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Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that the organisation received more than 700,000 applications from the recent job advert it placed for 500 vacancies. The chairman who said this yesterday in Abuja during a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition, noted ...

A teenager insists she is pregnant with Jesus despite ultrasounds coming back negative . Haley, 19, was examined on the Dr Phil Show to prove that she was pregnant with Jesus, and she was happy to have her first ultrasound. But the results did not reveal the baby, which she ...

​ Pope Francis has ruled out a woman ever serving as a priest in the Roman Catholic church. He stated this when he was asked by a Swedish journalist during a press conference onboard the papal plane.He said �Saint Pope John Paul II had the last clear word on this ...

A cook who served Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, a Managing Director at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Abuja, has absconded with cash and pieces of jewelry worth $6million. According to a report by Sahara Reporters, it was gathered that the man, identified as Gabel Segbedji, a national of Benin Republic, ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday again warned Nigerians against patronising what it called ‘wonder banks, stating that their activities were not regulated by it. The Head, Consumer Protection Department, CBN, Hajiya Kadija Kassim, stated this during a mentoring programme for students of the Government Secondary School, Suleja, Niger ...

A woman by the name of Chika Amsy Charles has been sentenced to 90 years in Prison by a federal high court in Enugu for N5.6 million fraud.Chika perpetrated the fraud along with two others who are currently at large. Charles was dragged before Justice D.V Agishir by the EFCC. ...

Veteran Nollywood actor Prince James Uche has been bedridden in the hospital for over one year seven months.The actor who is suffering from renal failure, has now gone blind. He is in dire need of N2.6million to pay his hospital bills and N11million for kidney transplant and eye surgery in ...

A teacher, Enilolobo Olamilekan at Agbokunloko College, Ikotun, Lagos State, yesterday denied defiling a 12-year-old student, insisting that he only put his pen!s in her mouth.Olamilekan, who hails from Lagos State, admitted to have lured the girl to his parent’s apartment , where he took advantage of the 12-year-old Junior ...

Folorunsho Alakija is the world’s richest black woman with a whooping $1.82billion fortune empire. In a new interview with Forbes Africa ’s Peace Hyde , Mrs Alakija talks about a number of things including the challenges she’s had to become one of Africa’s most influential women. Below are some of ...

Ex president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, while speaking at the famous Oxford Union in the United Kingdom on the subject of promoting youth entrepreneurship, said it was impossible for Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser (#NSA) during his administration, to steal $2.2 billion as claimed by the Economic and Financial ...

Usman Bugaje, an ambassadorial nominee from Kastina State, has rejected his nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is coming barely three days after Pauline Tallen, former deputy governor of Plateau state, turned down the offer as well. Unlike Tallen, TheCable reports that Bugaje was prevailed upon by top government officials ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that the former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Reuben Abati was on Monday, October 24 arrested by the commission. According to a statement from the commission, he is presently telling operatives of the Commission his role in ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday night confirmed that he was nominated for his present position in last year’s presidential election. Prof. John Paden claims in a book on the President, titled: �Muhammadu Buhari: Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria,” that Osinbajo emerged as vice president despite pressure against it by ...

Deported migrants, hitherto Europe-bound, have recounted distressing narratives of their journeys via the Sahara Desert, Libya and the perilous Mediterranean Sea.They are among the lucky ones who remain alive to tell their stories. This year alone, over 3,600 Europe bound migrants have died, even though thousands of others were able ...

Babysitter jailed for having sex with a 13year old school boy 70 Times  The Welsh babysitter, Delray Poulton has been served 16 months jailed term According to her, she fell in love with the boy and constantly bought him alcohol when his parents are out and lured him into penetrative ...

Amidst media criticisms over President Buhari’s statement made to his wife, the president has met with the twenty-one freed chibok girls Recall that the chibok girls where kidnapped on the 18th of April, 2014 by the deadly boko haram sect in Borno state

After years of closure, secondary schools in Borno are finally opened for academic work to begin  Commissioner for education, Inuwa Kubo assured the students of stability and peace in the state

Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, says the comment of President Muhammadu Buhari about his wife was taken out of context and has appealed to Nigerians to exercise restraint in their criticism of the President’s reaction to the interview granted by his wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari, to the BBC Speaking to ...

Authorities of the University of Lagos have expelled 125 students and rusticated 198 others for various offences, including examination malpractices during last academic session.The lists of the affected students were published on the university’s website on Sunday. The institution’s Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr Toyin Adebule, confirmed the expulsion and estimation ...

The Nigeria Senate today, October 13th extends the validity of JAMB results from 1 year to 3 years. The Senate however did not state the year it takes effect from. SENATE PASSES JOINT ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATION BILL AMENDMENT The Nigerian Senate just passed the amendment to the Joint Admissions and ...