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A medical expert  has linked frequent use of tissue paper popularly known as toilet roll to one of the root cause of cervical cancer in women. Disclosing this during the 2019 Beauty West Africa Exhibition in Lagos, an  Indonesian traditional health specialist, at Tirta Ayu Spa, recalled that toilet tissue was a consumer product used […]

Finland’s Social Democrats elected a 34-year-old former transport minister to the post of Prime minister on Sunday, making her the youngest head of government in the country’s history. Sanna Marin narrowly won Sunday’s vote to replace outgoing leader Antti Rinne, who resigned on Tuesday after losing the confidence of the coalition partner Centre Party over […]

The Presidency has said that detained activist, Omoyele Sowore, is a person of interest to a security organ like the Department of State Services, which does not need the permission of President Muhammadu Buhari to do its work whenever it needs to act. It noted that Sowore’s antecedents and actions ordinarily make him a person […]

Jose Mourinho said he reacted to Tottenham’s last week defeat at Manchester United by sleeping at the club’s training ground. Mourinho’s 100 per cent record since taking over at Spurs came to an end in a 2-1 loss against his former club at Old Trafford. However, he said he refused to wallow in pity and […]

Anthony Joshua has defeated Andy Ruiz Jr to reclaim his three world heavyweight championship belts; setting some new records in the process. The judges unanimously adjudged Joshua winner with 118-110, 118-110 and 119-109 over Ruiz Jr and made history by winning the first world heavyweight title bout in the Middle East. He has now reclaimed the […]

Anthony Joshua has reclaimed his World Heavyweight titles after winning a grueling rematch against Andy Ruiz on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia. The scores were 118-110, 118-110, 119-109 in favour of the Nigeria-born boxer who now has his WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO Heavyweight Titles back and made history by winning the first world heavyweight title […]

Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) lied about the attack against him in Madrid, Spain. The minister was attacked on Friday while attending a UN conference on climate change. Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, said the attack was based on an order from Nnamdi Kanu, its leader. The spokesman said IPOB […]

Robert Menendez, a US senator from New Jersey and member of the senate foreign relations committee, says the events surrounding the rearrest of Omoyele Sowore shows that Nigeria no longer has regards for the rule of law. On Friday, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) rearrested Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, and Olawale […]

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer still believes Manchester United are a bigger club than Manchester City. City are well placed to finish above their rivals for a seventh successive season, which has not happened since the 1930s. The Blues have won three Premier League titles since the last of United’s 20 successes in 2013. Asked before Saturday’s […]

The violent actions of State Security Service officials at an Abuja court on Friday, while trying to arrest Omoyele Sowore, are worse than those of wild dogs devouring their meal, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has said. Mr Soyinka reacted to the action of the SSS in a statement sent to Premium Times titled ‘LESSONS FROM […]

Rotimi Amaechi has announced a physical attack on him by some people he described as “misguided Nigerians.” The Nigerian transport minister said he was on a climate change summit in Spain when some violent Nigerians charged at him. He said the attackers were summarily restrained by the police in Madrid, leaving him unscathed. “Some minutes […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has demanded the suspension of the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), Yusuf Bichi. The lawyers’ association was reacting to Friday’s invasion of a Federal High Court in Abuja by armed officials of the SSS. The officials disrupted court proceedings in their bid to rearrest Omoyele Sowore and […]

The Senate has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu to reduce the number of checkpoints on federal highways in the country. This, according to the Senate, had become necessary to reduce the gridlock on the roads. The resolutions were reached following the consideration of a motion by Sen. Chukwuka Utazi (PDP- Enugu North) […]

Former Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, over N7.65billion fraud, by a Federal High court sitting in Lagos, while being led out of the court by the Correctional Service officers on Thursday said ‘2023, here we come’. Kalu, who is the Senate’s Chief Whip smiled at […]

Senate President of the 8th Assembly, Senator Olubukola Abubakar Saraki, might currently be facing quite a turbulent time. Last week, the court declared interim forfeiture of his highbrow properties in Ilorin, alleging it was built with public funds when he was Governor of Kwara. While the two-term Governor of Kwara state was still nurturing the […]

On Thursday, the Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced a serving senator and former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison after convicting him of N7.65 billion fraud. Justice Mohammed Idris pronounced Mr Kalu guilty of the charge in a trial that lasted for 12 years. Mr Kalu was tried alongside his […]

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has said it tracked and documented a total of 387 Hate and dangerous speech instances on Facebook and Twitter handles across the country in November. Hamza Ibrahim, CITAD Coordinator, Countering Hate Speech Project, disclosed this at a Post-Gubernatorial Election Press briefing organised by the Centre and supported […]