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A 22-year-old Nigerian, Wale Oginni residing in the US last Saturday, drowned in a river where he had gone to celebrate his elder sister's 24th birthday.
Wale(pictured) had invited friends and family members including his sister, Dupe, who turned 24...
It has emerged that the 22-year-old woman, Zainab Abdulmalik, who offered to give any man who marries her a car and house gifts on a radio station in Kano State is a habitual drug user.
Zainab's appearance on a programme...
A new Islamic sect that frowns at western education like the dreaded Boko Haram has emerged at Gwadangwaji, an outskirts of Birnin Kebbi, capital of Kebbi State.
The group known as “Yanlabaiku”(file image), which is led by Ismaila Lokoloko unlike...
Some months back, it would be out of place to address Lagos State first lady, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode as a celebrity. However, the physics graduate's prestige and celebrity have grown following her husband's current status.
Born about 51 years ago,...
A section of Muslim community on Sunday broke their fast with Senate President Bukola Saraki in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Saraki who made a 'triumphal entry' into Ilorin where he hails from at the weekend following his emergence as...
A Nigerian-born has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his mother in Britain.
The convict, Emmanuel Kalejaiye(pictured left), stabbed his mother, Tolu Kalejaiya(pictured right), more than 40 times at their home in Wickford, Essex, in September 2013.
The 22-year-old who...
Bauchi State Government has recovered twenty-two cars belonging to the state but unduly allocated to immediate past governor of the state, Mallam Isa Yuguda's wives.
Married to four wives, Aishat, Biodun, Mariya and Nafisat, the ex-governor who turned 59-year-old on...
Fight over TV remote control among family members and friends will soon be condemned to history as the BBC has teamed up with tech company This Place to produce a headset that uses ‘mind control’ to select programmes.
The prototype...
Reports have emerged that the woman who stabbed her 3-year-old son to death in Ogun State on Children's Day was aggravated by the news of her ex-husband's wife's delivery of a baby weeks earlier.
Funmilayo Tijani(pictured with a baby) had...
A Scottish parents have accused a suspected Nigerian gang of being behind their son's death after the teenager took his own life following threats by cyber blackmailers to make go viral his nude picture.
Gerard and Teresa Hughes said their...
Two cooks have been arrested in Lagos for poisoned their employers' food and stole their belongings after they were rushed to the hospital.
The cooks, Victor Hounkpe and David Amusu(pictured) are both Beninoise and were on Tuesday paraded by the...
It has emerged that three Nigerian born surgeons were among the team of 12 surgeons in the US, who successfully separated a conjoined twins(pictured with their mother before the surgery), who shared a common diaphragm, pelvis, lungs, intestines and...
A passenger traveling on an Abuja-flight from Lagos was on Monday morning caught stealing money, about N350,000 from another passenger's luggage.
The suspect, Mr. Ovuironye Mathew Dennis(pictured) was on board a 6.45am Aero flight and sat on flight seat No....
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose was on Sunday spotted at Johannesburg International Airport(pictured) with an aide on his way back to Nigeria where he had gone to see President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently in the former apartheid...
Olamide and Dagrin are both rap artistes and their rapping styles incorporate Yoruba, English and Pidgin but Olamide has scowled at people comparing him, the living with the dead.
Since Olamide burst onto the scene after he released his debut...