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•‘Shekau is alive’ •I can make Shekau, others surrender Former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni (32), has appealed to the military to allow him call the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau, and about 137 others, to make them…

Bank debtors who are owing N5.4 trillion are set to lose their assets. They have failed to honour their promises to pay, the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) said yesterday. AMCON Managing Director and Chief Executive…

THE Progressive Youth Caucus (PYC), a coalition of youth groups in the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to act fast in ending killings. Prompt action aimed at halting the killings, the group…

Left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is heading for a clear victory in Mexico's presidential election. Electoral officials said a quick count after Sunday's poll indicated the former mayor of Mexico City had won with about 53%…

Basketball star LeBron James has agreed to join the Los Angeles Lakers in a four-year deal worth $154m (£116m), his agents have announced. His move from the Cleveland Cavaliers ends months of speculation. James, who became a free…

Cristiano Ronaldo has allegedly rejected a big-money offer to stay at Real Madrid. The Portugal international has turned down a contract worth £26.7m from Los Blancos, according to Tuttosport. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s…

United States (US) singer Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, popularly known as ‘Akon’, on Tuesday talked his way through the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and entered Nigeria without a visa, SaharaReporters found out. The…

A mother was arrested for shooting at her son because he left before she was able to have the last word during their argument, worldwideweirdnews.com has reported. Priscilla Ethridge, 66, was arrested for allegedly shooting her adult…

About 7,000 trucks ply the Apapa Wharf Road on a daily basis and only about 2,500 of them have genuine business at the ports, according to the report of a recent survey. The survey, which was conducted by the Nigerian Shippers’ Council,…

Uruguay accounted for the scalp of Portugal in the last 16 at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi on Saturday night. The game ended 2-1 with Edinson Cavani the hero with a brace for Oscar Tabarez’s side. Uruguay came into the…

Quote me: the Plateau killings, in which over a hundred defenceless citizens lost their lives, will not be the last. I am not trying to be a prophet — much less a prophet of doom — but the reality of Nigeria is that things hardly…

Nigerian pop singer and songwriter Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has been booked for shows for the next three years. The ‘Soco’ crooner made the announcement on his Twitter handle @wizkidayo, where he wrote, “booked for…

Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, on Saturday revealed that she returned to Nigeria from Harvard University to fix the economic problem of the country. Speaking at the launch of the Red Card Movement in Lagos,…

Samson Siasia, former Super Eagles’ Coach- could not hide his feelings about Lionel Messi, following the Argentine’s unimpressive outing in the ongoing World Cup in Russia. Though Messi did score against Nigeria leading to the…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has distributed non-sensitive electoral materials across the sixteen local government areas ahead of the July 14 governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),…

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) appears to be set for a long drawn battle with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over alleged non-remittance of N20billion to the federation account by the corporation.…

Former Super Eagles Captain Jay Jay Okocha says rather than lament their ouster Argentina should be happy to head home as their defeat by France put an end to further torture. Okocha who made the submission while assessing the match…

Rabiu Kwankwaso, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress who is increasingly becoming estranged from the ruling party, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will be defeated in 2019. He identified the Peoples Democratic Party as…

American Cable News Network (CNN) Sports has nominated Super Eagles Forward Ahmed Musa’s first goal against Iceland as one of the best scored in the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Similarly, the channel nominated Lionel…

An aggrieved lady Hopeyemi Hogunsakin has sent a warning message to a pastor who refused to pay after having her cookie all night Long. According to her, the pastor and his Church secretary have s*x with her in an undisclosed hotel, but…

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Saturday directed all commercial banks to resolve disputes arising from use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel within three days. Dipo Fatokun, CBN’s Director, Banking and…

France international and PSG ace Kylian Mbappe is to donate his match fees to an Association which organises sports activities for children with disabilities. The 19 year old who was in superlative form as France bundled out…

Some retired generals may have formed a secret coalition to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 Presidential Election. Sunday Oguntola reports on the inside details of the plot. INVESTIGATION has shown that some…

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has sworn-in the state’s first visually impaired permanent secretary. Mr. Akinyemi Andrew Elijah  was, until now, Director of Special Needs Education in the  Ministry of Education, Science and…