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Days after visiting Nigeria for the Rhythm Unplugged concert, Michael Dapaah AKA Big Shaq has returned to his country, Ghana and according to him, ‘It feels good to touch base’. This is the first time in 9-years that he will be visiting Ghana. The ‘Mans...

Egypt has hanged 15 militants who were convicted of carrying out attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula in 2013, authorities discolored. The executions were carried out on Tuesday at two prisons in the north of the country, where the men were...

In a repeated manner, Vietnamese discount carrier VietJet Air, is using sex to sell seats, disclosing a promotional calendar for 2018 featuring women in bikinis. The airline, which flies from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City and serves 23 domestic and 10...

Gunmen on Christmas Eve (Sunday) raided the Kaduna home of the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. The spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Aliyu Mukhtar, who confirmed the incident, noted...

The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole operating in Borno State have recovered over 200 cows from Boko Haram members, while three of insurgents were killed during encounter with soldiers. According to the Director of...

A British lady, Laura Plummer has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for being caught with tramadol tablet in her brief case. Plummer, 33 years old, was reportedly said to be unaware that tramadol is a banned substance in Egypt, while it is not...

A housewife, Dausiya Abdulmuminu, 15, arrested by the Katsina Police Command for allegedly poisoning her husband, Samilu Usman, said she put rat poison in the 27-year-old husband’s food because she never loved him. The husband died alongside an eight-year-old,...

The archbishop of Canterbury has spoken out against “tyrannical and populist” world leaders in a Christmas message likely to be seen partly as a rebuke against US president Donald Trump. The pontiff made particular reference to the situation in the Middle...

You walk into the interview room and you are ready. You’re looking good, feeling confident, and ready to show off your skills. But then things start to go south. The interviewer isn’t smiling, he doesn’t seem that interested in what you have to say, and...

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” – Albert Einstein Very often you’ll see blog posts or books teaching you to “master” a skill in only 10 days,...

Abuja based couple, Ayo and Khadijat Yahaya, are currently in the custody of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences for allegedly burning the private parts of their two-year-old son in the Kuje area...

A man pretending to be mentally ill was reportedly caught with N100m cheque, ATM cards, and condoms among other items in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Punch reported that the middle-aged man whose name could not be ascertained, as of the time of filing...

According to Sunonline, the 42-year-old suspect, Ajiboye Emmanuel Olusola, according to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested at Saapade motor park on Friday, December 22, when he was about boarding...

25-year-old armed robber ThankGod Smith, who reportedly killed his 23-year-old partner Peter Napoleon by mistake as they attacked one Francis Chibueze along Bakery Road, Azikoro Village, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, walked into a Police Station to report himself....

There are certain things that are universal, which will make you successful if you give up on them, even though each one of us could have a different definition of success. You can give up on some of them as soon as today, while it might take a bit longer...

Christmas celebrations were on Monday disrupted by some suspected cultists in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A source at the Emir of Bwari’s place, told NAN that the crisis erupted because a member of the groups...

The U.S. government, through its embassy in Monrovia, has issued stern warning of possible violence before or after Tuesday’s presidential run-off elections in Liberia. In a statement on Sunday, the embassy warned American citizens resident in or travelling...

The busy roads of Abuja parted like the Red Sea last Sunday as the blue blood of high society converged on the capital city for the beginning of the golden jubilee celebration of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Dogara. The spectacle...

Bruce McCandless, an astronaut who was the first to fly untethered from his spacecraft in a gripping scene watched around the world, has died at the age of 80, NASA announced on its website. The son and grandson of decorated war heroes, he graduated near...

The Nigeria police has revealed why its men shot at the genitals of some suspected kidnappers in Abia state. This comes after a video went viral showing some of the suspected kidnappers writhing at the back of a police van and struggling to breathe after...

No fewer than 15,000 people in Katsina North Senatorial Zone with various eye defects, are to benefit from free eye treatment, courtesy of Sen. Mustafa Bukar. Bukar made this disclosure on Saturday while flagging off the second phase of the free treatment...

A 15-year-old housewife, Dausiya Abdulmuminu, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command for allegedly poisoning her husband, Samilu Usman, 27, and half-brother, Mohammed Abdulmuminu, leading to their death. Abdulmuminu allegedly committed...

A middle-aged man who pretended to be mentally ill has been apprehended in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Sources revealed that when he was searched, a cheque of N100m, pictures he allegedly took with top politicians in Nigeria, four automated teller...

The King of Akan, located in the village of Adansi Aboabo in Ghana, Eric Manu, has returned to Canada to resume his job as a gardener in order to raise money to provide health care for his subjects. Manu became king when his 67-year-old uncle, Dat, passed...

A couple in western Germany plans to invest 3,000 Euros ($3,560) to light up their house with half a million Christmas lights this month. According to a website that monitors Christmas lights in the country, Nermin and Ralf Vogt, aged 65 and 70, have...