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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic athlete and actor who plays Ser Gregor Clegane, aka The Mountain, in Game of Thrones, is now officially the World’s Strongest Man. The 29-year-old, who has placed in the top three every year…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled another governorship primary election in Ekiti state for Friday. Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the party, disclosed this to reporters in Abuja on Tuesday. The primary election…

The Senate may have concluded arrangements to impose fresh sanctions on suspended Delta Central senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, over his alleged role in the invasion of the Senate chamber by thugs. This is coming as the upper chamber…

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday remanded 16-year-old housewife, accused of poisoning the husband to death in children’s remand home. The defendant, who lives at Shittar village, Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano…

The house of representatives has adjourned Tuesday’s plenary without laying the 2018 appropriation bill for passage as earlier promised. Last week, Abdulrazaak Namdas, spokesman of the lower legislative chamber, said the 2018 budget…

Nigerian lady, Gift Mike, is cooling her heels at State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba   answering questions bordering on the death of her South African lover, Daniel Grant, weekend, in a hotel on…

Prince Bolu Akin-Olugbade has many feathers to his cap; from academic honours to social decorations and traditional titles, he has shown himself to be a man of many parts but one adornment he wears like a badge of honour is his…

Musician, Charles Oputa aka Charly Boy is celebrating his mum, Mrs Oputa, who turns 100 years old today May 8th. In a post shared on social media, Charly Boy wrote; ”Many cheers to our rugged, peaceful and serene Great grand…

A Facebook user, Amy George took to her Instagram page to narrate how a family friend who used be very rich went broke after they were brainwashed by a church to stop chasing vanity and also give out all their wealth to the less…

Abiodun Olujimi, an aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party ((PDP) governorship election in Ekiti state, has stepped down for Dayo Adeyeye, a former minister. Olujimi announced this shortly before the commencement of voting at Dove…

Jude Okeke, a judge of the federal high court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pay N180 million to Samuel Okutepa, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), being his professional fee. Okeke, who delivered…

A poke-nosing Nigerian man who has assumed the position of a de facto brother of Chioma Rowland - the reigning girlfriend of superstar music star, Davido, has given her some strong words of advice. A man is worried that Chioma could…

The Kinda Stories you read, and be wondering if you’re really in Nigeria, So a twitter user who Witnessed two yahoo Boy boxing each other, Has shared the shocking story on Twitter, According to Tobi they are both Yahoo Plus Boys, And…

Davido has seriously changed the game forever! He just announced himself as the manager of his girlfriend, Chioma who just bagged a N60M endorsement deal with Dunes for a cooking show, called the Chef Chi Show! This must have been in…

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is sitting up and talking to his family following emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage, media reports said Tuesday. Widely considered to be the most successful manager in the…

A Nigerian man and his girlfriend have been arrested after a large quantity of illicit drugs were found in their possession by the police in Namibia. The drugs were uncovered during a special operation by the drug enforcement…

New York state’s top prosecutor and a public champion of the #MeToo movement resigned on Monday, just hours after being accused by The New Yorker of physically assaulting four women. It was an abrupt fall from power for Eric…

A batch of 218 Nigerians has voluntarily returned from Libya where they had been stranded en route Europe. The returnees, which included seven pregnant women, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 3.44 a.m.…

Canada is trying to curb the number of asylum seekers from Nigeria who are flooding into Canada via the United States, officials said Monday. About 2,500 migrants, mostly Nigerian nationals, entered Canada illegally in April,…

West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November’s mid-term elections.…

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) spent eight years as head of state at Aso Rock. He pledged at different times in his regime to return power to “the people”. But he never did. Somehow, he always found a way to dribble himself out of the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), and six others as members of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation. Keyamo is to represent Delta State on the board. President of the Senate,…

The abuse of drugs among youth has become a disturbing trend in Nigeria. This recently led to the federal government’s ban on codeine as an active pharmaceutical ingredient for making cough syrup.There is little information on how many…

Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), says prosecutors must be able to prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt because the court is not Father Christmas. Onnoghen said this on Monday while speaking at a workshop for…