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Three persons including a female sex worker and her clients were Thursday midnight burnt to death as a mysterious fire razed a popular commercial sex spot near Orhowhurun Roundabout, Udu local government area, Delta state. Properties worth millions of naira were also reportedly lost to the inferno which also gutted ...

North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy “The Interview.” North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination ...

A storey building at Wilson avenue off Taiwo Bus stop Ago Palace way Okota Isolo Lagos is currently on fire. Fire fighters are on ground now but according to eye witnesses, the whole of the last floor is already gone. Efforts are on now to save remaining floors.

Merry Christmas to them

Buhari’s running mate Prof Osinbanjo campaigned as he rode in the bus yesterday . According to the professor it was better than a thousand seminars

A few weeks ago, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, announced a nearly 10% devaluation of the Naira, Nigeria’s currency, after admitting that a plunge in world oil prices and dwindling dollar reserves were making it difficult to defend the value of the currency. The Naira ...

APC VP candidate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo turned up at the Lekki Palms on Christmas Eve in the company of carolers and choreographers. He made a short speech, wished everyone a Merry Christmas and went around the mall, shaking hands with people, signing autographs and taking selfies. He also gave out ...

Dear Compatriots, I greet and felicitate with you all once again as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. I join all of our Christian compatriots in giving thanks to God Almighty for the divine gift of Jesus Christ the Messiah whose earthly incarnation we commemorate ...

Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, pictured sharing chickens to Police officers in the state for the yuletide celebrations.

Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari was in Lagos today to meet with a small group of his most passionate volunteers � and after an engaging evening of ideas, vision, and intense engagement on the future of the country. The event had in attendance his key supporters including Governor ...

Chimamanda Adichie and late Dr Stella Adadevoh have been recognized by international media house, Cable News Network CNN, as some of the world’s leading women for the year 2014. In a list released earlier today by CNN, late Dr Stella Adadevoh was recognized for her significant contribution towards the prevention ...

Nollywood actors under the aegis of “Legends of Nollywood” earlier today paid a courtesy visit to President Jonathan at the state house in Abuja where they honored him with the Grand Patron of Nollywood Award. The group was led by actor Paul Obazele. While receiving the award, President Jonathan said ...

A heavy duty truck, conveying crates of soft drinks, yesterday, at the Okorodafe Roundabout in Ughelli, Delta State, crushed a four-month-old baby girl, who had fallen off the back of her mother travelling on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada. According to witnesses, the mother of the baby, who ...

George H.W. Bush has been rushed to a Houston hospital after he experienced shortness of breath. According to Daily Mail, the 90-year-old former US President is being kept for observation at Methodist Hospital, doctors say. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance on Tuesday night. Representatives for Bush say ...

Nigerian policemen on patrol fled for their lives when a group of armed robbers stormed the Access Bank in Agbor, along old Lagos-Asaba road, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. According to SaharaReporters, the suspects, numbering approximately seven and armed with sophisticated weapons, stormed the bank in a ...

President Goodluck Jonathan is set to acquire a new private jet to be added to the presidential fleet in 2015, according to reports. The Federal Government has set aside an initial deposit of N400 million to be paid to the manufacturer of the aircraft. Provision for the new jet was ...

The Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, hosted his former Bible knowledge teacher at Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Mrs. Felicia Iyabode Adefunke Akinola in his home, in Ikeja on Monday, December 22, 2014. Mrs. Akinola taught him in 1976 and back then, they were each other favorites (favorite teacher, ...

�Millionaire, Mansur Musa has been dragged before a Kano Shariah court for infesting his wife with HIV.� The estranged wife who is suing for divorce is also asking the court for N40 million damages. When the case came up a few days ago counsel to the applicant, Barrister Bashir Dalhatu ...

Pastor Gordon A. Humphrey of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church of Chicago dropped dead in the pulpit after singing the well-loved song, Happy by Pharrell Williams. �Paramedics were called as church members that are in the medical field tried to revive their 60-year-old pastor. �He was taken to the hospital and ...

Nigeria’s foreign reserve has depreciated by $544million in the last one week. According to Daily Independent, figures posted on the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN shows the nation’s foreign reserves stood at $35,740,495,640 as at December 11, but fell to $35,196,352,296 as at last week, December 18. ...