Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday, January 23, served as the captain of the football team of Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta in a football novelty match...
A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of...
Gunmen burned a Catholic priest to death and shot and injured his colleague in northwest Nigeria on Sunday, police said, the latest violence raising...
Nigeria’s Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 17-year-old boy identified as Noble Uzuchi over the impregnation of 10 ladies.
The suspect was nabbed alongside...
A lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Mrs Ngozi Uzodike, has been delivered of septuplets (seven babies).
Uzodike, who works in the Department of...
A Nigerian court has struck out a police regulation that forbids unmarried female officers from getting pregnant, local media report.
In a landmark judgment, a...
A medical doctor at the General Hospital, Garaku in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Ahmed Isaiah, has died from Lassa fever.Â
He was said...
Leader of a Nigerian State Legislative Assembly, Odo Nnamdi Emmanuel and his wife, arrived at their wedding reception in a tricycle, popularly known as Keke...
Shell has agreed to pay $16m (£13m) to four Nigerian farmers and their communities to compensate for damage allegedly caused by pollution coming from...
A Nigerian High Court in the capital, Abuja, has found the campaign leader for high-profile presidential candidate Peter Obi guilty of money laundering.
Doyin Okupe...
Popular Nigerian gospel musician, Sammie Okposo, has been buried.
The final funeral rites came off on Thursday, December 15, 2022, in Lagos Nigeria.
The 51-year-old...
Some persons have been reported injured after a crowd disrupted the concert of the Nigerian Afrobeats artiste, Asake, in Brixton, London.
Emergency services rushed to...
An exclusive CNN investigation has found that some Western governments who pledged to support LGBTQI+ rights have also funded supporters of a controversial bill...
Famous disc jockey and daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Florence Otedola, known as DJ Cuppy, has announced her engagement to British boxer, Ryan Taylor.
According to...
Artiste manager Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, popularly known as Bulldog, has asked Ghanaians to pardon Nigeria singer Wizkid after he failed to show up...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested 20 drug dealer suspects including women and seized tons of narcotics in Ondo, Kebbi, Akala and...
A boxer representing Imo State at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Nigeria has died in the boxing ring.
Chukwuemeka Igboanugo slumped after the opponent...
Nigeria’s central bank has limited weekly over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and corporates to 100,000 naira ($225; £186) and 500,000 naira ($1,125; £928) respectively.
This...
Bandits have attacked a mosque in Maigamji village in Katsina State of Nigeria.
An eyewitness, Alhaji Lawal Maigamji, said the bandits stormed the mosque during...
A man based in Kenya is steadily garnering numbers on social media over his facial looks.
Looking like the doppelgänger of Nigerian singer Burna Boy,...
The Federal government has approved the commencement of a 14-day paternity leave for all federal civil servants.
The Head of the Civil Service of the...
A 27-year-old woman, Odunayo Olumale, has been arrested in Oyo State, Nigeria for allegedly stabbing her husband, Olamilekan Salaideen, to death over sexual demand.  ...
Two female police officers with the Borno state police command, Nigeria have been reported dead in a fatal accident on Tuesday.
The deceased have been...
