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Hate to break it to you, but you're not the nation's newest millionaire -- unless you're the lone person in South Carolina who picked the magic Mega Millions numbers to win the record $1.6 billion jackpot. With a one-time cash…

The founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Mr. Tony Elumelu, yesterday said Nigeria’s economy is headed in the right direction, describing 2016 as a terrible year for the economy. Elumelu, who said this in an…

Dear Mazi Kanu, With all due respect, I wish to express my disappointment at your abysmal broadcast yesterday. I am still at a loss why many Igbo still fight and die for a leader like you, so insensitive and a braggart.…

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…

The United States said Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudis involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Donald Trump ridiculed the kingdom’s response as “one of the worst cover-ups” in history.The move came…

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…

Fans make discovery from Wizkid's Fever video, and its setting the internet agog

A man arrested for allegedly groping a woman’s breasts while traveling on a plane told police that President Donald Trump says it is OK to touch women’s private parts.Trump once famously bragged that he could touch women’s genitals…

Jon James McMurray, a Canadian rapper, has died while performing a stunt on the set of a music video. The stunt required him to rap while walking on the wing of a flying plane, but things went wrong and he fell to his…

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…

Wizkid’s sexually intense video with Tiwa Savage has set Twitter on fire and trust Nigerians who have been expressing their views and thoughts. The video sees a shirtless Wizkid in bed singing as a scantily dressed Tiwa…

A wealthy man in south China was humiliated in public when his girlfriend turned down his elaborate proposal which involved balloons, roses, fireworks and a Lamborghini. The man did not take the rejection well and continued to…

The end would not be heard of the scandals that would erupt from the latest royal marriage in Ile Ife between the Ooni Of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi and Prophetess Naomi Shilekunola. Just five days after his pronouncement of…

Nigerian singers, Wizkid and Tiwa Savage have set tongues wagging with the recent release of the visual for “Fever”. The song which was dropped on October 1st has fans talking as the duo are seeing getting quite cosy and intimate.…

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…

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied reports he is considering leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ekweremadu, currently out of the country, took to his Facebook page to make clarification on his…

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.…