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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has distanced itself from news making the rounds that the organisation called for the decriminalisation of cannabis (locally known as Igbo) in Nigeria. UNODC said this on during…

The female housemates of the big brother naija reality game show were filmed during their shower hour this morning. Nina, Bam Bam, Khloe and others were filmed chatting freely with one another as they had their bath this morning. See…

Eleven soldiers of the Nigerian Army killed in an ambush attack by bandits at Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State on March 20 were buried at a very solemn occasion on Thursday. The soldiers, identified as Bamidele Adekunle, Christian…

A 46-year-old Nigerian man and a school cert holder identified as Julius Olawale Oluwagbenro, was slammed with a life ban by the American embassy on Tuesday, for allegedly posing as an engineer, among other lies in order to get American…

Libyan returnees have been placed on three months salaries by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, who expressed disappointment over the mentality of the Nigerian youth, with the quest to make quick money without legitimate means. NAN…

A jealous girlfriend, whose boyfriend left to chat with a lady who sang a beautiful reggae song, resorted to attacking her boyfriend with a bottle to teach him a lesson. According to @Tcheedy1, a Twitter user, the man was left on the…

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday hailed Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for developing the state within three years. He spoke while inaugurating Ikeja Bus Terminal, shortly after arriving the state for a two-day…

VISIONSCAPE and Private Sector Partnership (PSP), now known as Waste Colletctors, have reached an agreement on waste collection in Lagos. Waste operators will now collect residential waste and Visionscape will scale up waste…

The member, representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Umar Baba Jibril is dead. Aged 58 years, Jibril, a three time member of the house, died in the early hours of Friday in Abuja, one of his…

One Musa Faisal, who was linked to the alleged acid attack on his 26-year old UNIMAID girlfriend, Fatima Usman, has been arrested by the police officers attached to the Borno state command. The arrest of the suspect who poured acid…

The Peoples Democratic Party, Kola Ologbodiyan, has accused Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of not being bold enough to mention names of those he claimed stole public funds.Mr. Ologbondiyan said the vice president was only fond of bandying…

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Nigerian lawmakers to voluntarily return payments made to them outside the law guiding the salaries and allowances of public officers in the…

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has raised the alarm over the low ratio of medical doctors to patients in the country. Mike Ogirima, president of the association, expressed the concern in an interview with NAN in Abuja on…

Pope Francis has been quoted as saying “there is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer in eternity”. The Pope was quoted in a Thursday interview with Italian daily La Repubblica as saying “after death, the souls of people who…

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have said they will continue to talk about the corruption perpetrated under the President Goodluck Jonathan’s…

An American citizen has been cleared of murder. But this did not come until 45 years later after he was convicted. Richard Phillips, 71, was upbeat, saying the criminal justice system “works — it just didn’t work fast enough.” A …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a Chinese national, Li Yanping, before Justice Babatunde Quadri of a Federal High Court, Abuja, for allegedly concealing the sum of $300,000 (N108m) while attempting to board a…

The senate has rejected a $350 million loan request by the Kaduna state government. The upper legislative chamber rejected the request after Shehu Sani, chairman of the committee on local and foreign debt, presented a report for…

Bukar Ibrahim, senator representing Yobe east, says “very serious negotiations” are ongoing to ensure the release of Leah Shabiru. Shabiru is one of the girls abducted from Dapchi, Yobe state by Boko Haram insurgents on February 19.…

Senate President Bukola Saraki and John Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are not at the 10th Bola Tinubu colloquium holding at the Eko Convention Centre in Lagos. Neither Saraki nor Oyegun issued…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it has received another 166 Nigerian voluntary returnees from Libya. Alhaji Yakubu Suleiman, the South-West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, received the returnees who arrived in the country…

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Big Brother Naija Housemate, Cee-C who has been described by many viewers of the show has been controversial has been defended by her elder sister and describing Cee-C as a sweet young lady which many people don’t agree to and she’s not a…