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The Medical and Health Workers Union, Lagos State council, on Saturday, said that it would embark on public enlightenment to discourage drinking of garri for now to prevent Lassa fever. Mr Razak Adeofalade, Chairman of the union, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...

British actor Alan Rickman, who played the role of Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films and portrayed memorable villains in Hollywood movies, has died aged 69, his agent said on Thursday. The star had been suffering from cancer, a statement said. He became one of Britain’s best-loved acting stars ...

Retired British soccer player David Beckham yesterday received the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Leadership Award during the UNICEF Ball. The global charity honored the 40-year-old soccer player Tuesday night for his ongoing work with children around the world as well as that which he does through his own charity, Seven. During ...

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has denied the Federal Government powers to seize all funds owned by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited in Nigerian banks, pending when the telecommunication company pays up the N1.4 trillion fine leveled against it by the NCC over its failure to ...

Governor of Anambra state Willie Obiano is pictured above with his wife and two kids.

A heavily armed man who identified himself as both Jesus Christ and the son of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe was charged Friday morning for attempting to kidnap one of the Obama family’s dogs. He was actually a crazed North Dakota man named Scott Stockert and he was arrested ...

Dashing General Overseer of the Abuja based Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries, Prophet Emmanuel Omale, who had Jim Iyke as his best man when he wedded years back has called for prayers to prevent the violent death of a top Nollywood female star. He said if fervent prayers aren’t ...

The Police at Lion Building Division, Lagos Island, western Nigeria have arrested a 23-year-old suspected fake dancing promoter, Damilola Joseph for allegedly obtaining seven phones from six women to qualify them for a dancing competition at a hotel on Victoria Island. Police alleged that after the suspect collected the expensive ...

A mother ran into her burning Philadelphia row house to rescue her toddler but died along with the child when smoke prevented their escape. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. Friday in the city’s Fairhill neighborhood. According to her Facebook page, the woman, named Elizabeth Perez was aged 29 ...

It seems the General Overseer and founder of Living Faith worldwide Bishop Oyedepo is set to retire from active service. The church popularly known as Winners Chapel is about to witness a change of baton as the first son of Oyedepo, David Oyedepo Jnr is set to take over the ...

A Kado Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday ordered a 27-year-old man, Sunday Vincent, to be imprisoned for three weeks for constituting a public nuisance. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option to pay N3,000 fine and warned him to desist from committing any crimes. ...

9-year-old Chinwedu Precious, a housemaid has been left disfigured after her employer poured hot water at Alagbado area of Lagos State.According to PM News, the unfortunate incident occurred on 27 December, 2015 . The young girl’s 26-year-old boss, Mrs. Ifeoma Mbakwe, who hails from Anambra and resides at Idowu Street, ...

Visafone has sacked over 83 per cent of its workers as part of its acquisition by the MTN Nigeria. Over 2,000 employees were disengaged with effect from January 5, 2016, and were paid three months’ salaries as severance package. The only employees left were those in the personnel and transmission ...

Can you recognize Timaya in that photo, it’s really a Throwback. He shared this photo on his IG page with the caption

Janet Jackson, who recently announced she’s set to undergo surgery, has a tumor that could be cancerous, new reports are saying. “Doctors found a growth on Janet’s vocal cords that could be serious,” a source close to the 49-year-old the “Control” singer told Radar Online. “It’s a medical condition that ...

A constitutional lawyer and founder of Change.org, Ms Carol Ajie has petitioned US President Barrack Obama, the National Judicial Council (NJC) amongst others, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived disobedience of court orders. This came following Buhari’s statement during a presidential media chat in Abuja that the former National Security Adviser ...

According to reports, a drunk policeman, Stephen James, on Saturday shot and killed three men at a hotel in the Ketu area of Lagos State. He shot and killed twin brothers identified as Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle (who were the only children of their mother) and their friend known simply ...

Over 100 persons have died on Thursday in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state when an industrial Gas plant suddenly exploded . According to Vanguard, the explosion rocked the Inter Corp Oil limited(LPG Gas Plant), an subsidiary of Chikason Group. According to an eye-witness, the fire incident which started ...

Read the President’s Christmas message to Nigerians below; I felicitate with all Nigerians, especially our Christian brothers and sisters, on the joyous occasion of this year’s Christmas. On this occasion of the commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, let us all rededicate ourselves to the virtues of peace, love, ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission NCC says that telecommunications company MTN will have to pay a $3.9 billion fine for failing to disconnect users with unregistered SIM cards by Dec. 31. ‘Appropiate action will be taken’ should MTN fail to meet the deadline, a source at NCC told Reuters. Meanwhile MTN ...