent of vehicles imported into Africa are old and are dangerous to public health. Priyanka Chandola, the Programme Manager, Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility Programme of CSE disclosed this after a study on used vehicles made available in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party. In his reaction to the developments on Tuesday morning at the National Assembly where lawmakers from his party defected, the president […]

The founder and presiding bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over persistent Fulani militant herdsmen killings. In a YouTube video posted by the church’s official page, the cleric made this call on Sunday at its headquarters in Ota, Ogun State. With this […]

Nigerian fans and their other counterparts across the globe that graced the just ended World cup in Russia spent an estimated N539.5billion (about $1.5bn), Russia’s Sberbank has revealed. The state-owned banking and financial services company analysed usage of foreign credit cards during the World Cup, taking into consideration all credit cards purchases, cash payments and […]

U.S. President, Donald Trump, has again blamed former President, Barack Obama, for “not doing something” about alleged Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, while he was still president. Mr Trump, in a tweet, also described the alleged election meddling as a hoax, saying it was the reason Obama did not act. He said Mr […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has warned Nigerians abroad to be wary of news about the country found on social media, saying 80 percent of them are fake. NAN reports that Lai made the remark on the sideline of a meeting with Sylvanus Nsofor, Nigerian ambassador to the US, in Washington on Saturday. […]

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has resolved to change its name, a rebranding measure ahead of 2019 general election. ThisDay reported that the party had suffered a string of losses in the last four governorship elections – Edo, Ondo, Anambra and Ekiti. The newspaper reported that the decision of the party for a change […]

The father of Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi says his son has not called him in over five years. Pa Obi said his relationship with the football star is fraught with “issues” and that he has made several attempts to “fix it” to no avail. Mikel’s father said he is a target of kidnappers […]

Deaths due to liver diseases are on the rise in the United States and researchers have blamed it on the increasing consumption of alcohol. A research led by the University of Michigan, found that deaths due to cirrhosis (a severe liver disease) or liver disease is on the rise in the country. The report published […]

In order to tackle the dangers posed by malaria in Nigeria, medical experts from Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine China has introduced a new method for the treatment of the disease in the country. At an event held in Lagos, attended by heads of government agencies, experts from China said that the new treatment […]

US President Donald Trump was secretly taped two months before the 2016 election discussing payments to a former Playboy model, with whom he allegedly had an affair, and the recording is in FBI hands, a bombshell report claimed Friday. The tape was made by his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who no longer represents Trump but […]

A former Nigerian Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed into the board of social media giant, Twitter Inc. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, who served in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was appointed alongside Robert Zoellick as new independent directors with immediate effect, Twitter said Thursday. According to the Executive Chairman of Twitter, Omid […]