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The last remaining member of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach have been pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand, bringing an end to a near three-week ordeal that prompted a huge international rescue effort. The twelfth boy…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, was welcomed to the Google headquarters by CEO Sundar Pichai who led a team of executives in a meeting with the VP and other officials. He was also hosted in a series of investment forums in Silicon…

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new, executive presidential system he had long campaigned for by putting his son-in-law in charge of the economy and promising greater overhaul of a country he has dominated for 15 years. Hours…

Thierry Henry has been told he will be the “enemy” of France, ahead of their 2018 World Cup semi-final against Belgium. Didier Deschamps, coach of Les Bleus, played alongside Henry on the way to the French winning the trophy as hosts…

Charles Kie (pictured), managing director of Ecobank Nigeria, a subsidiary of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, has resigned. In a statement sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Monday, the company said his successor will be…

Former Italy coach, Marcelo Lippi, has said Cristiano Ronaldo’s transfer to Juventus will “attract other champions” to the Serie A giants. Talks are set to take place between Real Madrid and Juventus this week over a £88m deal for…

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said he is preoccupied with ensuring the unity of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. According to him, unity of the APC was his goal not…

England midfielder, Jack Wilshere has explained why he left Arsenal for West Ham United. Wilshere on Monday signed a three-year contract with the Hammers after leaving the Gunners as a free agent. The 26-year-old was offered a new…

A 200-level Material Science Engineering student of the Kwara State University, Oluwadara Adedayo has narrated why he jumped off the Cele-Okota Bridge in Lagos State. It was gathered that Adedayo jumped off the bridge after he was…

Over 50 Nigerian students are being wrongly detained in police stations in Cotonou, the Republic of Benin’s commercial capital, their parents claimed yesterday. They alleged that their children were unlawfully arrested by Béninoise…

Hollywood actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim, on the recent episode of CNN African Voices, has opened up on the reason why he his returning back to his roots and according to him, he has the purpose of inspiring aspiring thespians. Kae-Kazim…

While receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Tor Uja disclosed that 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017…

When Nigeria’s name was missing among the list of 44 countries that signed the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement last March 21 during the 18th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of AU Heads of State and…

The Lagos state police command says it has uncovered a printing press where election materials are being printed.  Imohimi Edgal, the state commissioner of police, led some detectives to the printing press located at 13A and 13B,…

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says there is no point for electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to raise tariff when many Nigerians have not been metered. At a briefing on Monday in Abuja, the minister…

Nigerian rappers, Ikechukwu and Uzikwendu who also happen to be sibblings are trending on social media with a video of them exchanging hot slaps. Though the slaps aren't real (they were just messing around), most of their fans believe it…

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested Adeyemi Alao, the suspected killer of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, the daughter of former Ondo State Deputy Governor Lasisi Oluboyo. Khadijat was found dead in Alao’s home on Sunday. Sources…

Rihanna and Hassan Jameel are not over! Yesterday, the hot couple were spotted together in Mexico, and this comes one month after rumour surfaced that their relationship hit the rocks. MediaTakeOut News had claimed that the singer…

Exactly 18 months after her much celebrated wedding to Ahmed Indimi, President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter Zahra has delivered a bouncing baby boy. According to family sources, the adorable prince was delivered at a highbrow hospital in…

Some football fans in Lafia say they foresee Thierry Henry, a French national and assistant coach of Belgian National Football team team, finding himself in a dilemma as France and Belgium lock horns Tuesday in one of the semi final…

The finance sector needs regulatory buffers to strengthen banks’ capacity to withstand shocks, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Governor Edward Lamtek Adamu, has said. In his personal statement contained in the CBN Communique of…

Spokesman of the Buhari 2019 Campaign organisation Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), dismissed the coalition as “pure deceit and a laughable desperation.” He took to his tweeter account last night, saying: “Some political parties made up of…

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appealed to the people of Ekiti to vote for the party in Saturday’s governorship election. He said the APC is the solution to four years of…

The Croatian assistant coach has been sacked for posting a politically-charged video to social media following the penalty shootout win, meaning he will not be in the dugout for Wednesday’s semi-final clash with England. Vukojevic, a…