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National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says about 20,000 trafficked girls from Edo and Delta are currently in Mali for prostitution. Mr Nduka Nwanwenne, the…

Are you being kept up late at night worried sick that you would never be able to find or keep your true love because of a rival? Suspecting your date, lover or your spouse having an extramarital…

Governors unwilling to pay the new Minimum Wage should be ready for a stand-off with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba told such governors to be ready for…

A businessman, Abdullahi Mohammed, whose businesses reportedly collapsed, and conspired with his friend, Haruna Saidu, to staged his own kidnap in order to force his family to pay ransom, has been arrested by the…

The University of Lagos on Thursday dissociated itself from a media Publication calling on the public to save the university from sinking. In a statement signed by its Principal Assistant…

Real Madrid midfielder, Toni Kroos has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo’s shock exit from the club last summer “made everyone happy”. Ronaldo left the Santiago Bernabeu after helping the Spanish giants win…

A group known as The Global Economic Policy Initiative (GEPIn) says Reno Omokri, a former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, is embarrassing the former president with his statements. In a statement…

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday remanded a 23-year-old man, Yusuf Mohammed, in prison, over alleged murder of his supposed…

Arnergy, a Nigerian energy startup, says it has raised $9 million in a Series A round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from the Norwegian Investment Fund for…

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, elder statesman and Afenifere leader, has accused a former governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and some Yoruba leaders of deceiving President Muhammadu Buhari that they are…

The Edo APC Coalition for Progress has hailed Governor Godwin Obaseki for outsmarting Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly.…

Federal Government parastatals under the Ministry of Science and Technology have been ordered to publish their annual accounts in national newspapers. The parastatals have also been ordered to…

Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation, has raised the alarm over a “heavily funded” campaign to smear him. In a statement on Thursday, Amaechi said the aim of the campaign is to tarnish his…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday assured the implementation of the new national minimum wage will commence soon. He asked asking state government and employers in the private sector to work…

New Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri has confessed to smoking 60 cigarettes a day. The 60-year-old former banker is not only well known for his playing style but also his smoking habits. He averages…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described Nyesom Wike as an “analogue governor” for declaring Rivers a Christian state. In a statement on Thursday, Ishaq Akintola, director of the…

A Nigerian, yet-to-be-identified, has died in a Japanese immigration detention centre, an official said on Thursday, bringing to an end a hunger strike an activist group said was intended to…

A total of N679.699 billion has been distributed as Federal Allocation for the month of May, 2019 between the Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils. The communiqué…

The Lagos State Government on Thursday reminded Lagosians of plans to shut Akanni Doherty Street by the popular Ashade, in Ikeja from Friday night. The closure will last till morning of Sunday…

The Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, re-arraigned five students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Thursday in an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court by the prosecution team…

Spanish police officials have arrested a crew member of the Brazilian Air Force who carried three bags of cocaine on an advance military plane of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president. Bolsonaro,…

The Lagos society is agog with a earth-shaking scandal. It is the most discussed issue amongst the elitist clique and it has generated into a hot debate among these prominent personalities as…

In a country that has fought for decades to weaken its homegrown mafia, a foreign crime group is gathering strength. The group’s members are Nigerian. They hold territory from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. They…

The prosecution on Wednesday alleged that Adegboyega Adenekan, a supervisor of the Chrisland School, Lagos, charged with defiling a two-year-old pupil, also defiled at least two others. The…