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A Las Vegas businessman, Robert Bigelow is spending $1 million to find out if indeed there is life after death. His Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) has announced a…

Edo was the odd one out on Sunday to report COVID-19 fatalities out of Nigeria’s 36 states, as new cases plunged to 964, from the record 2,314 on Saturday. The state which has an…

Prior to the demise of Sylvanus Nsofor, Nigeria’s former ambassador to the United States, on December 10, a gap had been created in terms of diplomatic relations…

Sunday Igboho, the Yoruba activist who gave Fulani herdsmen quit notice in Igangan, ibarapa LGA of Oyo State re-emerged on Sunday to address another rally…

Socialite Ajibola Olaleye, popularly known as Gatuso, was on Saturday evening killed by gunmen at Townhouse Hotel, NTC Quarters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Eyewitnesses say Mr…

Elders in the South West under the aegis of Coalition of Oduduwa Elders have condemned Friday’s attack on Sarkin Fulani in Oyo State, Alhaji Salihu AbdulKadir and his family,…

Nigerian troops have eliminated five suspected Boko Haram members and got many more injured during a battle for Damboa in Borno State. A statement yesterday by the Acting Director Defence Media Operations, Brig. Gen. Benard…

Officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State have apprehended two girls with tampered passports. The suspects: Adebayo Kazeem and Babalola Kehinde, were about to…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, on Friday, arrested no fewer than 11 suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as yahoo boys in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. The EFCC said…

“I’m an American!” a young Russian under the username Neurolera exclaims in English on the popular video-sharing app TikTok as she explains how to impersonate a tourist to avoid arrest at a street demonstration. Her video —…

Laliga giants Barcelona have reportedly asked a host of major banks to delay debt repayments so that the club can avoid insolvency, in an alarming development for the club’s supporters, Daily Mail reports. According…

Thousands of Hong Kongers were ordered to stay in their homes on Saturday as government locked down an area of Kowloon peninsula. The city’s first coronavirus lockdown as authorities battle an outbreak in one of its…

Fenerbahce hope to officially announce the signing of Mesut Ozil from Arsenal on Monday. Ozil finished a period of quarantine in Turkey on Friday and is in the final stages of completing the move to his boyhood club on a…

The Borno government has confirmed the demise of a first class traditional ruler, the Shehu of Dikwa, Muhammad Ibn-Masta El-Kanemi. Information commissioner Babakura Abba-Jato said the traditional ruler, who was in his…

The Muslim Rights Concern has cautioned the Federal Government in the handling of the crisis in Ibarapaland between a Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo,…

Kylian Mbappe has confirmed that he is yet to make his mind up about extending his contract at Paris Saint-Germain. Speaking to French TV outlet Telefoot on Friday night after PSG’s 4-0 win against Montpellier in…

Afenifere, Yoruba sociopolitical group, has described the statement of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on the brewing crisis in the south-west as insulting and arrogant. On Friday, some houses inhabited by the…

It is no longer doubtful to say that the old Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has become a national embarrassment. Observers say for a majestic edifice in the heart of a city like Lagos to lie fallow…

The downstream end of Nigeria oil and gas industry has gone through various reforms these past two decades. The last, but on-going is the crude swap and its full support for the 20,000bpd refinery in Niger Republic; as the…

The Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF) has called on the federal government and south-west governors to act swiftly and stop the attacks on Fulani communities in the region. TheCable had reported how some houses and…

Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state, says any attempt to arrest Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, will escalate the unrest brewing in the region. On Friday, Mohammed Adamu,…

Some US leaders, including Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have written President Joe Biden, urging him to support the candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the office of the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday warned it would sanction International Transfer Operators (IMTOs) who fail to pay all remittances in foreign currencies. A circular signed by the apex bank’s director of Trade…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Saturday dismissed speculations that the National Identity Number (NIN) was a prerequisite for registration by prospective voters, saying there was nowhere in the…