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Nigerians have been warned to be careful with hampers this Christmas season.The security alert was issued by the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, on Monday,cautioning Nigerians to be extra alert while receiving gifts during the Yuletide season so as to avoid receiving explosive-laden hampers as gifts. In a statement ...

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said the Buhari administration did not promise unemployed graduates N5, 000 stipends. He made this reveleation at an interactive session with members of the Nigeria’s Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) at the National Press centre in Abuja on Tuesday morning, December 1st �We did ...

Some hoodlums started a street fight on Olorogun Street, Odo Eran, in the Itire area of Lagos State on Tuesday, during which a 21-year-old stabbed a landlord, identified as Alawu Lateef, to death. PUNCH Metro learnt that Lateef, who was a father of three, had intervened in the fight, and ...

Pope Francis, who arrived conflict-ridden Central African Republic on Sunday, November 29, on his final leg of a three-nation African tour, has urged the warring factions to lay down their weapons. “To all those who make unjust use of the weapons of this world, I make this appeal: lay down ...

Pope Francis this morning visited a mosque at the Central African Republic, the last country he will be visiting in Africa. Pope Francis met with Muslim leaders and Muslim faithfuls at the central Koudoukou mosque in the PK5 district, the last Muslim enclave in Bangui. He rode his motorcade with ...

The children of a celebrated artiste in Akwa Ibom known as Artist Ite buried him in an amazing casket ..According to facebook user,Emmanuel Emmanuel Udoh who was at the burial.. Today I was at the Burial ceremony of one of the greatest artists to come out of the south south ...

President Obama and daughters marked small business saturday by indulging in some post-Thanksgiving shopping ….And they bought books! Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited Upshur Street Books in Washington’s Petworth neighborhood Saturday. The President emerged from the store with a brown shopping bag full of his purchases, which the ...

The Pope, who was represented by the Papal Nuncio to Nigeria, Archbishop Augustine Kassuja at the Pontifical Mass at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, described Cardinal Arinze as God’s gift to humanity. During the homily, the Apostolic Nuncio to Central Africa, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, described Cardinal Arinze’s ...

Ovation international CEO,Dele Momodu has written a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to as a matter of urgency fix Nigeria saying that Nigerians are lamenting that the change he promised is fast becoming a mirage and that Buhari is too slow.He also says Buhari doesn’t need to tell ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested one Jonathan Ibinabo Alatoru, a self-acclaimed pastor and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Chemtronics Nigeria Limited, for conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N200 million. The suspect, who had earlier jumped the administrative bail granted him ...

Apple has overthrown Google to reclaim its title as the world’s most valuable brand for the year 2015. The company had a great surge in 2015 thanks to the huge success of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, beating Google with a growth of over $70 billion. Microsoft came 3rd ...

Nigeria’s U-23 coach,Samson Siasia’s mother who was kidnapped over two weeks ago has been rescued. There are no details yet on if ransom was paid but according to sports radio,Brilla FM, the police confirmed she was rescued and Samson told the station,”Thank God! she’s back home” Just yesterday, he lamented ...

This 18 year old former student of Vaatia College, Makurdi, Benue State, Samuel Nder was on Thursday, November 26, honoured as the best candidate in the May/June West African Senior Certificate Examination (WASSCE) taken by over 1.7million candidates nationwide. Nder obtained 9A1s in the school exam to emerged the best ...

Lagos State Government Safety Commission has sealed Shop rite, Ikeja Mall on Friday evening.Staff of the popular supermarket refused to share details on the reason it was locked down but other shops at Ikeja Mall say the reason it was locked is because the supermarket refused to pay duty charges ...

The South African government has threatened to jail Chris Oyakhilome if his church, Christ Embassy, fails to release its financial records According to the South African-based News24 ,Head of South Africa’s Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, has accused Oyakhilome and heads ...

Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba says he has an agreement to return to the club once he finishes playing and wants it to be as manager. The 37-year-old Drogba, who now plays in Canada,told BBC Africa “I want to give back to the club which has given so much to ...

A final year student of the department of Engineering, Federal university of technology Akure simply identified as Festus, hung himself after checking his results and discovering he will be spending another year as an extra year student in the school. See the photo

A herbalist has been arrested after two kids abducted were rescued by the Cross River State Police Command on Thursday .They were made sex slaves by the herbalist, Emmanuel Akpan-Okon, who held them hostage for four years. The kids, Esther Wisdom and Felicia Destiny, both aged 11, said in the ...

Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai says the stress of seeking ways of creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in Kaduna state has left him tired after just 5 months of assuming office. El Rufai said this while speaking at the just-concluded Ake Arts and Book Festival which held in ...

The Police at Amukoko Divisional headquarters, Lagos, have arrested one Emmanuel Umanah, 21, for allegedly raping a four-old-girl (names withheld). The suspect allegedly committed the crime in his one-room apartment on Opeoluwa Street, Mosafejo-Amukoko area of Ajegunle. It was learned that the police arrested Umanah following a report from the ...