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A housewife, Oluwakemi Patrick, pleaded with an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday to dissolve marriage because her husband her husband beats her before making love to her.Oluwakemi, a mother of five, told the court that she…

Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday spent some quality time with some foreign clerics at his home. Controversial Kogi Senator Dino Melaye was pictured kneeling down before some pastors from Kenya, Pakistan and Nigeria as…

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says no government will expend too much energy on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Last week, the IPOB leader reappeared in Isreal after he…

Ayodele Fayose, former Governor of Ekiti State, has been granted bail in the sum of N50 million. His second appearance before the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, lasted less than 30 minutes. He was…

Two foreigners, Mr Paul Piche, a Norwegian and Ms Charlene Cross, a Briton, revealed how Mr John Abebe, the brother of the late Stella Obasanjo, a former First Lady of Nigeria, allegedly forged documents to perpetrate a four million…

Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti, says he has no rift with President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Fayemi also said he has a good relationship with Adams…

Nigeria captain John Mikel Obi has pledged financial and moral support to the country’s cash-strapped amputee football team, but the Special Eagles face a race against time to make it to the World Cup in Mexico. The team,…

The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has published the names of its top 105 debtors. According to the corporation, the “delinquent debtors”, whose names were released owed a total of N906 billion. “This…

Fresh facts have emerged on the circumstances surrounding the killing in Abuja of Anita Akapson, said to be the daughter of a former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman. It was learnt that the 31-year-old, who was shot in her…

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has set up a three-man ad-hoc committee to investigate the N10bn supplementary budget passed by some members of the Assembly in the twilight of the regime of the immediate past Governor,…

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has mastered the art of the “double-edged compliment” as exemplified by his praise for Juventus after Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat by the Italians. But it would have made uncomfortable…

British authorities have briefed the Nigerian government about the temporary travel document they are about to issue to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who holds a Nigeria-U.K dual citizenship.…

The Federal Government on Tuesday declared that it was working hard to come out with a policy that would limit the number of children that a mother could have in Nigeria.It stated that traditional rulers and other leaders across the…

The Ooni of Ife, King Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi unveiled and announced his new beautiful wife over the weekend, whom he married after she completed the necessary traditional rites, which was followed by Jubilation at Ife. Ooni’s new…

A businessman is explaining to the Federal High Court in Lagos how the washbasins and water closets he imported from China, somehow changed to 1,570 pump-action rifles en route to Nigeria. The Nigeria Customs Service on…

Further details have emerged as to the source of anger that rocked the camps of some leaders of the South East geopolitical zone following the announcement of the former Governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi as the running…

Telecoms firm MTN is holding talks with Nigerian officials to find a “mutually acceptable solution” to the dispute over the alleged transfer of $8.1 billion, the firm said yesterday in a statement from Johannesburg. It said…

The Presidency has assured Nigerians that there is no reason to worry about the outburst by Nnamdi Kanu, the disputed leader of IPOB on returning to the country “with hell’’. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant…

JUSTICE Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Apo yesterday dismissed a suit filed by owner of African Independent Television Chief Raymond Dokpesi against Minister of Information Lai…

SENATORS have re-jigged and passed the Electoral Amendment Bill rejected thrice by President Muhammadu Buhari. The bill was passed yesterday after a brief debate on the report of the Senate Committee on the Independent…

•Ex-governor: I’m eminently qualified to be running mate Atiku Abubakar got yesterday a complex challenge on his presidential bid —he should drop running mate Peter Obi or lose. Some youths in the North visited former…

The Chancellor of Osun State University, Folorunso Alakija, has announced plans to begin the construction of a paediatric hospital she promised the university this year. Mrs Alakija promised to build the facility following…

IMO State Governor, Rochas Okorocha  yesterday  said that  only his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, can win Imo 2019 governorship election in the state.Okorocha spoke in Owerri, through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, while…

Against the backdrop of federal government’s sanctions on MTN Communications Nigeria, over tax audit, payments and revenue repatriation, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said yesterday that telecommunications giant, MTN,…