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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been unbundled into seven independent operational units by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, who made this disclosure in Abuja on Tuesday, noted that five of the seven operational units would focus mainly on business, in line ...

Pictured above is 5-year-old Omeiza Okatahi. He was abducted beside FCE Okene, Kogi State yesterday at about 7:40am in a Toyota corolla BM 346 GWA on his way to school. Omeiza is the child of Itakpe RCCG Pastor. Anyone with any useful information should contact the nearest police station.

Popular actress, Ruth Kadiri’s Instagram page went ablaze this week when she posted this picture of herself with a friend. While a few people did not see anything wrong with the picture, others felt that it was her way of coming out of the closet. Many who commented on her ...

Too much happiness could trigger a heart attack, a new study has found. Scientists are now saying extreme emotional distress can cause a potentially fatal weakening of the heart. But new research has discovered that the same can occur from sheer joy, leading scientists to coin it ‘happy heart syndrome’. ...

Nigerian businessman Mike Adenuga according to Forbes is the biggest gainer among the African billionaires, after the number one man Aliko Dangote, Adenuga is now worth $10 billion, up from $4 billion a year ago. This year there are 24 African billionaires, down from 28 in 2015. The significant jump ...

An 18-year-old secondary school student who ran away from her parents home in Enugu State four months ago, has been found pregnant for her boyfriend in Lagos State. According to the New Telegraph, the girl identified as Chidinma, was declared wanted by her parents and after a frantic search for ...

A young man in Bida, Niger state decided to do something different by creating a car with a wood. Wonders!!

According to Human Rights activist, Joe Okei-Odumakin, this 68 year old woman was battered by her 79 year old husband at their home in Isheri, Lagos recently. According to the elderly woman, during an argument, her husband used his walking stick to flog her severally on her head. She sustained ...

A known 35-year-old prostitute was found dead in the early hours of Tuesday in a brothel in Kubwa, Abuja. According to City News, the deceased, simply identified as Ome Enyi, a native of Cross River State, lived at the brothel for more than a year. Her companion, a yet to ...

Relations of another missing 14-year-old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that the primary six pupil of Mohammed Zako Model Primary School, Sokoto, may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto. Father of the girl, Mr. Paul Adaji, an indigene of Ochobo in Ohimini Local ...

According to reports, Ese Oruru who was kidnapped by one Yunusa Dahiru from her mother’s shop in Bayelsa State to Kano is now five months pregnant. Vanguard reports the discovery was made after Ese went through several medical tests. Her abductor, Yunusa Dahiru, will however be moved to Yenegoa to ...

Following a directive by the Inspector General of Police to the Commissioner of Police, Kano State, Mohammed Katsina to liase with the State’s Emirate Council and relevant persons, the 14-year-old Ese Oruru was last night.rescued from her abductor. Confirming the rescue in a telephone chat Monday, Force Public relations Officer, ...

A self-acclaimed Alfa, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahamido,has been arrested for allegedly defrauding a trader, Sarah Moses. PUNCH Metro learnt that Ahamido collected N350,000 from Moses, promising to boost her business by turning the money to N5m. He was, however, alleged to have fled with the money, after giving his girlfriend, Hawa ...

The FIFA Presidential elections came off today in Zurich to elect Blatter’s replacement. Blatter, who led world football’s governing body since 1998, stood down last year and was later banned from football for six years for corruption. The elections to decide the new president of world football’s governing body passed ...

Obi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze I recently met with the governor of his state, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa at the government house today February 23rd. The 17 year old became king after his father was murded by abductors in January. He is the current king of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local ...

Billionaire business mogul has said that if the Buhari-led federal government consults him, he could restore the nation’s currency to an exchange rate of N200 to one US Dollar within one month. Speak�ing on a Channels Television poli�tics programme on Sunday, billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Capital Oil and ...

A two-year search for a 15-year-old Togolese girl, Assana, has led to the arrest of seven human traffickers by the Zone F Headquarters of the Nigeria Immigrations Services in Ibadan. One of the arrested persons is a man simply known as Cossy, the brother of the girl who has since ...

Anita Oyakhilome has finalised her divorce from Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy, according to her lawyers. Solicitors, Attwaters Jameson Hill, in a statement on her behalf, said the divorce was finalised on February 8 and hinted that she had dropped Oyahkilome from her name for Obhodaghe, while also severing ...

Ghana has prohibited some items from entry into its domain, following Nigeria’s foot steps that restricted 41 items from access to foreign exchange. Ghana however has placed a ban on some goods from being imported into the country. Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated yesterday that ...

The 50 year old Oprite Amakiri who has a wife and four children was reported to have prophesied to his congregation that God says he  needs a girl between the age 12 and 18 years old to massage his waist pain he had been battling for over two years.  Punch ...