Diamond Celebrities

A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, the son of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a 36 year-old student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving […]

Some fans of Arsenal Football Club are desirous to have Lionel Messi join their club after Barcelona announced that the Argentine will leave the club. Shortly after Messi’s departure was announced, Arsenal began to trend on Twitter. This was further fuelled by a tweet by an Italian journalist who specializes in football, Fabrizio Romano, who […]

German sportswear manufacturing giants PUMA has terminated its four-year contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. In the letter of termination of Sponsoring and Licensing Agreement, issued on Wednesday PUMA said, “we are referring to the licensing and sponsoring agreement signed between our company and your federation”. “As a direct consequence of the recent developments, […]

Emirates’ flights to and from Nigeria will remain suspended until 15 August 2021, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier, has said. This negates the earlier announcement by the UAE authorities, which announced a lift of the ban on Nigerian effect with effect from Thursday. In a travel update posted on its website, Emirates said the […]

The family of late Nollywood Actress, Racheal Oniga has fixed August 26th and 27th, 2021 for her burial, the deceased son, Tunji Oniga said. Oniga made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. The wake keep would hold 26 August at her residence in Magodo, Lagos […]

The Minister of State for Education, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has opened up on the reasons why the Federal Government abandoned the option of negotiations with kidnappers of students. Nwajiuba spoke Wednesday while responding to questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the bandits used […]

Big Brother Naija Shine Your Eye edition housemate, Beatrice Agba Nwaji also known as Beatrice has revealed her plan before the eviction show on Sunday. According to the mother of one, she was very certain she would not survive eviction this week. Beatrice disclosed this to a fellow housemate, Angel while having a conversation about […]

Less than 15 weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari returned from London where he had gone to receive medical attention, he has returned to the UK for “a summit and scheduled medical follow-up.” As usual, Mr Buhari’s publicists did not disclose what the medical follow-up is for, only noting that the president will be in the […]

Five months after, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted flight ban on Nigerian travellers with effect from Thursday August 5. Emirates announced on its website that the UAE authorities have announced that effective 5 August 2021, eligible travellers from Nigeria and 10 other countries will be allowed to travel to/through the UAE. The countries […]

The Federal Government has failed to reach out to the National Association of Resident Doctors for negotiation 48 hours after its members embarked on strike, The Punch has learnt. The President of NARD, Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said this during a chat with Punch correspondent on Monday. He said, “We wrote letters to the Federal Ministry of Labour […]

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has asked Nigerians to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general polls. Jega, in an interview with BBC Hausa Service monitored by our reporters yesterday, said the two big parties had […]

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, cautioned residents on thefrightening figures of hospitalisations and fatalities resulting from coronavirus. He confirmed that Lagos State had been recording a daily average of six deaths at its isolation centres in the last one week. According to him, no fewer than 30 persons have died of COVID-19 in […]

July 2021 witnessed many deaths among prominent Nigerians. Here are some of them: 1. Sound Sultan at 44 On July 11, 2021, the death of popular rapper Sound Sultan was announced by the family. He passed away at 44 following a hard fought battle with Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphomia. His colleagues in the entertainment industry paid glowing […]

Ese Brume has put Nigeria on the medals table, leaping 6.97m to grab the bronze medal in the long jump event in Tokyo Olympics. The 25 year-old came in third to the German winner Malaika Mihambo who jumped 7 metres. American Brittney Reese grabbed the silver, although had the same jump with Brume. The Ughelli-born […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Saturday 31st July 2021, recovered 35 wraps of cocaine from the underwear of a lady, Okafor Ebere Edith during the outward clearance of passengers on Air Cotevoire, to Monrovia, Liberia from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. The suspect who tucked the pellets […]