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Pele collapses, hospitalised

Agency Report....... Football greatest, Pele is in hospital after collapsing due to exhaustion, preventing him from travelling to London for an engagement this weekend. According to the English Football Writers Association (FWA), the 77-year-old, a three-time...

2019 Elections: Vote your conscience! Tinubu tells Nigerians

Urges Nigerians to resist all appeals to ”unthinking passions and old prejudices” Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Nigerians to resist all appeals to ”unthinking passions and...

Sultan – We can’t protect our religion by killing people

Sa’ad Abubakar, sultan of Sokoto, says Islam cannot be protected when its followers kill people According to TheCable NG, the sultan said this while speaking at the first general assembly of the Interfaith Dialogue Forum...

Popular Comedian Zebrudaya worries over TV series as Mexican soaps, Telemundo, Zee World dominates...

Agency Report ‘Nigerian TV series dwindle due to lack of sponsors’ Veteran actor and comedian, Chief Chika Okpala, popularly known as “Zebrudaya,’’ says the lack of sponsorship have hindered production of most television series. Okpala, aka Chief...

Barcelona bought Neymar for over €200m – Reports

FC Barcelona shelled out more than €200m ($245m) for Neymar including his salary and the “countless hidden clauses of the transfer,” Spain’s El Mundo daily said Thursday. If confirmed, this would be greatly superior to...

Abuja Court upholds IPOB’s proscription – Punch

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the application by the Indigenous People of Biafra’s request to reverse the court’s order proscribing it and designating it a terrorist organisation The Punch NG reports. Delivering his...

Pope marries couple on papal plane

  AFP Pope Francis married a couple of airline employees aboard the papal plane as it flew over Chile on the third day of his South American trip. Francis formally joined in matrimony 41-year-old Carlos Ciuffardi and...

Fayose pleads for peace as tension mounts in Ekiti over killing of herder

Agency Report Governor Ayodele Fayose is battling to douse tension created by the reported killing of a herdsman in Oke Ako-Irele, Ekiti state. He confirmed the report of the killing of the herdsman in one of...

Sule Lamido mocks Buhari, Tinubu over fuel scarcity, anti-graft war says, ‘president should lead...

A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has jeered President Muhammadu Buhari and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, over the fuel scarcity across the country, and the...

Ontario Oil & Gas Chief Executive, Walter Wagbatsoma jailed in UK for international fraud,...

How foreboding of doom caused him to move his family to Geneva and change his company name He never knew that so large a fortune could have so short a lease. When he did,...